TRADR Techday 2017
On November 17 2017, I was a member of the crew who organized the TRADR Technology Day. More than 60
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Handle – the new creature of Boston Dynamics
Handle is definitely a big Wow. From the youtube video description: “Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft
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Best Late Breaking Report at SSRR 2016
Our recent work with ETHZ was awarded Best Late Breaking Report at SSRR 2016 “3D Localization, Mapping and Path Planning for
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Microsoft HoloLens brings New Vision to Elevator Maintenance of Thyssenkrupp
Using Microsoft HoloLens, 24,000+ service technicians of Thyssenkrupp will be able to visualize and identify problems with elevators ahead of
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DJI launches ultraportable iOS-connected Mavic Pro camera drone
Drone maker DJI unveiled its latest flying camera: a foldable, portable, sub-$1,000 device dubbed the Mavic Pro. This seems to
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Agile Drone Flight through Narrow Gaps with Onboard Sensing and Computing
From Google+, Davide Scaramuzza presents his last work on perception aware path planning for quadrotors. “I am happy to share
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A Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month – Uber Steps on the Accelerator
Uber is definitely stepping on the accelerator… “Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon
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Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
“At MIT’s Photonic Microsystems Group, the authors are developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller than a dime, has no
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Geometry and Beyond – Representations, Physics, and Scene Understanding for Robotics – RSS 2016
This is a very interesting workshop with very nice perspectives. Oliver Brock, TU Berlin „Geometry is dead” Hanif Kara said
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Event Camera SLAM
The slamcore start-up is pioneering breaktrough new algorithms for accurate and robust real-time event camera motion tracking and scene reconstruction
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Exo360 Drone: Virtual Reality Taken to the Skys
The Exo360 has 5 cameras which can capture the surroundings of where ever the drone is flying and then stitch
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SpotMini: A New Creature from Boston Dynamics
SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot. It can be equipped with an arm and is all-electric (no hydraulics).
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High-Performance and Tunable Stereo Reconstruction
In this work, Researchers of MIT present an high-performance and tunable stereo disparity estimation method. It succeeds to reach a
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Active Volumetric 3D Reconstruction
A new open-source library has been released by the Robotics and Perception Group of Davide Scaramuzza. Technical details of the
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Google New Plan: Map the Interior World in 3-D
Everyone knows about Google Map and use it. But now the internet giant has a bigger target: it wants to digitally map
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