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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Luigi Freda
Computer Vision, AI, Robotics Engineer, PhD
Robotics
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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Robotic Laundry
How about asking your robot to make a complete laundry cycle?…PR2 seems almost there. See more on this page.
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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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Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
In this work from Georgia Tech, researchers have developed a control algorithm that allows small-scale autonomous cars to drive autonomously around
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Mapping and Navigating Using a RealSense R200
This video shows how the new RealSense R200 can be used for 2D mapping and navigation for TutleBot. Drivers & ROS
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Drone Anatomy: Sensing Technologies Used in Drones
Surfing on the web, you can find tons of tutorial on how to build your own drone. DIY Drones is obviously
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Best Optics for Visual Odometry
In their latest work “Benefit of Large Field of View Cameras for Visual Odometry“, Davide Scaramuzza et al. analyse which optics is
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Drone Racing and Drone Fighting: Next Sports in the Modern Age
Drone racing will be for sure one of the next sport in modern age. High-tech ultra-low-latency video links make this
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The Picobug : a mesoscale robot that can run, fly, and grasp
The flying monkey is a new robot platform which have three main capabilities: walking, grasping, and flight. This robotic platform merges one
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Movidius breakthrough puts AI onto a USB stick
Movidius (innovative Irish chip maker) has just created the world’s first deep learning USB stick. Entitled the Fathom Neural Compute Stick,
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Brand-new LIDAR from Velodyne
A brand-new sensor from Velodyne, range up to 200 meters. See here
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