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Last chance to register for QUT’s ‘Intro to Robotics’ MOOC

Introduction to Robotics, taught by Professor Peter Corke of Queensland University of Technology, is an introduction to the exciting world of robotics and the mathematics and algorithms that underpin ...
13 February 2015, by

The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio

In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not justÂ...

Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach

In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
12 February 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
08 February 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
08 February 2015, by

Things to think about when transporting your robot

Throughout my career I have had to ship various robots to different locations around the world. Here is a little bit about what I have learned about transporting robots....
05 February 2015, by



Developing Jibo: Animating the eye

Ever wonder why Jibo's eye was designed as a ball? And why does he have only one eye instead of two? Check out this video with Jibo’s Lead Designer & Animator, Fardad Faridi, as he briefly ...
04 February 2015, by

Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy

On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
29 January 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
25 January 2015, by

ROS, Arduino, and a Husky simulation

By Martin Cote The Arduino family of micro controllers has quickly become a go-to board for hobbyists due to its ease of use. Often times roboticists must create communication protocols to allow th...
23 January 2015, by

Do more with Udev

By Paul Bovbel Udev is a device manager for Linux that dynamically creates and removes nodes for hardware devices. In short, it helps your computer find your robot easily. By default, hardware de...
21 January 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
18 January 2015, by

Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever

Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
15 January 2015, by

The Year of CoCoRo Video #02/52: Overview of largest swarm

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
11 January 2015, by

The story of Atlas, FRC Team #3504 Girls of Steel

I'm Molly Urbina, a member of the FIRST Team #3504, Girls of Steel. Every year our team makes a comic strip about the past year's robot to show other girls just how much fun competing in FIRST can be....
09 January 2015, by

iCub philosophy, history and recent results: Lecture by Giorgio Metta

In this lecture, Giorgio Metta describes the history and philosophy behind the iCub project, and presents some recent results....

Controlling a brushless DC motor with no encoders

This is just a quick post on controlling DC brushless motors with no encoders. This post applies to brushless motors that typically use hall sensors for commutation....
05 January 2015, by

Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning

Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
01 January 2015, by

Incremental encoder selection

We would like to welcome our newest Robohub contributor, David Kohanbash, whose blog - Robots for Roboticists - covers a broad range of technical topics that is sure to interest makers and practitio...
22 December 2014, by

The important role of robotic gaming in STEM’s evolving landscape

The importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) in the future of the UK and US business and industry cannot be overstated. But before we can expect today’s generation to have a ...
19 December 2014, by

20 great books to hook kids and teens on robotics

Kids love robots! And they love reading too. Ranging from preschool to teen, this selection of books includes fiction and nonfiction, activity books and maker manuals, all to help inspire the kids in ...
18 December 2014, by

ROS101: Creating a subscriber using GitHub

By Martin Cote We previously learned how to write a publisher node to move Husky randomly. BUT: what good is publishing all these messages if no one is there to read it? In this tutorial we’ll ...
12 December 2014, by

Kidbotics review: Thymio II

This is Kidbotics, [tweetquote]a new educational robotics review series for kids who, like me, are just coming into the robotics scene.[/tweetquote] I am 12 years old, and these reviews are meant to g...
05 December 2014, by

Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition

Eighteen teams of young engineers-in-training competed for the right to call themselves world champion drone builders at the 22nd annual ASME Student Design Competition (SDC) finals today at the Inter...

Video: Robotics at Skolkovo

See an overview of projects from the Skolkovo robotics cluster....
31 October 2014, by

OpenStreetMap support in Gazebo

During her internship as part of the Gnome Outreach Program for Women, Tashwin Khurana developed a tool for downloading data from the OpenStreetMap database to produce a corresponding world file fo...
22 October 2014, by

CoCoRo CeBIT

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
08 October 2014, by

Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014

Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....
03 October 2014, by

ScratchDuino DIY magnetic robotics kit on Kickstarter

ScratchDuino is a highly customizable, simple and interactive open source robots construction kit based on Arduino. Magnetic mounted parts make the ScratchDuino easy to assemble, and can be programmed...
02 October 2014, by

Experiments designing an ethical robot

In my last post I wrote about our work on robots with internal models: robots with a simulation of themselves and their environment inside themselves. I explained that we have built a robot with a ...
30 September 2014, by







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