Robohub.org
Learn
Real Roboticist focus series #2: Ruzena Bajczy (Foundations)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
08 Aug 2021
Last Sunday we started another series on IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) original series Real Roboticist. In this episode you'll meet Ruzena Bajczy, Pro...
Plenary and Keynote talks focus series #2: Frank Dellaert & Ashish Deshpande
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
04 Aug 2021
Last Wednesday we started this series of posts showcasing the plenary and keynote talks from the IEEE/RSJ IROS2020 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems). This is a great opportu...
Real Roboticist focus series #1: Davide Scaramuzza (Drones & Magic)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
01 Aug 2021
Are you curious about the people behind the robots? The series 'Real Roboticist', produced by the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), shows the people at t...
Plenary and Keynote talks focus series #1: Yukie Nagai & Danica Kragic
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
28 Jul 2021
Would you like to stay up to date with the latest robotics & AI research from top roboticists? The IEEE/RSJ IROS2020 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) recently released thei...
Play RoC-Ex: Robotic Cave Explorer and unearth the truth about what happened in cave system #0393
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
03 Jul 2021
Dive into the experience of piloting a robotic scout through what appears to be an ancient cave system leading down to the centre of the Earth. With the help of advanced sensors, guide your robot expl...
Robot Swarms in the Real World workshop at IEEE ICRA 2021
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
17 Jun 2021
Siddharth Mayya (University of Pennsylvania), Gennaro Notomista (CNRS Rennes), Roderich Gross (The University of Sheffield) and Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania) were the organisers of this IEE...
Anatomy of a robotic system
Sebastian Castro
21 May 2021
Robotics is both an exciting and intimidating field because it takes so many different capabilities and disciplines to spin up a robot. This goes all the way from mechatronic design and hardware engin...
How to build a robotics startup: getting some money to start
Ricardo Téllez
18 May 2021
This episode is about learning the options you have to get some money to start your startup and what is expected you achieve with that money.
In this podcast series of episodes we are going to expl...
Robohub and AIhub’s free workshop trial on sci-comm of robotics and AI
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
21 Apr 2021
Would you like to learn how to tell your robotics/AI story to the public? Robohub and AIhub are testing a new workshop to train you as the next generation of communicators. You will learn to quickly c...
Amanda Prorok’s talk – Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems (with video)
Robotics Today
17 Apr 2021
In this technical talk, Amanda Prorok, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Pembroke College, discusses her team's latest r...
Building a 7 axis robot from scratch
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
11 Apr 2021
Do you fancy making yourself an industrial robot to enjoy at home? Jeremy Fielding, a passionate fan of mechanical engineering, did. So he built one. Good news is: he's preparing a series of videos to...
Talking Robotics’ seminars of January – April 2021 (with videos and even a musical summary!)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and Talking Robotics
09 Apr 2021
Talking Robotics is a series of virtual seminars about Robotics and its interaction with other relevant fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Design Research, Human-Robot Interact...
iRobot Education expands its free coding platform with social-emotional learning, multi-language support
iRobot
08 Apr 2021
iRobot Corp. unveiled new coding resources through iRobot Education that promote more inclusive, equitable access to STEM education and support social-emotional development. iRobot also updated its iR...
How to build a robotics startup: getting the team right
Ricardo Téllez
06 Apr 2021
This episode is about understanding why you can’t build your startup alone, and some criteria to properly select your co-founders.
In this podcast series of episodes we are going to explain how t...
Back to Robot Coding part 3: testing the EBB
Alan Winfield
23 Mar 2021
In part 2 a few weeks ago I outlined a Python implementation of the ethical black box. I described the key data structure - a dictionary which serves as both specification for the type of robot, and t...
Chad Jenkins’ talk – That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives (with video)
Robotics Today
16 Mar 2021
In this technical talk, Chad Jenkins from the University of Michigan posed the following question: "who will pay the cost for the likely mistakes and potential misuse of AI systems?" As he states, "we...
Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros’s talk – Skydio Autonomy: Research in Robust Visual Navigation and Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (with video)
Robotics Today
09 Mar 2021
In the last online technical talk, Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros from Skydio explained how their company tackles real-world issues when it comes to drone flying.
Abstract
Skydio is the leading US dr...
How to build a robotics startup: the product idea
Ricardo Téllez
23 Feb 2021
In this podcast series of episodes we are going to explain how to create a robotics startup step by step.
We are going to learn how to select your co-founders, your team, how to look for investors,...
Back to Robot Coding part 2: the ethical black box
Alan Winfield
20 Feb 2021
In the last few days I started some serious coding. The first for 20 years, in fact, when I built the software for the BRL LinuxBots. (The coding I did six months ago doesn't really count as I was onl...
RoMi-H: Bringing robot traffic control to healthcare
Open Robotics
15 Feb 2021
Imagine for a moment that a road is used only for a single car and driver. Everything is smooth and wonderful. Then you wake up from that utopian dream and remember that our road networks have multipl...
James Bruton focus series #3: Virtual Reality combat with a real robot
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
26 Dec 2020
It's Saturday, it's the turn of another post of the James Bruton focus series, and it's Boxing Day in the UK and most of the Commonwealth countries. Even if this holiday has nothing to do with boxing,...
Carlotta Berry’s talk – Robotics Education to Robotics Research (with video)
Robotics Today
22 Dec 2020
A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Carlotta Berry from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In her talk, Carlotta presented the multidisciplinary benefits of ro...
Nikolas Martelaro’s talk – Remote user research for human-robot interaction – with video
Talking Robotics
15 Dec 2020
On Friday the 11th of December, Nikolas Martelaro (Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute) gave an online seminar on ways robot design teams can do remote user...
James Bruton focus series #2: Barcode scanner guitar synths
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
12 Dec 2020
As every other Saturday, I'm bringing you another cool open-source project from James Bruton. Today, how about becoming an experimental musician with your own barcode scanner synthesizer?...
James Bruton focus series #1: openDog, Mini Robot Dog & openDog V2
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
28 Nov 2020
What if you could ride your own giant LEGO electric skateboard, make a synthesizer that you can play with a barcode reader, or build a strong robot dog based on the Boston Dynamics dog robot? Today se...
Davide Scaramuzza’s seminar – Autonomous, agile micro drones: Perception, learning, and control (with video)
Robotics Today
24 Nov 2020
A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich. The seminar was recorded, so you can watch it now in case you missed it....
Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video
Talking Robotics
24 Nov 2020
On Friday the 13th of November, Talking Robotics hosted an online talk with PhD student Natalia Calvo from Uppsala University in Sweden. Now you can watch the recorded seminar....
Online events to look out for on Ada Lovelace Day 2020
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
12 Oct 2020
Tomorrow the world celebrates Ada Lovelace Day to honor the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. We’ve specially chosen a couple of online events featuring amazing wo...
RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!
Silicon Valley Robotics
18 Jul 2020
RSS 2020 was held virtually this year, from the RSS Pioneers Workshop on July 11 to the Paper Awards and Farewell on July 16. Many talks are now available online, including 103 accepted papers, each p...
Opportunities in DARPA SubT Challenge
Andra Keay
14 Jul 2020
Opportunities Still Available to Participate in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge: Cave Circuit 2020 and Final Event 2021. Join us for an introduction of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge with Pr...
Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare
Silicon Valley Robotics
15 May 2020
* Please register at:https://robotsinsurgeryandhealthcare.eventbrite.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing global demand for robots that can assist in surgery and healthcare. This sympos...
From SLAM to Spatial AI
Silicon Valley Robotics
12 May 2020
You can watch this seminar here at 1PM EST (10AM PST) on May 15th.
Andrew Davison (Imperial College London)
Abstract: To enable the next generation of smart robots and devices which can truly ...
Intel RealSense 3D Camera for robotics & SLAM (with code)
Robots for Roboticists
12 Sep 2019
The Intel RealSense cameras have been gaining in popularity for the past few years for use as a 3D camera and for visual odometry. I had the chance to hear a presentation from Daniel Piro about using ...
Using hydraulics for robots: Introduction
Robots for Roboticists
12 May 2019
Hydraulics are sometimes looked at as an alternative to electric motors....
Rapid prototyping of the strider robot – smoother, stronger, faster
Wade Vagle
29 Aug 2018
This summer we used our Strider optimizer coupled with rapid prototyping in LEGO to refine its 10-bar linkage....
Underwater robot photography and videography
Robots for Roboticists
29 Dec 2017
I had somebody ask me questions this week about underwater photography and videography with robots (well, now it is a few weeks ago…). I am not an expert at underwater robotics, however as a SCUBA d...
