Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate
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http://www.ted.com In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers a... Read more
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- -: Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate
March 1, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TE...
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- -: A Robot Teaches Itself How to Walk
February 15, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Cornell University professor Hod Lipson demonstrates how a robot can teach itself to walk without any knowledge of its form and function. "Within a relatively small number of these babbling actions, it will figure out what it looks like," Lipson says. He adds that eventually "it can figure out h...
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- -: The 2012 White House Science Fair
February 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Meet some of the participants at the White House Science Fair. The President hosted the second White House Science Fair to celebrate the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country. At the fair, the President viewed exh...
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- -: West Wing Week: 2/10/12 or "Don't Be Bored...Make Something"
February 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President happily kicked off the Second Annual Science Fair at the White House and continued to call for an all-hands-on-deck approach to educating our kids in the fields of math, ...
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- -: TEDxMalibu - Dr. Narayan Srinivasa - Machines That Can Learn to Perceive
January 26, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, Principal Research Scientist and Manager at Hughes Research laboratories in Malibu, will share his research on creating perceptive machines and artificial intelligence. www.hrl.com
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- -: Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
January 12, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Astronomer Royal Martin Rees examines the various options for colonizing worlds beyond our own solar system, and expresses skepticism that humanity will ever achieve faster-than-light travel. "There are hypotheti...
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- -: TEDxPittsburgh - Jeannette Wing - Tiny / Humongous
December 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)From nano to exascale, from big data to small robots and how they are converging in healthcare and energy Jeannette is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests focus on the science of security and privacy. She ...
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- -: TEDxGeorgiaTech - Gil Weinberg - Towards Robotic Musicianship
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Interactive Computing Professor Gil Weinberg talks about leveraging technology to expand musical expression, creativity, and about robots as musicians. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that b...
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- -: TEDxDU Richard Voyles -- Can liquids think?
May 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Richard Voyles -- Can liquids think? Not one to shy away from radical thought, roboticist Richard Voyles shares his passion for the next frontier: a search and rescue robot that can be oozed under barriers or poured down a hole. See complete bio and all TEDxDU Talks at www.tedxdu.com About TEDx...
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- -: TEDxBoston - Skylar Tibbits - When Things Build Themselves
July 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)"You're probably thinking, 'Wow that looks super easy!'...but it's not." TED fellow and MIT lecturer, Skylar Tibbits explains the technology behind self-assembling, programmable parts that construct themselves into large-scale objects that are activated with the addition of a little energy. In ...
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