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Robohub roundtable: Job loss through automation, Foxconn controversy

Robohub Editors 21 Jun 2016

Every few weeks, Robohub will post a roundtable chat and discuss an engaging topic relating to robotics. In this edition, we looked at the controversial job loss of 60K jobs by Foxconn. Is this substa...

How to design a robotics experiment

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 08 Jan 2016

The ability to design good scientific experiments is a key skill for any robotic researcher. Without a grasp of experimental design, even the best technological developments may never succeed in being...

Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 14 Oct 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Tully Foote -- ROS...

Vecna’s Daniel Theobald: Setting standards for robots

Audrow Nash 22 Sep 2015

Vecna’s robotic logistics solutions are a family of autonomous mobile robots, built to operate within human-centric environments such as hospitals. In this in-depth interview, Daniel Theobald, the ...

Robotic research: Are we applying the scientific method?

Gianluca Antonelli and Frontiers in Robotics and AI 05 Aug 2015

Once upon a time validation of robotic research was relatively straightforward. Let us assume, for example, that a researcher had published in a journal a novel adaptive control law with a numerical ...

Repeatable robotics: Standards and benchmarks from frontier science to applied technology

Robohub Editors 23 Jul 2015

In a recent article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Gianluca Antonelli suggests that the Grand Challenge of robotics is to systematize the way its research is conducted. At Robohub we believe this is...

Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions

Nicole Mirnig 23 Jul 2015

While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...