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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....
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 ...
