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Cinema meets robots at the Robotic Online Short Film Festival
Ricardo Dominguez Jover
19 Oct 2016
The upcoming Robotic Online Short Film Festival (or ROS festival) is a science fiction short film festival planning to focus on robotics related themes. The deadline for submitting short films is No...
Meet RoboGabby: She’s on a mission to teach more girls about robotics
Kassie Perlongo
14 Oct 2016
Gabby has five goals to achieve this school year. The first goal sounds like any other young middle schooler: get straight As in her classes. Goal number two: get accepted into her school's robotics t...
Tree cavity inspection using drones
Mina Kamel and Kelly Steich
13 Oct 2016
The importance of conserving biodiversity in forest ecosystems is widely recognized. Tree cavities are home to many animal species, such as birds, mammals and beetles, for shelter, nesting or larval d...
Disney’s one-legged untethered hopping robot
Robohub Editors
12 Oct 2016
Disney Research presents their design and control for an untethered, energetically autonomous single-legged hopping robot. While this isn't the first hopping robot to be built, it is the first not to ...
Adjust how you learn and quickly pick up robotics programming
Ricardo Téllez
06 Oct 2016
"The biggest obstacle preventing robotics going mainstream is not having good programmers able to program robots," Brian Gerkey, CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Learning to program robots...
A drone with insect-inspired folding wings
NCCR Robotics
03 Oct 2016
When designing robots to help in the search for victims after a natural disaster, a number of features are important: robustness, long battery life and ease of transport. With this latest constraint i...
A practical look at latency in robotics: The importance of metrics and operating systems
Florian Enner
23 Sep 2016
Latency is an important practical concern in the robotics world that is often poorly understood. I feel that a better understanding of latency can help robotics researchers and engineers make design a...
Should your robot have a tether?
Robots for Roboticists
22 Sep 2016
Some people swear all tethers are bad. Some recommend attaching a tether to robots in order to provide power (to save the mass and volume of the batteries), for reliable fast communications, transfer ...
Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots
Micha Rappaport
22 Sep 2016
Mobile robots can be used in many applications, they are especially suited for environments that are unreachable or too dangerous for humans. In many cases, these environments have to be explored and ...
Tune in: Economist holding Facebook Live Q&A about AI and the future of work
Robohub Editors
13 Sep 2016
How will artificial intelligence change the world of work? The Economist is holding a Facebook Live Q&A with their Deputy Editor on Tuesday, September 13, 4pm London time. You can watch, listen, ...
Robotiq launches DoF: A community for robotics professionals
Robotiq Inc.
12 Sep 2016
Robotiq has just launched a new community called DoF. This is an open community where industrial automation professionals share their know-how and get answers to accelerate their robotics projects....
Future engineers build their own six-legged autonomous robots at Robot Camp
RoboValley
08 Sep 2016
By: Rob van Dorp
A room full of kids and it's quiet. The only sound is an occasional question. They’re all deeply concentrated on one task. These kids are participating in the first Robot Camp o...
How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature
Mikhail Prokopenko
01 Sep 2016
"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” This observation by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been cited in multiple contexts, ranging from tactical p...
Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)
Kassie Perlongo
30 Aug 2016
Lionfish are invasive to the Atlantic Ocean and their voracious appetites are destroying coral reef ecosystems. RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) is a new non-profit company looking to rest...
How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human
Roger Whitaker
26 Aug 2016
Cooperation is one of the hallmarks of being human. We are extremely social compared to other species. On a regular basis, we all enter into helping others in small but important ways, whether it be l...
Installing and running time synchronization, with chrony
Robots for Roboticists
26 Aug 2016
Time synchronization affects many robots. Robots have more computers and sensors, so keeping everything in sync is important. Trying to look through log files where all of the times are skewed is not...
Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots
Though recent advances in design, fabrication, and programming technologies promise to enable rapid digital manufacturing of functional robotic systems, many challenges need to be addressed to realize...
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 3 of 3)
Alberto Molina
24 Aug 2016
Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 2 of 3)
Alberto Molina
23 Aug 2016
Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 1 of 3)
Alberto Molina
22 Aug 2016
This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first
Owen A Johnson
19 Aug 2016
Scientists in Japan reportedly saved a woman’s life by applying artificial intelligence to help them diagnose a rare form of cancer. Faced with a 60-year-old woman whose cancer diagnosis was unrespo...
Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine
Claudio Castellini and Frontiers in Neurorobotics
17 Aug 2016
Picture the scene: one day you wake up in a hospital with no memory of what happened and you discover in horror that your left hand is no longer there. The doctors say you’ve been in a car accident ...
Robohub roundtable: Why do robotics crowdfunding projects fail?
Kassie Perlongo
16 Aug 2016
In this Robohub roundtable edition, we are joined by Sabine Hauert, Kassie Perlongo, John Payne, Audrow Nash, Yannis Erripis, with commentary by Andra Keay and Travis Deyle, to discuss the viabilit...
What coachmen from the 1920s can tell us about robots and jobs
Vincenzo Spiezia
16 Aug 2016
To many workers, the words “digital technologies” may evoke one simple, dismaying image: a human-like robot sitting at their desk, doing the work that they used to do! This anxiety is not differen...
Designing our home service robot from the ground up
Bernt Øivind Børnich and Phuong Nguyen
15 Aug 2016
Our robot, Eve, is built from the ground up using force-control, enabling human-like dexterity and efficiency. We'd like to discuss why we decided to build Eve this way, hopefully offering another app...
Robot companions are coming into our homes — how human should they be?
Adeline Chanseau
10 Aug 2016
What would your ideal robot be like? One that can change nappies and tell bedtime stories to your child? Perhaps you’d prefer a butler that can polish silver and mix the perfect cocktail? Or maybe y...
Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
10 Aug 2016
In this article, our humanoid robot iCub is put to the test using manipulation and interaction as sources of knowledge and new experience, as well as, providing a means to explore and control the envi...
Flying Ring robot can fly on its side
Rajan Gill
09 Aug 2016
The Flying Ring is a new flying vehicle being developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich. The goal of the project is to fully characterize all aerodynamic properties of th...
Could RoboBees help save food supplies? (video)
Robohub Editors
08 Aug 2016
Originally pioneered at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, in collaboration with Northeastern University, RoboBees are inspired by nature and designed for an important reason: wild pollinators -- such as...
Marty: the little walking robot that’s more than a toy
Alexander Enoch
08 Aug 2016
Update: Only 4 days left to crowdfund Marty! They are over 70% towards reaching their goal! ...
Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
08 Aug 2016
By: Chris Bogdon
The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from all over the globe to compete in an autonomous gro...
NPR podcasts discuss automation and the future of work
Robohub Editors
04 Aug 2016
National Public Radio (NPR) has published a series of stories about robots and the future of employment in the U.S. and abroad. It begins with the story about the Luddites war on industry and a more ...
Hello Pepper: Getting started to program robots on Android
Margaret Maynard-Reid
03 Aug 2016
I didn’t get to meet Pepper the humanoid Robot at Google I/O but I watched the video afterwards: A new development frontier: Android + Pepper the interactive robot. Love the robots’ dance! I was s...
The relationship between dance and robotic fabrication – with video
Syuko Kato
01 Aug 2016
UCL’s Interactive Architecture Lab has developed a new type of choreography – one that explores the potential for dialogue between humans and robots – and the way we might design cooperatively i...
Pros and cons for different types of drive selection
Robots for Roboticists
29 Jul 2016
In the past, we have looked at wheel design and the kinematics of skid steer and mecanum wheels. In this post, we will take a quick look at different types of mobility types (ie. wheels, tracks) and h...
Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now?
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
21 Jul 2016
Catch up with past winners: CleverPet (2015), Preemadonna/Nailbot (2015 runner-up), and Leka (2014).
Will you be our next Robot Launch winner? There's 25 days left to register! You can register by...
