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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...
Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
MIT News
07 Dec 2019
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...
RoboNet: A dataset for large-scale multi-robot learning
BAIR Blog
07 Dec 2019
By Sudeep Dasari
This post is cross-listed at the SAIL Blog and the CMU ML blog. In the last decade, we’ve seen learning-based systems provide transformative solutions for a wide range of percep...
How to design and control robots with stretchy, flexible bodies
MIT News
07 Dec 2019
MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally been a monumental undertaking in computation....
#IROS2019 videos and exhibit floor – update
Sabine Hauert
21 Nov 2019
The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (#IROS2019) was held in Macau earlier this month. The theme this year was "robots connecting people"....
Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
MIT News
21 Nov 2019
In today’s factories and warehouses, it’s not uncommon to see robots whizzing about, shuttling items or tools from one station to another. For the most part, robots navigate pretty easily across o...
Predicting people’s driving personalities
MIT News
21 Nov 2019
Self-driving cars are coming. But for all their fancy sensors and intricate data-crunching abilities, even the most cutting-edge cars lack something that (almost) every 16-year-old with a learner’s ...
#IROS2019 videos and exhibit floor
Sabine Hauert
06 Nov 2019
The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (#IROS2019) is being held in Macau this week. The theme this year is "robots connecting people"....
RoboBee powered by soft muscles
Wyss Institute
06 Nov 2019
By Leah Burrows
The sight of a RoboBee careening towards a wall or crashing into a glass box may have once triggered panic in the researchers in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the Harvard Jo...
Look then listen: Pre-learning environment representations for data-efficient neural instruction following
BAIR Blog
06 Nov 2019
By David Gaddy
When learning to follow natural language instructions, neural networks tend to be very data hungry – they require a huge number of examples pairing language with actions in order to ...
Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
MIT News
06 Nov 2019
By Jennifer Chu
Rescuing victims from a burning building, a chemical spill, or any disaster that is inaccessible to human responders could one day be a mission for resilient, adaptable robots. Imagin...
Technique helps robots find the front door
MIT News
06 Nov 2019
By Jennifer ChuIn the not too distant future, robots may be dispatched as last-mile delivery vehicles to drop your takeout order, package, or meal-kit subscription at your doorstep — if they can fin...
A swarm of autonomous tiny flying robots
Guido de Croon
04 Nov 2019
By K.N. McGuire, C. De Wagter, K. Tuyls, H.J. Kappen, G.C.H.E. de Croon
Greenhouses, search-and-rescue teams and warehouses are all looking for new methods to enable surveillance in a manner that i...
#IROS2019 live coverage and IROS TV
Sabine Hauert
04 Nov 2019
The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (#IROS2019) is being held in Macau this week. The theme this year is "robots connecting people"....
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Oct 2019
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robot...
#SciRocChallenge announces winners of Smart Cities Robotic Competition
Marta Palau Franco
21 Oct 2019
The smart city of Milton Keynes hosted the first edition of the European Robotics League (ERL)- Smart Cities Robotic Challenge (SciRoc Challenge). Ten European teams met in the shopping mall of Cent...
Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces
MIT News
21 Oct 2019
By David L. Chandler
Today’s commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations — wings at one factory, fuselage sections at another, tail components somewhe...
Robots help patients manage chronic illness at home
MIT News
21 Oct 2019
By Zach Winn
The Mabu robot, with its small yellow body and friendly expression, serves, literally, as the face of the care management startup Catalia Health. The most innovative part of the company...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
Thilo Zimmermann
21 Oct 2019
“Within the framework of the European project ROBOTT-NET we are developing software and robotic solutions for the prevention and control of rodents in enclosed spaces”, says Marco Lorenzo, Service...
Functional RL with Keras and Tensorflow Eager
BAIR Blog
21 Oct 2019
By Eric Liang and Richard Liaw and Clement Gehring
In this blog post, we explore a functional paradigm for implementing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. The paradigm will be that developers wr...
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019
From Mexican immigrant to MIT, from Girl Power in Latin America to robotics entrepreneurs in Africa and India, the 2019 annual “women in robotics you need to know about” list is here! We've featur...
A soft matter computer for soft robots
Martin Garrad
03 Oct 2019
Our work published recently in Science Robotics describes a new form of computer, ideally suited to controlling soft robots. Our Soft Matter Computer (SMC) is inspired by the way information is encode...
Deep dynamics models for dexterous manipulation
BAIR Blog
03 Oct 2019
By Anusha Nagabandi
Dexterous manipulation with multi-fingered hands is a grand challenge in robotics: the versatility of the human hand is as yet unrivaled by the capabilities of robotic systems...
Complex lattices that change in response to stimuli open a range of applications in electronics, robotics, and medicine
Wyss Institute
03 Oct 2019
By Leah Burrows
What would it take to transform a flat sheet into a human face? How would the sheet need to grow and shrink to form eyes that are concave into the face and a convex nose and chin th...
Sample efficient evolutionary algorithm for analog circuit design
BAIR Blog
03 Oct 2019
By Kourosh Hakhamaneshi
In this post, we share some recent promising results regarding the applications of Deep Learning in analog IC design. While this work targets a specific application, the propo...
