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    Autonomous vehicles for social good: Learning to solve congestion
    By Eugene Vinitsky We are in the midst of an unprecedented convergence of two rapidly growing trends on our roadways: sharply increasing congestion and the deployment of au...
    22 June 2019, by

    End-to-end deep reinforcement learning without reward engineering
    By Avi Singh Communicating the goal of a task to another person is easy: we can use language, show them an image of the desired outcome, point them to a how-to video, or use some combination of all o...
    03 June 2019, by

    Model-based reinforcement learning from pixels with structured latent variable models
    By Marvin Zhang and Sharad Vikram Imagine a robot trying to learn how to stack blocks and push objects using visual inputs from a camera feed. In order to minimize cost and safety concerns, we want o...
    27 May 2019, by

    Robots that learn to adapt
    By Anusha Nagabandi and Ignasi Clavera Humans have the ability to seamlessly adapt to changes in their environments: adults can learn to walk on crutches in just a few seconds, people can adapt almos...
    12 May 2019, by

    Robots that learn to use improvised tools
    By Annie Xie In many animals, tool-use skills emerge from a combination of observational learning and experimentation. For example, by watching one another, chimpanzees can learn how to use twigs to...
    21 April 2019, by

    A ‘cookbook’ for vehicle manufacturers: Getting automated parts to talk to each other
    by Sandrine Ceurstemont Semi-autonomous cars are expected to hit the roads in Europe next year with truck convoys following a few years later. But before different brands can share the roads, vehicle...
    07 April 2019, by



    Manipulation by feel
    By Frederik Ebert and Stephen Tian Guiding our fingers while typing, enabling us to nimbly strike a matchstick, and inserting a key in a keyhole all rely on our sense of touch. It has been shown that...
    05 April 2019, by

    Controlling false discoveries in large-scale experimentation: Challenges and solutions
    By Tijana Zrnic “Scientific research has changed the world. Now it needs to change itself. - The Economist, 2013 There has been a growing concern about the validity of scientific findings. A mul...
    19 February 2019, by

    Learning preferences by looking at the world
    By Rohin Shah and Dmitrii Krasheninnikov It would be great if we could all have household robots do our chores for us. Chores are tasks that we want done to make our houses cater more to our preferenc...
    12 February 2019, by

    A robot recreates the walk of a fossilized animal
    Using the fossil and fossilized footprints of a 300-million-year-old animal, scientists from EPFL and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have identified the most likely gaits of extinct animals and desig...
    25 January 2019, by

    From robotic companions to third thumbs, machines can change the human brain
    By Frieda Klotz People’s interactions with machines, from robots that throw tantrums when they lose a colour-matching game against a human opponent to the bionic limbs that could give us extra ab...
    25 January 2019, by

    Technology and robots will shake labour policies in Asia and the world
    By Asit K. Biswas, University of Glasgow and Kris Hartley, The Education University of Hong Kong In the 21st century, governments cannot ignore how changes in technology will affect employment and ...
    25 January 2019, by

    Robots are being programmed to adapt in real time
    By Gareth Willmer It’s part of a field of work that is building machines that can provide real-time help using only limited data as input. Standard machine-learning algorithms often need to process...
    17 January 2019, by

    A safe, wearable soft sensor
    By Leah Burrows Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities. The best way to reduce the impacts of those disabilities is to catch them early through a ...
    07 January 2019, by

    How robots are helping doctors save lives in the Canadian North
    Ivar Mendez, University of Saskatchewan It is the middle of the winter and a six-month-old child is brought with acute respiratory distress to a nursing station in a remote community in the Canadia...
    07 January 2019, by

    Robots with sticky feet can climb up, down, and all around
    By Lindsay Brownell Jet engines can have up to 25,000 individual parts, making regular maintenance a tedious task that can take over a month per engine. Many components are located deep inside the ...
    21 December 2018, by

    Growing bio-inspired shapes with a 300-robot swarm
    Work by I. Slavkov, D. Carrillo-Zapata, N. Carranza, X. Diego, F. Jansson, J. Kaandorp, S. Hauert, J. Sharpe Our work published today in Science Robotics describes how we grow fully self-organised ...
    19 December 2018, by

    A new drone can change its shape to fly through a narrow gap
    A research team from the University of Zurich and EPFL has developed a new drone that can retract its propeller arms in flight and make itself small to fit through narrow gaps and holes. This is p...
    16 December 2018, by

    Drones and satellite imaging to make forest protection pay
    by Steve Gillman Every year 7 million hectares of forest are cut down, chipping away at the 485 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in trees around the world, but low-cost drones and new satell...
    16 December 2018, by

    Soft actor critic – Deep reinforcement learning with real-world robots
    By Tuomas Haarnoja, Vitchyr Pong, Kristian Hartikainen, Aurick Zhou, Murtaza Dalal, and Sergey Levine We are announcing the release of our state-of-the-art off-policy model-free reinforcement learnin...
    16 December 2018, by

    Visual model-based reinforcement learning as a path towards generalist robots
    By Chelsea Finn∗, Frederik Ebert∗, Sudeep Dasari, Annie Xie, Alex Lee, and Sergey Levine With very little explicit supervision and feedback, humans are able to learn a wide range of motor skills ...
    04 December 2018, by

    AdaSearch: A successive elimination approach to adaptive search
    By Esther Rolf∗, David Fridovich-Keil∗, and Max Simchowitz https://youtu.be/a4SPB3VugFI In many tasks in machine learning, it is common to want to answer questions given fixed, pre-collected...
    14 November 2018, by

    ANYmal robot tested on offshore platform
    A crucial task for energy providers is the reliable and safe operation of their plants, especially when producing energy offshore. Autonomous mobile robots are able to offer comprehensive support thro...
    04 November 2018, by

    Small flying robots able to pull objects up to 40 times their weight
    Researchers from EPFL and Stanford have developed small drones that can land and then move objects that are 40 times their weight, with the help of powerful winches, gecko adhesives and microspines....
    04 November 2018, by

    Drilling down on depth sensing and deep learning
    By Daniel Seita, Jeff Mahler, Mike Danielczuk, Matthew Matl, and Ken Goldberg This post explores two independent innovations and the potential for combining them in robotics. Two years before the Ale...
    24 October 2018, by

    Models of dinosaur movement could help us build stronger robots and buildings
    By Sandrine Ceurstemont From about 245 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Although well-preserved skeletons give us a good idea of what they looked like, the way their limbs worke...
    19 October 2018, by

    Learning acrobatics by watching YouTube
    By Xue Bin (Jason) Peng and Angjoo Kanazawa Whether it’s everyday tasks like washing our hands or stunning feats of acrobatic prowess, humans are able to learn an incredible array of skills by wa...
    18 October 2018, by

    A fleet of miniature cars for experiments in cooperative driving
    The deployment of connected, automated, and autonomous vehicles presents us with transformational opportunities for road transport. These opportunities reach beyond single-vehicle automation: by enabl...
    06 October 2018, by , and

    Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground
    By Benjamin Boettner In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, fire fighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and arrive fresh at t...
    18 September 2018, by

    First results of the ROSIN project: Robotics Open-Source Software for Industry
    Open-Source Software for robots is a de-facto standard in academia, and its advantages can benefit industrial applications as well. The worldwide ROS-Industrial initiative has been using ROS, the Robo...
    18 September 2018, by

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