Rapid legged locomotion with minimal control

A 10 minute introduction to the MIT Deliberatorum (formerly known as the Collaboratorium), a tool designed to enable better large-scale collaborative deliberation around complex topics like global warming. See http://cci.mit.edu/klein/ for more information.

The Austin Villa Robot Soccer Team advances the field of artificial intelligence with soccer playing robotic dogs.

The ZAR-5 humanoid is a bionic fluid muscle powered torso with two arms and is a joint project of the Research Group \"Bionik und Evolutionstechnik\" of the Technical University Berlin and Festo GmbH It reproduces the basic function principles of muscles, joints and their attached sinews in hands arms and torso of the human body. \"By your command\" ;-) [More] [Less]

Zurich AI Lab\\\'s Stumpy performing in a row

This is the robot: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OF50M4?ie=UTF8&tag=demonbaby-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000OF50M4 When I brought home a Roboquad robot the other day and started playing with it, our resident guardian K9 was none too pleased. I decided to put Roboquad in \"autonomous\" mode, set his aggression level to high, and let the battle unfold. From http://www.demonbaby.com Note: The robot is acting fully on its own, I was not controlling it in any way. [More] [Less]

Un equipo de la Universidad de Plymouth espera con ansias la llegada de un robot humanoide de un metro de altura llamado iCub. El proyecto en cuestión, que se basa en lograr que el robot bebé aprenda a hablar, empezará el mes próximo y tendrá cuatro años de duración. Por el momento tienen el apoyo de varias universidades alrededor de Europa y ganaron una beca de € 6 millones para el proyecto. [More] [Less]

One of our contributions to the RobotCub project was the design of the robot head, face and facial expressions, in addition to the rest of the body cover. This video illustrates the expressions available in the final design. We performed tests in kinder gardens to understand how children evaluate the robot\'s expressions. For more information see: http://www.robotcub.org/ http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt/ [More] [Less]

Rapid legged locomotion with minimal control

The ZAR-5 humanoid is a bionic fluid muscle powered torso with two arms and is a joint project of the Research Group \"Bionik und Evolutionstechnik\" of the Technical University Berlin and Festo GmbH It reproduces the basic function principles of muscles, joints and their attached sinews in hands arms and torso of the human body. \"By your command\" ;-) [More] [Less]

A 10 minute introduction to the MIT Deliberatorum (formerly known as the Collaboratorium), a tool designed to enable better large-scale collaborative deliberation around complex topics like global warming. See http://cci.mit.edu/klein/ for more information.

Un equipo de la Universidad de Plymouth espera con ansias la llegada de un robot humanoide de un metro de altura llamado iCub. El proyecto en cuestión, que se basa en lograr que el robot bebé aprenda a hablar, empezará el mes próximo y tendrá cuatro años de duración. Por el momento tienen el apoyo de varias universidades alrededor de Europa y ganaron una beca de € 6 millones para el proyecto. [More] [Less]

Tyre manufacturing company has come to the rescue of Fuji the dolphin who was stricken by a mysterious life threatening illness and lost her fin. She caught a disease that begun gradually rotting her tail and her tail had to be amputated to save her life. For awhile the now 37-year old Fuji survived without a fin, but her lack of exercise and weight gain proved problematic. A friend of the handler\'s working at one of Japan\'s leading tyre makers, Bridgestone Corp, offered to make them an artificial tail fin for Fuji, the first of its kind in the world. The result was a tail fin 30 centimetres in length and 70 centimetres wide, a bit smaller than the tail of a healthy dolphin of Fuji\'s size. The fin was... [More] [Less]

One of our contributions to the RobotCub project was the design of the robot head, face and facial expressions, in addition to the rest of the body cover. This video illustrates the expressions available in the final design. We performed tests in kinder gardens to understand how children evaluate the robot\'s expressions. For more information see: http://www.robotcub.org/ http://vislab.isr.ist.utl.pt/ [More] [Less]

The Austin Villa Robot Soccer Team advances the field of artificial intelligence with soccer playing robotic dogs.

Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world. ECCE, developed within the EU\\\'s 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features. [More] [Less]

Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robot reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can aquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the appearance of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, musles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world. ECCE, developed within the EU\\\'s 7th Framework Programme, is the first robot that follows the anthropomimetic design principles very closely. The project has three major goals: (1) to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles, (2) to characterise its dynamics and control it, (3) to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features. [More] [Less]