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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....
Live coverage of #IJCAI2019
Robohub Editors
11 Aug 2019
IJCAI, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is happening from the 10th to 16th August in Macao, China. We'll be posting updates throughout the week thanks to the AIhub A...
Guided by AI, robotic platform automates molecule manufacture
MIT News
11 Aug 2019
By Becky Ham
Guided by artificial intelligence and powered by a robotic platform, a system developed by MIT researchers moves a step closer to automating the production of small molecules that could ...
2019 Robot Launch startup competition is open!
Silicon Valley Robotics
07 Aug 2019
It’s time for Robot Launch 2019 Global Startup Competition! Applications are now open until September 22nd 6pm PDT. Finalists may receive up to $500k in investment offers, plus space at top accelera...
Making sense of vision and touch: #ICRA2019 best paper award video and interview
Robohub Editors
29 Jul 2019
PhD candidate Michelle A. Lee from the Stanford AI Lab won the best paper award at ICRA 2019 with her work "Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for...
Robots in Depth with Federico Pecora
Robots in Depth
21 Jul 2019
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Federico Pecora about AI and robotics. Federico Pecora is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sens...
Professor Emeritus Fernando Corbató, MIT computing pioneer, dies at 93
MIT News
21 Jul 2019
By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon
Fernando “Corby” Corbató, an MIT professor emeritus whose work in the 1960s on time-sharing systems broke important ground in democratizing the use of compu...
Automated system generates robotic parts for novel tasks
MIT News
21 Jul 2019
By Rob Matheson
An automated system developed by MIT researchers designs and 3-D prints complex robotic parts called actuators that are optimized according to an enormous number of specifications. In...
Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
MIT News
21 Jul 2019
By Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon
Patrick Winston, a beloved professor and computer scientist at MIT, died on July 19 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 76.
A profes...
Robots in Depth with Andreas Bihlmaier
Robots in Depth
12 Jul 2019
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andreas Bihlmaier about modular robotics and starting a robotics company....
Using artificial evolution to design bespoke surgical snakebots
Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
11 Jul 2019
In a world first, Australian Centre for Robotic Vision researchers are pushing the boundaries of evolution to create bespoke, miniaturised surgical robots, uniquely matched to individual patient anato...
Tiny motor can “walk” to carry out tasks
MIT News
11 Jul 2019
By David L. Chandler
Years ago, MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld had an audacious thought. Struck by the fact that all the world’s living things are built out of combinations of just 20 amino acids, ...
Robot-ants that communicate and work together
NCCR Robotics
11 Jul 2019
A team of EPFL researchers has developed tiny 10-gram robots that are inspired by ants: they can communicate with each other, assign roles among themselves and complete complex tasks together. These r...
The RoboBee flies solo
Wyss Institute
30 Jun 2019
By Leah Burrows
In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, on a late afternoon in August, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny, groundbreaking Robobee made its first solo flight....
Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children
MIT News
30 Jun 2019
A new study demonstrates, for the first time, that “social robots” used in support sessions held in pediatric units at hospitals can lead to more positive emotions in sick children....
The world’s smallest autonomous racing drone
Guido de Croon
22 Jun 2019
Racing team 2018-2019: Christophe De Wagter, Guido de Croon, Shuo Li, Phillipp Dürnay, Jiahao Lin, Simon Spronk
Autonomous drone racing
Drone racing is becoming a major e-sports. Enthusiasts – ...
The little robot that could
Wyss Institute
22 Jun 2019
iRobot Corp. announced its acquisition of Root Robotics, Inc., whose educational Root coding robot got its start as a summer research project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineerin...
Spotting objects amid clutter
MIT News
22 Jun 2019
A new MIT-developed technique enables robots to quickly identify objects hidden in a three-dimensional cloud of data, reminiscent of how some people can make sense of a densely patterned “Magic Eye...
Tackling sustainability and urbanization with AI-enabled furniture
Oliver Mitchell
22 Jun 2019
At the turn of the twentieth century, the swelling populations of newly arrived immigrants in New York City’s Lower East Side reached a boiling point, forcing the City to pass the 1901 Tenement ...
1000x faster data augmentation
BAIR Blog
22 Jun 2019
In this blog post we introduce Population Based Augmentation (PBA), an algorithm that quickly and efficiently learns a state-of-the-art approach to augmenting data for neural network training. PBA...
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
MIT News
22 Jun 2019
By Rob Matheson
MIT researchers have developed a novel “photonic” chip that uses light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process. The chip could be used to p...
Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other
MIT News
22 Jun 2019
By Rob Matheson
The city of Amsterdam envisions a future where fleets of autonomous boats cruise its many canals to transport goods and people, collect trash, or self-assemble into floating stages an...
Autonomous vehicles for social good: Learning to solve congestion
BAIR Blog
22 Jun 2019
By Eugene Vinitsky
We are in the midst of an unprecedented convergence of two rapidly growing trends on our roadways: sharply increasing congestion and the deployment of au...
Joining forces to boost AI adoption in Europe
SPARC
21 Jun 2019
Europe is gearing up to launch an Artificial Intelligence Public Private Partnership (AI PPP) that brings together AI, data, and robotics. At its core is a drive to lead the world in the development a...
End-to-end deep reinforcement learning without reward engineering
BAIR Blog
03 Jun 2019
By Avi Singh
Communicating the goal of a task to another person is easy: we can use language, show them an image of the desired outcome, point them to a how-to video, or use some combination of all o...
