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Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change
Horizon Magazine
26 Jan 2017
The shells on crustaceans and molluscs off the Norwegian Atlantic coast are not as thick as they once were. This is because of ocean acidification, where increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphe...
How to mount an external removable hard drive on a robot
Robots for Roboticists
23 Jan 2017
We often want to add an external hard drive to our robots in order to have a dedicated drive for data collection. Having the dedicated drive lets the primary drive remain uncluttered, have less wear-a...
Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Jan 2017
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather th...
What is machine learning?
Oxford Sparks
16 Jan 2017
In this fascinating animation from Oxford Sparks, we take a look at how statistics and computer science can be used to make machines that learn for themselves, without being explicitly programmed....
Robotics, maths, python: A fledgling computer scientist’s guide to inverse kinematics
Alistair Wick
13 Jan 2017
So – you’ve built a robot arm. Now you’ve got to figure out how to control the thing. This was the situation I found myself in a few months ago, during my Masters project, and it’s a problem c...
#CES2017 in pictures
Kassie Perlongo
13 Jan 2017
CES 2017 has come and gone. As a first-timer in attendance, I couldn't help but marvel at the featured robots and all robotics related gadgets, toys, start-ups, wearables, and AI coming to market. I'l...
HAX takes robotics to market in 2017
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Jan 2017
If you attended CES 2017 last week you may have seen more than 70 HAX powered startups in Eureka Park, the ‘playground of innovation’. As service robotics steals the spotlight, we wanted to showca...
Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
05 Jan 2017
Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developin...
Looking towards service robotics in 2017
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Dec 2016
Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it wh...
Jibo look-alike appears on Chinese websites
Frank Tobe
29 Dec 2016
For all of us who participated in the Jibo IndieGoGo crowdfunding and are anxiously awaiting delivery - which has been delayed again - this Chinese knock-off came as quite a surprise....
Five applications for craft beer robots
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
28 Dec 2016
What tasks in a craft brewery can you do with a collaborative robot? Here are five options to improve the efficiency, consistency and safety of manufacturing in the beverage industry....
Designing robots with bugs??
Jibo
26 Dec 2016
Ask a child to design a robot, and they’ll produce a drawing that looks a little like you or I—the parts may be gray and boxy, but it will have two arms, two legs, and a head (probably with an ant...
The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
Siao Tin Soh
22 Dec 2016
An emerging need
China’s once abundant labor force has contributed to the country’s astonishing economic success in recent decades. But in the coming decades, the percentage of retirees relativ...
How artificial intelligence is changing our Christmas shop
Rikke Duus and Mike Cooray
21 Dec 2016
British consumers are expected to spend £280 each on gifts over the weeks leading up to Christmas. More than half of these purchases will take place online. Almost a third of people will rely on onli...
Holiday gifts ideas for Robogeeks – 2016
Kassie Perlongo
15 Dec 2016
Robotic toys and gear are getting better every year! Need some gift ideas for that special robot geek in your life? We put together some favourite gift ideas, from stocking stuffers, amazing robot t...
Dehyping robotics: Sabine Hauert at TEDx Berlin
Robohub Editors
13 Dec 2016
Robohub President Sabine Hauert gave an insightful talk at TEDx Berlin about what we try and do here at Robohub: ensuring truthful, fair, balanced robotics information is being shared. As our loyal re...
Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Dec 2016
In this roundtable edition, we watched the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” and asked our Robohub team members: with many institutions focused on developing aerial drone technology, and ...
Using a robotic dummy fish to study social behaviors
Elisa Donati and Stefano Mintchev
05 Dec 2016
Using ethorobotics, researchers from the BioRobotics Institute and the Zoology Institute of Bonn University published a novel 'dummy fish' to study the social behavior of weakly-electric fish Mormyru...
Where is robotic vision on the Hype Cycle?
Sue Keay
30 Nov 2016
I was reading Steve Blank's blog on machine learning start-ups yesterday, where he described how technical infrastructure innovations follow a Hype Cycle with characteristics defined by the Gartner G...
Analyzing the viability of Ethernet and UDP for robot control
Florian Enner
29 Nov 2016
Ethernet is the most pervasive communication standard in the world. However, it is often dismissed for robotics applications because of its presumed non-deterministic behavior. In this article, we sho...
Book review: The Car Hacker’s Handbook, by Craig Smith
Robots for Roboticists
25 Nov 2016
The Car Hacker’s Handbook A Guide for the Penetration Tester is a book about how to interface with cars to read from onboard systems, spoof devices, and control the vehicle on your own. I enjoyed th...
Craft breweries and robots
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
23 Nov 2016
Craft brewing could be the perfect industry for collaborative robots. But, does automation mean losing your artisan status? We find how craft breweries can use robotics to scale-up their business with...
Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2016
Silicon Valley Robotics
21 Nov 2016
The 2016 Bay Area Robotics Symposium was held at Stanford on November 18th. Each year, the annual event alternates between Stanford and Berkeley with the goal of bringing together roboticists from the...
TrotBot tackles rough terrain
Ben Vagle
17 Nov 2016
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Hi, I'm Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a min...
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
Filippo Arrichiello
16 Nov 2016
Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
Robohub roundtable: Public perceptions of robotics and AI, what’s your pet peeve?
Kassie Perlongo
09 Nov 2016
In this Roundtable edition, we asked our experts: When it comes to public perceptions of robotics and AI, what are your pet peeves? Are there things you wish people would listen to a little more close...
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
08 Nov 2016
What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
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...
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...
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...
