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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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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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