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Looking beyond “technology for technology’s sake”
Whether building robots or helping to lead the National Society of Black Engineers, senior Austen Roberson is thinking about the social implications of his field.
08 December 2022, by
MIT News
Estimating manipulation intentions to ease teleoperation
Introducing an intention estimation model that relies on both gaze and motion features.
06 December 2022, by
Anna Belardinelli and AIhub
Countering Luddite politicians with life (and cost) saving machines
Beyond aerial tricks, drones are now being deployed in novel ways to fill the labor gap of menial jobs that have not returned since the pandemic.
04 December 2022, by
Oliver Mitchell
Call for robot holiday videos 2022
That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!
02 December 2022, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
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The Utah Bionic Leg: A motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees
Lenzi’s Utah Bionic Leg uses motors, processors, and advanced artificial intelligence that all work together to give amputees more power to walk, stand-up, sit-down, and ascend and descend stairs and ramps.
01 December 2022, by
The College of Engineering at the University of Utah
Touch sensing: An important tool for mobile robot navigation
Proximal sensing often is a blind spot for most long range sensors such as cameras and lidars for which touch sensors could serve as a complementary modality.
29 November 2022, by
Kshitij Tiwari
Study: Automation drives income inequality
New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.
27 November 2022, by
MIT News
Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
25 November 2022, by
MIT News
Holiday robot wishlist for/from Women in Robotics
Are you looking for a gift for the women in robotics in your life? Or the up and coming women in robotics in your family? Perhaps these suggestions from our not-for-profit Women in Robotics organization will inspire!
24 November 2022, by
Women In Robotics and Andra Keay
TRINITY, the European network for Agile Manufacturing
The Trinity project is the magnet that connects every segment of agile with everyone involved, creating a network that supports people, organisations, production and processes.
20 November 2022, by
RI4EU
Fighting tumours with magnetic bacteria
Researchers at ETH Zurich are planning to use magnetic bacteria to fight cancerous tumours. They have now found a way for these microorganisms to effectively cross blood vessel walls and subsequently colonise a tumour.
19 November 2022, by
ETH Zurich
Combating climate change with a soft robotics fish
We have fabricated a 3D printed, cable-actuated wave spring tail made from soft materials that can drive a small robot fish.
17 November 2022, by
Robin Hall
#IROS2022 best paper awards
Here we bring you the papers that received an award this year at IROS in case you missed them.
14 November 2022, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Robot Talk Podcast – October episodes
Here we bring you the Robot Talk Podcast episodes from October, in topics such as rehabilitation robotics, underwater robots, human-robot interaction, and aerial robots.
12 November 2022, by
EPSRC UK-RAS Robot Talk Podcast and Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
The original “I, Robot” had a Frankenstein complex
Eando Binder’s Adam Link scifi series predates Isaac Asimov’s more famous robots, posing issues in trust, control, and intellectual property.
09 November 2022, by
Robin Murphy