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Two weeks ago, we posted about quadrotors that were able to autonomously navigate outdoors, relying solely on IMUs and simple vision systems. What we found notable was that the robots didn’t need either GPS or a motion tracking system, implying that they could go out and do their thing in what some people like to call “the real world.” At ICRA 2012 yesterday, MIT’s Adam Bry presented a paper (and video!) demonstrating a micro air vehicle capable of the same sort of self-contained navigation, but indoors and impressively fast.

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It’s been a few years since we’ve seen any new tricks from those amazing high-speed robot hands from Japan. Now another Japanese group, at Chiba University, has managed to teach one of their dexterous hand-arm systems to repeatedly juggle two balls at once with an incredibly lifelike motion, presented yesterday at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

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Here we are at yet another gigantic robot conference: it's ICRA 2012, the IEEE (that's us!) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, and this year's theme is "Robots and Automation: Innovation for Tomorrow's Needs." While we're not sure we know what that means, exactly, there's still going to be more than enough incredibly awesome robotics research to keep us busy for the next few days.

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