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Robotics in harsh environments
Alex Regrettier
04 Nov 2016
In the field of hostile conditions, outer space is often considered the epitome of harsh environments. However, it’s not necessary to travel so far in order to locate situations with extreme condi...
Robotics tutor for primary school children
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
04 Nov 2016
By: Ian Salter
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
The future of space rescue – watch the R2t2 event live
NCCR Robotics
02 Nov 2016
Today, the Swiss Robotics Industry Day will play host to the R2t2 rescue mission and we are heading straight for the future!...
Can a brain-computer interface convert your thoughts to text?
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
01 Nov 2016
By Srividya Sundaresan, Frontiers Science Writer
Ever wonder what it would be like if a device could decode your thoughts into actual speech or written words? While this might enhance the capabilit...
Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding
Zee Dubrovsky
31 Oct 2016
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Support a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Root: the coding robot for all ages!
Root is a robot, originally developed at Harvard University, that helps anyone from four to ...
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Teach Xemo to Move, with Jeff Sprenger
Abate De Mey
31 Oct 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Jeff Sprenger, founder of the startup Xemory in Vermont, USA. At Xemory they are developing a robot simulation game called Xemo, where players learn to animate...
Sticky business: Five adhesives tested for 3D printing
George Fomitchev
28 Oct 2016
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We compared five adhesives for 3D printing applications on a Wanhao Duplicator i3. We’ll print a PLA (polylactide) cube, 1х1х1 cm in ...
Art meets robotics in Patrick Tresset’s OPLINE Prize entry
Andra Keay
27 Oct 2016
The OPLINE Prize is the first online contemporary art award, where the audience vote for the winner out of 10 nominated artists. The winning artist receives 4,000 Euros and exhibitions. The winner al...
Future robots will learn through curiosity and self-generated goals
Gianluca Baldassarre and Vieri Giuliano Santucci
27 Oct 2016
Imagine a friend asking for help to tidy up her room that is full of objects and furniture. Now imagine for some reason your friend will not be there to help (we are all lazy) and she just describes, ...
Robot co-workers in the operating room
Elena De Momi
26 Oct 2016
Robots won’t steal our jobs, but they will help us out conducting tiring and dangerous tasks, enabling humans to focus on creative and teaching activities where fantasy and sensitivity are needed. T...
mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
Justin Kim
26 Oct 2016
Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physic...
Discussing the future of mining robots
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
24 Oct 2016
Robots, like Julius from the Mining-ROX project, are a promising option to keep mining economical and safe. In our interview, we spoke with Prof. Bernhard Jung from TU Freiberg about why robots are im...
Cinema meets robots at the Robotic Online Short Film Festival
Ricardo Dominguez Jover
19 Oct 2016
The upcoming Robotic Online Short Film Festival (or ROS festival) is a science fiction short film festival planning to focus on robotics related themes. The deadline for submitting short films is No...
Meet RoboGabby: She’s on a mission to teach more girls about robotics
Kassie Perlongo
14 Oct 2016
Gabby has five goals to achieve this school year. The first goal sounds like any other young middle schooler: get straight As in her classes. Goal number two: get accepted into her school's robotics t...
Tree cavity inspection using drones
Mina Kamel and Kelly Steich
13 Oct 2016
The importance of conserving biodiversity in forest ecosystems is widely recognized. Tree cavities are home to many animal species, such as birds, mammals and beetles, for shelter, nesting or larval d...
Disney’s one-legged untethered hopping robot
Robohub Editors
12 Oct 2016
Disney Research presents their design and control for an untethered, energetically autonomous single-legged hopping robot. While this isn't the first hopping robot to be built, it is the first not to ...
In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Christian Bettstetter
07 Oct 2016
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
Adjust how you learn and quickly pick up robotics programming
Ricardo Téllez
06 Oct 2016
"The biggest obstacle preventing robotics going mainstream is not having good programmers able to program robots," Brian Gerkey, CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Learning to program robots...
A drone with insect-inspired folding wings
NCCR Robotics
03 Oct 2016
When designing robots to help in the search for victims after a natural disaster, a number of features are important: robustness, long battery life and ease of transport. With this latest constraint i...
A practical look at latency in robotics: The importance of metrics and operating systems
Florian Enner
23 Sep 2016
Latency is an important practical concern in the robotics world that is often poorly understood. I feel that a better understanding of latency can help robotics researchers and engineers make design a...
Should your robot have a tether?
Robots for Roboticists
22 Sep 2016
Some people swear all tethers are bad. Some recommend attaching a tether to robots in order to provide power (to save the mass and volume of the batteries), for reliable fast communications, transfer ...
Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots
Micha Rappaport
22 Sep 2016
Mobile robots can be used in many applications, they are especially suited for environments that are unreachable or too dangerous for humans. In many cases, these environments have to be explored and ...
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LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
Ron Vanderkley
17 Sep 2016
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
Tune in: Economist holding Facebook Live Q&A about AI and the future of work
Robohub Editors
13 Sep 2016
How will artificial intelligence change the world of work? The Economist is holding a Facebook Live Q&A with their Deputy Editor on Tuesday, September 13, 4pm London time. You can watch, listen, ...
Robotiq launches DoF: A community for robotics professionals
Robotiq Inc.
12 Sep 2016
Robotiq has just launched a new community called DoF. This is an open community where industrial automation professionals share their know-how and get answers to accelerate their robotics projects....
Future engineers build their own six-legged autonomous robots at Robot Camp
RoboValley
08 Sep 2016
By: Rob van Dorp
A room full of kids and it's quiet. The only sound is an occasional question. They’re all deeply concentrated on one task. These kids are participating in the first Robot Camp o...
How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature
Mikhail Prokopenko
01 Sep 2016
"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” This observation by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been cited in multiple contexts, ranging from tactical p...
Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)
Kassie Perlongo
30 Aug 2016
Lionfish are invasive to the Atlantic Ocean and their voracious appetites are destroying coral reef ecosystems. RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) is a new non-profit company looking to rest...
How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human
Roger Whitaker
26 Aug 2016
Cooperation is one of the hallmarks of being human. We are extremely social compared to other species. On a regular basis, we all enter into helping others in small but important ways, whether it be l...
Installing and running time synchronization, with chrony
Robots for Roboticists
26 Aug 2016
Time synchronization affects many robots. Robots have more computers and sensors, so keeping everything in sync is important. Trying to look through log files where all of the times are skewed is not...
Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots
Though recent advances in design, fabrication, and programming technologies promise to enable rapid digital manufacturing of functional robotic systems, many challenges need to be addressed to realize...
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 3 of 3)
Alberto Molina
24 Aug 2016
Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 2 of 3)
Alberto Molina
23 Aug 2016
Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 1 of 3)
Alberto Molina
22 Aug 2016
This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first
Owen A Johnson
19 Aug 2016
Scientists in Japan reportedly saved a woman’s life by applying artificial intelligence to help them diagnose a rare form of cancer. Faced with a 60-year-old woman whose cancer diagnosis was unrespo...
Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine
Claudio Castellini and Frontiers in Neurorobotics
17 Aug 2016
Picture the scene: one day you wake up in a hospital with no memory of what happened and you discover in horror that your left hand is no longer there. The doctors say you’ve been in a car accident ...
