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Drilling down on depth sensing and deep learning
BAIR Blog
24 Oct 2018
By Daniel Seita, Jeff Mahler, Mike Danielczuk, Matthew Matl, and Ken Goldberg
This post explores two independent innovations and the potential for combining them in robotics. Two years before the Ale...
Robots in Depth with Sebastian Weisenburger
Robots in Depth
24 Oct 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks Sebastian Weisenburger about how ECHORD++ works, with application-oriented research bridging academia, industry and end users to bring robots to...
How to mass produce cell-sized robots
MIT News
24 Oct 2018
By David L. Chandler
Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls “syncells” (short f...
How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?
MIT News
24 Oct 2018
By Peter Dizikes
A massive new survey developed by MIT researchers reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some regional variations in those ...
Join the World MoveIt! Day code sprint on Oct 25 2018
Silicon Valley Robotics
20 Oct 2018
World MoveIt! Day is an international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community. We hope to close as many pull requests and issues as possible and explore new areas of f...
Robots in Depth with Nicola Tomatis
Robots in Depth
19 Oct 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Nicola Tomatis about his long road into robotics and how BlueBotics handles indoor navigation and integrates it in automated guided vehicle...
Models of dinosaur movement could help us build stronger robots and buildings
Horizon Magazine
19 Oct 2018
By Sandrine Ceurstemont
From about 245 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Although well-preserved skeletons give us a good idea of what they looked like, the way their limbs worke...
A step toward personalized, automated smart homes
MIT News
18 Oct 2018
By Rob Matheson
Developing automated systems that track occupants and self-adapt to their preferences is a major next step for the future of smart homes. When you walk into a room, for instance, a...
What’s the legacy of Rethink Robotics?
Ilian Bonev
18 Oct 2018
With the recent demise of Rethink Robotics, there were dozens of testimonials that the company revolutionized industrial robotics and kickstarted the collaborative robotics trend. There is no doubt th...
Learning acrobatics by watching YouTube
BAIR Blog
18 Oct 2018
By Xue Bin (Jason) Peng and Angjoo Kanazawa
Whether it’s everyday tasks like washing our hands or stunning feats of acrobatic prowess, humans are able to learn an incredible array of skills by wa...
25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2018
From driving rovers on Mars to improving farm automation for Indian women, once again we’re bringing you a list of 25 amazing women in robotics! These women cover all aspects of the robotics industr...
A fleet of miniature cars for experiments in cooperative driving
The deployment of connected, automated, and autonomous vehicles presents us with transformational opportunities for road transport. These opportunities reach beyond single-vehicle automation: by enabl...
Rethink Robotics closes its doors
Sabine Hauert
06 Oct 2018
Rethink Robotics shut down this week, closing the chapter on a remarkable journey making collaborative robots a reality....
Model helps robots navigate more like humans do
MIT News
05 Oct 2018
By Rob Matheson
When moving through a crowd to reach some end goal, humans can usually navigate the space safely without thinking too much. They can learn from the behavior of others and note any o...
#IROS2018 live coverage
Sabine Hauert
01 Oct 2018
The 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (#IROS2018) will be held for the first time in Spain in the lively capital city of Madrid from 1 to 5 October. This year's ...
The impact of AI on work: implications for individuals, communities, and societies
The Royal Society
01 Oct 2018
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
Advances in AI technologies are contributing to new products and services across industries – from robotic surgery to debt collection – and offer man...
Simulations are the key to intelligent robots
Ricardo Téllez
01 Oct 2018
I read an article entitled Games Hold the Key to Teaching Artificial Intelligent Systems, by Danny Vena, in which the author states that computer games like Minecraft, Civilization, and Grand Theft Au...
Memory-jogging robot to keep people sharp in ‘smart’ retirement homes
Horizon Magazine
01 Oct 2018
by Steve Gillman
Almost a fifth of the European population are over 65 years old, but while quality of life for this age bracket is better than ever before, many will at some point suffer from a de...
Jillian Ogle is the first ‘Roboticist in Residence’ at Co-Lab
Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Sep 2018
Currently also featured on the cover of MAKE magazine, Jillian Ogle is a robot builder, game designer and the founder of Let’s Robot a live streaming interactive robotics community, where users can...
DelFly Nimble mimics the high-speed escape of fruit flies
Matěj Karásek and Guido de Croon
26 Sep 2018
Bio-inspired flapping wing robots hold a great potential. The promise is that they can fly very efficiently even at smaller scales, while being able to fly fast, hover, and make quick maneuvers. We no...
Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground
Wyss Institute
18 Sep 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, fire fighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and arrive fresh at t...
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once
MIT News
18 Sep 2018
By Rob Matheson
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the m...
First results of the ROSIN project: Robotics Open-Source Software for Industry
Thilo Zimmermann
18 Sep 2018
Open-Source Software for robots is a de-facto standard in academia, and its advantages can benefit industrial applications as well. The worldwide ROS-Industrial initiative has been using ROS, the Robo...
A new spin for soft micro-actuators
Wyss Institute
10 Sep 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
Manipulating delicate tissues such as blood vessels during difficult surgeries, or gripping fragile organisms in the deep sea presents a challenge to surgeons and researchers ali...
Robots can now pick up any object after inspecting it
MIT News
10 Sep 2018
Humans have long been masters of dexterity, a skill that can largely be credited to the help of our eyes. Robots, meanwhile, are still catching up....
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
Thilo Zimmermann
10 Sep 2018
Four knowledge institutes across Europe - the Danish Technological Institute (DTI, DK), Fraunhofer IPA (DE), Tecnalia (ES) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC, UK) - teamed up to offer highly...
Dexterous manipulation with reinforcement learning: Efficient, general, and low-cost
BAIR Blog
10 Sep 2018
In this post, we demonstrate how deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) can be used to learn how to control dexterous hands for a variety of manipulation tasks. We discuss how such methods can learn to...
Rodney Brooks on the future of robotics and AI
Sabine Hauert
29 Aug 2018
If you follow the robotics community on the twittersphere, you'll have noticed that Rodney Brooks is publishing a series of essays on the future of robotics and AI which has been gathering wide attent...
Robots in Depth with Søren Peter Johansen
Robots in Depth
23 Aug 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Søren Peter Johansen from DTI about implementing robotic solutions....
The AI driving olympics (the duckies go to NIPS!)
Duckietown Foundation
23 Aug 2018
We are excited to announce the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO), a new competition focused around AI for self-driving cars. The first edition is going to be at NIPS 2018; the second edition will be at ICRA...
A GPS for inside your body
MIT News
23 Aug 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon
Investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient or swalloing long tubes with built-in cameras. But what if physicians could get a...
Soft multi-functional robots get really small
Wyss Institute
09 Aug 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
Roboticists are envisioning a future in which soft, animal-inspired robots can be safely deployed in difficult-to-access environments, such as inside the human body or in spaces ...
A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem
Wyss Institute
09 Aug 2018
By Lindsay Brownell
The deep ocean – dark, cold, under high pressure, and airless – is notoriously inhospitable to humans, yet it teems with organisms that manage to thrive in its harsh environme...
Robots in Depth with Hans Kimblad
Robots in Depth
09 Aug 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Hans Kimblad about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing....
When recurrent models don’t need to be recurrent
BAIR Blog
09 Aug 2018
By John Miller
An earlier version of this post was published on Off the Convex Path. It is reposted here with the author’s permission. In the last few years, deep learning practitioners have p...
Robots can learn a lot from nature if they want to ‘see’ the world
The Conversation
31 Jul 2018
By Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology and Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology
Vision is one of nature’s amazing creations that has been with us for hundreds of m...
