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    Encouraging robot uptake through Europe’s network of Digital Innovation Hubs
    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...
    09 September 2019, by

    Robo-Exoticism is the theme for 2019/20 Art, Technology and Culture Colloquiums
    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...
    09 September 2019, by

    Soft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
    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 ...
    04 September 2019, by

    Robots can now learn to swarm on the go
    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 ...
    25 August 2019, by

    A miniature stretchable pump for the next generation of soft robots
    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...
    25 August 2019, by

    Suit up with a robot to walk AND run more easily
    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...
    25 August 2019, by



    Evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks
    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...
    14 August 2019, by

    #IJCAI2019 main conference in tweets – day 2
    Like yesterday, we bring you the best tweets covering major talks and events at IJCAI 2019....
    14 August 2019, by

    #IJCAI2019 main conference in tweets
    The main IJCAI2019 conference started on August 13th. The organizers gave the opening remarks and statistics, and announced the award winners for this year....
    14 August 2019, by

    #IJCAI in tweets – tutorials and workshops day 2
    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....
    12 August 2019, by

    The future of rescue robotics
    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...
    12 August 2019, by

    #IJCAI2019 in tweets – tutorials and workshops
    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....
    11 August 2019, by

    Live coverage of #IJCAI2019
    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...
    11 August 2019, by

    Guided by AI, robotic platform automates molecule manufacture
    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 ...
    11 August 2019, by

    2019 Robot Launch startup competition is open!
    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...
    07 August 2019, by

    Making sense of vision and touch: #ICRA2019 best paper award video and interview
    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...
    29 July 2019, by

    Robots in Depth with Federico Pecora
    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...
    21 July 2019, by

    Professor Emeritus Fernando Corbató, MIT computing pioneer, dies at 93
    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...
    21 July 2019, by

    Automated system generates robotic parts for novel tasks
    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...
    21 July 2019, by

    Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
    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...
    21 July 2019, by

    Robots in Depth with Andreas Bihlmaier
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andreas Bihlmaier about modular robotics and starting a robotics company....
    12 July 2019, by

    Using artificial evolution to design bespoke surgical snakebots
    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...
    11 July 2019, by

    Tiny motor can “walk” to carry out tasks
    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, ...
    11 July 2019, by

    Robot-ants that communicate and work together
    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...
    11 July 2019, by

    The RoboBee flies solo
    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....
    30 June 2019, by

    Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children
    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....
    30 June 2019, by

    The world’s smallest autonomous racing drone
    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 – ...
    22 June 2019, by

    The little robot that could
    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...
    22 June 2019, by

    Spotting objects amid clutter
    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...
    22 June 2019, by

    Tackling sustainability and urbanization with AI-enabled furniture
    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 ...
    22 June 2019, by

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