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    Robots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle
    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. ...
    06 May 2020, by

    How many jobs do robots really replace?
    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.  ...
    06 May 2020, by

    Unsupervised meta-learning: learning to learn without supervision
    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...
    06 May 2020, by

    Where are the robots when you need them!
    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...
    27 April 2020, by

    Can robots make food service safer for workers?
    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...
    20 April 2020, by

    HRI 2020 Keynote: Stephanie Dinkins
    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, ...
    18 April 2020, by



    Robots providing social support while we’re social distancing
    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...
    17 April 2020, by

    COVID-19 robotics resources: ideas for roboticists, users, and educators
    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...
    13 April 2020, by

    New study uses robots to uncover the connections between the human mind and walking control
    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 ...
    13 April 2020, by

    HRI 2020 Keynote: Ayanna Howard
    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...
    13 April 2020, by

    HRI 2020 Online Day One
    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...
    07 April 2020, by

    The Age of A.I. YouTube series
    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...
    06 April 2020, by and

    Human Robot Interaction conference launches online
    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...
    06 April 2020, by

    Robots learning to move like animals
    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...
    06 April 2020, by

    COVID-19, robots and us – weekly online discussion
    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 ...
    24 March 2020, by

    System trains driverless cars in simulation before they hit the road
    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...
    24 March 2020, by

    This drone can play dodgeball – and win
    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...
    19 March 2020, by

    Does on-policy data collection fix errors in off-policy reinforcement learning?
    [latexpage] 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...
    18 March 2020, by

    Showing robots how to do your chores
    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...
    11 March 2020, by

    The Tentacle Bot
    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 ...
    11 March 2020, by

    Driverless shuttles: the latest from two European projects
    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...
    11 March 2020, by

    Emergent behavior by minimizing chaos
    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...
    26 January 2020, by

    Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps
    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...
    23 January 2020, by

    20+ holiday robot videos
    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....
    24 December 2019, by

    An origami robot for touching virtual reality objects
    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...
    18 December 2019, by

    Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research
    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...
    18 December 2019, by

    Call for robot holiday videos 2019
    That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!...
    07 December 2019, by

    Data-driven deep reinforcement learning
    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...
    07 December 2019, by

    ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
    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...
    07 December 2019, by

    Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
    By Rob Matheson Humans have an early understanding of the laws of physical reality. Infants, for instance, hold expectations for how objects should move and interact with each other, and will show s...
    07 December 2019, by

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