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    A robot that senses hidden objects
    By Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associa...
    03 April 2021, by

    Towards mapping unknown environments with a robot swarm
    Mapping is an essential task in many robotics applications. A map is a representation of the environment generated from robots positions and sensors data. A map can be either used to navigate the robo...
    01 April 2021, by , and

    A robotic ball with playful intentions
    Imagine a ball. When you step closer, the ball rolls away. When you try to catch him, he escapes. This is Fizzy, an autonomous, robotic ball that is programmed to play with children. He is ambiguous, ...
    27 March 2021, by

    Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense
    By Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind — simply aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, on the other hand, may be able...
    24 March 2021, by

    Robot Race: The World´s Top 10 automated countries
    The average robot density in the manufacturing industry hit a new global record of 113 units per 10,000 employees. By regions, Western Europe (225 units) and the Nordic European countries (204 units) ...
    21 March 2021, by

    System detects errors when medication is self-administered
    From swallowing pills to injecting insulin, patients frequently administer their own medication. But they don’t always get it right. Improper adherence to doctors’ orders is commonplace, accountin...
    19 March 2021, by



    Maximum Entropy RL (Provably) Solves Some Robust RL Problems
    By Ben Eysenbach Nearly all real-world applications of reinforcement learning involve some degree of shift between the training environment and the testing environment. However, prior work has obse...
    15 March 2021, by

    WiR IV with Johanna Austin, roboticist, helicopter pilot & techsupervixen
    Watch Johanna Austin talk about her journey, make her own career path, and trailblazing a way in STEM!! Johanna Austin was the first female Robotics and Automation Research Engineer in Boeing's Melbou...
    14 March 2021, by and

    Ethics of connected and automated vehicles
    The European Commission has published a report by an independent group of experts on Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). This report advises on specific ethical issues raised by driverl...
    11 March 2021, by and

    Fostering ethical thinking in computing
    By Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Traditional computer scientists and engineers are trained to develop solutions for specific needs, but aren’t always trained to consider their...
    08 March 2021, by

    Winners of the DIH Champions Challenge 2020 revealed at the #EDIH2021 conference
    On the 27th of January, DIHNET revealed the winners of the 2020 DIH Champions Challenge at the virtual EDIH Conference 2021 “Gearing up towards European Digital Innovation Hubs”. The awards ceremo...
    07 March 2021, by

    Robots that feel by seeing
    While modern cameras provide machines with a very well-developed sense of vision, robots still lack such a comprehensive solution for their sense of touch. At ETH Zurich, in the group led by Prof. Raf...
    06 March 2021, by

    Call for keynote speakers at the first Reddit Robotics Showcase (RRS2021)
    The reddit r/robotics subreddit is a global online community of 138,000 users, ranging from hobbyists and students to academics and industry professionals. This year, we have invited our community to ...
    04 March 2021, by

    Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones
    By Daniel Ackerman If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in fl...
    02 March 2021, by

    Rapid robotics for operator safety: what a bottle picker can do
    Dutch brewing company Heineken is one of the largest beer producers in the world with more than 70 production facilities globally. From small breweries to mega-plants, its logistics and production pro...
    01 March 2021, by

    Digital Innovation Hubs: €1.5 billion network to support green and digital transformation starts to take shape
    A two-day discussion on the future of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) took place last month, as over 2000 stakeholders and policy-makers gathered online for the first time to take stock of the...
    28 February 2021, by

    Self-supervised policy adaptation during deployment
    Our method learns a task in a fixed, simulated environment and quickly adapts to new environments (e.g. the real world) solely from online interaction during deployment. The ability for hum...
    26 February 2021, by

    Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls
    Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph....
    18 February 2021, by and

    What Holland can teach Silicon Valley: a joint response to unpredictability
    Combining drone imagery with weather data and planting schemes to forecast how much fresh vegetables a harvest is going to yield; that’s what predictive modelling intern Berend Klaver from TU De...
    12 February 2021, by

    Fabricating fully functional drones
    By Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL From Star Trek’s replicators to Richie Rich’s wishing machine, popular culture has a long history of parading flashy machines that can instantly output any item to ...
    09 February 2021, by

    Field Robotics: A new, high-quality, online and open-access journal
    It has been almost half a year since the mass resignation of the editors and editorial board of the Journal of Field Robotics. In a new turn of events, Peter Corke has recently relaunched Field Roboti...
    07 February 2021, by , and

    Soft robots for ocean exploration and offshore operations: A perspective
    Most of the ocean is unknown. Yet we know that the most challenging environments on the planet reside in it. Understanding the ocean in its totality is a key component for the sustainable development ...
    06 February 2021, by

    Wielding a laser beam deep inside the body
    A microrobotic opto-electro-mechanical device able to steer a laser beam with high speed and a large range of motion could enhance the possibilities of minimally invasive surgeries By Benjamin Boet...
    04 February 2021, by

    Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish
    By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate, and evade predators. No one fish or sub-group of fish coordinates th...
    01 February 2021, by

    Demo Day: the most exciting day of the year (Jan 28th, 3pm CET)
    Multidisciplinary teams of minor students have designed and built a functional robotic prototype for a project customer with a challenge to improve the lives of working people. Streaming live from Rob...
    28 January 2021, by

    IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute
    Interesting discussion with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, CEO of the Terasaki Institute, and one of the pioneers of the Bioengineering field. Prof. Ali’s journey from Harvard and UCLA to the Terasaki In...
    26 January 2021, by

    Designing customized “brains” for robots
    By Daniel Ackerman Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, rob...
    25 January 2021, by

    DOE’s E-ROBOT Prize targets robots for construction and built environment
    Silicon Valley Robotics is pleased to announce that we are a Connector organization for the E-ROBOT Prize, and other DOE competitions on the American-Made Network. There is \$2 million USD available i...
    23 January 2021, by

    Self-supervised learning of visual appearance solves fundamental problems of optical flow
    Flying insects as inspiration to AI for small drones How do honeybees land on flowers or avoid obstacles? One would expect such questions to be mostly of interest to biologists. However, the rise o...
    19 January 2021, by

    Robotics trends at #CES2021
    Even massive events like the 54th edition of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) have gone virtual due to the current pandemic. Since 1967, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which is the North Am...
    16 January 2021, by

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