Robotics

CoHORT: Cooperative Human Operations with Robot Teams
CoHORT: Cooperative Human Operations with Robot Teams

The CoHORT project aims to develop a fleet of small rovers to be used as academic research and development platforms for research on multi-agent autonomy.

Sep 3, 2024

CADRE: Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration
CADRE: Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration

The CADRE technology demonstration aims to utilize a team of small, solar-powered rovers to independently explore and gather data from the Moon using mesh network radios for communication.

Jan 1, 2022

DARPA RACER: Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency
DARPA RACER: Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency

DARPA's RACER program aims to revolutionize autonomy for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) navigating unpredictable off-road terrain at speeds comparable to human drivers.

Sep 30, 2021

DARPA Subterranean Challenge
DARPA Subterranean Challenge

The DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge was a landmark competition aimed at developing autonomous robot teams capable of mapping, navigating, and searching underground environments.

Jan 1, 2021

IMEDNets: Image-to-Motion Encoder-Decoder Networks
IMEDNets: Image-to-Motion Encoder-Decoder Networks

IMEDNets are deep neural network architectures to enable robots to learn visuomotor skills, specifically translating visual inputs into robot motion trajectories.

May 1, 2018

Rapid Hardware and Software Reconfiguration in a Robotic Workcell
Rapid Hardware and Software Reconfiguration in a Robotic Workcell

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Jul 1, 2017

ReconCell: A Reconfigurable Robot Workcell
ReconCell: A Reconfigurable Robot Workcell

ReconCell was a reconfigurable robot workcell conceived to give low-volume, high-mix manufacturers the agility of large-scale automation without the overhead.

Nov 1, 2015

ACAT: Learning and Execution of Action Categories
ACAT: Learning and Execution of Action Categories

The goal of the ACAT project was to equip robots with the tacit background humans assume by encoding every task’s key motions, objects, and context into reusable 'Action Categories.'

Mar 1, 2013

Xperience: Robots Bootstrapped through Learning from Experience
Xperience: Robots Bootstrapped through Learning from Experience

Xperience: Robots Bootstrapped through Learning from Experience Xperience was an EU FP7 project that investigated how robots could build on what they already know to handle new situations instead of learning every skill from scratch.

Mar 1, 2012

CogX: Cognitive Systems that Self-Understand and Self-Extend
CogX: Cognitive Systems that Self-Understand and Self-Extend

CogX was a project that devised a cognitive-robotics architecture enabling mobile robots like the Dora platform to recognize gaps in their knowledge and autonomously choose sensing, dialogue or manipulation actions to learn and extend their capabilities.

Jan 1, 2009