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The Year of CoCoRo Video #10/52: Feeding Jeff with magnets

Thomas Schmickl 08 Mar 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo �...

EG Robotics: Building a robotics ecosystem in Egypt

Mahmoud AbdelAziz 03 Mar 2015

Expanding into emerging markets brings with it a specific set of challenges for designing products and services. Not only do cultural differences play a role in what, how, and why customers behave the...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #09/52: Jeff in the water current

Thomas Schmickl 01 Mar 2015

Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun

Talking Machines 26 Feb 2015

In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #08/52: Lily emergent taxis

Thomas Schmickl 22 Feb 2015

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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

Audrow Nash 20 Feb 2015

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...

New Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in architecture and digital fabrication at ETHZ

NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB) 19 Feb 2015

In September a new Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication will be offered by the Gramazio Kohler Research chair at ETH Zurich. This one-year, full-time program f...

Sensory-motor tissues for soft robots

NCCR Robotics 18 Feb 2015

In this video, PhD student at LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics Jun Shintake explains his project "Sensory-Motor tissues for Soft Robots"....

Ground-flight collaboration

NCCR Robotics 16 Feb 2015

Working in the field of rescue robotics, the Robotics Perception Group (UZH and NCCR Robotics) works on how to get air robots communicating with ground robots, with the aim of exploiting the strength...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #07/52: Lily flocking by slimemold

Thomas Schmickl 15 Feb 2015

Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open

Marta Palau Franco 13 Feb 2015

euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...

Pleurobot: Multimodal locomotion in a bioinspired robot

NCCR Robotics 12 Feb 2015

The Pleurobot is a bioinspired robot being developed by the BioRob at EPFL and NCCR Robotics. Taking it's cues from the salamander, the Pleurobot is a walking robot that can change its gait to help it...

The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 12 Feb 2015

In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just�...

Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach

Talking Machines 12 Feb 2015

In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...

DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch

Open Source Robotics Foundation 11 Feb 2015

The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...

3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community

Ben Fisher 11 Feb 2015

3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...

Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition

NCCR Robotics 10 Feb 2015

Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....

Introducing Spot, a new smaller 4-legged robot from Boston Dynamics

Ioannis K. Erripis 09 Feb 2015

[tweetquote]Boston Dynamics just released a video of a new four legged robot named “Spot”.[/tweetquote] It is an evolution along the lines of their previous four-legged robots like BigDog and Wild...

Robotics Perception Group celebrates 3 year anniversary

NCCR Robotics 09 Feb 2015

This week, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza's lab (RPG, UZH) turns three and, in typical robotics style, they've released a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi_YZlPva8&feature=youtu.be Congratu...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement

Thomas Schmickl 08 Feb 2015

The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness

Thomas Schmickl 08 Feb 2015

Programming safety into self-driving cars

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 06 Feb 2015

For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...

Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship

The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech 06 Feb 2015

In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...

Human insights inspire solutions for household robots

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 05 Feb 2015

People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...

Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics

NCCR Robotics 04 Feb 2015

Much has been made of the numerous advances in robotic prosthetics and orthotics (P/O) over recent years, and the question of how to control these devices so that they work in accordance with the inte...

Developing Jibo: Animating the eye

Jibo 04 Feb 2015

Ever wonder why Jibo's eye was designed as a ball? And why does he have only one eye instead of two? Check out this video with Jibo’s Lead Designer & Animator, Fardad Faridi, as he briefly ...

AAAI Video Competition winners

Sabine Hauert 29 Jan 2015

A large crowd of AAAI-15 goers, one of the main conferences in Artificial Intelligence, gathered at the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony today in Austin, Texas. The competition aims to spread the...

Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy

Talking Machines 29 Jan 2015

On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...

Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics

Massimo Russo and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 28 Jan 2015

Raffaello D’Andrea’s robots can do amazing things: play soccer and ping-pong, perform complex choreographed acrobatics in the air, build towers brick by brick, and move pallets around warehouses. ...

Robot caregivers: How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

Open Roboethics Initiative 28 Jan 2015

With the continuous increase in life expectancy and the number of people aged 65+ on the rise, it is no wonder that many roboticists have been discussing the use of robot as companion/caregiver for e...

UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 27 Jan 2015

Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...

Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley talent

Frank Tobe 26 Jan 2015

Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Bay area have such an abundant talent pool that global companies and startups alike are setting up research labs and offices there to secure engineering and ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour

Thomas Schmickl 25 Jan 2015

Open science: Preaching what I practice

Alan Winfield 22 Jan 2015

Open science isn't one thing - it is a set of practices that range from making sure your papers are openly accessible (which is relatively easy), to open notebook science, which makes the process ope...

DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk

NCCR Robotics 21 Jan 2015

The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...

$87 million in European robotic projects funded

Frank Tobe 20 Jan 2015

The EU has co-funded 17 new robotics-related projects under Horizon 2020, the mechanism that the European Commission is using to stimulate the region's global competitiveness in technical innovation...

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