Multidisciplinary Research Activities at King’s CoRe
The Centre for Robotics Research is divided into 11 research labs reflecting its varied and multidisciplinary research activities. If you are not redirected automatically, follow the link.
STIFF-FLOP Newsletter out now!
The STIFF-FLOP consortium has now published their end-of-year newsletter which is available here. It contains the latest news items about: recent progress and achievements of the project; RoNeX – the commercialised integration platform hardware; first safety and benchmarking tests; a list of peer-reviewed papers and invited keynote speeches; STIFF-FLOP exhibitions; Advisory groups.
Professor Althoefer presents overview of octopus inspired robotic arm to members of European and UK Parliaments
During the meeting “EU support for King’s Research”, organised by Professor of Oral Immunology at King’s Charles Kelly, Professor Kaspar Althoefer (Centre for Robotics Research (CoRe), Department of Informatics) presented research currently conducted at King’s as part of EU-funded project STIFF-FLOP to Baroness Sarah Ludford (MEP for London), Simon Hughes (MP for Bermondsey and Old…
STIFF-FLOP: 1 of 5 Cool Robots funded by the EU
Prior to the festival, Robot Safari received excellent coverage in Design Week, the Daily Telegraph and Mail Online. It also received a prominent half-page listing in Time Out London. As the festival opened, further coverage appeared, including in Phys.org, Gizmag and Popular Science. The BBC published a video online with footage from the festival and…
STIFF-FLOP at the Science Museum
During the European Robotics Week, at the Science Museum in London we’ll meet swimming, flapping or crawling robots mimicking real animals. The EU-funded STIFF-FLOP project will be showing a robotic arm inspired by the softness and agility of an elephant’s trunk and by the octopus’ ability to find food by exploring small cavities in rocks.…
Robots of the Future Explained by Prof. Kaspar Althoefer, King’s College London
Prof. Kaspar Althoefer and his colleagues were interviewed by T3 about robots of the future. In particular, he spoke about CoRe‘s contribution and development in the field of sensing to the EU FP7 project HANDLE. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycL6SxFjXY] Les suivants sont les effets secondaires Viagra Original les plus fréquemment rapportés sont ou si il Cialis spedizione gratuita…
STIFF-FLOP goes wild during Robot Safari at the Science Museum London
This November, Robot SafariEU at the Science Museum will explore the fascinating world of biomimetic robots. Beginning on Wednesday 27th November at Lates and continuing over the weekend (30 Nov – 1 Dec), visitors can trek through the un-natural habitats of these robots, interacting with creatures that swim, flap, and crawl, in a unique safari…
STIFF-FLOP/SAFROS Workshop “Safety in Robotic Surgery” at the Hamlyn Symposium June 25th, 2013
This workshop aims at summarizing the results and on going discussions within some of the EU-funded projects in robotic surgery, such as SAFROS, STIFF-FLOP, Active and uRalp. Although patient safety in all types of surgery seems an obvious concept, the close examination of patient safety in the specific case of robotic surgery raises a number…
HANDLE and Beyond: Advances in In-Hand Manipulation
Professor Veronique Perdereau from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris presented the final results of the HANDLE project at King’s Building, Strand Campus, on February 13th, 2013. HANDLE has involved the Centre for Robotics Research (CoRe) for 4 years, from 2009 to February 2013. The presentation reported the initial project approach (improving dexterity, pre-shaping…
What use is a robot octopus? OCTOPUS meets STIFF-FLOP
Cecilia Laschi and Matteo Cianchetti from SSSA demonstrated how the OCTOPUS robot works and explained how it could one day be used for tasks such as repairing underwater structures like oil pipelines and ships’ hulls to performing search-and-rescue operations – venturing into places too dangerous for humans! The event was held at the Science Museum…