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    Cinema meets robots at the Robotic Online Short Film Festival
    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...
    19 October 2016, by

    Meet RoboGabby: She’s on a mission to teach more girls about robotics
    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...
    14 October 2016, by

    Tree cavity inspection using drones
    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...
    13 October 2016, by and

    Disney’s one-legged untethered hopping robot
    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 ...
    12 October 2016, by

    Adjust how you learn and quickly pick up robotics programming
    "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...
    06 October 2016, by

    A drone with insect-inspired folding wings
    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...
    03 October 2016, by



    A practical look at latency in robotics: The importance of metrics and operating systems
    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...
    23 September 2016, by

    Should your robot have a tether?
    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 ...
    22 September 2016, by

    Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots
    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 ...
    22 September 2016, by

    Tune in: Economist holding Facebook Live Q&A about AI and the future of work
    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, ...
    13 September 2016, by

    Robotiq launches DoF: A community for robotics professionals
    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....
    12 September 2016, by

    Future engineers build their own six-legged autonomous robots at Robot Camp
    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...
    08 September 2016, by

    How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature
    "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...
    01 September 2016, by

    Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)
    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...
    30 August 2016, by

    How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human
    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...
    26 August 2016, by

    Installing and running time synchronization, with chrony
    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...
    26 August 2016, by

    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...
    25 August 2016, by , , and

    Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 3 of 3)
    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....
    24 August 2016, by

    Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 2 of 3)
    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....
    23 August 2016, by

    Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 1 of 3)
    This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....
    22 August 2016, by

    Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first
    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...
    19 August 2016, by

    Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine
    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 ...
    17 August 2016, by and

    Robohub roundtable: Why do robotics crowdfunding projects fail?
    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...
    16 August 2016, by

    What coachmen from the 1920s can tell us about robots and jobs
    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...
    16 August 2016, by

    Designing our home service robot from the ground up
    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...
    15 August 2016, by and

    Robot companions are coming into our homes — how human should they be?
    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...
    10 August 2016, by

    Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
    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...
    10 August 2016, by

    Flying Ring robot can fly on its side
    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...
    09 August 2016, by

    Could RoboBees help save food supplies? (video)
    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...
    08 August 2016, by

    Marty: the little walking robot that’s more than a toy
    Update: Only 4 days left to crowdfund Marty! They are over 70% towards reaching their goal! ...
    08 August 2016, by

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