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Cybathlon 2020 Global Edition

More than 50 teams from all over the world competed against each other in the CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition during the 13th and 14th of November 2020. NCCR Robotics spin-off TWIICE competed in the EPFL chapter on Nov. 14 and won the silver medal. The event will be virtual and live streamed. Don’t miss out! cybathlon.ethz.ch/en The event […]

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Robotics Today

Davide Scaramuzza was an invited speaker at the Robotics Today’s seminar series organized by MIT and Stanford, where he talked about Learning to Fly, covering topics ranging from perception to planning and control, from model-based to model-free autonomy Watch the presentation

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Forest welling drones

The Kovac lab at EMPA has developed drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests, tested them at NEST experimental robot testing space at Empa and on trees at Imperial College London’s Silwood Park Campus Read more

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ANYmal for construction safety

ANYbotics partnered with construction firm Losinger Marazzi to explore ANYmal’s potential to patrol their sites to identify and report safety issues—some of which cannot be detected by human senses. With such a complex environment, only a robot designed to navigate difficult terrain is able to bring digitalization to such a physically demanding industry. The case-study […]