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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...
Robots in Depth with Linda Thayer
Robots in Depth
07 May 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Linda Thayer about how to apply for, maintain and use patents....
Self-driving cars for country roads
MIT News
07 May 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon
Uber's recent self-driving car fatality underscores the fact that the technology is still not ready for widespread adoption. The reality is that there aren’t m...
Magni and Misty – are these the droids we’ve been looking for?
Andra Keay
03 May 2018
Both are crowdfunding right now — Magni has only 1 week days to go and Misty has just launched today. Both robots come from pedigree robotics companies and both robots are top of the line in ...
Robots in Depth with Frank Tobe
Robots in Depth
26 Apr 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Frank Tobe about his experience covering robotics in The Robot Report and creating the index Robo-Stox....
Shared autonomy via deep reinforcement learning
BAIR Blog
24 Apr 2018
By Siddharth Reddy
Imagine a drone pilot remotely flying a quadrotor, using an onboard camera to navigate and land. Unfamiliar flight dynamics, terrain, and network latency can make this system chall...
ROBOTT-NET use case: Danfoss automated assembly line
Thilo Zimmermann
24 Apr 2018
Short delivery time, high flexibility and reduced costs for handling parts before assembly. These are the main goals that Danfoss Drives wanted to achieve by creating an automated assembly line. But w...
Robot Launch 2018 in full swing – like Tennibot!
Silicon Valley Robotics
24 Apr 2018
With the Robot Launch 2018 competition in full swing – deadline May 15 for entries wanting to compete on stage in Brisbane at ICRA 2018 – we thought it was time to look at last years’ Robot Laun...
Robots in Depth with David Johan
Robots in Depth
18 Apr 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with David Johan, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Robotics....
Drones as first responders
Oliver Mitchell
17 Apr 2018
In a basement of New York University in 2013, Dr. Sergei Lupashin wowed the room of one hundred leading technology enthusiasts with one of the first indoor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) demonstrations...
Robotic gaits to save energy
RAM-Lab
17 Apr 2018
The choice of gait, that is whether we walk or run, comes to us so naturally that we hardly ever think about it. We walk at slow speeds and run at high speeds. If we get on a treadmill and slowly ...
Westworld season 2
Michael Szollosy
17 Apr 2018
Great news here at Dreaming Robots as we’ve just been able to confirm with Sky Atlantic and NowTV that we will be live tweeting again each episode of the new series of HBO’s completely fan...
Towards a virtual stuntman
BAIR Blog
11 Apr 2018
Motion control problems have become standard benchmarks for reinforcement learning, and deep RL methods have been shown to be effective for a diverse suite of tasks ranging from manipulation to locomo...
Five projects make the first cut and receive a ROBOTT-NET pilot
Thilo Zimmermann
11 Apr 2018
It all started with 166 companies spread across 12 European countries appling for a “golden ticket” to ROBOTT-NET’s Voucher Program. 64 companies received a voucher and highly specialized consul...
Artificial intelligence in action
MIT News
11 Apr 2018
By Meg Murphy
A person watching videos that show things opening — a door, a book, curtains, a blooming flower, a yawning dog — easily understands the same type of action is depicted in each clip....
Robots in Depth with Harsha Prahlad
Robots in Depth
04 Apr 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Harsha Prahlad, CoFounder and Chief Technology and Products Officer at Grabit Inc. Harsha talks about his novel gripper for soft goods manu...
Robots in Depth with Franziska Kirstein
Robots in Depth
30 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Franziska Kirstein, Human-Robot Interaction Expert and Project Manager at Blue Ocean Robotics, about her experience as a linguist working w...
Cheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder
MIT News
30 Mar 2018
By Eric Brown
If you were to ask someone to name a new technology that emerged from MIT in the 21st century, there’s a good chance they would name the robotic cheetah. Developed by the MIT Departme...
European digital innovation hub strengthens robotics development
Thilo Zimmermann
30 Mar 2018
Digital innovation hubs are vital to create innovative solutions and employment. ROBOTT-NET is an example of a digital innovation hub, where four leading Research Technology Organizations (RTOs) in Eu...
Sherlock Drones – automated investigators tackle toxic crime scenes
Horizon Magazine
26 Mar 2018
by Anthony King
Crimes that involve chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials pose a deadly threat not just to the target of the attack but to innocent bystanders and police in...
Projects that will shape the future of robotics win the euRobotics Awards 2018
SPARC
26 Mar 2018
The European Robotics Forum 2018 (ERF2018) in Tampere brought together over 900 attendees from robotics academia and industry. To bridge the two, euRobotics hosted the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2017 &a...
Swarming drones could help fight Europe’s megafires
Horizon Magazine
21 Mar 2018
by Rob Coppinger
Swarms of firefighting drones could one day be deployed to tackle hugely destructive megafires that are becoming increasingly frequent in the Mediterranean region because of climat...
Robots in Depth with Justin Werfel
Robots in Depth
21 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Justin Werfel, senior research scientist at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering....
Uber’s fatal crash
CIS Blog
21 Mar 2018
By Bryant Walker Smith
An automated vehicle in Uber’s fleet fatally struck a woman crossing a street in Arizona. A few points pending more information:...
European Robotics League winners revealed at #ERF2018
SPARC
21 Mar 2018
Award winners in robot competitions held by the European Robotics League (ERL) were named on 14 March 2018, during this year's European Robotics Forum (ERF), held in Tampere, Finland on 13–15 March....
SXSW 2018: Protect AI, robots, cars (and us) from bias
Oliver Mitchell
21 Mar 2018
As Mark Hamill humorously shared the behind-the-scenes of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” with a packed SXSW audience, two floors below on the exhibit floor Universal Robots recreated General Grievo...
European Robotics Forum 2018: Over 900 roboticists meet in Tampere, Finland
SPARC
14 Mar 2018
The European Robotics Forum 2018 (ERF2018), the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, takes place in Tampere on 13-15 March 2018. ERF brings together over 900 leading scientist...
The autonomous “selfie drone”
MIT News
14 Mar 2018
By Rob Matheson
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while in motion, a personal drone companion can now do all the filming for you — complet...
Personalizing wearable devices
Wyss Institute
08 Mar 2018
By Leah Burrows
When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a bit ...
ML 2.0: Machine learning for many
MIT News
08 Mar 2018
Today, when an enterprise wants to use machine learning to solve a problem, they have to call in the cavalry. Even a simple problem requires multiple data scientists, machine learning experts, and dom...
Soft robots that can sense touch, pressure, movement and temperature
Wyss Institute
02 Mar 2018
By Leah Burrows
Researchers at Harvard University have built soft robots inspired by nature that can crawl, swim, grasp delicate objects and even assist a beating heart, but none of these devices has...
Robots in Depth with Jana Tumova
Robots in Depth
02 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Jana Tumova, Assistant Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, about formal verification of computer systems and synthesizing c...
Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move
Wyss Institute
28 Feb 2018
By Leah Burrows
Who needs legs? With their sleek bodies, snakes can slither up to 14 miles-per-hour, squeeze into tight spaces, scale trees, and swim. How do they do it? It’s all in the scales. As...
Custom carpentry with help from robots
MIT News
28 Feb 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon
Every year thousands of carpenters injure their hands and fingers doing dangerous tasks such as sawing....
Robots in Depth with Henrik Christensen
Robots in Depth
23 Feb 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Henrik Christensen, the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair of Robot Systems and a Professor of Computer Science at Dept. of Computer Science and E...
New brain computer interfaces lead many to ask, is Black Mirror real?
Oliver Mitchell
22 Feb 2018
It’s called the “grain,” a small IoT device implanted into the back of people’s skulls to record their memories. Human experiences are simply played back on “redo mode...
