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A fleet of miniature cars for experiments in cooperative driving
The deployment of connected, automated, and autonomous vehicles presents us with transformational opportunities for road transport. These opportunities reach beyond single-vehicle automation: by enabl...
Rethink Robotics closes its doors
Sabine Hauert
06 Oct 2018
Rethink Robotics shut down this week, closing the chapter on a remarkable journey making collaborative robots a reality....
Model helps robots navigate more like humans do
MIT News
05 Oct 2018
By Rob Matheson
When moving through a crowd to reach some end goal, humans can usually navigate the space safely without thinking too much. They can learn from the behavior of others and note any o...
#IROS2018 live coverage
Sabine Hauert
01 Oct 2018
The 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (#IROS2018) will be held for the first time in Spain in the lively capital city of Madrid from 1 to 5 October. This year's ...
The impact of AI on work: implications for individuals, communities, and societies
The Royal Society
01 Oct 2018
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
Advances in AI technologies are contributing to new products and services across industries – from robotic surgery to debt collection – and offer man...
Simulations are the key to intelligent robots
Ricardo Téllez
01 Oct 2018
I read an article entitled Games Hold the Key to Teaching Artificial Intelligent Systems, by Danny Vena, in which the author states that computer games like Minecraft, Civilization, and Grand Theft Au...
Memory-jogging robot to keep people sharp in ‘smart’ retirement homes
Horizon Magazine
01 Oct 2018
by Steve Gillman
Almost a fifth of the European population are over 65 years old, but while quality of life for this age bracket is better than ever before, many will at some point suffer from a de...
Jillian Ogle is the first ‘Roboticist in Residence’ at Co-Lab
Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Sep 2018
Currently also featured on the cover of MAKE magazine, Jillian Ogle is a robot builder, game designer and the founder of Let’s Robot a live streaming interactive robotics community, where users can...
DelFly Nimble mimics the high-speed escape of fruit flies
Matěj Karásek and Guido de Croon
26 Sep 2018
Bio-inspired flapping wing robots hold a great potential. The promise is that they can fly very efficiently even at smaller scales, while being able to fly fast, hover, and make quick maneuvers. We no...
Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground
Wyss Institute
18 Sep 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, fire fighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and arrive fresh at t...
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once
MIT News
18 Sep 2018
By Rob Matheson
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the m...
First results of the ROSIN project: Robotics Open-Source Software for Industry
Thilo Zimmermann
18 Sep 2018
Open-Source Software for robots is a de-facto standard in academia, and its advantages can benefit industrial applications as well. The worldwide ROS-Industrial initiative has been using ROS, the Robo...
A new spin for soft micro-actuators
Wyss Institute
10 Sep 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
Manipulating delicate tissues such as blood vessels during difficult surgeries, or gripping fragile organisms in the deep sea presents a challenge to surgeons and researchers ali...
Robots can now pick up any object after inspecting it
MIT News
10 Sep 2018
Humans have long been masters of dexterity, a skill that can largely be credited to the help of our eyes. Robots, meanwhile, are still catching up....
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
Thilo Zimmermann
10 Sep 2018
Four knowledge institutes across Europe - the Danish Technological Institute (DTI, DK), Fraunhofer IPA (DE), Tecnalia (ES) and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC, UK) - teamed up to offer highly...
Dexterous manipulation with reinforcement learning: Efficient, general, and low-cost
BAIR Blog
10 Sep 2018
In this post, we demonstrate how deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) can be used to learn how to control dexterous hands for a variety of manipulation tasks. We discuss how such methods can learn to...
Rodney Brooks on the future of robotics and AI
Sabine Hauert
29 Aug 2018
If you follow the robotics community on the twittersphere, you'll have noticed that Rodney Brooks is publishing a series of essays on the future of robotics and AI which has been gathering wide attent...
Robots in Depth with Søren Peter Johansen
Robots in Depth
23 Aug 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Søren Peter Johansen from DTI about implementing robotic solutions....
The AI driving olympics (the duckies go to NIPS!)
Duckietown Foundation
23 Aug 2018
We are excited to announce the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO), a new competition focused around AI for self-driving cars. The first edition is going to be at NIPS 2018; the second edition will be at ICRA...
A GPS for inside your body
MIT News
23 Aug 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon
Investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient or swalloing long tubes with built-in cameras. But what if physicians could get a...
Soft multi-functional robots get really small
Wyss Institute
09 Aug 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
Roboticists are envisioning a future in which soft, animal-inspired robots can be safely deployed in difficult-to-access environments, such as inside the human body or in spaces ...
A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem
Wyss Institute
09 Aug 2018
By Lindsay Brownell
The deep ocean – dark, cold, under high pressure, and airless – is notoriously inhospitable to humans, yet it teems with organisms that manage to thrive in its harsh environme...
Robots in Depth with Hans Kimblad
Robots in Depth
09 Aug 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Hans Kimblad about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing....
When recurrent models don’t need to be recurrent
BAIR Blog
09 Aug 2018
By John Miller
An earlier version of this post was published on Off the Convex Path. It is reposted here with the author’s permission. In the last few years, deep learning practitioners have p...
Robots can learn a lot from nature if they want to ‘see’ the world
The Conversation
31 Jul 2018
By Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology and Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology
Vision is one of nature’s amazing creations that has been with us for hundreds of m...
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....
