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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...
The DARPA SubT Challenge: A robot triathlon
Oliver Mitchell
03 Oct 2019
One of the biggest urban legends growing up in New York City were rumors about alligators living in the sewers. This myth even inspired a popular children’s book called “The Great Escape: ...
Day three at #SciRocChallenge: drone delivery of medical supplies
Marta Palau Franco
01 Oct 2019
The European Robotics League (ERL) presents the SciRoc Challenge, a new robotics competition on smart cities that occurs every two years in a European city. Funded by the European Commission’s Horiz...
Day two at #SciRocChallenge: robot manipulation in human environments
Marta Palau Franco
25 Sep 2019
The ERL Smart Cities Robotics Challenge 2019 takes place from 17-21st September in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Funded by the European Commission under the SciRoc Horizon 2020 project, this new chal...
Day one at #ScirocChallenge: social robots and humans meet in a shopping mall
Marta Palau Franco
19 Sep 2019
The ERL Smart Cities Robotics Challenge (SciRoc Challenge) includes five different episodes around the topic of smart shopping. Ten teams from five different countries have travelled to Milton Keynes,...
#SciRocChallenge tests robots in a realistic smart shopping environment
Marta Palau Franco
18 Sep 2019
The city of Milton Keynes hosts from the 17th to the 21st of September the European Robotics League - Smart Cities Robotics Challenge (SciRoc Challenge). For the first time, international researchers ...
Catalia Health and Pfizer collaborate on robots for healthcare
Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Sep 2019
New robot platform improves patient experience using AI to help patients navigate barriers and health care challenges
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Catalia Health and Pfizer tod...
A gentle grip on gelatinous creatures
Wyss Institute
16 Sep 2019
Jellyfish are about 95% water, making them some of the most diaphanous, delicate animals on the planet. But the remaining 5% of them have yielded important scientific discoveries, like green fluoresce...
Encouraging robot uptake through Europe’s network of Digital Innovation Hubs
SPARC
09 Sep 2019
A recent report by the OECD showed that Europe is only capitalising on a fraction (12%) of its digital potential. Most companies limit their digital use to email and internet. Small and Medium Sized E...
Robo-Exoticism is the theme for 2019/20 Art, Technology and Culture Colloquiums
Silicon Valley Robotics
09 Sep 2019
Manus – at World Economic Forum 2018
Madeline Gannon’s “Robots Are Creatures, Not Things” will be the first work of the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 season of the Colloquiums at UC Berkeley’s Cent...
Soft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
MIT News
04 Sep 2019
Researchers from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT; the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway); and AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and ...
Robots can now learn to swarm on the go
University of Bristol
25 Aug 2019
A new generation of swarming robots which can independently learn and evolve new behaviours in the wild is one step closer, thanks to research from the University of Bristol and the University of the ...
A miniature stretchable pump for the next generation of soft robots
NCCR Robotics
25 Aug 2019
By Laure-Anne Pessina and Nicola Nosengo
Scientists at EPFL have developed a tiny pump that could play a big role in the development of autonomous soft robots, lightweight exoskeletons and smart clot...
Suit up with a robot to walk AND run more easily
Wyss Institute
25 Aug 2019
By Benjamin Boettner
Between walking at a leisurely pace and running for your life, human gaits can cover a wide range of speeds. Typically, we choose the gait that allows us to consume the least amo...
Evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks
BAIR Blog
14 Aug 2019
By Nicholas Carlini
It is important whenever designing new technologies to ask “how will this affect people’s privacy?” This topic is especially important with regard to machine learning, where...
#IJCAI2019 main conference in tweets – day 2
Nedjma Ousidhoum
14 Aug 2019
Like yesterday, we bring you the best tweets covering major talks and events at IJCAI 2019....
#IJCAI2019 main conference in tweets
Nedjma Ousidhoum
14 Aug 2019
The main IJCAI2019 conference started on August 13th. The organizers gave the opening remarks and statistics, and announced the award winners for this year....
#IJCAI in tweets – tutorials and workshops day 2
Nedjma Ousidhoum
12 Aug 2019
Here's our daily update in tweets, live from IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau. Like yesterday, we'll be covering tutorials and workshops....
The future of rescue robotics
NCCR Robotics
12 Aug 2019
By Nicola Nosengo
Current research is aligned with the need of rescue workers but robustness and ease of use remain significant barriers to adoption, NCCR Robotics researchers find after reviewing...
#IJCAI2019 in tweets – tutorials and workshops
Nedjma Ousidhoum
11 Aug 2019
The first two days at IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau were focussed on workshops and tutorials. Here's an overview in tweets....
