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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 ...
Audience Choice HRI 2020 Demo
Silicon Valley Robotics
10 May 2020
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...
Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality
MIT News
06 May 2020
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. ...
Robots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle
MIT News
06 May 2020
This is part 2 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. ...
How many jobs do robots really replace?
MIT News
06 May 2020
By Peter Dizikes
This is part 1 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. ...
Unsupervised meta-learning: learning to learn without supervision
BAIR Blog
06 May 2020
By Benjamin Eysenbach and Abhishek Gupta This post is cross-listed on the CMU ML blog. The history of machine learning has largely been a story of increasing abstraction. In the dawn of ML, research...
Where are the robots when you need them!
Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Apr 2020
Looking at the Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies production tally of handcrafted masks and faceshields, we’re trying to answer that question in our weekly discussions about ‘COVID-19, robots a...
Can robots make food service safer for workers?
Silicon Valley Robotics
20 Apr 2020
Health care workers are not the only unwilling essential services frontline workers at increased risk of COVID-19. According to the Washington Post on April 12, “At least 41 grocery workers have die...
HRI 2020 Keynote: Stephanie Dinkins
Silicon Valley Robotics
18 Apr 2020
Community, craft, and the vernacular in artificially intelligent systems take the position that everyone participating in society is an expert in our experiences within the community infrastructures, ...
Robots providing social support while we’re social distancing
Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Apr 2020
Wired Magazine recently called for us to, post pandemic, “ditch our tech enabled tools of social distancing”. But are our telepresence robots creating emotional distancing or are they actually imp...
COVID-19 robotics resources: ideas for roboticists, users, and educators
Sabine Hauert
13 Apr 2020
Robots could have a role to play in COVID-19, whether it's automating laboratory research, helping with logistics, disinfecting hospitals, education, or allowing carers, colleagues or loved ones to co...
New study uses robots to uncover the connections between the human mind and walking control
Wyss Institute
13 Apr 2020
By Tim Sullivan, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network Communications
Many of us aren’t spending much time outside lately, but there are still many obstacles for us to navigate as we walk around: the ...
HRI 2020 Keynote: Ayanna Howard
Silicon Valley Robotics
13 Apr 2020
Intelligent systems, especially those with an embodied construct, are becoming pervasive in our society. From chatbots to rehabilitation robotics, from shopping agents to robot tutors, people are adop...
HRI 2020 Online Day One
Silicon Valley Robotics
07 Apr 2020
HRI2020 has already kicked off with workshops and the Industry Talks Session on April 3, however the first release of videos has only just gone online with the welcome from General Chairs Tony Belpaem...
The Age of A.I. YouTube series
Lucy Smith and AIhub
06 Apr 2020
The YouTube originals series “The Age of A.I.” was released in December 2019. If you haven’t already seen it now could be a good time to catch up - with much of the world in enforced or voluntar...
Human Robot Interaction conference launches online
Sabine Hauert
06 Apr 2020
The 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction - HRI 2020 - was meant to take place in the city of Cambridge UK. Instead it will be launching online today. You can follow...
Robots learning to move like animals
BAIR Blog
06 Apr 2020
By Xue Bin (Jason) Peng Whether it’s a dog chasing after a ball, or a monkey swinging through the trees, animals can effortlessly perform an incredibly rich repertoire of agile locomotion skills. B...
COVID-19, robots and us – weekly online discussion
Silicon Valley Robotics
24 Mar 2020
Silicon Valley Robotics and the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative are hosting a weekly "COVID-19, robots and us" online discussion with experts from the robotics and health community on Tuesdays at ...
System trains driverless cars in simulation before they hit the road
MIT News
24 Mar 2020
By Rob Matheson
A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless cars creates a photorealistic world with infinite steering possibilities, helping the cars learn to navigate a host of worse-ca...
This drone can play dodgeball – and win
NCCR Robotics
19 Mar 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
Drones can do many things, but avoiding obstacles is not their strongest suit yet – especially when they move quickly. Although many flying robots are equipped with cameras that...
Does on-policy data collection fix errors in off-policy reinforcement learning?
BAIR Blog
18 Mar 2020
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Reinforcement learning has seen a great deal of success in solving complex decision making problems ranging from robotics to games to supply chain management to recommender systems. Des...
Showing robots how to do your chores
MIT News
11 Mar 2020
By Rob Matheson
Training interactive robots may one day be an easy job for everyone, even those without programming expertise. Roboticists are developing automated robots that can learn new tasks s...
The Tentacle Bot
Wyss Institute
11 Mar 2020
By Leah Burrows
Of all the cool things about octopuses (and there are a lot), their arms may rank among the coolest.
Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons are in its arms, meaning each arm literally ...
Driverless shuttles: the latest from two European projects
Horizon Magazine
11 Mar 2020
Autonomous vehicles must be well-integrated into public transport systems if they are to take off in Europe's cities, say researchers. Image credit - Keolis
By Julianna Photopoulos
Jutting out i...
Emergent behavior by minimizing chaos
BAIR Blog
26 Jan 2020
By Glen Berseth
All living organisms carve out environmental niches within which they can maintain relative predictability amidst the ever-increasing entropy around them (1), (2). Humans, for e...
Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps
MIT News
23 Jan 2020
By Rob Matheson
A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps could help improve GPS navigation...
20+ holiday robot videos
Sabine Hauert
24 Dec 2019
Thanks to all those that sent us their holiday videos. Here's a selection of 20+ videos to get you into the spirit this season....
An origami robot for touching virtual reality objects
NCCR Robotics
18 Dec 2019
A group of EPFL researchers have developed a foldable device that can fit in a pocket and can transmit touch stimuli when used in a human-machine interface.
When browsing an e-commerce site on your...
Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research
MIT News
18 Dec 2019
By Lily Keyes/MIT Sea Grant
In its first year of operation, the Intelligent Towing Tank (ITT) conducted about 100,000 total experiments, essentially completing the equivalent of a PhD student’s fiv...
Call for robot holiday videos 2019
Robohub Editors
07 Dec 2019
That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!...
Data-driven deep reinforcement learning
BAIR Blog
07 Dec 2019
By Aviral Kumar
One of the primary factors behind the success of machine learning approaches in open world settings, such as image recognition and natural language processing, has been the ability of...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
Thilo Zimmermann
07 Dec 2019
At Danfoss in Gråsten, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) is testing, as part of a pilot project in the European robot network ROBOTT-NET, several robot technologies: Manipulation using force s...
