Can a team of soccer-playing robots beat the human world champions by 2050? That’s the ultimate goal of RoboCup, an international tournament where teams of soccer robots compete in various categories, from small wheeled bots to adult-size humanoids.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany, transformed an industrial robot arm into a Formula 1 simulator.
Created at the A*STAR Social Robotics Laboratory (ASORO), part of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research.
Humanoid robot Surena 2, developed by the Center for Advanced Vehicles at University of Tehran and the R&D Society of Iranian Industries and Mines.
Humanoid robot Surena 2, developed by the Center for Advanced Vehicles at University of Tehran and the R&D Society of Iranian Industries and Mines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A telepresence robot called QB replaced me at the office for one week.
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.
Developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Virginia Tech roboticist Dennis Hong shows off the new DARwIn-OP open-source robot at the IEEE Humanoids 2010 conference in Nashville, Tenn.
McGill University researchers have developed a UAV control system that uses vision algorithms to guide the aircraft along a coastline.
Aldebaran Robotics founder and CEO Bruno Maisonnier demos the latest version of the Nao humanoid robot.
Humanoid robot Nao performs its “Star Wars” act for Bruno Maisonnier, founder and CEO of Aldebaran Robotics.
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 shows off its Robovie R3, a mobile platform designed for human-robot interaction research.
Autom is a robot created by Intuitive Automata designed to help people keep track of their eating and exercise habits.
Windoro is a window-cleaning robot developed by PIRO and Ilshim Global, in South Korea.