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Robotics sector brings robotics to the public in annual European showcase
SPARC and euRobotics AISBL
21 Nov 2020
European Robotics Week 2020 (ERW2020) began on Thursday and hundreds of interactive robotics events for the public have been announced. These will take place in countries across Europe and beyond, to ...
#IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Nov 2020
The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) has teamed up with Black in Robotics (website, Twitter) to release a new special series named BiR-IROS: Black in Rob...
#IROS2020 Original Series: Real Roboticist
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
16 Nov 2020
Are you curious about the people behind the robots? The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) features a new Original Series called Real Roboticist hosted by ...
Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon Global Edition 2020, the Olympics dedicated to new prosthetic technologie
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
13 Nov 2020
IIT’s teams will compete in the "Powered Arm Prosthesis" category showing two different robotic arm prostheses made in Italy: SoftHandPro and Hannes. The race course is about 30 metres long and will...
CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
11 Nov 2020
Involving potential users of a particular technology in the research and development (R&D) process is a very powerful way to maximise success when such technology is deployed in the real world. In add...
Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes
Imperial College London
06 Nov 2020
By Caroline Brogan
Imperial researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests....
A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
NCCR Robotics
31 Oct 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
NCCR Robotics researchers at EPFL have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility....
RoboTED: a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment
Alan Winfield
28 Oct 2020
A few weeks ago I gave a short paper at the excellent International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2020), outlining a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment - see our paper here. Our c...
Lily the barn owl reveals how birds fly in gusty winds
University of Bristol
26 Oct 2020
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 ...
International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS)
Lucy Smith and AIhub
23 Oct 2020
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...
Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects
MIT News
23 Oct 2020
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...
Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
Frontiers Journals & Blog
18 Oct 2020
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...
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2020
Women In Robotics
13 Oct 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...
Plan2Explore: Active model-building for self-supervised visual reinforcement learning
BAIR Blog
06 Oct 2020
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...
Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
Wyss Institute
04 Oct 2020
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...
AWAC: Accelerating online reinforcement learning with offline datasets
BAIR Blog
30 Sep 2020
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...
Can RL from pixels be as efficient as RL from state?
BAIR Blog
16 Sep 2020
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...
Cutting surgical robots down to size
Wyss Institute
26 Aug 2020
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...
Data systems that learn to be better
MIT News
12 Aug 2020
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...
Soft robotics actuators heal themselves
Andra Keay
28 Jul 2020
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,...
Exploring the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge
Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Jul 2020
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...
OmniTact: a multi-directional high-resolution touch sensor
BAIR Blog
22 Jul 2020
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 ...
RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!
Silicon Valley Robotics
18 Jul 2020
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...
Letting robots manipulate cables
MIT News
15 Jul 2020
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 ...
#ICRA2020 workshops on robotics and learning
Lucy Smith and AIhub
15 Jul 2020
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...
Robotics for Infectious Diseases Organization and other resources
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2020
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 ...
Next-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty
Wyss Institute
24 Jun 2020
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...
Drones learn acrobatics by themselves
NCCR Robotics
24 Jun 2020
Researchers from NCCR Robotics at the University of Zurich and Intel developed an algorithm that pushes autonomous drones to their physical limit....
Updated: All the #ICRA2020 plenary and keynote videos
Sabine Hauert
24 Jun 2020
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 ...
Why robotics startups fail!
Andra Keay
24 Jun 2020
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 ...
Silicon Valley Bank reports on ‘The Future of Robotics’
Silicon Valley Robotics
31 May 2020
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...
ICRA 2020 launches with plenary panel ‘COVID-19: How Roboticists Can Help’
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 May 2020
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...
RAC ‘Emerging Trends in Retail Robotics’ report released
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 May 2020
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...
Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare
Silicon Valley Robotics
15 May 2020
* 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...
From SLAM to Spatial AI
Silicon Valley Robotics
12 May 2020
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 ...
