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HAX takes robotics to market in 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...
12 January 2017, by
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV
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...
05 January 2017, by
Clearpath Robotics
Looking towards service robotics in 2017
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...
30 December 2016, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
Jibo look-alike appears on Chinese websites
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....
29 December 2016, by
Frank Tobe
Five applications for craft beer robots
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....
28 December 2016, by
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
Designing robots with bugs??
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...
26 December 2016, by
Jibo
The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
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...
22 December 2016, by
Siao Tin Soh
How artificial intelligence is changing our Christmas shop
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...
21 December 2016, by
Rikke Duus and Mike Cooray
Holiday gifts ideas for Robogeeks – 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...
15 December 2016, by
Kassie Perlongo
Dehyping robotics: Sabine Hauert at TEDx Berlin
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...
13 December 2016, by
Robohub Editors
Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
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 ...
06 December 2016, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Using a robotic dummy fish to study social behaviors
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...
05 December 2016, by
Elisa Donati and Stefano Mintchev
Where is robotic vision on the Hype Cycle?
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...
30 November 2016, by
Sue Keay
Analyzing the viability of Ethernet and UDP for robot control
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...
29 November 2016, by
Florian Enner
Book review: The Car Hacker’s Handbook, by Craig Smith
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...
25 November 2016, by
Robots for Roboticists
Craft breweries and robots
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...
23 November 2016, by
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
Bay Area Robotics Symposium 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...
21 November 2016, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
TrotBot tackles rough terrain
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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...
17 November 2016, by
Ben Vagle
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
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...
16 November 2016, by
Filippo Arrichiello
Robohub roundtable: Public perceptions of robotics and AI, what’s your pet peeve?
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...
09 November 2016, by
Kassie Perlongo
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
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 ...
08 November 2016, by
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
Robotics in harsh environments
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...
04 November 2016, by
Alex Regrettier
The future of space rescue – watch the R2t2 event live
Today, the Swiss Robotics Industry Day will play host to the R2t2 rescue mission and we are heading straight for the future!...
02 November 2016, by
NCCR Robotics
Can a brain-computer interface convert your thoughts to text?
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...
01 November 2016, by
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Sticky business: Five adhesives tested for 3D printing
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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 ...
28 October 2016, by
George Fomitchev
Art meets robotics in Patrick Tresset’s OPLINE Prize entry
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...
27 October 2016, by
Andra Keay
Future robots will learn through curiosity and self-generated goals
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, ...
27 October 2016, by
Gianluca Baldassarre and Vieri Giuliano Santucci
Robot co-workers in the operating room
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...
26 October 2016, by
Elena De Momi
mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
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...
26 October 2016, by
Justin Kim
Discussing the future of mining robots
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...
24 October 2016, by
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
