Mekamon and AR battles
A nice meka with the option to engage AR battles
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
robotics
Do we need self-driving cars?
This post reports that a self-driving Uber car was involved in a high-speed crash in Tempe, Arizona. No one was
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TRADR Year 3 Review in Montelibretti – Work Package 4 Obtained an Excellent Evaluation
This year, the TRADR review took place at the Scuola Di Formazione Operativa of Vigili del Fuoco (Italian Firefighters) in
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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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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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The Going Rate for Self-driving Talent is $10 million per Person, word of Sebastian Thrun
According to this post, Sebastian Thrun said “Uber has just bought a half-a-year-old company [Otto] with 70 employees for almost $700
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TRADR Team and Vigili del Fuoco in Amatrice
It was a great life experience being part of the TRADR team who successfully deployed two UGVs and three drones
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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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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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