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Soft robots that can sense touch, pressure, movement and temperature
Wyss Institute
02 Mar 2018
By Leah Burrows
Researchers at Harvard University have built soft robots inspired by nature that can crawl, swim, grasp delicate objects and even assist a beating heart, but none of these devices has...
Learning robot objectives from physical human interaction
BAIR Blog
08 Feb 2018
Humans physically interact with each other every day – from grabbing someone’s hand when they are about to spill their drink, to giving your friend a nudge to steer them in the right direction, ph...
The millimeter-scale robot opens new avenues for microsurgery, microassembly and micromanipulation
Wyss Institute
02 Feb 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes, including pick-and-place assemblies, machining, welding and food packaging. ...
‘Earworm melodies with strange aspects’ – what happens when AI makes music
Horizon Magazine
12 Jan 2018
by Kevin Casey
The first full-length mainstream music album co-written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) was released on 12 January and experts believe that the science behind it could ...
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
Physical adversarial examples against deep neural networks
BAIR Blog
31 Dec 2017
By Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, and Bo Li based on recent research by Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bo Li, Atul Prakash, Amir Rahmati, Dawn Song...
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 3
Robohub Editors
24 Dec 2017
Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit....
Reverse curriculum generation for reinforcement learning agents
BAIR Blog
24 Dec 2017
By Carlos Florensa
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful technique capable of solving complex tasks such as locomotion, Atari games, racing games, and robotic manipulation tasks, all through trai...
Machine learning and AI for social good: views from NIPS 2017
The Royal Society
20 Dec 2017
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
In early December, 8000 machine learning researchers gathered in Long Beach for 2017’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference. In the margi...
Molecular Robotics at the Wyss Institute
Wyss Institute
20 Dec 2017
By Lindsay Brownell
DNA has often been compared to an instruction book that contains the information needed for a living organism to function, its genes made up of distinct sequences of the nucleotid...
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 2
Robohub Editors
19 Dec 2017
Well, this year's videos are getting creative!...
What can we learn from insects on a treadmill with virtual reality?
Ravindra Palavalli Nettimi
19 Dec 2017
When you think of a treadmill, what comes to your mind?
Perhaps the images of a person burning calories, or maybe the treadmill fail videos online. But almost certainly not a miniature treadmill for ...
What the robots of Star Wars tell us about automation, and the future of human work
The Conversation
19 Dec 2017
BB-8 is an “astromech droid” who first appeared in The Force Awakens.
Lucasfilm/IMDB
By Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast
Millions of fans all over the world e...
Towards intelligent industrial co-robots
BAIR Blog
18 Dec 2017
By Changliu Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Democratization of Robots in Factories
In modern factories, human workers and robots are two major workforces. For safety concerns, the two are normally sep...
Congratulations to Semio, Apellix and Mothership Aeronautics
Andra Keay
17 Dec 2017
The Robot Launch global startup competition is over for 2017. We've seen startups from all over the world and all sorts of application areas - and we'd like to congratulate the overall winner Semio, a...
Three very different startups vie for “Robohub Choice”
Andra Keay
12 Dec 2017
Three very different robotics startups have been battling it out over the last week to win the "Robohub Choice" award in our annual startup competition. One was social, one was medical and one was agr...
Robohub Podcast is on Patreon!
Audrow Nash
07 Dec 2017
Robohub Podcast has launched a campaign on Patreon!...
FaSTrack: Ensuring safe real-time navigation of dynamic systems
BAIR Blog
07 Dec 2017
By Sylvia Herbert, David Fridovich-Keil, and Claire Tomlin
The Problem: Fast and Safe Motion Planning Real time autonomous motion planning and navigation is hard, especially when we care about s...
The stories we tell about technology: AI Narratives
The Royal Society
07 Dec 2017
By Susannah Odell and Natasha McCarthy
Technology narratives
The nature, promise and risks of new technologies enter into our shared thinking through narrative – explicit or implicit stories about...
Vote for your favorite in Robot Launch Startup Competition!
Andra Keay
02 Dec 2017
In the lead up to the finals of the Robot Launch 2017 competition on December 14, we're having one round of public voting for your favorite startup from the Top 25. While in previous years we've had ...
Model-based reinforcement learning with neural network dynamics
BAIR Blog
01 Dec 2017
By Anusha Nagabandi and Gregory Kahn
Enabling robots to act autonomously in the real-world is difficult. Really, really difficult. Even with expensive robots and teams of world-class researchers, rob...
The advantage of four legs
Oliver Mitchell
23 Nov 2017
Shortly after SoftBank acquired his company last October, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics confessed, “I happen to believe that robotics will be bigger than the Internet.” Many sociologist...
DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning
BAIR Blog
22 Nov 2017
By Michael Laskey, Jonathan Lee, and Ken Goldberg
In Imitation Learning (IL), also known as Learning from Demonstration (LfD), a robot learns a control policy from analyzing demonstrations of the p...
ANDROIDS through the eye of a 19th century wooden camera
Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer
19 Nov 2017
Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer have fused their scientific and photographic interests in robots and traveled the world since 2016 to visit roboticists to discuss and photograph their creations. Th...
Efficient data acquisition in MATLAB: Streaming HD video in real-time
Florian Enner
16 Nov 2017
The acquisition and processing of a video stream can be very computationally expensive. Typical image processing applications split the work across multiple threads, one acquiring the images, and anot...
The race to own the autonomous super highway: Digging deeper into Broadcom’s offer to buy Qualcomm
Oliver Mitchell
14 Nov 2017
Governor Andrew Cuomo of the State of New York declared last month that New York City will join 13 other states in testing self-driving cars: “Autonomous vehicles have the potential to save time an...
Smart soft robotics for stroke rehabilitation
Adam Stokes
09 Nov 2017
The culmination of work by Alistair C. McConnell (lead-researcher) through his PhD and the SOPHIA team, the Soft Orthotic Physiotherapy Hand Interactive Aid (SOPHIA) forms the foundation for our futur...
How will robots and AI change our way of life in 2030?
Andra Keay
09 Nov 2017
At #WebSummit 2017, I was part of a panel on what the future will bring in 2030 with John Vickers from Blue Abyss, Jacques Van den Broek from Randstad and Stewart Rogers from Venture Beat. John talked...
Robust distributed decision-making in robot swarms
Michael Crosscombe
06 Nov 2017
Reaching an optimal shared decision in a distributed way is a key aspect of many multi-agent and swarm robotic applications....
1000 local events expected during the European Robotics Week 2017
SPARC
06 Nov 2017
The importance of robotics for Europe's regions will be the focus of a week-long celebration of robotics taking place around Europe on 17–27 November 2017. The European Robotics Week 2017 (ERW2017) ...
Congress’ automated driving bills are both more and less than they seem
Bryant Walker Smith
27 Oct 2017
Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, existing law is at least as important as...
New RoboBee flies, dives, swims, and explodes out the of water
Wyss Institute
27 Oct 2017
By Leah Burrows
We’ve seen RoboBees that can fly, stick to walls, and dive into water. Now, get ready for a hybrid RoboBee that can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water, and ...
Shaping animal, vegetable and mineral
Wyss Institute
19 Oct 2017
By Leah Burrows
Nature has a way of making complex shapes from a set of simple growth rules. The curve of a petal, the swoop of a branch, even the contours of our face are shaped by these processes. ...
Energy, enthusiasm and spirit of cooperation: Award winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 announced
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
A language to design control algorithms for robot swarms
Lenka Pitonakova
28 Sep 2017
Designing and representing control algorithms is challenging in swarm robotics, where the collective swarm performance depends on interactions between robots and with their environment. The currently ...
