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Czech Digital Innovation Hubs: who are they and how can they help?
DIHNET
20 Feb 2022
In 2016, the Czech Republic and Europe-wide started setting up a network of Digital Innovation Hubs. Since then, the Digital Europe Programme has come into force and introduced the new term European Digital Innovation Hubs. What can DIHs and EDIHs offer? Which are the relevant contacts in Czechia? This article will bring the answers.
Top 5 robot trends 2022
International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
17 Feb 2022
The operational stock of industrial robots hit a new record of about 3 million units worldwide – increasing by 13% on average each year (2015-2020). The International Federation of Robotics analyzes the top 5 trends shaping robotics and automation around the globe.
Beach bots, sea ‘raptors’ and marine toolsets mobilised to get rid of marine litter
Horizon Magazine
15 Feb 2022
Often quickly disposed of but lasting in the environment for tens to hundreds of years, plastic litter pollutes our seas worldwide, creating a serious threat to wildlife and contributing to climate change as they break down.
Steve Macenski: Open Source Robot Navigation | Sense Think Act Podcast #13
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
09 Feb 2022
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Steve Macenski, who is the Open Source Robotics Engineering Lead at Samsung Research America. Steve leads the Nav2 project, which is an open source robot navigat...
Happy Birthday Nao!
In our paper ‘10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review’, we present an overview of the evolution of NAO’s technical capabilities. We also present the main results from a scoping review of the human-robot interaction research literature in which NAO was used.
Bristol scientists develop insect-sized flying robots with flapping wings
University of Bristol
03 Feb 2022
A new drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed by a University of Bristol team, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that does away with the need for conventional motors and gears.
Radhika Nagpal at #NeurIPS2021: the collective intelligence of army ants
Lucy Smith
01 Feb 2022
Radhika’s research focusses on collective intelligence, with the overarching goal being to understand how large groups of individuals, with local interaction rules, can cooperate to achieve globally complex behaviour.
Black in Robotics ‘Meet The Members’ series: Nialah Wilson
Black In Robotics
30 Jan 2022
Nialah Wilson is one of the key roboticists who helped bring the DONUts modular robots to life.
Matt Robinson: Accelerating Industrial Workflows with Open Source | Sense Think Act Podcast #12
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
25 Jan 2022
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Matt Robinson, Program Manager for ROS-Industrial Americas at the Southwest Research Institute. ROS Industrial is a group that seeks to help industrial users, fo...
Robot science fiction books of 2021
Robin Murphy
23 Jan 2022
2021 produced four new scifi books with good hard science underpinning their description of robots and three where there was less science but lots of interesting ideas about robots.
How robots learn to hike
ETH Zurich
20 Jan 2022
A new control approach that enables a legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult terrain.
How robots and bubbles could soon help clean up underwater litter
Horizon Magazine
19 Jan 2022
Everyone loves to visit the seaside, whether to enjoy the physical benefits of an exhilarating swim or simply to relax on the beach and catch some sun. But these simple life affirming pleasures are easily ruined by the presence of litter, which if persistent can have a serious negative impact on both the local environment and economy. However, help is at hand to ensure the pristine nature of our coastlines.
Maria Gini wins the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
Lucy Smith
18 Jan 2022
Congratulations to Maria Gini on winning this prestigious award, recognising her research and leadership in the field of robotics and multi-agent systems.
Science Magazine robot videos 2021
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
14 Jan 2022
A compilation of Science Magazine videos featuring robotics research that were released during last year.
CBQ: Commercial-grade Autonomous Mowers, Safety, and Dogfooding | Sense Think Act Podcast #11
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
11 Jan 2022
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...
Robotics innovation infiltrates 2022 Consumer Electronics Show
Silicon Valley Robotics
08 Jan 2022
The 2022 CES Innovation Awards recognize a range of robotics technologies as Honorees, and feature three in the “Best of Innovation” category as well.
What happened in robotics in 2021?
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
05 Jan 2022
Here are some postcards from 2021 and wishing you all the best for 2022!
Holiday robot videos 2021 (updated)
Robohub Editors
31 Dec 2021
Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit.
Brett Aldrich: State Machines for Complex Robot Behavior | Sense Think Act Podcast #10
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
30 Dec 2021
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...
Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world
MIT News
29 Dec 2021
Assistant professor of civil engineering describes her career in robotics as well as challenges and promises of human-robot interactions.
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.
Robot density nearly doubled globally
International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
21 Dec 2021
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.
Call for robot holiday videos 2021
Robohub Editors
21 Dec 2021
That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!
Giving bug-like bots a boost
MIT News
17 Dec 2021
A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.
Youssef Benmokhtar: Digitization of Touch and Meta AI Partnership | Sense Think Act Podcast #9
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
14 Dec 2021
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...
Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
12 Dec 2021
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.
Meet the Oystamaran
MIT News
08 Dec 2021
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.
Team builds first living robots that can reproduce
Wyss Institute
02 Dec 2021
AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine.
An inventory of robotics roadmaps to better inform policy and investment
Silicon Valley Robotics
29 Nov 2021
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.
Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners
Lucy Smith
24 Nov 2021
The award-winning authors describe their work on a system for general in-hand object re-orientation.
Top tweets from the Conference on Robot Learning #CoRL2021
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Nov 2021
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.
Finding inspiration in starfish larva
ETH Zurich
17 Nov 2021
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.
Jason Richards: Robotic Food Delivery, Crowdfunding, and Working with Lawmakers | Sense Think Act Podcast #7
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
16 Nov 2021
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 ...
RECON: Learning to explore the real world with a ground robot
BAIR Blog
09 Nov 2021
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.
World Robotics 2021 – Service robots report released
International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
07 Nov 2021
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.
Tobias Holmes: Agriculture Robots, Herbicide Resistance, and Education | Sense Think Act Podcast #6
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
02 Nov 2021
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...
