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James Bruton focus series #1: openDog, Mini Robot Dog & openDog V2
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...
28 November 2020, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Davide Scaramuzza’s seminar – Autonomous, agile micro drones: Perception, learning, and control (with video)
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....
24 November 2020, by
Robotics Today
Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video
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....
24 November 2020, by
Talking Robotics
Online events to look out for on Ada Lovelace Day 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...
12 October 2020, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!
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...
18 July 2020, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
Opportunities in DARPA SubT Challenge
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...
14 July 2020, by
Andra Keay
Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare
* 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...
15 May 2020, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
From SLAM to Spatial AI
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 ...
12 May 2020, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
Intel RealSense 3D Camera for robotics & SLAM (with code)
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 ...
12 September 2019, by
Robots for Roboticists
Using hydraulics for robots: Introduction
Hydraulics are sometimes looked at as an alternative to electric motors....
12 May 2019, by
Robots for Roboticists
Rapid prototyping of the strider robot – smoother, stronger, faster
This summer we used our Strider optimizer coupled with rapid prototyping in LEGO to refine its 10-bar linkage....
29 August 2018, by
Wade Vagle
Underwater robot photography and videography
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...
29 December 2017, by
Robots for Roboticists
Battery safety and fire handling
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....
14 November 2017, by
Robots for Roboticists
National Robot Safety Conference 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...
12 October 2017, by
Robots for Roboticists
Robotbenchmark lets you program simulated robots from your browser
Cyberbotics Ltd. is launching https://robotbenchmark.net to allow everyone to program simulated robots online for free....
22 August 2017, by
Olivier Michel
Top 6 robotic applications in food manufacturing
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...
09 August 2017, by
Robotiq Inc.
RoboCup 2017 results
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....
04 August 2017, by
Robohub Editors
Is AI powered government worth it?
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...
27 July 2017, by
Maëlle Gavet
Rapid outdoor/indoor 3D mapping with a Husky UGV
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...
09 July 2017, by
Clearpath Robotics
Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden
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...
06 July 2017, by
Joe Jones
Simulated car demo using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8
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...
04 July 2017, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
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...
30 June 2017, by
Peter Corke
The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed
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...
29 June 2017, by
Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron D. Ames, Eric Feron and Magnus Egerstedt
Using MATLAB for hardware-in-the-loop prototyping #1 : Message passing systems
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...
28 June 2017, by
Florian Enner
Snake robots slither into our hearts, literally
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...
27 June 2017, by
Oliver Mitchell
Spider webs as computers
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...
27 June 2017, by
Helmut Hauser
Survey: Examining perceptions of autonomous vehicles using hypothetical scenarios
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...
26 June 2017, by
Kassie Perlongo
RoboCup video series: Junior league
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...
21 June 2017, by
Robohub Editors
Trusting robots with our lives
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...
19 June 2017, by
Oliver Mitchell
Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Dillenbourg Lab
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...
16 June 2017, by
NCCR Robotics
