Collaborative Navigation for Flying and Walking Robots

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Collaborative Navigation for Flying and Walking Robots

Péter Fankhauser, Remo Diethelm, Martin Wermelinger,
Thomas Schneider, Marcin Dymczyk, Michael Burri,
Michael Blösch, Dario Bellicoso, Christian Gehring,
Simon Lynen, Philipp Krüsi, Marco Hutter, Roland Siegwart

ETH Zurich, Autonomous Systems Lab

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Robots that can Adapt like Animals

A. Cully, J. Clune, D. Tarapore and J.-B. Mouret

Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique 
Pierre and Marie Curie Université - Sorbonne Universités (UPMC) 
CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) 

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SNOWDEN - Official Trailer

Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others. No matter which you believe, the epic story of why he did it, who he left behind, and how he pulled it off makes for one of the most compelling films of the year.

Whirlpool Corporation has gone Google

Whirlpool Corporation is one of America’s iconic brands. At 104 years-young, they've deployed Google Apps across 97,000 employees to reimagine the culture and office environment to foster innovation through active collaboration. They committed to the idea of a “winning workplace” to help employees be more productive, happier, healthier, and more in sync with other teams around the globe.

Google Stackdriver

Unified monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud Platform and AWS.

Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research

Facebook's Artificial Intelligence team is working to build smart systems that can enhance people's lives. Watch this video to learn about how we're approaching AI research and the impact this work is already having.

Making Creativity Visible: The MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery

Located in the heart of campus under the big dome, the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery is a changing exhibition space where visitors encounter a wide range of student-developed exhibitions that encompass the varied fields of science, technology, architecture, history, and art. (Learn more about the studio: http://mitmuseumstudio.mit.edu)

Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT

Music sampled from, "All The Pieces Come Together" by Dave Depper
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Intel Displays Smart-and-Connected Internet of Things Technology (B-roll)

The smart-and-connected city of the future is on display at Mobile World Congress. Using Intel® IoT Gateways and the Wind River Helix portfolio of IoT technologies, Intel is showing companies and public agencies how they can monitor in real time power generation and consumption, industrial processes, and even train arrivals and departures. They can then use that data to keep factories, transit, and buildings operating at peak efficiency.

Atlas, The Next Generation

Boston Dynamics



A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain and help with navigation. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.

Finding Linda - A Search and Rescue Mission by SWARMIX

SWARMIX project consortium and co-operating partners (participants in alphabetic order):

Asadpour, Mahdi
Di Caro, Gianni A.
Egli, Simon
Feo-Flushing, Eduardo
Csilla, Danka
Floreano, Dario
Gambardella, Luca M.
Gasser, Yannick
Gerencsér, Linda
Gergely, Anna
Giustiniano, Domenico
Heitz, Gregoire
Hummel, Karin A.
Kerekes, Barbara
Miklósi, Ádám
Molnar, Attila David
Plattner, Bernhard
Varga, Maja
Vásárhelyi, Gábor
Zufferey, Jean-Christophe

ETHZ (coordinator), Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory - Zurich (Switzerland)
EPFL, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems - Lausanne (Switzerland)
IDSIA (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence) - Lugano (Switzerland)
ELTE, Department of Ethology, Eötvös University - Budapest (Hungary)


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How to Engineer a Dog

How to engineer a dog
Marco Hutter, Mark Hoepflinger, Christian Gehring, Michael Bloesch, Mischa Kolbe, Roland Siegwart
ASL, ETH Zurich

Best Robot Video
AAAI Video Competition
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Telepresence for People with Communication Impairment

Telepresence for People with Communication Impairment
Gyula Vörös, András Sárkány, András Németh, Anita Verő, Gyula Szaffner, András Lőrincz
Eotvos Lorand University

Best Student Video
AAAI Video Competition
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Quadcopter Navigation in the Forest using Deep Neural Networks

Alessandro Giusti, Jerome Guzzi, Dan Ciresan, Fang-Lin He, Juan Pablo Rodríguez Gómez, Gianni Di Caro, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Luca M. Gambardella, Flavio Fontana, Matthias Faessler, Christian Forster, Davide Scaramuzza

IDSIA - Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
RPG - Robotics and Perception Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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2015 Hardware Reel | Google Lunar XPRIZE

It takes some seriously cool technology to get to the Moon. Watch the robots, rockets, and other moon-rover-racing technology developed this year by the Google Lunar XPRIZE teams, in this fun, high-energy highlight reel!

Human Spaceflight - An introduction | KTHx on edX | Course About Video

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This applied science course introduces aspects of human spaceflight, including the various environmental, medical and technical challenges of space travel.

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SparkFun Rogue Router - Solar Powered File Server

"The Rogue Router is an access point fileserver that runs on the SparkFun Thing Dev board and can be charged using our Solar Panels! 

Get the firmware and 3D Models for the enclosure here:
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Solar Panel 3.5W - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13782
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Parrot’s Newest Drone Has Wings

The 700-gram Parrot Disco, which the company has been working on for the last two years, is a small fixed-wing consumer drone that looks like a model airplane. It can fly up to 45 minutes and reach speeds of just under 50 mph. The 1080p 14-megapixel camera at the front of the drone is the same one that Parrot used for its Bebop 2 quadcopter. Lucas Matney takes a look at the new Parrot drone at CES 2016.

Robot Cops Are Real

Sarah Buhr visits Knightscope, to talks with Co-Founder, Stacy Stephens, about how monitoring robots can improve mall, stadium, and business security. 

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