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    Learning preferences by looking at the world
    By Rohin Shah and Dmitrii Krasheninnikov It would be great if we could all have household robots do our chores for us. Chores are tasks that we want done to make our houses cater more to our preferenc...
    12 February 2019, by

    Is the green new deal sustainable?
    This week Washington DC was abuzz with news that had nothing to do with the occupant of The While House. A group of progressive legislators, led by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, in the House of Representat...
    12 February 2019, by

    A robot recreates the walk of a fossilized animal
    Using the fossil and fossilized footprints of a 300-million-year-old animal, scientists from EPFL and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have identified the most likely gaits of extinct animals and desig...
    25 January 2019, by

    From robotic companions to third thumbs, machines can change the human brain
    By Frieda Klotz People’s interactions with machines, from robots that throw tantrums when they lose a colour-matching game against a human opponent to the bionic limbs that could give us extra ab...
    25 January 2019, by

    Identifying artificial intelligence “blind spots”
    By Rob Matheson A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have “learned” from training examples that don’t match what’s actuall...
    25 January 2019, by

    Technology and robots will shake labour policies in Asia and the world
    By Asit K. Biswas, University of Glasgow and Kris Hartley, The Education University of Hong Kong In the 21st century, governments cannot ignore how changes in technology will affect employment and ...
    25 January 2019, by



    Robots are being programmed to adapt in real time
    By Gareth Willmer It’s part of a field of work that is building machines that can provide real-time help using only limited data as input. Standard machine-learning algorithms often need to process...
    17 January 2019, by

    A safe, wearable soft sensor
    By Leah Burrows Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities. The best way to reduce the impacts of those disabilities is to catch them early through a ...
    07 January 2019, by

    How robots are helping doctors save lives in the Canadian North
    Ivar Mendez, University of Saskatchewan It is the middle of the winter and a six-month-old child is brought with acute respiratory distress to a nursing station in a remote community in the Canadia...
    07 January 2019, by

    Holiday robot videos 2018 – part 3
    Thanks to all for sending your holiday videos, here's the last of this year's series. Merry Christmas!...
    25 December 2018, by

    Holiday robot videos 2018 – part 2
    Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit....
    22 December 2018, by

    Robots with sticky feet can climb up, down, and all around
    By Lindsay Brownell Jet engines can have up to 25,000 individual parts, making regular maintenance a tedious task that can take over a month per engine. Many components are located deep inside the ...
    21 December 2018, by

    Growing bio-inspired shapes with a 300-robot swarm
    Work by I. Slavkov, D. Carrillo-Zapata, N. Carranza, X. Diego, F. Jansson, J. Kaandorp, S. Hauert, J. Sharpe Our work published today in Science Robotics describes how we grow fully self-organised ...
    19 December 2018, by

    Call for robot holiday videos 2018
    That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at sabine.hauert@robohub.org and shar...
    16 December 2018, by

    Robot makes world-first baby coral delivery to Great Barrier Reef
    In a world first, an undersea robot has dispersed microscopic baby corals (coral larvae) to help scientists working to repopulate parts of the Great Barrier Reef during this year’s mass coral spawni...
    16 December 2018, by

    A new drone can change its shape to fly through a narrow gap
    A research team from the University of Zurich and EPFL has developed a new drone that can retract its propeller arms in flight and make itself small to fit through narrow gaps and holes. This is p...
    16 December 2018, by

    Drones and satellite imaging to make forest protection pay
    by Steve Gillman Every year 7 million hectares of forest are cut down, chipping away at the 485 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in trees around the world, but low-cost drones and new satell...
    16 December 2018, by

    3Q: Aleksander Madry on building trustworthy artificial intelligence
    By Kim Martineau Machine learning algorithms now underlie much of the software we use, helping to personalize our news feeds and finish our thoughts before we’re done typing. But as artificial inte...
    16 December 2018, by

    Soft actor critic – Deep reinforcement learning with real-world robots
    By Tuomas Haarnoja, Vitchyr Pong, Kristian Hartikainen, Aurick Zhou, Murtaza Dalal, and Sergey Levine We are announcing the release of our state-of-the-art off-policy model-free reinforcement learnin...
    16 December 2018, by

    Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid
    Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfaced with a robotic extension that drives it toward light. ...
    09 December 2018, by

    Inside “The Laughing Room”
    By Brigham Fay “The Laughing Room,” an interactive art installation by author, illustrator, and MIT graduate student Jonathan "Jonny" Sun, looks like a typical living room: couches, armchair...
    09 December 2018, by

    Visual model-based reinforcement learning as a path towards generalist robots
    By Chelsea Finn∗, Frederik Ebert∗, Sudeep Dasari, Annie Xie, Alex Lee, and Sergey Levine With very little explicit supervision and feedback, humans are able to learn a wide range of motor skills ...
    04 December 2018, by

    Reproducing paintings that make an impression
    By Rachel Gordon The empty frames hanging inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum serve as a tangible reminder of the world’s biggest unsolved art heist. While the original masterpieces may...
    02 December 2018, by

    Q&A with Cecilia Laschi – The Robotics Flagship
    Why is a Robotics Flagship needed? Robotics is a solid technological field, with important market opportunities. Europe contributed significantly to the growth of knowledge in this field and it is co...
    25 November 2018, by

    European Robotics Week 2018 celebrated with 1200 events in over 30 countries
    The European Robotics Week (ERW) is achieving a major success with around 1200 interactive robotics related events across Europe, showing how robots will impact the way we work, live, and learn both n...
    25 November 2018, by

    Teaching robotics with ROS
    A couple of months ago I interviewed Joel Esposito about the state of robotics education for the ROS Developers Podcast #21. On that podcast, Joel talks about his research on how robotics is taug...
    24 November 2018, by

    Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion
    Look around and you'll likely see something that runs on an electric motor. Powerful and efficient, they keep much of our world moving, everything from our computers to refrigerators to the automatic ...
    19 November 2018, by

    AdaSearch: A successive elimination approach to adaptive search
    By Esther Rolf∗, David Fridovich-Keil∗, and Max Simchowitz https://youtu.be/a4SPB3VugFI In many tasks in machine learning, it is common to want to answer questions given fixed, pre-collected...
    14 November 2018, by

    Robotics Flagship: What the community thinks
    In February we asked for input from the robotics community regarding a potential Robotics Flagship, a pan European interdisciplinary effort with 1B EUR in funding, if successful! The goal of the flags...
    10 November 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Richard Voyles
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Richard Voyles about rescue robotics and advising politicians about robotics....
    09 November 2018, by

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