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    Improving Perception through Interaction, with Carolyn Matl

    Dr. Carolyn Matl, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, explains why Interactive Perception and soft tactile sensors are critical for manipulating challenging objects such as liquids, grains, and dough.
    21 April 2022, by

    A flexible way to grab items with feeling
    MIT engineers Edward Adelson and Sandra Liu duo develop a robotic gripper with rich sensory capabilities.
    18 April 2022, by

    Robots dress humans without the full picture
    MIT researchers design a robot that has a trick or two up its sleeve.
    13 April 2022, by

    Touchy subject: 3D printed fingertip ‘feels’ like human skin
    A highly sensitive, 3D-printed fingertip could help robots become more dexterous and improve the performance of prosthetic hands by giving them an in-built sense of touch.
    07 April 2022, by

    Careers in robotics: What is a robotics PhD?
    This post will take you through the overall life cycle of a PhD in the American educational system, and is intended as a basic overview for anyone unfamiliar with the process, whether they are considering a PhD or have a loved one who is currently in a PhD program and just want to learn more about what they are doing.
    26 March 2022, by and

    BirdBot is energy-efficient thanks to nature as a model
    A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of California, Irvine constructed a robot leg that, like its natural model, is very energy efficient. BirdBot benefits from a foot-leg coupling through a network of muscles and tendons that extends across multiple joints. In this way, BirdBot needs fewer motors than previous legged robots and could, theoretically, scale to large size.
    19 March 2022, by



    Seamless transitions between autonomous robot capabilities and human intervention in construction robotics
    Congratulations to the winners of the best paper award of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction 2021! This paper presents two human-robot collaboration solutions for welding and joint sealing through the use of a haptic device.
    15 March 2022, by and
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    Event Cameras – An Evolution in Visual Data Capture, with Davide Scaramuzza

    Davide Scaramuzza deep dives into Event Cameras, a fundamentally new approach to capturing visual data
    08 March 2022, by

    How to help humans understand robots
    Theories from cognitive science and psychology could help humans learn to collaborate with robots faster and more effectively, scientists find.
    04 March 2022, by

    Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space
    Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.
    25 February 2022, by

    Tim Chung: DARPA Subterranean Challenge | Sense Think Act Podcast #14
    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Tim Chung, Program Manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), on the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge...
    24 February 2022, by and

    Czech Digital Innovation Hubs: who are they and how can they help?
    In 2016, the Czech Republic and Europe-wide started setting up a network of Digital Innovation Hubs. Since then, the Digital Europe Programme has come into force and introduced the new term European Digital Innovation Hubs. What can DIHs and EDIHs offer? Which are the relevant contacts in Czechia? This article will bring the answers.
    20 February 2022, by

    Beach bots, sea ‘raptors’ and marine toolsets mobilised to get rid of marine litter
    Often quickly disposed of but lasting in the environment for tens to hundreds of years, plastic litter pollutes our seas worldwide, creating a serious threat to wildlife and contributing to climate change as they break down.
    15 February 2022, by

    Bristol scientists develop insect-sized flying robots with flapping wings
    A new drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed by a University of Bristol team, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that does away with the need for conventional motors and gears.
    03 February 2022, by

    Radhika Nagpal at #NeurIPS2021: the collective intelligence of army ants
    Radhika’s research focusses on collective intelligence, with the overarching goal being to understand how large groups of individuals, with local interaction rules, can cooperate to achieve globally complex behaviour.
    01 February 2022, by
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    Learning for Collaboration, Not Competition, with Jakob Foerster

    Jakob Foerster, an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, dives into his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.
    25 January 2022, by

    Tamim Asfour’s Keynote talk – Learning humanoid manipulation from humans
    Tamim Asfour gives an overview of the developments in manipulation for robotic systems his lab has done by learning manipulation task models from human observations, and the challenges and open questions associated with this.
    25 January 2022, by and

    How robots learn to hike
    A new control approach that enables a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain.
    20 January 2022, by

    Science Magazine robot videos 2021
    A compilation of Science Magazine videos featuring robotics research that were released during last year.
    14 January 2022, by

    Robot reinforcement learning: safety in real-world applications
    How can we make a robot learn in the real world while ensuring safety? In this post, best paper award finalists at CoRL explain all.
    23 December 2021, by , , and

    Giving bug-like bots a boost
    A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.
    17 December 2021, by

    Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners
    The award-winning authors describe their work on a self-supervised framework for cloth unfolding which uses a pick, stretch, and fling primitive for a dual-arm setup from visual observations.
    12 December 2021, by

    Team builds first living robots that can reproduce
    AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine.
    02 December 2021, by

    Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners
    The award-winning authors describe their work on a system for general in-hand object re-orientation.
    24 November 2021, by

    Top tweets from the Conference on Robot Learning #CoRL2021
    In this post we bring you a glimpse of the conference through the most popular tweets about the conference written last week. Cool robot demos, short and sweet explanation of papers and award finalists to look forward to next year's edition.
    19 November 2021, by

    Finding inspiration in starfish larva
    Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a tiny robot that mimics the movement of a starfish larva. It is driven by sound waves and equipped with tiny hairs that direct the fluid around it, just like its natural model. In the future, such microswimmers could deliver drugs to diseased cells with pinpoint accuracy.
    17 November 2021, by

    RECON: Learning to explore the real world with a ground robot
    RECON provides a robust way to using past experience to accelerate learning in a new environment through the combination of goal sampling and topological memory.
    09 November 2021, by

    From a garage to Swiss lakes and rivers: the story of Proteus, an underwater robot
    Know the story of Proteus, an underwater robot developed by a Swiss student spin-off who partnered up with real divers from the Swiss Explosive Ordnance Disposal to retrieve lost ammunition from Swiss lakes.
    01 November 2021, by

    Making RL tractable by learning more informative reward functions: example-based control, meta-learning, and normalized maximum likelihood
    In our recent work, we design a reward specification technique that naturally incentivizes exploration and enables agents to explore environments in a directed way.
    30 October 2021, by

    IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering paper awards (with videos)
    The IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) is the flagship automation conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and constitutes the primary forum for c...
    27 October 2021, by and

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