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Flying high-speed drones into the unknown with AI
NCCR Robotics
08 Oct 2021
When it comes to exploring complex and unknown environments such as forests, buildings or caves, drones are hard to beat. They are fast, agile and small, and they can carry sensors and payloads virtua...
Sense Think Act Podcast: Adrian Macneil
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
05 Oct 2021
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Adrian Macneil, Co-founder and CEO of Foxglove. Foxglove makes Foxglove Studio, an open source visualization and debugging tool for robotics. Adrian speaks abou...
To swim like a tuna, robotic fish need to change how stiff their tails are in real time
The Conversation
05 Oct 2021
Researchers have been building robotic fish for years, but the performance has never approached the efficiency of real fish. Daniel Quinn, CC BY-NC
By Daniel Quinn
Underwater vehicles haven’t ...
Sense Think Act Podcast: Dave Coleman
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
02 Oct 2021
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dave Coleman, Chief Executive Officer at PickNik Robotics. Dave speaks at a high level about what MoveIt is and what problems it helps roboticists solve, they t...
Team CERBERUS wins the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
CERBERUS
01 Oct 2021
The DARPA Subterranean Challenge planned to develop novel approaches to rapidly map, explore and search underground environments in time-sensitive operations critical for the civilian and military dom...
What can I do here? Learning new skills by imagining visual affordances
BAIR Blog
27 Sep 2021
How do humans become so skillful? Well, initially we are not, but from infancy, we discover and practice increasingly complex skills through self-supervised play. But this play is not random - the chi...
Sense Think Act Podcast: Ryan Gariepy
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
21 Sep 2021
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ryan Gariepy, Chief Technology Officer of both Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. Ryan speaks about the origin of Clearpath, how Clearpath focuses on making re...
Surgeons to reach prostate with robot
Joost van de Loo
21 Sep 2021
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men. Every year about 13,000 Dutch men are diagnosed with this disease. According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, about 1 in 10 men suffers from...
‘Black in Robotics’ special series
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
13 Sep 2021
Apart from the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) original series Real Roboticist that we have been featuring in the last weeks, another series of three v...
Should a home robot follow what the mom says? Recap of what happened at RO-MAN Roboethics Competition
Open Roboethics Initiative
09 Sep 2021
On August 8th, 2021, a team of four graduate students from the University of Toronto presented their ethical design in the world’s first ever roboethics competition, the RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics to De...
When humans play in competition with a humanoid robot, they delay their decisions when the robot looks at them
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
06 Sep 2021
Gaze is an extremely powerful and important signal during human-human communication and interaction, conveying intentions and informing about other’s decisions. What happens when a robot and a human...
When mud is our greatest teacher
Fay de Grefte
03 Sep 2021
On 25 March, a small RoboHouse team went out in the fields of Oldeberkoop in East Friesland with gas leak detector Waylon and mechanic Rob. They began by checking the calibration to prevent malfunctio...
What is the future of Agri-Food Robotics in the EU and beyond?
euRobotics AISBL and the European Commission
30 Aug 2021
By Kees Lokhorst, Project Coordinator of the agROBOfood project
During the last decades robots are transforming from simple machines to cognitive collaborators. The distance that has been covered i...
2021 IEEE RAS Publications best paper awards
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
27 Aug 2021
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has recently released the list of winners of their best paper awards. Below you can see the list and access the publications. Congratulations to all winners!
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Fish fins are teaching us the secret to flexible robots and new shape-changing materials
The Conversation
20 Aug 2021
By Francois Barthelat
Flying fish use their fins both to swim and glide through the air. Smithsonian Institution/Flickr
The big idea
Segmented hinges in the long, thin bones of fish fins are...
Three new helper robots at the Hsinchu National Taiwan University Hospital
Zachary Silver and Jonathan Peng
13 Aug 2021
ADATA Technology has collaborated with researchers at Hsinchu National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) to introduce the C-Rob Autonomous Mobile Robots. These robots use Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
Swimming robot gives fresh insight into locomotion and neuroscience
NCCR Robotics
12 Aug 2021
Scientists at the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob) in EPFL’s School of Engineering are developing innovative robots in order to study locomotion in animals and, ultimately, gain a better understandin...
RO-MAN Roboethics Competition: What is an ethical home robot to you?
Open Roboethics Initiative
10 Aug 2021
So what does it mean for a robot to act ethically within a home environment? Researchers have been thinking about this question from different perspectives for the past couple of decades. Some look at...
We used peanuts and a climbing wall to learn how squirrels judge their leaps so successfully – and how their skills could inspire more nimble robots
How do they stick their landings? Alex Turton via Getty ImagesTree squirrels are the Olympic divers of the rodent world, leaping gracefully among branches and structures high above the ground. And as ...
Mobile robots revolutionize industry
International Federation of Robotics (IFR)
06 Aug 2021
Robot mobility is booming worldwide: Unit sales of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in the logistics sector e.g. will increase by 31% between 2020 and 2023 annually. At the same time, the use of AMRs i...
A robotic cat can teach us how real animals move
Frontiers Journals & Blog
03 Aug 2021
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer / Toyoaki Tanikawa, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University
In the young discipline of robotics-inspired biology, robots replace experime...
r/Robotics showcase
reddit
30 Jul 2021
The first Reddit Robotics Showcase will take place online this weekend (31st July - 1 August). Multitude of projects underway in the r/robotics reddit community will be showcased. There will be nearly...
RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics Competition: Bringing ethical robots into the home
Open Roboethics Initiative
23 Jul 2021
In 1984, Heathkit presented HERO Jr. as the first robot that could be used in households to perform a variety of tasks, such as guarding people’s homes, setting reminders, and even playing games. Fo...
New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots
NCCR Robotics
22 Jul 2021
To be useful, drones need to be quick. Because of their limited battery life they must complete whatever task they have – searching for survivors on a disaster site, inspecting a building, deliverin...
What is the best simulation tool for robotics?
Silicon Valley Robotics
20 Jul 2021
What is the best simulation tool for robotics? This is a hard question to answer because many people (or their companies) specialize in one tool or another. Some simulators are better at one aspect of...
Sniffy Bug: a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters in cluttered environments
Bart Duisterhof and Guido de Croon
15 Jul 2021
Tiny drones are ideal candidates for fully autonomous jobs that are too dangerous or time-consuming for humans. A commonly shared dream by engineers and fire & rescue services, would be to have swarms...
ITRI introduces AI-based high density shuttle rack system
Zachary Silver and Jonathan Peng
12 Jul 2021
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan has introduced the AI-Based High Density Shuttle Rack System (SRS). This smart storage system, which operates without manpower in thousand...
Bristol Robotics Lab Virtual Conference 2021 (with videos)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
09 Jul 2021
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) hosted their first virtual conference last Wednesday, the 30th of June. With over 50 talks, the conference was a gathering of top robotics researchers, business l...
Softbank Robotics Europe cutting workforce 40% in shake-up
Steve Crowe
06 Jul 2021
Softbank Robotics Europe, the group behind two of the more recognizable robots, is laying off 40% of its workforce. On July 7, the developer of the famous Nao and Pepper robots will reduce its Paris-b...
An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used in disasters like the Florida condo collapse
Robin Murphy
01 Jul 2021
A drone flies above search and rescue personnel at the site of the Champlain Towers South Condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has depl...
Face masks that can diagnose COVID-19
Wyss Institute
29 Jun 2021
By Lindsay Brownell
Most people associate the term “wearable” with a fitness tracker, smartwatch, or wireless earbuds. But what if cutting-edge biotechnology were integrated into your clothing,...
Learning for Caregiving Robots workshop at IEEE ICRA 2021
Zackory Erickson, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Carme Torras, Yiannis Demiris, Charlie Kemp and Tomohiro Shibata
26 Jun 2021
The Learning for Caregiving Robots workshop at IEEE ICRA 2021 discussed how learning can enable robotic systems towards achieving consistently efficient and safe human assistance across activities of ...
Simulations, real robots, and bloopers from the DOTS competition: Powering emergency food distribution using swarms
Suet Lee and Sabine Hauert
24 Jun 2021
Results from the DOTS competition were released yesterday, after an intense month with teams from around the world designing new algorithms for robot swarms tasked with delivering emergency food parce...
Robot farmers could improve jobs and help fight climate change – if they’re developed responsibly
Thorvald: an autonomous robot from Saga Robotics Matt Munro, Saga Robotics, Author providedFarming robots that can move autonomously in an open field or greenhouse promise a cleaner, safer agricultura...
Robot Lab Live at the UK Festival of Robotics 2021 #RobotFest
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
21 Jun 2021
For five years, the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network have been holding the UK Robotics Week. This year's edition kicked off on the 19th of June as the UK Festival of Robotics ...
IEEE ICRA 2021 Awards (with videos and papers)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
15 Jun 2021
Did you have the chance to attend the 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)? Here we bring you the papers that received an award this year in case you missed them. Congr...
