AI & Robotics

A Robotic Dock for Your Smartphone

The idea of using a robotic dock for iPhone and iPod is not new. Back in 2009, a robot hobbyist has developed a humanoid robot named..

Our friends from Cause Ribbon were kind enough to make us two new ribbons: one for ROS the robotic middleware under a free software..

Boston Dynamics make awesome robots! And this new version of BigDog is no exception. As shown in Video 1 below, the new BigDog has what can..

Robots are tightly connected to our society. The word robot itself was introduced in Karel Čapek’s seminal play R.U.R. to raise societal..

Every day, there are plenty of stories and videos about new robots, recent experiments, and many interesting news on robotic parts and..

ROS Groovy was released on December the 31st, 2012. For those of you who just want to quickly experiment with it, we provide a ready to use..

Many newcomers to ROS don’t know where to start. Indeed, ROS is not an application, but it is rather a robotics middleware. That is an..

When designing a robot, choosing the right shape can have tremendous impact on the robot controller. This idea has been pushed to the..

As we announced in a former post, the Collège de France hosted in Paris a two days seminar with 10 among the world’s most prominent..

UPDATE: This tutorial is about ROS Fuerte (released on April 2012). The content still applies to the virtual machine for ROS Groovy..