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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...
View ArticleRyan Calo on spyware for your brain
Ryan Calo discusses how researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a proof of concept for using commercially available brain-computer interfaces to discover private facts about today’s...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 9 “Ontogenetic development”
In the 9th part of the ShanghAI Lecture series, we look at ontogenetic development as Rolf Pfeifer talks about the path from locomotion to cognition. This is followed by two guest lectures: The first...
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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 10 “How the body shapes the way we think”
This concludes the ShanghAI Lecture series of 2012. After a wrap-up of the class, we announce the winners of the EmbedIT and NAO competitions and end with an outlook of the future of the ShanghAI...
View ArticleMaking a WALL-E robot
We take you now to sunny, southern California, where a small group of enthusiasts has constructed a very realistic, Arduino-based replica of Pixar’s WALL-E, entirely from custom-fabricated parts. The...
View ArticleLive Coverage of IROS Workshop on Science Communication
Don’t miss our live coverage on “Understanding Robotics and Public Opinion: Best Practices in Public Science Communication and Online Dissemination” at the IROS conference in Tokyo. LIVE NOW November...
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Robot Holiday Video 2013: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
The Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich proudly presents this year’s Robotics Christmas Video: Movement at night and a stolen tree, who the heck let the robots free? They gather and cheer, could...
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DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast
The time has come for the robots competing on the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) to make their first public appearance. The trials for the final 2014 event will take place on December 20-21, 2013 and...
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Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
Update: New video of final robot! 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...
View ArticleRobot Holiday Videos 2013
Our robot holiday videos for 2012 were such a hit that we decided to do it again this year. Here is the list of robot holiday videos 2013. Thank you for spreading the holiday spirit! From Aldebaran...
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Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...
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Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss
UPDATE 04/03/2014: In this video update, we show that a quadrocopter can be safely piloted by hand after a motor fails, without the aid of a motion capture system. This follows our previous video,...
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No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
What’s with all the quadrotors in auto advertising these days? And what do quadrotor swarms have to do with cars? Probably not much at all, but apparently associating your auto brand with...
View ArticleNew video shows range and versatility of professional service robots
A new video promoting this year’s AUTOMATICA event in Munich offers an excellent primer in the state of professional service robotics in Europe. Check out the video here:
View ArticleFour recent videos about robots and jobs
Are robots coming for your job, or are they going to make your job easier? We’ve been following this issue since we ran our Robots and Jobs focus series, and there is no doubt that it’s a topic that’s...
View ArticleVideo: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR) is a small and powerful mobile robot platform that is designed to be used in a heterogeneous robotic swarm that is currently under development at the Laboratory of...
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Antares orb-3 accident
Orbital Science corp. Antares orb-3, pre-launch (photo: NASA) A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday. The Antares rocket...
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Robotics then and now: IJARS interview with Peter Corke
In this interview, Peter Corke gives us a retrospective on the differences between the field of robotics now and when he just started his career 30 years ago, pointing out what strikes him as the most...
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Novel robots for gait and arm rehabilitation: IJARS interview with Robert Riener
ARMin neuro-rehabilitation device. In this pair of video lectures, Robert Riener presents his team’s research efforts in the field of rehabilitation robotics, and describes the vision behind Cybathlon,...
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