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    Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV
    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...
    08 August 2016, by

    NPR podcasts discuss automation and the future of work
    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 ...
    04 August 2016, by

    Hello Pepper: Getting started to program robots on Android
    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...
    03 August 2016, by

    The relationship between dance and robotic fabrication – with video
    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...
    01 August 2016, by

    Pros and cons for different types of drive selection
    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...
    29 July 2016, by

    Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now?
    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...
    21 July 2016, by and



    Drive kinematics: Skid steer and mecanum (ROS twist included)
    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...
    19 July 2016, by

    How Industry 4.0 and Pokémon Go met halfway on the road to maximizing the IoT
    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 ...
    18 July 2016, by and

    The obsession with creating ‘perfect female robots’: Should women be worried?
    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...
    14 July 2016, by

    ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 3
    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...
    14 July 2016, by

    Are skintight suits the future of robotic exoskeletons?
    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...
    13 July 2016, by

    Teaching the teachers: Study focuses on how teachers perceive educational robots in classrooms
    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...
    13 July 2016, by

    Unity between human and social machines: What if we humans were anthrobots?
    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...
    08 July 2016, by

    Robolliance focuses on autonomous robotics for security and survelliance
    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...
    08 July 2016, by

    RoboThespian gets its own YouTube channel
    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...
    24 June 2016, by

    NASA Robonaut 2 simulation: Placing an ISS panel in The Construct
    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 ...
    24 June 2016, by

    Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics
    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...
    23 June 2016, by

    Robohub roundtable: Job loss through automation, Foxconn controversy
    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...
    21 June 2016, by

    How to make a printed circuit board using a diode laser with a 3D printer
    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 ...
    20 June 2016, by

    Teaching robots the physics of sliding and pushing objects
    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...
    16 June 2016, by

    The human brain vs. the digital brain: A case for visual inspections
    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,...
    16 June 2016, by

    Going the last mile with robots
    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 ...
    14 June 2016, by

    How might drone racing drive innovation?
    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...
    10 June 2016, by

    Infographic: The making of a collaborative robot
    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...
    10 June 2016, by

    Motivational posters with a clever robotics twist
    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 ...
    09 June 2016, by

    Livestream conference: Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
    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...
    06 June 2016, by

    Mining and nuclear decommissioning: Robots in dangerous and dirty areas
    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...
    03 June 2016, by

    Antenna separation: How close can you go?
    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...
    03 June 2016, by

    Beyond Asimov: how to plan for ethical robots
    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...
    02 June 2016, by

    Book Review: ‘Peer Reviews in Software, A Practical Guide,’ by Karl Wiegers
    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 ...
    01 June 2016, by

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