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ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
“Within the framework of the European project ROBOTT-NET we are developing software and robotic solutions for the prevention and control of rodents in enclosed spaces”, says Marco Lorenzo, Service...
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Robots that feel by seeing
Humanoid robot hand. Futuristic cyborg concept. While modern cameras provide machines with a very well-developed sense of vision, robots still lack such a comprehensive solution for their sense of...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #15/52: TRAILER LilyCam in a wild river
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 – we...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #16/52: JeffCam in a lake
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 – we...
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CoCoRo: New video series tracks dev’t of collective behaviour in autonomous...
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project comprises the largest autonomous underwater swarm in the world. Following three-and-a-half years of intensive research, CoCoRo’s...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #17/52: Lily confinement by bluelight
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 – we...
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The Year of the CoCoRo Video #18/52: Confining Jeff robots with an electric...
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 – we will...
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Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadrotors...
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The Year of the CoCoRo Video #19/52: Electric confinement in the harbour
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 – we...
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The Year of the CoCoRo Video #20/52: Autonomous docking with Jeff robots
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 – we...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – we’ll be...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #36/52: Relay swarm
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – we’ll be...
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Interview with Danica Kragic
In this wide ranging interview, Danica Kragic, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and General Chair of ICRA 2016, discusses the nature of collaborative research, shares her...
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Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics
Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this first episode, Per speaks to...
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Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing...
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts the...
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Robots in Depth: Melonee Wise on building robots, and robot companies
Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Per talks to Melonee...
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Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain
StarlETH is a multi-purpose legged transporter robot developed at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. Combining versatility, speed, robustness, and efficiency, StarlETH walks, climbs, and runs over...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – we’ll be...
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New video shows bionic athletes rehearsing for upcoming Cybathlon competition
Credit: ETH Zurich / Alessandro Della Bella In 21 countries across the globe, hundreds of people are preparing for Cybathlon 2016, where cutting edge robotic assistive technologies will help people...
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Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video
Check out this great little film by drone startup PRENAV, which took home the LOL WTF prize at the Flying Robot International Film Festival last night. According to Nathan Schuett, CEO of PRENAV, the...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer...
In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT — Europe’s largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops
Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were what...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations
During the past year we have shown many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlight was always on the Lily and the Jeff robots. However, there is now another star in the team and this...
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Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the...
CoCoRo’s humble beginnings. Our underwater swarm research started in a few cubic centimeters of water with some naked electronics on a table. Over the next three and a half years, our swarm increased...
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Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge
As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer of...
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Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 1
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org! Autonomous Systems Lab and Robotics Systems Lab at ETHZ: This is what happens when a...
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision
Our penultimate video features the initial “Big Vision” trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface...
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Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny...
Last week Raffaello D’Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at...
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WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson
Photo courtesy We Robot 2015. UPDATED 4 Mar: We’re sad to report that Professor Tony Dyson, who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has died. We’re reposting this excellent video of his keynote...
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In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground...
View ArticleSticky business: Five adhesives tested for 3D printing
We compared five adhesives for 3D printing applications on a Wanhao Duplicator i3. We’ll print a PLA (polylactide) cube, 1х1х1 cm in size. 1. NELLY LACQUER: We spread it on the clean surface of the...
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Call for holiday robot videos 2016
That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at editors@robohub.org and share the...
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Brian Cox presents Science Matters: Machine learning and artificial intelligence
We’re beginning to see more and more jobs being performed by machines, even creative tasks like writing music or painting can now be carried out by a computer. But how and when will machines be able...
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What is machine learning?
In this fascinating animation from Oxford Sparks, we take a look at how statistics and computer science can be used to make machines that learn for themselves, without being explicitly programmed....
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Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World...
The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and...
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Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?
Image: IEEE On the 15th November 2016, the IEEE’s AI and Ethics Summit posed the question: “Who does the thinking?” In a series of key-note speeches and lively panel discussions, leading technologists,...
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Python programming your NAO robot
These videos aim to teach you how to begin programming your NAO with Python. The NAO can be programmed using several programming languages, including C++, MATLAB, JAVA, LabVIEW and Python. Instead of...
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Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism,...
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Leg over wheels: Ghost robotics’ Minitaur proves legged capabilities over...
Ghost Robotics—a leader in fast and lightweight direct-drive legged robots—announced recently that its Minitaur model has been updated with advanced reactive behaviors for navigating grass, rock,...
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Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS
This handy video-tutorial course gives an introduction to the Robot Operating System (ROS), including many of the available tools that are commonly used in robotics. With the help of different...
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UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
Figure 15: Adding 40m overshot to both ends of each survey line UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing...
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TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a mini-van (you can read my original post here). Now, at...
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Programming your NAO robot for human interaction
Today we are looking at how to program your NAO Robot for Human Interaction. Watch the video and follow the steps below to get interactive with your robot pal! Create an animation of movements Right...
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The Robot Academy: An open online robotics education resource
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Vision...
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The Robot Academy: Lessons in image formation and 3D vision
A 3D model of organic molecules created using Rhinoceros 3D and rendered with Vray. Source: Wikipedia Commons The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland...
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From drinking straws to robots
Image: Harvard Gazette By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically...
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The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Vision...
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SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
Image: MIT CSAIL Singapore and MIT have been at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development. First, there were self-driving golf buggies. Then, an autonomous electric car. Now, leveraging similar...
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ep.354: Autonomous Flight Demo with CMU AirLab #ICRA2022, with Sebastian...
Sebastian Scherer from CMU’s Airlab gives us a behind-the-scenes demo at ICRA of their Autonomous Flight Control AI. Their approach aims to cooperate with human pilots and act the way they would. The...
View ArticleUnderwater Human-Robot Interaction #ICRA2022
How do people communicate when they are underwater? With body language, of course. Marine environments present a unique set of challenges that render several technologies that were developed for land...
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