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15 robot portraits taken with an 1880s camera
Kassie Perlongo
05 Apr 2016
Amsterdam-based photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx feels inspired by the slow style of classic photography. So influenced, in fact, you can find her observing all her subjects through an old-fashioned...
Gestures improve communication – even with robots
Frontiers in Psychology
31 Mar 2016
By: Abigail Pattenden
In the world of robot communication, it seems actions speak louder than words. Scientists in the UK have discovered that by getting robot avatars to “talk with their hands,...
Robotics narratives: Look alive
UW-Madison Science Narratives
30 Mar 2016
UW-Madison Science Narratives and partners have joined together to create a 5-month video and audio adventure, exploring the work of Dr Bilge Mutlu and colleagues as they craft robots from a human per...
Weekly smiles from the queen of useless robots
Frank Tobe
24 Mar 2016
Simone Giertz, the 25-year-old Swedish inventor who lives on a houseboat in Stockholm, is called ‘the queen of shitty robots.’ She has attracted thousands of followers with her quirky contraptio...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 2
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Mar 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Robotics narratives: Your move, robot
UW-Madison Science Narratives
22 Mar 2016
UW-Madison Science Narratives and partners have joined together to create a 5-month video and audio adventure, exploring the work of Dr Bilge Mutlu and colleagues as they craft robots from a human per...
Book Review: Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, by Lentin Joseph
Robots for Roboticists
21 Mar 2016
Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming is a good book that will help you learn ROS and take advantage of some of the powerful nodes (programs) that are out there. The book covers both a 7 DOF robot ar...
‘Moon Shot’ nine-part documentary series available on YouTube
Kassie Perlongo
18 Mar 2016
The nine-part documentary web series about the Google Lunar XPRIZE that first launched on Google Play is now available YouTube....
Robotics narratives: Birth of the bots
UW-Madison Science Narratives
15 Mar 2016
UW-Madison Science Narratives and partners have joined together to create a 5-month video and audio adventure, exploring the work of Dr Bilge Mutlu and colleagues as they craft robots from a human per...
Google DeepMind challenge match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo
Robohub Editors
14 Mar 2016
Update: The final match was played on Tuesday, 15 March, with AlphaGo winning over Lee Sedol 4-1! Watch all the livestream matches below....
Applying direct transcription methods to robot motion planning
NCCR Robotics
08 Mar 2016
When you walk across a room or down a path, your brain is making thousands of decisions on how best to move. For example, how best to use your weight, scanning for any obstacles or uneven surfaces, ...
WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson
Robohub Editors
04 Mar 2016
UPDATED 4 Mar: We're sad to report that Professor Tony Dyson, who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has died. We’re reposting this excellent video of his keynote at WeRobot to highlight his...
3 types of robot singularities and how to avoid them
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
02 Mar 2016
If you are interested in science, "singularity" probably makes you think of a black hole. Black holes are popular in the media right now since the LIGO lab in America proved the existence of gravitat...
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Robohub Editors
22 Feb 2016
Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
Talking Machines: Robotics and machine learning music videos, with Michael Littman
Talking Machines
17 Feb 2016
In episode three of season two, Ryan walks us through the Alpha Go results and answers a listeners' question about using Gaussian processes for classifications. Plus, we talk with Michael Littman of...
Creating a synthetic “second skin” with soft pneumatic actuators
NCCR Robotics
17 Feb 2016
Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are an up and coming solution to the contradictory design criteria that many robotic systems have – high torque/force often means greater weight and volume, which is ...
Robotic assistants: Science meets fiction, with Carme Torras
In this video lecture Carme Torras, Research Professor at the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) looks at the process of working on assistive robots employed as helpers to disabled or elderly...
Understanding joint impedance with a knee exoskeleton
NCCR Robotics
09 Feb 2016
When designing exoskeletons for rehabilitation of patients after spinal cord injury or stroke, a constant concern is creating them to be as natural as possible to best enable user training to rebuild ...
Vote for your favourite AI video – AAAI Video Competition People’s Choice Award
Sabine Hauert
01 Feb 2016
You get to decide the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the AI Video Competition 2016!...
Meet the drone that already delivers your packages, Kiva robot teardown
Ben Einstein
01 Feb 2016
There’s been a lot of talk about package delivery via flying drones. While this is an interesting vision of the future, current economics make this an unlikely substitute for base-load ground delive...
A brief history of robotic force torque sensors
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
28 Jan 2016
Force torque sensors are now ubiquitous in robotics, but where did they come from? What series of inventions and discoveries happened for robot force sensors to arrive where they are today? It turns...
How to fine tune your robot’s payload, and why
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
20 Jan 2016
Payload, grip force, weight, and reach are all data that are used to describe and differentiate robots from each other. Payload is mostly used to determine the weight that the robot can carry through ...
Mastering ROS for robotics programming
Lentin Joseph
19 Jan 2016
A new book by Lentin Joseph, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, discusses advanced concepts in robotics and how to implement them using ROS. Readers will learn how to build models of complex ...
Watch this service robot predict your organizing preferences
Nichola Abdo
18 Jan 2016
How many of us have envisioned intelligent robots operating and assisting us in our homes with everyday tasks? Different users typically have varying preferences and expectations when it comes to tas...
Survey on your experience with robotics competitions
Mahmoud AbdelAziz
14 Jan 2016
From Grand Challenges such as the recent DRC, to STEM events such as FIRST, to startup pitches such as Robot Launch, competitions have been used to push the state of the art in the field, inspire the ...
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...
Create a ROS sensor plugin for Gazebo
Ricardo Téllez
07 Jan 2016
There are magnificent tutorials about how to create plugins for Gazebo in the GazeboSim webpage. There are even some tutorials about how to create plugins for Gazebo + ROS, which show that there are...
10 essential skills for roboticists
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
07 Jan 2016
What Type of Person Works in Robotics?
Roboticists are a combination of opposites. As specialists, we are skilled in the fine details of our respective specialisms. As generalists, we are able to se...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #52/52: Final Demonstration
Thomas Schmickl
05 Jan 2016
In our final video we demonstrate the entire CoCoRo system communicating and interacting together, including: the base station, a "relay-chain" swarm, and a search swarm on the ground....
Interview with IJARS, with Howie Choset and Seth Hutchinson
The IJARS team sat down at ICRA with two influential academics in robotics: Professor Howie Choset (Carnegie Mellon University) and Professor Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...
The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
CIS Blog
30 Dec 2015
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. ...
Using drones in wine making
Waypoint
28 Dec 2015
In 2014, viticulturist William Metz was granted a fellowship by the Villa d’Este Wine Symposium to spend a full year evaluating the potential applications of drones in wine making — a project t...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision
Thomas Schmickl
22 Dec 2015
Our penultimate video features the initial "Big Vision" trailer we produced at the beginning of this project. The video showcases the basic components of the robotic system we targeted (surface st...
Evaluating what’s easy and what’s hard to automate in your workshop
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
17 Dec 2015
If you haven’t already introduced a robot into your workshop, or if you are in the process of introducing such a device, you may be wondering … what is the best place to start? What is easy and wh...
From pencil and paper to hands-on making, a brief history of MIT’s legendary MechE 2.007
MIT News
16 Dec 2015
Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering
It's hard to ignore the fact that a worldwide maker movement is well underway. Over the past 10 or so years, community Maker Faires have beco...
Configuring multiple USB devices: An alternative to udev
Robots for Roboticists
16 Dec 2015
Every time I need to add multiple USB devices to a computer I get nervous and dread the architecture. The problem is that when a computer boots it automatically brings up USB devices in whatever order...
