Italian Earthquake: Recommendations for using Rescue Robots
On this page Dr. Robin Murphy posted very useful recommendations for using ground and aerial robots for immediate lifesaving. “…A video camera,
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Luigi Freda
Computer Vision, AI, Robotics Engineer, PhD
robotics
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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ElasticFusion – Real-time Light Source Detection
A new journal paper about ElasticFusion has come out from Davison’s group. New exciting results on 3D light source mapping are presented.
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History of Robotics
Here you can find a nice timeline of robotics projects from ancient times. In particular, you can find some details about
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3D Semantic Parsing of Large-Scale Indoor Spaces
“3D sensing has experienced a major progress with the availability of mature technology for scanning large-scale spaces that can reliably
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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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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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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 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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