The Cyborg Fly Project

Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems have used a fruit fly to steer a mobile robot through an obstacle course. They call it the Cyborg Fly.  

Autonomous Vehicle Driving Itself on Highway

An autonomous van developed by the University of Parma’s Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VisLab), drives itself on a highway, as part of a 13,000-km, three-month journey from Italy to China.  

Nose-Controlled Electric Wheelchair

Israeli researchers have developed a device that converts nasal pressure into electrical signals, which could enable paralyzed people to type text and surf the Web. In this video, the researchers, led by Noam Sobel, a professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, demonstrate “sniff control” of an electric wheelchair.  

Testing My New Robot Body

A telepresence robot called QB replaced me at the office for one week.  

Superfast Robotic Camera Mimics Human Eye

Researchers led by Professor Heinz Ulbrich at the Institute of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich are developing superfast camera-orientation systems that can reproduce the movements of the human eye.  

How to Make a Humanoid Robot Dance

Developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).  

DARwIn-OP Humanoid Robot Demo

Virginia Tech roboticist Dennis Hong shows off the new DARwIn-OP open-source robot at the IEEE Humanoids 2010 conference in Nashville, Tenn.  

Drone Flies by Looking at Landscape

McGill University researchers have developed a UAV control system that uses vision algorithms to guide the aircraft along a coastline.  

Aldebaran’s New Nao Robot Demo

Aldebaran Robotics founder and CEO Bruno Maisonnier demos the latest version of the Nao humanoid robot.  

Nao Robot Does Star Wars

Humanoid robot Nao performs its “Star Wars” act for Bruno Maisonnier, founder and CEO of Aldebaran Robotics.  

How the Curiosity Mars Rover Will Land and Navigate

Steven Lee, the guidance, navigation, and control manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., describes how NASA plans to land and navigate its new Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars in 2012.  

Vstone Robovie R3 Robot

Vstone shows off its Robovie R3, a mobile platform designed for human-robot interaction research.  

Autom Weight-Loss Coach Robot

Autom is a robot created by Intuitive Automata designed to help people keep track of their eating and exercise habits.  

Windoro Window-Cleaning Robot Demo

Windoro is a window-cleaning robot developed by PIRO and Ilshim Global, in South Korea.  

Super Robust Robot Hand

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have built an anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure collisions with hard objects and even strikes from a hammer without breaking into pieces.  

How Robonaut 2’s Dexterous Hands Work

Robonaut 2 will become the first humanoid robot in space.  

Robot Seal Plays Basketball

This robotic seal, developed at Taiwan’s National Chiao-Tung University, shoots hoops like a pro.  

Chinese Quadruped Robot Takes Its First Steps

ABB Concept Robot FRIDA

Video Taken By Robotic Aerial Vehicle at Fukushima (1/3)