How Google’s Self-Driving Car Works

This is part 2/3 of the keynote presentation by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson on self-driving cars at IROS 2011. Part 1/3 is here www.youtube.com Part 3/3 is here www.youtube.com Read more: spectrum.ieee.org (Recorded using a pocket camcorder; apologies for the poor audio quality.)
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Humanoid Robot Learning To Fix Satellites

Justin is a dexterous two-arm humanoid developed at DLR, the German space agency. DLR reporter Daniel Finger demonstrates the robot’s teleoperation system at the International Aerospace Exhibition 2010 in Berlin. For more robot news, go to spectrum.ieee.org
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It’s up to Connor, the rest of the Botties, and surprisingly Dr. K to restore Cubix, Maximix, ward off the zombot army, prevent all of Bubble Town’s robots from Kilobot’s evil brainwashing and beat him once and for all!
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Advanced Musculoskeletal Humanoid Robot Kojiro

Advanced musculoskeletal humanoid robot Kojiro. Developed at the JSK Robotics Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Demo of spine motion. For more robot news, visit spectrum.ieee.org
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Aldebaran’s New Nao Robot Demo

Aldebaran Robotics founder and CEO Bruno Maisonnier demos the latest version of the Nao humanoid robot. Read more: spectrum.ieee.org
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Monkey Controls Advanced Robot With Its Mind

A research team led by Dr. Andrew Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh has taught a monkey to use just its thoughts to control an advanced robot arm. For more details, see spectrum.ieee.org