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Robots in Depth with Sven Schmidt-Rohr
Robots in Depth
25 Jul 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Sven Schmidt-Rohr about how he always wanted to be a robotics entrepreneur and how ArtiMinds makes programming robots easier....
Next-generation robotic cockroach can explore under water environments
Wyss Institute
25 Jul 2018
By Leah Burrows
In nature, cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 30 minutes. Now, a robotic cockroach can do even better. Harvard’s Ambulatory Microrobot, known as HAMR, can walk on land, sw...
Studying aliens of the deep
Wyss Institute
24 Jul 2018
By Lindsay Brownell
The open ocean is the largest and least explored environment on Earth, estimated to hold up to a million species that have yet to be described. However, many of those organisms a...
Helping computers perceive human emotions
MIT News
24 Jul 2018
By Rob Matheson
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning model that takes computers a step closer to interpreting our emotions as naturally as humans do....
Cell-sized robots can sense their environment
MIT News
24 Jul 2018
By David L. Chandler
Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These devices, which a...
We need a drone register to ensure privacy and safety – air traffic expert
Horizon Magazine
24 Jul 2018
Requiring drones to identify and authorise themselves before they can fly, which could be achieved by fitting them with SIM cards, could help to protect people's privacy by providing an effective way ...
Launch of ROBOTT-NET’s pilot projects
Thilo Zimmermann
24 Jul 2018
Irabia, Linak and Nissan have along with Trumpf, Maser, Piccolo, Weibel and Air Liquide been selected to team up on a real-world case study. Over the next 18 months ROBOTT-NET will take these eight vo...
Innovative programming software used to generate robot welding programs
Thilo Zimmermann
16 Jul 2018
Since programming is an extremely time-consuming business, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are often forced to manage without robots. Researchers from Fraunhofer IPA have therefore developed ...
“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
MIT News
16 Jul 2018
By Jennifer Chu
MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while...
Musica Automata
Leonardo Barbadoro
01 Jul 2018
Musica Automata is my new project and upcoming album, containing music written for the biggest robot orchestra in the world. These robots are more than sixty acoustic instruments (part of Logos Founda...
A robotics roadmap for Australia
Sue Keay
30 Jun 2018
VISION: Robots as a tool to unlock human potential, modernise the economy, and build national health, well-being and sustainability....
Robots in Depth with Spring Berman
Robots in Depth
29 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Spring Berman about her extensive experience in the field of swarm robotics....
One-shot imitation from watching videos
BAIR Blog
29 Jun 2018
By Tianhe Yu and Chelsea Finn
Learning a new skill by observing another individual, the ability to imitate, is a key part of intelligence in human and animals. Can we enable a robot to do the same, l...
Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy
MIT News
29 Jun 2018
By Becky Ham
Children with autism spectrum conditions often have trouble recognizing the emotional states of people around them — distinguishing a happy face from a fearful face, for instance. To r...
Robots in Depth with Dirk Thomas
Robots in Depth
21 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Dirk Thomas about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation....
How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures
MIT News
21 Jun 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons
Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language.
But what i...
Robots in Depth with Andrew Graham
Robots in Depth
14 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andrew Graham about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do things no other system can....
Teaching robots how to move objects
MIT News
14 Jun 2018
By Mary Beth O'Leary
With the push of a button, months of hard work were about to be put to the test. Sixteen teams of engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Am...
Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
MIT News
14 Jun 2018
By Jennifer Chu
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the strings....
Robots in Depth with Walter Wohlkinger
Robots in Depth
07 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Walter Wohlkinger from Blue Danube Robotics about their Airskin, a safety sensor covering robots and machines....
Robots in Depth with Anouk Wipprecht
Robots in Depth
01 Jun 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Anouk Wipprecht, a Dutch FashionTech Designer who incorporates technology and robotics into fashion. She thinks that “Fashion lacks Micro...
BDD100K: A large-scale diverse driving video database
BAIR Blog
01 Jun 2018
By Fisher YuTL;DR, we released the largest and most diverse driving video dataset with richannotations called BDD100K. You can access the data for research now at http://bdd-data.berkeley.edu. We ha...
TDM: From model-free to model-based deep reinforcement learning
BAIR Blog
01 Jun 2018
By Vitchyr Pong
You’ve decided that you want to bike from your house by UC Berkeley to the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a nice 20 mile ride, but there’s a problem: you’ve never ridden a bike befo...
Teaching chores to an artificial agent
MIT News
01 Jun 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon
For many people, household chores are a dreaded, inescapable part of life that we often put off or do with little care. But what if a robot assistant could help ...
Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb
MIT News
01 Jun 2018
By Helen Knight
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to precisely control their bo...
ANYbotics wins ICRA 2018 Robot Launch competition!
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
30 May 2018
ANYbotics led the way in the ICRA 2018 Robot Launch Startup Competition on May 22, 2018 at the Brisbane Conference Center in Australia. Although ANYbotics pitched last out of the 10 startups presentin...
Nearly 1000 research videos from #ICRA2018
Sabine Hauert
25 May 2018
The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and is a premier international forum for robotics researchers to pres...
Garbage-collecting aqua drones and jellyfish filters for cleaner oceans
Horizon Magazine
25 May 2018
By Catherine Collins
The cost of sea litter in the EU has been estimated at up to €630 million per year. It is mostly composed of plastics, which take hundreds of years to break down in nature, and...
Fleet of autonomous boats could service some cities, reducing road traffic
MIT News
25 May 2018
By Rob Matheson
The future of transportation in waterway-rich cities such as Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Venice — where canals run alongside and under bustling streets and bridges — may include auton...
Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
MIT News
25 May 2018
By Larry Hardesty
In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Eit...
Videos from European Robotics Forum 2018
SPARC
25 May 2018
The European Robotics Forum 2018 (ERF2018), the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, took place in Tampere on 13-15 March 2018. ERF2018 brought together over 900 leading scien...
Robots in Depth with Paul Ekas
Robots in Depth
20 May 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Paul Ekas about his EZGripper and how he designed it to be low cost, lightweight, robust and to offer reliable gripping of small and large ...
We want to end the de-industrialisation of Europe – Prof. Jürgen Rüttgers
Horizon Magazine
20 May 2018
by Rex Merrifield
He leads the High Level Group on Industrial Technologies, which on 24 April released a report called Re-finding industry – Defining Innovation to make recommendations on EU resear...
Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
MIT News
20 May 2018
By Jennifer Chu
Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with frustrating regularity....
Albatross robot takes flight
MIT News
20 May 2018
By Jennifer Chu
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat....
Robot transitions from soft to rigid
Wyss Institute
09 May 2018
By Leah Burrows
Even octopuses understand the importance of elbows. When these squishy, loose-limbed cephalopods need to make a precise movement — such as guiding food into their mouth — the musc...
