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    Lily the barn owl reveals how birds fly in gusty winds
    Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Royal Veterinary College have discovered how birds are able to fly in gusty conditions – findings that could inform the development of bio-inspired ...
    26 October 2020, by

    International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS)
    This Sunday sees the start of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). This year the event is online and free for anyone to attend. Content will be availabl...
    23 October 2020, by and

    Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects
    By Rachel Gordon We’ve come a long way since the first 3D-printed item came to us by way of an eye wash cup, to now being able to rapidly fabricate things like car parts, musical instruments, and...
    23 October 2020, by

    Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
    By Conn Hastings, science writer Controlling a swarm of robots to paint a picture sounds like a difficult task. However, a new technique allows an artist to do just that, without worrying about pro...
    18 October 2020, by

    30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2020
    It’s Ada Lovelace Day and once again we’re delighted to introduce you to “30 women in robotics you need to know about”! From 13 year old Avye Couloute to Bala Krishnamurthy who worked alongsid...
    13 October 2020, by

    Plan2Explore: Active model-building for self-supervised visual reinforcement learning
    By Oleh Rybkin, Danijar Hafner and Deepak Pathak[latexpage] To operate successfully in unstructured open-world environments, autonomous intelligent agents need to solve many different tasks and lea...
    06 October 2020, by



    Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
    By Tim Sullivan / Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Communications A group based out of the Spaulding Motion Analysis Lab at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital published “Enabling Precision Rehabi...
    04 October 2020, by

    AWAC: Accelerating online reinforcement learning with offline datasets
    By Ashvin Nair and Abhishek Gupta Robots trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have the potential to be used across a huge variety of challenging real world problems. To apply RL to a new problem...
    30 September 2020, by

    Can RL from pixels be as efficient as RL from state?
    By Misha Laskin, Aravind Srinivas, Kimin Lee, Adam Stooke, Lerrel Pinto, Pieter Abbeel A remarkable characteristic of human intelligence is our ability to learn tasks quickly. Most humans can learn...
    16 September 2020, by

    Cutting surgical robots down to size
    By Lindsay Brownell Minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, in which a surgeon uses tools and a tiny camera inserted into small incisions to perform operations, has made surgical procedures safer fo...
    26 August 2020, by

    Data systems that learn to be better
    By Adam Conner-Simons Big data has gotten really, really big: By 2025, all the world’s data will add up to an estimated 175 trillion gigabytes. For a visual, if you stored that amount of data on DV...
    12 August 2020, by

    Soft robotics actuators heal themselves
    UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Repeated activity wears on soft robotic actuators, but these machines' moving parts need to be reliable and easily fixed. Now a team of researchers has a biosynthetic polymer,...
    28 July 2020, by

    Exploring the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge
    The DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge aims to develop innovative technologies that would augment operations underground. On July 20, Dr Timothy Chung, the DARPA SubTChallenge Program Manager, joined...
    27 July 2020, by

    OmniTact: a multi-directional high-resolution touch sensor
    By Akhil Padmanabha and Frederik Ebert Touch has been shown to be important for dexterous manipulation in robotics. Recently, the GelSight sensor has caught significant interest for learning-based ...
    22 July 2020, by

    RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!
    RSS 2020 was held virtually this year, from the RSS Pioneers Workshop on July 11 to the Paper Awards and Farewell on July 16. Many talks are now available online, including 103 accepted papers, each p...
    18 July 2020, by

    Letting robots manipulate cables
    For humans, it can be challenging to manipulate thin flexible objects like ropes, wires, or cables. But if these problems are hard for humans, they are nearly impossible for robots. As a cable slides ...
    15 July 2020, by

    #ICRA2020 workshops on robotics and learning
    This year the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is being run as a virtual event. One interesting feature of this conference is that it has been extended to run from 31 May to...
    15 July 2020, by and

    Robotics for Infectious Diseases Organization and other resources
    In times of crisis, we all want to know where the robots are! And young roboticists just starting their careers, or simply thinking about robotics as a career, ask us ‘How can robotics help?’ and ...
    27 June 2020, by

    Next-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty
    By Leah Burrows This itsy-bitsy robot can’t climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump, carry heavy payloads and turn on a dime. Dubbed HAMR-JR, this microrobot developed by researchers at...
    24 June 2020, by

    Drones learn acrobatics by themselves
    Researchers from NCCR Robotics at the University of Zurich and Intel developed an algorithm that pushes autonomous drones to their physical limit....
    24 June 2020, by

    Updated: All the #ICRA2020 plenary and keynote videos
    ICRA 2020, one of the main international robotics conferences, is happening online this year due to COVID-19. That means there is loads of free content you can view from home. It's a great way to see ...
    24 June 2020, by

    Why robotics startups fail!
    What are the main reasons that robotics companies and startups fail? Is it the technology or is it the business? Fresh Consulting analyzed significant industry case studies from Rethink Robotics to ...
    24 June 2020, by

    Intelligent Freight Mobility Platform designed to manage efficiency of Einride autonomous trucks
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    03 June 2020, by

    Silicon Valley Bank reports on ‘The Future of Robotics’
    You know robotics has ‘made it’ when Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is reporting on it. Just five years ago, SVB barely had a hardware division, let alone a robotics and frontier tech team. This report...
    31 May 2020, by

    ICRA 2020 launches with plenary panel ‘COVID-19: How Roboticists Can Help’
    ICRA is the largest robotics meeting in the world and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. It is thus our honor and pleasure to welcome you to this edition, alth...
    30 May 2020, by

    RAC ‘Emerging Trends in Retail Robotics’ report released
    Robots are increasingly being deployed in retail environments. The reasons for this include: to relieve staff from the performance of repetitive and mundane tasks; to reallocate staff to more value-ad...
    30 May 2020, by

    Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare
    * Please register at:https://robotsinsurgeryandhealthcare.eventbrite.com The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing global demand for robots that can assist in surgery and healthcare. This sympos...
    15 May 2020, by

    From SLAM to Spatial AI
    You can watch this seminar here at 1PM EST (10AM PST) on May 15th.  Andrew Davison (Imperial College London) Abstract: To enable the next generation of smart robots and devices which can truly ...
    12 May 2020, by

    Audience Choice HRI 2020 Demo
    Welcome to the voting for the Audience Choice Demo from HRI 2020 (voting closed on May 14 11:59PM BST). Each of these demos showcases an aspect of Human-Robot Interaction research, and alongside “Be...
    10 May 2020, by

    Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality
    By Peter Dizikes This is part 3 of a three-part series examining the effects of robots and automation on employment, based on new research from economist and Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu. ...
    06 May 2020, by

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