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Robots: Distributed flight array

Link to audio file (20:43) In this episode, we discover an aerial modular robot called the Distributed Flight Array. To talk about this, we have Raymond Oung from the Swiss Federal Institute of...

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[IROS 2012] With your help, the Iuro robot finds its way through cities |...

This giant bobblehead robot asks people for directions to get where it needs to go See on spectrum.ieee.org

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Ball rolling robots

San Francisco based Bossa Nova Robotics develops personal robots for the home based on the ballbot technology under license from CMU. Founded by robotics entrepreneur Sarjoun Skaff as a spin-off out of...

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Video: Quadrocopter learns from its mistakes, perfects air racing

#fstxfloat p { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; } Manual programming of robots only gets you so far. And, as you can see in the video, for quadrocopters that’s not very far at all (see the...

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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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Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd

Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...

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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 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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The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate...

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take on...

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Academic and industry collaboration (Part 4): Interview with Raffaello D’Andrea

Photo credit: James Davidson. In this 4th interview of our four-part ECHORD series, conducted last June, Sascha Griffiths from TUM talks to Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control...

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Drone startups: Fotokite

Although I am amazed with UAVs and their versatility, I must admit that having a flying camera zoom by – and zoom in on me – can be intimidating. Not because the drone has a camera, but because I...

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ShanghAI Lectures: Fumiya Iida “Soft robotics approach toward artificial...

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17 Artificial ontogenetic development has been nicely demonstrated by many computer simulation studies in the past. There are, however, still a number of...

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Robots: Distributed flight array

Link to audio file (20:43) In this episode, we discover an aerial modular robot called the Distributed Flight Array. To talk about this, we have Raymond Oung from the Swiss Federal Institute of...

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[IROS 2012] With your help, the Iuro robot finds its way through cities |...

This giant bobblehead robot asks people for directions to get where it needs to go See on spectrum.ieee.org

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Ball rolling robots

San Francisco based Bossa Nova Robotics develops personal robots for the home based on the ballbot technology under license from CMU. Founded by robotics entrepreneur Sarjoun Skaff as a spin-off out of...

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Video: Quadrocopter learns from its mistakes, perfects air racing

#fstxfloat p { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; } Manual programming of robots only gets you so far. And, as you can see in the video, for quadrocopters that’s not very far at all (see the...

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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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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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