Aldebaran’s Shape the World recruiting video
Having noticed a recent trend towards robotics companies releasing videos with high production values, this one caught my eye. Aldebaran Robotics is hiring, and produced an edgy video called Shape the...
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2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival
The 2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival screening took place nine days ago, in the 3LD Art & Technology Center (New York City). Selected entries appear on the Robot Film Festival website, and...
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Robot video roundup: Gangnam style
What’s better than a selection of fun robot videos to brighten up the week? This week’s videos range from the sublime of “How to engineer a dog” and “Flying copters shooting hoops” to the ridiculously...
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DARPA Robotics Challenge update | IEEE Spectrum
Dr. Gill Pratt gave a keynote address at IROS and talked about the DARPA Robotics Challenge, including a new video of the Boston Dynamics ATLAS See on spectrum.ieee.org
View ArticleDrone on YOMYOMF
YOMYOMF is one of a long, and growing, list of YouTube funded channels. Drone is a four-part series of short-format videos, telling the story of a humanoid combat robot that encounters a situation...
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Making an iCub robot “clever”
As part of the IM-CLeVeR project, the IDSIA robotics laboratory recently released a video-overview of their work on the technologies, architectures and algorithms required to give an iCub robot more...
View ArticleRobot bootcamp episode 2: Controlllers | Trossen Robotics
Great video over at Trossen Robotics about various brains for your robot! Watch video on YouTube Robot Bootcamp is our newest series and a great place to get started in the world of robotics. In...
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Most US drones openly broadcast secret video feeds | Danger Room | Wired.com
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones,...
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Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)
#fstxfloat p { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; } Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the Robot Dragonfly from TechJect. Developed over four years by researchers at the Georgia Institute of...
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Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains...
During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D’Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group’s impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing,...
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Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and – soon- walk across your desk
My colleagues at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich have created a small robotic cube that can autonomously jump up and balance on any one of its corners. This robot started...
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Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena have now combined the...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 1 “Intelligence – An eternal conundrum”
In this first part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer gives an overview of the content and scope of the project, discusses the meaning of “Intelligence”, the Turing Test, and IQ. The...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 2 “Cognition as computation”
In this 2nd part of the ShanghAI Lectures, Rolf Pfeifer looks at the paradigm “Cognition as Computation”, show its successes and failures and justifies the need for an embodied perspective. Following...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 3 “Towards a theory of intelligence”
In this lecture Rolf Pfeifer presents some first steps toward a “theory of intelligence”., followed by guest lectures by Vincent C. Müller (Anatolia College, Greece) on computers and cognition, and...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 4 “Design principles for intelligent systems...
This is the fourth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, where Rolf Pfeifer starts introducing a set of “Design Principles” for intelligent systems, as outlined in the book “How the Body Shapes the Way...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems...
This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about soft...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 6 “Evolution: Cognition from scratch”
In this sixth part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer introduces the topic “Artificial Evolution” and gives examples of evolutionary processes in artificial intelligence. The first guest...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 7 “Collective Intelligence: Cognition from...
In the 7th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer talks about collective intelligence. Examples include ants that find the shortest path to a food source, robots that clean up, and birds...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 8 “Where is human memory?”
In this 8th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, Rolf Pfeifer looks into differences between human and computer memory and shows several types of “memories”. In the first guest lecture, Vera Zabotkina...
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