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TERESA project adds a vital component to human-robot interaction: social intelligence
Shimon Whiteson
02 Feb 2017
TERESA is a 3-year research project funded by the European Union and carried out by six institutions from four European countries. Its goal is to develop a new socially intelligent semi-autonomous te...
Building character AI through machine learning
Brad Knox
01 Feb 2017
Modern character AI could be better.
I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...
The Frontiers of Machine Learning: Live webcast
Robohub Editors
31 Jan 2017
The webcast will take place on today from 9am-5:30pm EST and February 1st from 9am-5pm EST. Webcast participants are encouraged to submit questions for the presenters by e-mailing Michelle Schwalbe a...
Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jan 2017
On the 15th November 2016, the IEEE’s AI and Ethics Summit posed the question: “Who does the thinking?” In a series of key-note speeches and lively panel discussions, leading technologists, leg...
Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change
Horizon Magazine
26 Jan 2017
The shells on crustaceans and molluscs off the Norwegian Atlantic coast are not as thick as they once were. This is because of ocean acidification, where increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphe...
How to mount an external removable hard drive on a robot
Robots for Roboticists
23 Jan 2017
We often want to add an external hard drive to our robots in order to have a dedicated drive for data collection. Having the dedicated drive lets the primary drive remain uncluttered, have less wear-a...
Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Jan 2017
The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...
Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Jan 2017
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather th...
What is machine learning?
Oxford Sparks
16 Jan 2017
In this fascinating animation from Oxford Sparks, we take a look at how statistics and computer science can be used to make machines that learn for themselves, without being explicitly programmed....
Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
Alistair Wick
13 Jan 2017
So – you’ve built a robot arm. Now you’ve got to figure out how to control the thing. This was the situation I found myself in a few months ago, during my Masters project, and it’s a problem c...
#CES2017 in pictures
Kassie Perlongo
13 Jan 2017
CES 2017 has come and gone. As a first-timer in attendance, I couldn't help but marvel at the featured robots and all robotics related gadgets, toys, start-ups, wearables, and AI coming to market. I'l...
HAX takes robotics to market in 2017
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Jan 2017
If you attended CES 2017 last week you may have seen more than 70 HAX powered startups in Eureka Park, the ‘playground of innovation’. As service robotics steals the spotlight, we wanted to showca...
Brian Cox presents Science Matters: Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Robohub Editors
11 Jan 2017
We're beginning to see more and more jobs being performed by machines, even creative tasks like writing music or painting can now be carried out by a computer.
But how and when will machines be abl...
Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
05 Jan 2017
Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developin...
Looking towards service robotics in 2017
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Dec 2016
Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it wh...
Jibo look-alike appears on Chinese websites
Frank Tobe
29 Dec 2016
For all of us who participated in the Jibo IndieGoGo crowdfunding and are anxiously awaiting delivery - which has been delayed again - this Chinese knock-off came as quite a surprise....
Five applications for craft beer robots
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
28 Dec 2016
What tasks in a craft brewery can you do with a collaborative robot? Here are five options to improve the efficiency, consistency and safety of manufacturing in the beverage industry....
Designing robots with bugs??
Jibo
26 Dec 2016
Ask a child to design a robot, and they’ll produce a drawing that looks a little like you or I—the parts may be gray and boxy, but it will have two arms, two legs, and a head (probably with an ant...
The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
Siao Tin Soh
22 Dec 2016
An emerging need
China’s once abundant labor force has contributed to the country’s astonishing economic success in recent decades. But in the coming decades, the percentage of retirees relativ...
How artificial intelligence is changing our Christmas shop
Rikke Duus and Mike Cooray
21 Dec 2016
British consumers are expected to spend £280 each on gifts over the weeks leading up to Christmas. More than half of these purchases will take place online. Almost a third of people will rely on onli...
Holiday gifts ideas for Robogeeks – 2016
Kassie Perlongo
15 Dec 2016
Robotic toys and gear are getting better every year! Need some gift ideas for that special robot geek in your life? We put together some favourite gift ideas, from stocking stuffers, amazing robot t...
‘It’s a reminder we are making a difference in the world’: Girls of Steel follow up
Theresa Richards and Andra Keay
14 Dec 2016
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to engage more young women into engineering. Over the last few years, we’ve heard what it’s like to be part of ...
Dehyping robotics: Sabine Hauert at TEDx Berlin
Robohub Editors
13 Dec 2016
Robohub President Sabine Hauert gave an insightful talk at TEDx Berlin about what we try and do here at Robohub: ensuring truthful, fair, balanced robotics information is being shared. As our loyal re...
QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal
Josh Elijah
09 Dec 2016
Robotics is becoming more accessible for many people, but the complexities of legged robots mean they remain beyond the reach of most consumers. The complex mechanics, electronics and code algorithms ...
Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Dec 2016
In this roundtable edition, we watched the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” and asked our Robohub team members: with many institutions focused on developing aerial drone technology, and ...
Using a robotic dummy fish to study social behaviors
Elisa Donati and Stefano Mintchev
05 Dec 2016
Using ethorobotics, researchers from the BioRobotics Institute and the Zoology Institute of Bonn University published a novel 'dummy fish' to study the social behavior of weakly-electric fish Mormyru...
How the brain recognizes faces
MIT News
01 Dec 2016
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
Where is robotic vision on the Hype Cycle?
Sue Keay
30 Nov 2016
I was reading Steve Blank's blog on machine learning start-ups yesterday, where he described how technical infrastructure innovations follow a Hype Cycle with characteristics defined by the Gartner G...
Analyzing the viability of Ethernet and UDP for robot control
Florian Enner
29 Nov 2016
Ethernet is the most pervasive communication standard in the world. However, it is often dismissed for robotics applications because of its presumed non-deterministic behavior. In this article, we sho...
Book review: The Car Hacker’s Handbook, by Craig Smith
Robots for Roboticists
25 Nov 2016
The Car Hacker’s Handbook A Guide for the Penetration Tester is a book about how to interface with cars to read from onboard systems, spoof devices, and control the vehicle on your own. I enjoyed th...
Craft breweries and robots
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
23 Nov 2016
Craft brewing could be the perfect industry for collaborative robots. But, does automation mean losing your artisan status? We find how craft breweries can use robotics to scale-up their business with...
Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2016
Silicon Valley Robotics
21 Nov 2016
The 2016 Bay Area Robotics Symposium was held at Stanford on November 18th. Each year, the annual event alternates between Stanford and Berkeley with the goal of bringing together roboticists from the...
TrotBot tackles rough terrain
Ben Vagle
17 Nov 2016
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Hi, I'm Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a min...
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
Filippo Arrichiello
16 Nov 2016
Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
Robohub roundtable: Public perceptions of robotics and AI, what’s your pet peeve?
Kassie Perlongo
09 Nov 2016
In this Roundtable edition, we asked our experts: When it comes to public perceptions of robotics and AI, what are your pet peeves? Are there things you wish people would listen to a little more close...
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
08 Nov 2016
What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
