Stable whole-body motion capture and generation to allow the humanoid robot Mahru imitate human movements. This research is part of Korea Institute of Science and Technology’s Cognitive Robotics Center.
Control Design and Experimental Evaluation of the 2D CyberWalk Platform. Presented at 2009 IEEE IROS by Alessandro De Luca and Raffaella Mattone (Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”) and Paolo Robuffo Giordano and Heinrich H. Bulthoff (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics).
Developed by Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai at Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan.
To track his wandering cat, Mark Spiezio rigged up a cat collar with a lightweight GPS logger. Here’s what he discovered about KooKoo’s secret habits
Video part of the report “Soft-Tissue Injury in Robotics,” by Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schaffer, and Gerd Hirzinger at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR – German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany.
Video part of the “DLR Crash Report: Towards a Standard Crash-Testing Protocol for Robot Safety,” by Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schaffer, Mirko Frommberger, Jurgen Rossmann, and Gerd Hirzinger at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR – German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany, and Institute of Man-Machine-Interaction, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany.
Yukiko Sawada and Takashi Tsubouchi at the University of Tsukuba, Japan have built a robotic room, where the tables automatically move to the desired location.
Advanced telepresence robot created by Silicon Valley robotics start-up Anybots.
Press conference held by Willow Garage, a robotics firm in Menlo Park, Calif., to discuss its PR2 Beta Program, in which 11 institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Japan will receive PR2 robots to develop new applications. The event, which took place 26 May 2010, was recorded via Texai telepresence robot created by Willow Garage.
A research team led by Dr. Andrew Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh has taught a monkey to use just its thoughts to control an advanced robot arm.
Justin is a dexterous two-arm humanoid developed at DLR, the German space agency. DLR reporter Daniel Finger demonstrates the robot’s teleoperation system at the International Aerospace Exhibition 2010 in Berlin.
The Darmstadt Dribblers have some of the most impressive humanoid robots in the RoboCup competition. For the second year in a row, the team from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, became the champions in the kid-size humanoid league.
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.