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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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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...
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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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New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
We’ve seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other...
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Triad of Creativity: Short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity...
A camera man gets up, close, and personal with the human and machine actors on the “Sparked” set. If you thought “SPARKED” – the new short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios – is...
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ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
ETH and the university of Zürich receive a 120 million dollar donation from ETH alumnus Hansjörg Wyss. (All photos: ETH Zurich) ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational...
View ArticleRobot looks like a fish to ride with marine life | Phys.org
Students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich are working on a project that could deliver an ideal device for marine life filming, minus the turbulence and appearance that could...
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Walking assistive devices for the elderly
Working out the mechanics of walking is a major step towards creating assistive technologies. When thinking about robots that can be used to care for the elderly, most people imagine humanoid robots...
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Robots Podcast #190: Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Link to audio file (31:31). Transcript included. In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics’ tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently...
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Robots Podcast #190: Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Link to audio file (31:31). Transcript included. In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics’ tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently...
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Understanding joint impedance with a knee exoskeleton
Testing knee perturbator. Photo source: ETH Zürich, RELab, Stefan Schneller When designing exoskeletons for rehabilitation of patients after spinal cord injury or stroke, a constant concern is creating...
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A new quadrupedal robot, the ANYmal
ANYmal walking. photo source: ETH Zurich, RSL ANYmal is a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in difficult terrains. It is capable of running and climbing, and with its incorporated...
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Applying direct transcription methods to robot motion planning
Hardware experiments on motion planning for the the ballbot Rezero using direct transcription. Source: ADRLab ETH/youtube When you walk across a room or down a path, your brain is making thousands of...
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New startup accelerator looks to enable smart and connected machines
The Kickstart Accelerator program in Switzerland is currently accepting applications from early-stage startups making “smart and connected machines”, namely robots. They are especially (but not...
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Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on
ETH Zurich, 2015. Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across. Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridge joins...
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