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Battery safety and fire handling
Robots for Roboticists
14 Nov 2017
Lithium battery safety is an important issue as there are more and more reports of fires and explosions. Fires have been reported in everything from cell phones to airplanes to robots....
National Robot Safety Conference 2017
Robots for Roboticists
12 Oct 2017
I had the opportunity to attend the National Robot Safety Conference for Industrial Robots today in Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Today was the first day of a three-day conference. While I mostly cover techni...
Robotbenchmark lets you program simulated robots from your browser
Olivier Michel
22 Aug 2017
Cyberbotics Ltd. is launching https://robotbenchmark.net to allow everyone to program simulated robots online for free....
Top 6 robotic applications in food manufacturing
Robotiq Inc.
09 Aug 2017
Robotic food manufacturing is a rising trend in the food industry. The value of the global food automation industry is expected to rise to $2.5 billion by 2022. In this article, we introduce six robot...
RoboCup 2017 results
Robohub Editors
04 Aug 2017
It was a return to the source for RoboCup 2017, which took place last week in Nagoya Japan, 20 years after its launch in the same city....
Is AI powered government worth it?
Maëlle Gavet
27 Jul 2017
From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of propr...
Rapid outdoor/indoor 3D mapping with a Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
09 Jul 2017
by Nicholas Charron
The need for fast, accurate 3D mapping solutions has quickly become a reality for many industries wanting to adopt new technologies in AI and automation. New applications requir...
Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden
Joe Jones
06 Jul 2017
Update: The response to Tertill’s crowdfunding campaign has amazed and delighted us! Pledges totalling over $250,000 have come from 1000+ backers. We're shipping to all countries, with over a fifth...
Simulated car demo using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8
Open Source Robotics Foundation
04 Jul 2017
By Tully Foote
We are excited to show off a simulation of a Prius in Mcity using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8. ROS enabled the simulation to be developed faster by using existing software and libraries...
The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
Peter Corke
30 Jun 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed
Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron D. Ames, Eric Feron and Magnus Egerstedt
29 Jun 2017
When developing algorithms for coordinating the behaviors of swarms of robots it is crucial that the algorithms are actually deployed and tested on real hardware platforms. Unfortunately, building and...
Using MATLAB for hardware-in-the-loop prototyping #1 : Message passing systems
Florian Enner
28 Jun 2017
MATLAB© is a programming language and environment designed for scientific computing. It is one of the best languages for developing robot control algorithms and is widely used in the research communi...
Snake robots slither into our hearts, literally
Oliver Mitchell
27 Jun 2017
The biblical narrative of the Garden of Eden describes how the snake became the most cursed of all beasts: “you shall walk on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.” The rep...
Spider webs as computers
Helmut Hauser
27 Jun 2017
Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They have evolved over more than 200 million years and can be found in almost every corner of our planet. They are one of the most successful animals. Not less imp...
Survey: Examining perceptions of autonomous vehicles using hypothetical scenarios
Kassie Perlongo
26 Jun 2017
I'm examining the perception of autonomous cars using hypothetical scenarios. Each of the hypothetical scenarios is accompanied with an image to help illustrate the scene -- using grey tones and nonde...
RoboCup video series: Junior league
Robohub Editors
21 Jun 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
Trusting robots with our lives
Oliver Mitchell
19 Jun 2017
The key takeaway from Tuesday’s RobotLabNYC forum, on “Exploring The Autonomous Future,” was humans are the key to robot adoption. Dr. Howard Morgan of First Round Capital expressed to the audie...
Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Dillenbourg Lab
NCCR Robotics
16 Jun 2017
Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg and the team from the Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction (CHILI) Lab, explain how they are building robots to use in the classrooms of tomorrow. It is CH...
RoboCup video series: Industrial league
Robohub Editors
14 Jun 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
Indoor show drones make history on Broadway
Christian Hoffmann
14 Jun 2017
Over the past year, 398 audiences of up to 2,000 people witnessed an octet of colorful lampshades perform an airborne choreography during Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway show Paramour, which ran until ...
The Robot Academy: Lessons in image formation and 3D vision
Peter Corke
13 Jun 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: Co4Robots
SPARC
09 Jun 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
Teaching ROS quickly to students
Ricardo Téllez
09 Jun 2017
Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of...
No more playing games: AlphaGo AI to tackle some real world challenges
Geoff Goodhill
08 Jun 2017
Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month when AlphaGo beat the world’s leading Go player Ke Jie by three games to zero.
AlphaGo is an AI program develo...
RoboCup video series: @Home league
Robohub Editors
07 Jun 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
Localization uncertainty-aware exploration planning
Autonomous exploration and reliable mapping of unknown environments corresponds to a major challenge for mobile robotic systems. For many important application domains, such as industrial inspection o...
Looking at new trends in Distributed Robotics Systems and Society
Eduardo Castello Ferrer
06 Jun 2017
It isn’t a secret that distributed robotic systems are starting to revolutionize many applications from targeted material delivery (e.g., Amazon Robotics) to precision farming. Assisted by technolog...
Europe regulates robotics: Summer school brings together researchers and experts in robotics
Andrea Bertolini
01 Jun 2017
After a successful 2016 first edition, our next summer school cohort on The Regulation of Robotics in Europe: Legal, Ethical and Economic Implications will take place in Pisa at the Scuola Sant’An...
RoboCup video series: Rescue league
Robohub Editors
31 May 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: BADGER
SPARC
26 May 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
The Robot Academy: An open online robotics education resource
Peter Corke
26 May 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
Robotics classes in temples: Tradition and innovation in Japan
Alberto Moreno
25 May 2017
Robotera: Is the fusion of robots (robo) and temples (tera, in Japanese). Buddhist temples in Japan are offering robotic classes to foster interest in future generations in Buddhist culture and tem...
RoboCup video series: Soccer league
Robohub Editors
24 May 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
Finding the right morphology to simplify control for soft robotics
Martin Garrad
23 May 2017
The way animals move has yet to be matched by robotic systems. This is because biological systems exploit compliant mechanisms in ways their robotic cousins do not. However, recent advances in soft ro...
EduExo: Robotic exoskeletons for everyone
Volker Bartenbach
22 May 2017
For decades robotic exoskeletons were the subject of science fiction novels and movies. But in recent years, exoskeleton technology has made huge progress towards reality and exciting research project...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: An.Dy
SPARC
19 May 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
