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    1000x faster data augmentation
    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...
    22 June 2019, by

    Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
    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...
    22 June 2019, by

    Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other
    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...
    22 June 2019, by

    Autonomous vehicles for social good: Learning to solve congestion
    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...
    22 June 2019, by

    Joining forces to boost AI adoption in Europe
    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...
    21 June 2019, by

    End-to-end deep reinforcement learning without reward engineering
    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...
    03 June 2019, by



    Sensor-packed glove learns signatures of the human grasp
    By Rob Matheson Wearing a sensor-packed glove while handling a variety of objects, MIT researchers have compiled a massive dataset that enables an AI system to recognize objects through touch alone. ...
    03 June 2019, by

    Model-based reinforcement learning from pixels with structured latent variable models
    By Marvin Zhang and Sharad Vikram Imagine a robot trying to learn how to stack blocks and push objects using visual inputs from a camera feed. In order to minimize cost and safety concerns, we want o...
    27 May 2019, by

    Bringing human-like reasoning to driverless car navigation
    By Rob Matheson With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicles, MIT researchers have created a system that uses only simple maps and visual data to enable driverless cars to n...
    23 May 2019, by

    Live coverage of #ICRA2019
    The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is being held this week in Montreal, Canada. It's one of the top venues for roboticists and attracts over 4000 conference goers....
    21 May 2019, by

    Are ethics keeping pace with technology?
    Returning from vacation, my inbox overflowed with emails announcing robot “firsts.” At the same time, my relaxed post-vacation disposition was quickly rocked by the news of the day and re...
    15 May 2019, by

    Robots that learn to adapt
    By Anusha Nagabandi and Ignasi Clavera Humans have the ability to seamlessly adapt to changes in their environments: adults can learn to walk on crutches in just a few seconds, people can adapt almos...
    12 May 2019, by

    How to tell whether machine-learning systems are robust enough for the real world
    By Rob Matheson MIT researchers have devised a method for assessing how robust machine-learning models known as neural networks are for various tasks, by detecting when the models make mistakes they ...
    12 May 2019, by

    Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection
    By Benjamin Boettner Along developed riverbanks, physical barriers can help contain flooding and combat erosion. In arid regions, check dams can help retain soil after rainfall and restore damaged la...
    28 April 2019, by

    Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage
    By Anne Trafton MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. Like crafts in “Fan...
    27 April 2019, by

    Bucharest was the European capital of robotics for #ERF2019
    European Robotics Forum, the most influential meeting of the robotics and AI community, held its 10th anniversary edition in Romania. The event was organized Under the High Patronage of the President ...
    25 April 2019, by

    Robotic arms and temporary motorisation – the next generation of wheelchairs
    by Julianna Photopoulos Next-generation wheelchairs could incorporate brain-controlled robotic arms and rentable add-on motors in order to help people with disabilities more easily carry out daily ...
    21 April 2019, by

    Giving robots a better feel for object manipulation
    By Rob Matheson A new learning system developed by MIT researchers improves robots’ abilities to mold materials into target shapes and make predictions about interacting with solid objects and liqu...
    21 April 2019, by

    Robots that can sort recycling
    By Adam Conner-Simons Every year trash companies sift through an estimated 68 million tons of recycling, which is the weight equivalent of more than 30 million cars....
    21 April 2019, by

    Robots that learn to use improvised tools
    By Annie Xie In many animals, tool-use skills emerge from a combination of observational learning and experimentation. For example, by watching one another, chimpanzees can learn how to use twigs to...
    21 April 2019, by

    A ‘cookbook’ for vehicle manufacturers: Getting automated parts to talk to each other
    by Sandrine Ceurstemont Semi-autonomous cars are expected to hit the roads in Europe next year with truck convoys following a few years later. But before different brands can share the roads, vehicle...
    07 April 2019, by

    Teaching machines to reason about what they see
    A child who has never seen a pink elephant can still describe one — unlike a computer. “The computer learns from data,” says Jiajun Wu, a PhD student at MIT. “The ability to generalize an...
    07 April 2019, by

    ProMat preview: Its time to cut the cord
    Last week’s breaking news story on The Robot Report was unfortunately the demise of Helen Greiner’s company, CyPhy Works (d/b/a Aria Insights). The high-flying startup raised close to $...
    07 April 2019, by

    Manipulation by feel
    By Frederik Ebert and Stephen Tian Guiding our fingers while typing, enabling us to nimbly strike a matchstick, and inserting a key in a keyhole all rely on our sense of touch. It has been shown that...
    05 April 2019, by

    “Particle robot” works as a cluster of simple units
    Taking a cue from biological cells, researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed computationally simple robots that connect in large groups to move around, transport objects...
    05 April 2019, by

    A rubber computer eliminates the last hard components from soft robots
    By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology A soft robot, attached to a balloon and submerged in a transparent column of water, dives and surfaces, ...
    05 April 2019, by

    Women in robotics on International Women’s Day 2019 – updated
    What does a day in the life of a woman working with robots look like? We asked members of WomeninRobotics.org to volunteer "a paragraph and a picture" for this first patchwork representation of the fi...
    08 March 2019, by

    A prosthetic that restores the sense of where your hand is
    Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study, which have been published in Science Robotics, are the culminati...
    27 February 2019, by

    Controlling false discoveries in large-scale experimentation: Challenges and solutions
    By Tijana Zrnic “Scientific research has changed the world. Now it needs to change itself. - The Economist, 2013 There has been a growing concern about the validity of scientific findings. A mul...
    19 February 2019, by

    Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precision
    A novel system developed at MIT uses RFID tags to help robots home in on moving objects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The system could enable greater collaboration and precision by robots wor...
    19 February 2019, by

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