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Video Friday: AR Drone Stunt, Real Transformer, and Futurama Justice
What better way to kick off the weekend than with a flaming flying robot?
TurtleBot 2 Tutorial: Installing ROS
Want to install ROS on your desktop PC? It's a lot easier than it sounds
Here's Microsoft's New Kinect Sensor
The new Kinect was announced yesterday, and it's better. Way better.
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Robot Octopus Shows Off New Sculls
What tentacled swimming gait works best for a robotic octopus?
Robotic Insect Eyes Destined for Next-Gen Micro Drones
This flexible new camera can see even better than bugs do
Video Friday: Droneapult Launch, Robot Rope Ascender, and Spock vs. Spock
We've still got lots of news from ICRA, but not today, since it's Video Friday!
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JPL BioSleeve Enables Precise Robot Control Through Hand and Arm Gestures
This sensor-studded cuff from JPL enables intuitive robot control
Kuka Robot Competition Offers 20,000-Euro Award
The German company is organizing a competition based on its youBot robot
MIT Cheetah Robot Runs Fast, and Efficiently
It's now the second fastest legged robot in the world
Finally: Robots Learn What 'Squishy' Really Means
Researchers are teaching robots to use common adjectives to describe how objects feel
Video Friday: Robohand, Entropy-Powered AI, and Bad Breath Bot
It's Friday, and we know what you need: robot videos
Why Teaching a Robot to Fetch a Cup of Coffee Matters
In robotics, as in life, it often takes small steps to reach a big goal
Shrewbot Uses Whiskers to Map Its Environment
A robot modeled after a shrew can figure out where it is using just its whiskers
This Robot's Acrobatic Leaps Are the Coolest Thing You'll See Today
This jumping robot video will make you love robots even more
Quadrotor With Tilting Propellers Can Twist in Midair
Some extra degrees of freedom give this quadrotor the ability to pitch and roll while hovering
MIT Robots Can Assemble Your IKEA Furniture For You
These robots can assemble your Swedish furniture, without even looking at the instructions
This Crawling Inchworm Robot Can Be Printed Out and Folds Itself
With the addition of a battery and motor, this printable and self-assembling robot can crawl like a worm
We're at ICRA 2013: The World's Largest Robot Research Conference!
We're in Karlsruhe, Germany to check out all the latest robotics research
Rethink Robotics Opens Up Baxter Robot For Researchers
Researchers now have access to an open source SDK to "hack" Baxter
Video Friday: Robo Raven Attacked, Robot Love In the Air, and Superbowl of the Mind
Robot love is in the air. Robo Raven is in the air, too
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