Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The Year of CoCoRo 49/52: During the last year we showed many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlights were always on the Lily and on the Jeff robots. However, there is another star in the team and this trailer is dedicated to this special agent: The base station! It was finished rather at the end of the project thus we had to develop (hack) many surrogates and placeholders for it over the course of the project. We got so experienced with it that we could quickly hack together a surrogate base station from almost everything that was laying around in the lab: Styrofoam, cans, boxes, ... whatever was around and came in handy. This video shows some of those creations. Finally, a few months before the final review, we had the real thing ready: A typical Italian machine (like Italian cars) made by our partners from SSSA (Pontedera): Fast as hell, highly maneuverable, just elegant. The base station has a docking device and can actively maneuver, dock and undock robots and carry three attached spare robots with it. With this central masterpiece we were ready for our final review.
The Year of CoCoRo 49/52: During the last year we showed many swarm algorithms in various experiments. The spotlights were always on the Lily and on the Jeff robots. However, there is another star in the team and this trailer is dedicated to this special agent: The base station! It was finished rather at the end of the project thus we had to develop (hack) many surrogates and placeholders for it over the course of the project. We got so experienced with it that we could quickly hack together a surrogate base station from almost everything that was laying around in the lab: Styrofoam, cans, boxes, ... whatever was around and came in handy. This video shows some of those creations. Finally, a few months before the final review, we had the real thing ready: A typical Italian machine (like Italian cars) made by our partners from SSSA (Pontedera): Fast as hell, highly maneuverable, just elegant. The base station has a docking device and can actively maneuver, dock and undock robots and carry three attached spare robots with it. With this central masterpiece we were ready for our final review.
