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An Autonomous Robotic Platform to Manipulate Collective Behavior in Ants

Eusocial life is characterized by division of labour, collective decision making and self organization, and regarded as the highest form of social organisation in groups. Ants are a model organism for research in collective behavior and the evolution of eu ...

EPFL2023

Acoustic Levitation apparatus (Robotics Practicals)

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Amit Yedidia Dolev, Bora Yalcin

The following data contain the information and files, which are required to recreate and build the experimental setup that is described in the Laboratory manual. Further details can be found in the associated publication “A graduate laboratory experiment t ...

Zenodo2023

How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives

Dario Floreano, Nicola Nosengo, Rafael Lalive, Fabrizio Schiano, William John Stewart, Davide Zambrano, Antonio Paolillo

The effects of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market are matters of great social concern. Economists and technology experts are debating at what rate, and to what extent, technology could be used to replace humans in occupations, and ...

2022

Real World Bayesian Optimization Using Robots to Clean Liquid Spills

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kieran Daniel Gilday

Developing robots that can contribute to cleaning could have a significant impact on the lives of many. Cleaning wet liquid spills is a particularly challenging task for a robotic system, and has several high impact applications. This is a hard task to phy ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2020

Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration

Aude Billard, Athanasios Polydoros

In the context of robotics and automation, learning from demonstration (LfD) is the paradigm in which robots acquire new skills by learning to imitate an expert. The choice of LfD over other robot learning methods is compelling when ideal behavior can be n ...

2020

Flexible Automation Driven by Demonstration: Leveraging Strategies that Simplify Robotics

Sylvain Calinon

How do I automate this task? This is a crucial question for production engineers. In classical industrial automation (think of a car factory) robots perform a small set of tasks for long periods of time. They were selected because their kinematic structure ...

2018

Flexible Automation Driven by Demonstration: Leveraging Strategies that Simplify Robotics

Sylvain Calinon

2018

Animal-Robot Interaction for Ethological Studies

Alexey Gribovskiy

A robot properly introduced into an animal group, accepted by the animals, and capable of interacting with them is a very powerful tool for advanced ethological research, particularly in gregarious animals. Moreover, such robots can find an application in ...

EPFL2011

Robotique collective et auto-assemblage

Michael Bonani

We present a study of collective robotics by including a mechatronics point of view. In the field it is usually claimed that collective robots are simple and relatively cheap because they are produced in large quantities. Instead in our study we show that ...

EPFL2010

Safety in Numbers: Fault Tolerance in Robot Swarms

The swarm intelligence literature frequently asserts that swarms exhibit high levels of robustness. That claim is, however, rather less frequently supported by empirical or theoretical analysis. But what do we mean by a 'robust' swarm? How would we measure ...

2006

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