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Swarms of Agile of Autonomous Aerial Robots Planned

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March 26, 2013

Assistant Director for Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Vijay Kumar, UPS Foundation Professor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been named the recipient if the 2012-13 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “pioneering contributions to the science and technology of cooperative robotics.”

Autonomous micro aerial robots can operate in three-dimensional environments and offer many opportunities for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and first response. In this lecture, Dr. Kumar will describe his recent work with small, agile aerial robots, and discuss the challenges in the deployment of large numbers of aerial robots, with applications to cooperative manipulation and transport, construction, and exploration and mapping.

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Joint Japanese and French Robotics Laboratory Develops Thought Controlled Robot

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November 14, 2012

CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory)

“Basically we would like to create devices which would allow people to feel embodied, in the body of a humanoid robot. To do so we are trying to develop techniques from Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) so that we can read the peoples thoughts and then try to see how far we can go from interpreting brain waves signals, to transform them into actions to be done by the robot.”
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Headquarters of AIST are located in Tsukuba and Tokyo. AIST has over 40 autonomous research units in various innovative research fields, and the units are located at nine research bases and several sites (smaller than research bases) of AIST all over Japan. About 2400 researchers (about 2100 with tenure: about 80 from abroad) and thousands of visiting scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and students from home and abroad are working at AIST. About 700 permanent administrative personnel and many temporary staff support research works of AIST.

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Tags: akiharar, android, BCI, Brain Computer Interfaces, japan, mind control, Robot, robotics, thought control

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DARPA Robotics Challenge Will Produce Fully Independent Hyper Robots for Executing Complex Tasks in Dangerous Environments

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October 29, 2012

The Department of Defense’s strategic plan calls for the Joint Force to conduct humanitarian, disaster relief and related operations. The plan identifies requirements to extend aid to victims of natural or man-made disasters and conduct evacuation operations. Some disasters, however, due to grave risks to the health and well being of rescue and aid workers, prove too great in scale or scope for timely and effective human response.

Atlas is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA. AtlasProto, shown here, is a testbed for developing control systems and software for rough terrain. Several Atlas robots will participate in the DARPA Robotics Challenge next year. The video shows AtlasProto using its legs and arms to climb onto a platform, jump down, cross the ‘snake pit’, and climb steep stairs. For more information visit www.BostonDynamics.com.

Access DARPA team robot projects at:

Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center, Drexel University, Raytheon, SCHAFT Inc., Virginia Tech, NASA’s Johnson Space Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories, RE2, University of Kansas, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, TRAC Labs, University of Washington, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Ben-Gurion University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and TORC Robotics.

Tags: atlas, BOSTON, darpa, dynamics, gfer, Robot, robotic

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RoboCup 2012 Adult Size Competition on the Soccer Field and Robot Activity is Totally Autonomous

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October 21, 2012

“It is the first time that an event of this activity takes place in a Latin American country… More than 2,000 people from over 40 countries will test hundreds of robots that frame international competition . Participants tried to be the best and win the cup this year, organized by RoboCub Federation and the Mexican Federation of Robotics.”

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Turtle Robot Design at 100 Meter Dive Adds to Research and Sea Surveillance Capabilities

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October 11, 2012

Naro-tartaruga is the newest bio-inspired robot in the naro-project at the Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). This video shows the concept and demonstrates the fin movements.

It features a fully three dimensional fin actuation unit and a robust hull capable of diving up to 100m deep. The robot is designed to be a platform for underwater robotics research. It carries many batteries and computational power. Locomotion studies as well as robotic autonomy are only two out of many possible research fields with this robot.