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    Maria Gini wins the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
    Congratulations to Maria Gini on winning this prestigious award, recognising her research and leadership in the field of robotics and multi-agent systems.
    18 January 2022, by

    Science Magazine robot videos 2021
    A compilation of Science Magazine videos featuring robotics research that were released during last year.
    14 January 2022, by

    CBQ: Commercial-grade Autonomous Mowers, Safety, and Dogfooding | Sense Think Act Podcast #11
    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Charles Brian Quinn (aka, CBQ), CEO and a Co-Founder of Greenzie. Greenzie make an autonomous driving system for commercial lawn mowers. We talk about Greenzie's...
    11 January 2022, by and

    Robotics innovation infiltrates 2022 Consumer Electronics Show
    The 2022 CES Innovation Awards recognize a range of robotics technologies as Honorees, and feature three in the “Best of Innovation” category as well.
    08 January 2022, by

    What happened in robotics in 2021?
    Here are some postcards from 2021 and wishing you all the best for 2022!
    05 January 2022, by and

    Holiday robot videos 2021 (updated)
    Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit.
    31 December 2021, by



    Brett Aldrich: State Machines for Complex Robot Behavior | Sense Think Act Podcast #10
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Brett Aldrich, author of SMACC and CEO of Robosoft AI. Robosoft AI develops and maintains SMACC and SMACC2, which are event-driven, behavior state machine libra...
    30 December 2021, by and

    Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world
    Assistant professor of civil engineering describes her career in robotics as well as challenges and promises of human-robot interactions.
    29 December 2021, by

    Robot reinforcement learning: safety in real-world applications
    How can we make a robot learn in the real world while ensuring safety? In this post, best paper award finalists at CoRL explain all.
    23 December 2021, by , , and

    Robot density nearly doubled globally
    The use of industrial robots in factories around the world is accelerating at a high rate: 126 robots per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries, according to the 2021 World Robot Report.
    21 December 2021, by

    Call for robot holiday videos 2021
    That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!
    21 December 2021, by

    Giving bug-like bots a boost
    A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.
    17 December 2021, by

    Youssef Benmokhtar: Digitization of Touch and Meta AI Partnership | Sense Think Act Podcast #9
    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Youssef Benmokhtar, CEO of GelSight, a Boston-based company that makes high resolution tactile sensors for several industries. They talk about how GelSight's tac...
    14 December 2021, by and

    Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners
    The award-winning authors describe their work on a self-supervised framework for cloth unfolding which uses a pick, stretch, and fling primitive for a dual-arm setup from visual observations.
    12 December 2021, by

    Meet the Oystamaran
    Working directly with oyster farmers, MIT students are developing a robot that can flip heavy, floating bags of oysters, helping the shellfish to grow and stay healthy.
    08 December 2021, by

    Team builds first living robots that can reproduce
    AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine.
    02 December 2021, by

    An inventory of robotics roadmaps to better inform policy and investment
    Silicon Valley Robotics in partnership with the Industrial Activities Board of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, is compiling an up to date resource list of various robotics, AIS and AI roadmaps, national or otherwise.
    29 November 2021, by

    Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners
    The award-winning authors describe their work on a system for general in-hand object re-orientation.
    24 November 2021, by

    Top tweets from the Conference on Robot Learning #CoRL2021
    In this post we bring you a glimpse of the conference through the most popular tweets about the conference written last week. Cool robot demos, short and sweet explanation of papers and award finalists to look forward to next year's edition.
    19 November 2021, by

    Finding inspiration in starfish larva
    Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a tiny robot that mimics the movement of a starfish larva. It is driven by sound waves and equipped with tiny hairs that direct the fluid around it, just like its natural model. In the future, such microswimmers could deliver drugs to diseased cells with pinpoint accuracy.
    17 November 2021, by

    Jason Richards: Robotic Food Delivery, Crowdfunding, and Working with Lawmakers | Sense Think Act Podcast #7
    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Jason Richards, CEO at DaxBot. DaxBot makes a charismatic robot for food delivery. Jason speaks on their delivery robot, their crowdfunding campaign, DaxBot’s ...
    16 November 2021, by and

    RECON: Learning to explore the real world with a ground robot
    RECON provides a robust way to using past experience to accelerate learning in a new environment through the combination of goal sampling and topological memory.
    09 November 2021, by

    World Robotics 2021 – Service robots report released
    Service robots hit double digit growth worldwide. The market for professional service robots reached a turnover of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide – up 12% in 2020. At the same time, turnover of new consumer service robots grew 16% to 4.4 billion U.S. dollars.
    07 November 2021, by

    Tobias Holmes: Agriculture Robots, Herbicide Resistance, and Education | Sense Think Act Podcast #6
    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Tobias Holmes, Quality Assurance Manager at Blue River Technologies. Blue River uses computer vision and robotics in agriculture and was acquired by John Deere i...
    02 November 2021, by and

    From a garage to Swiss lakes and rivers: the story of Proteus, an underwater robot
    Know the story of Proteus, an underwater robot developed by a Swiss student spin-off who partnered up with real divers from the Swiss Explosive Ordnance Disposal to retrieve lost ammunition from Swiss lakes.
    01 November 2021, by

    Making RL tractable by learning more informative reward functions: example-based control, meta-learning, and normalized maximum likelihood
    In our recent work, we design a reward specification technique that naturally incentivizes exploration and enables agents to explore environments in a directed way.
    30 October 2021, by

    IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering paper awards (with videos)
    The IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) is the flagship automation conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and constitutes the primary forum for c...
    27 October 2021, by and

    One giant leap for the mini cheetah
    A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
    23 October 2021, by

    Sense Think Act Pocast: Erik Schluntz
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Erik Schluntz, co-founder and CTO of Cobalt Robotics, which makes a security guard robot. Erik speaks about how their robot handles elevators, how they have hum...
    19 October 2021, by and

    A robot that finds lost items
    Researchers at MIT have created RFusion, a robotic arm with a camera and radio frequency (RF) antenna attached to its gripper, that fuses signals from the antenna with visual input from the camera to locate and retrieve an item, even if the item is buried under a pile and completely out of view.
    18 October 2021, by

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