The vision of USD’s Modular Robotics Lab is to develop modular robots whose software and hardware can be adapted to perform a wide range of tasks by a non-expert user. The lab is interested in all questions related to realizing this vision. Questions central to our current work include: what is a good set of basic modules from which to build modular robots? What is a good implementation of these basic modules in terms of mechatronics? How do we control a distributed robot such as a modular robot? Can we create programming languages that will accelerate and ease the programming of modular robots?
Associate Prof. Kasper Stoy to give talk at the Institute of Neuroinformatics UNI-ETH Zurich, 27th of November, 2009.
USD Modular Robotics Lab including the ODIN robot will participate in the play Robottens Anatomi at Odense Theater (buy tickets!), April and September 2009
USD Modular Robotics Lab hosted The Second International Conference on Robots and Communication 2009 (ROBOCOMM 2009). Robocomm 2009, 31/3-2009
Associate Prof. Kasper Stoy organized a session on "practical control of modular robots" at DARS 2008, Tsukuba, Japan, 19/11-2008.
Associate Prof. Kasper Stoy co-organized a workshop on "self-reconfigurable robots, systems and applications" at IROS 2008, Nice, France, 22/9-2008.
Press
Marts 2009 Article on the Locomorph EU project in the magazine Ny Viden in Danish
22/07-2008 USD Modular Robotics Lab's Co-director, Kasper Stoy, was interviewed by Robots Podcast & Community. Robots Podcast's Interview
30/05-2008 An article in the Japanese magazine "ROBOT WATCH" described the ICRA2008's robot challenge in which our group participated. ROBOT WATCH's article
30/05-2008 BBC Radio covered the ICRA2008's robot challenge event in which our group participated. The transmission focuses on the autonomous robot's challenge, called: The Sandbox Event. BBC Radio's transmission
23/05-2008 The Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California wrote an article about the ICRA2008's robot challenge, where their group was the winner of the event. Some pictures of our robots can be found using the links embedded in the article. ISI's article
Newest video
Center for Art & Science at the University of Southern Denmark has created a theatrical play called "the Anatomy of the Robot" which is performed at "Teaterhuset" in Odense, Denmark. The play is about the relationship between humans and robots.
As part of the play the Odin robot performs a dance to a piece of music composed by Jens Toyberg. The programming and choreography was done by Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia and Andreas Lyder.
This video was made while preparing the robot for the play.
The video shows a robot made of 7 linear actuator modules (black) and six passive rigid modules (white), two camera modules, and two Lego-hand modules. The robot is externally powered, and the movement is coordinated by a master module.
