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Drive kinematics: Skid steer and mecanum (ROS twist included)
Robots for Roboticists
19 Jul 2016
I am often in need of the basic kinematic motion equations for skid steer vehicles. I have also recently been working with mecanum wheeled vehicles. The skid steer equations are fairly simple and easy...
How Industry 4.0 and Pokémon Go met halfway on the road to maximizing the IoT
Tyler Berryman and Robotiq Inc.
18 Jul 2016
You may be reloading this page trying to figure out if the title of this blog post got mixed up with something else. No, you read it correctly, I am going to outline similarities between Industry 4.0 ...
The obsession with creating ‘perfect female robots’: Should women be worried?
Julie Wosk
14 Jul 2016
Julie Wosk is the author of a provocative book that gives the history of female robots in movies, television, art, literature, and includes a chapter on robotics. My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Andr...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 3
Open Source Robotics Foundation
14 Jul 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Are skintight suits the future of robotic exoskeletons?
Steve Davis
13 Jul 2016
Children with a rare neurological disease were recently given the chance to walk for the first time thanks to a new robotic exoskeleton. These devices – which are essentially robotic suits that give...
Teaching the teachers: Study focuses on how teachers perceive educational robots in classrooms
NCCR Robotics
13 Jul 2016
Despite phenomenal advances in the field of robotics in recent years and specifically the field of robots for use in the classroom, there is still a large shortfall in the number of teachers who activ...
Unity between human and social machines: What if we humans were anthrobots?
Robohub Editors
08 Jul 2016
Writer and philosopher Luis de Miranda studies cultural history of digital devices and automata, with his latest essay (in French) L’Art d’être libres au temps des automates (The Art of Being...
Robolliance focuses on autonomous robotics for security and survelliance
Kassie Perlongo
08 Jul 2016
Robolliance is a new forum for technology partners and industry experts. Sponsored by Sharp Electronics Corporation, the program is a place for partners and experts in "robotics, surveillance and sec...
RoboThespian gets its own YouTube channel
Kassie Perlongo
24 Jun 2016
The team behind RoboThespian, a life-sized humanoid robot designed for human interaction in a public environment, have launched a new YouTube channel: Robot's World. The robot is very much real an...
NASA Robonaut 2 simulation: Placing an ISS panel in The Construct
Ricardo Téllez
24 Jun 2016
By Miguel Angel
One of the most wanted robot simulations is a robot that can be used for anything. Robonaut is one like this. NASA kindly gave this simulation for public use and we thought here in ...
Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics
John McCormac
23 Jun 2016
John McCormac discusses his takeaways from the RSS 2016 Workshop ‘Are the Sceptics Right? Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning in Robotics' and highlights interesting themes and topics from the d...
Robohub roundtable: Job loss through automation, Foxconn controversy
Robohub Editors
21 Jun 2016
Every few weeks, Robohub will post a roundtable chat and discuss an engaging topic relating to robotics. In this edition, we looked at the controversial job loss of 60K jobs by Foxconn. Is this substa...
How to make a printed circuit board using a diode laser with a 3D printer
George Fomitchev
20 Jun 2016
3D-printers have opened endless possibilities for home production and rapid prototyping. You can easily create practically any model in a 3D-program and 3D print it. But until now, only a few people ...
Teaching robots the physics of sliding and pushing objects
Jiaji Zhou
16 Jun 2016
The Manipulation Lab at the CMU Robotics Institute proposes a computational model that relates an applied robot action to the resultant object motion. Their research won the Best Conference Paper Awar...
The human brain vs. the digital brain: A case for visual inspections
Robotiq Inc.
16 Jun 2016
by Audrey Boucher-Genesse
I was once at a conference on image processing and the speaker discussed the perception of color. He spoke about a conversation with a potential client who said, “well,...
Going the last mile with robots
Peter Feuilherade
14 Jun 2016
This article was first published on the IEC e‑tech website.
From robots delivering small packages in cities, to driverless trucks transporting bulk loads over long distances, advances in robotic ...
How might drone racing drive innovation?
Jack Langelaan
10 Jun 2016
Over the past 15 years, drones have progressed from laboratory demonstrations to widely available toys. Technological improvements have brought ever-smaller components required for flight stabilizatio...
Infographic: The making of a collaborative robot
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Jun 2016
By: Nisha Cooch, NSF
This month marks the fifth anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI). The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been an active leader in the program since it was l...
Motivational posters with a clever robotics twist
Robohub Editors
09 Jun 2016
Today, the National Robotics Initiative is celebrating 5 years of multi-agency 'teamwork' to accelerate the development and use of robots that work beside, or cooperatively, with people. The last 50 ...
Livestream conference: Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
Robohub Editors
06 Jun 2016
The White House announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial intelli...
Mining and nuclear decommissioning: Robots in dangerous and dirty areas
SPARC
03 Jun 2016
Workers have long confronted dangerous and dirty jobs. They’ve had to dig to the bottom of mines, or put themselves in harm's way to decommission ageing nuclear sites. It’s time to make these jobs...
Antenna separation: How close can you go?
Robots for Roboticists
03 Jun 2016
When building a new robot mechanical engineers always ask me: how close can different antennas be to one another? It is not uncommon to try squeezing 5+ antennas on a single robot (GPS, GPS2 for headi...
Beyond Asimov: how to plan for ethical robots
Benjamin Kuipers
02 Jun 2016
As robots become integrated into society more widely, we need to be sure they’ll behave well among us. In 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov attempted to lay out a philosophical and moral fra...
Book Review: ‘Peer Reviews in Software, A Practical Guide,’ by Karl Wiegers
Robots for Roboticists
01 Jun 2016
I have been part of many software teams where we desired to do code reviews. In most of those cases the code reviews did not take place, or were pointless and a waste of time. So the question is: how ...
#ICRA2016 photo essay
Ioannis K. Erripis
30 May 2016
A small photo essay from this year’s ICRA in Stockholm featuring photos from the exhibition hall. At the end, you can watch a video with all the companies, their robots and systems. (All phot...
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) livestream today
Robohub Editors
30 May 2016
For the very first time, the 6th International Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Meeting Series will offer free remote attendance, via live-stream.
Livestream will be available today, Monday 30 May,...
‘Robot kindergarten’ trains droids of the future
University of British Columbia
27 May 2016
Less than 100 years from now, robots will be friendly, useful participants in our homes and workplaces, predicts UBC mechanical engineering professor and robotics expert Elizabeth Croft. We will be li...
Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
27 May 2016
What's the biggest benefit for using collaborative robots? It's not better efficiency. It's not the extra hours the robot can work in a shift. It's not even having improved consistency across your pr...
Why businesses must get ready for the era of robotic things
Jeffrey Walker
27 May 2016
We’ve entered a period of epic technological transformation that is impacting society in ways that are leaving even veteran tech observers speechless. In some ways, it might seem like 1998 all over ...
Robotics narratives: Here, there, and everywhere
UW-Madison Science Narratives
25 May 2016
UW-Madison Science Narratives and partners have joined together to create a 5-month video and audio adventure, exploring the work of Dr Bilge Mutlu and colleagues as they craft robots from a human per...
Developing cost-effective, capable, surgical robots with a sense of “touch”
Peter Feuilherade
24 May 2016
This article was first published on IEC e-tech.
Robotic‑assisted surgery involves a surgeon using a computer‑assisted electro‑mechanical device to carry out complex and technically demanding...
Building a startup ecosystem for robotics in Europe
SPARC
20 May 2016
It’s an exciting time to have a startup in robotics. The European startup ecosystem is improving year-after-year and provides networking, mentoring and funding opportunities. The aim is to build a v...
Bringing robots to retail: Interview with Fellow Robots CEO and co-founder, Marco Mascorro
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
19 May 2016
Robotics today is a fast growing industry with applications in myriad markets, including retail, transportation, manufacturing, and even as personal assistants. Fellow Robots is at the forefront of re...
Making an autonomous robotic ecosystem: Hortum Machina B
William Victor Camilleri and Danilo Sampaio
13 May 2016
Largely architecture is understood as static. Buildings do not conform to nature, its environment and nor to human beings. We, as architects, feel the need to integrate plants in buildings to the poi...
#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Mini-micro robots
Robohub Editors
13 May 2016
The robotics community have created a series of video tributes that showcase some of the contributions to ICRA, the largest conference in the field of robotics and automation.
The final video feat...
Robohub roundtable: Robotics and space exploration
Kassie Perlongo
11 May 2016
Every few weeks, Robohub will post a roundtable chat and discuss an engaging topic relating to robotics. In this edition, we looked at how can robotics can be part of space exploration. Privatisation ...
