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How robot math and smartphones led researchers to a drug discovery breakthrough
The Conversation
22 Feb 2018
By Ian Haydon, University of Washington
Robotic movement can be awkward.
For us humans, a healthy brain handles all the minute details of bodily motion without demanding conscious attention. Not...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects: ROSIN
SPARC
22 Feb 2018
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
Robo-picker grasps and packs
MIT News
22 Feb 2018
By Jennifer Chu
Unpacking groceries is a straightforward albeit tedious task: You reach into a bag, feel around for an item, and pull it out. A quick glance will tell you what the item is and where i...
Robots in Depth with Peter Corke
Robots in Depth
16 Feb 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Peter Corke, distinguished professor of robotic vision from Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellen...
Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty
MIT News
15 Feb 2018
Companies like Amazon have big ideas for drones that can deliver packages right to your door. But even putting aside the policy issues, programming drones to fly through cluttered spaces like cit...
Robots and workers of the world, unite!
Horizon Magazine
15 Feb 2018
Robots are already changing the way we work - particularly in factories - but worries that they will steal our jobs are only part of the picture, as new technologies are also opening up workplace oppo...
Call for evidence – European Robotics Flagship
Sabine Hauert
14 Feb 2018
The European Commission is launching a new call for Flagships. Existing Flagships include the Human Brian Project, and the Graphene Flagship - each funded at the level of 1B EUR.
Given the exciteme...
Robots in Depth with Dave Rollinson
Robots in Depth
11 Feb 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Dave Rollinson from Hebi Robotics about their modular robotics systems....
Israel, a land flowing with AI and autonomous cars
Oliver Mitchell
10 Feb 2018
I recently led a group of 20 American tech investors to Israel in conjunction with the UJA and Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry. We witnessed firsthand the innovation that has produce...
Learning robot objectives from physical human interaction
BAIR Blog
08 Feb 2018
Humans physically interact with each other every day – from grabbing someone’s hand when they are about to spill their drink, to giving your friend a nudge to steer them in the right direction, ph...
The millimeter-scale robot opens new avenues for microsurgery, microassembly and micromanipulation
Wyss Institute
02 Feb 2018
By Benjamin Boettner
Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes, including pick-and-place assemblies, machining, welding and food packaging. ...
Robots in Depth with Aseem Prakash
Robots in Depth
02 Feb 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Aseem Prakash, a Futurist at the Center for Innovating the Future, about how we can prepare for co-existing with robots and AI....
Robotic interiors
MIT News
02 Feb 2018
By Rob Matheson
Imagine living in a cramped studio apartment in a large city — but being able to summon your bed or closet through a mobile app, call forth your desk using voice command, or have ...
3Q: Daron Acemoglu on technology and the future of work
MIT News
02 Feb 2018
By Meg Murphy
K. Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, is a leading thinker on the labor market implications of artificial intelligence, robotics, automation,...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects: RobMoSys
SPARC
29 Jan 2018
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
Robots in Depth with Daniel Pizzata
Robots in Depth
29 Jan 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Daniel Pizzata about how his passion for modular robotics led him to start Modbot, a company building robotics platforms. The goal of Modbo...
Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
MIT News
22 Jan 2018
By Jennifer Chu
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat.
Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons. At any given ...
Robots in Depth with Erin Rapacki
Robots in Depth
17 Jan 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Erin Rapacki about how the FIRST robotics competition was a natural and inspiring way into her career spanning multiple robotics companies....
Robotics innovations at CES 2018
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
15 Jan 2018
The 2018 Nissan Leaf receives CES2018 Tech For a Better World Innovation Award.
Cars, cars, cars, cars. CES2018, the Consumer Technology Association’s massive annual expo, was full of self driv...
‘Earworm melodies with strange aspects’ – what happens when AI makes music
Horizon Magazine
12 Jan 2018
by Kevin Casey
The first full-length mainstream music album co-written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) was released on 12 January and experts believe that the science behind it could ...
How to build a robot – the creative way
Robohub Editors
11 Jan 2018
Here's a cute video about how UK-based Rusty Squid designs robots....
Robots in Depth with Dan Kara
Robots in Depth
11 Jan 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Dan Kara about his views on robotics, and how a trip to Japan made him start Robotics Trends & RoboBusiness....
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
Robots in Depth with Daniel Lofaro
Robots in Depth
02 Jan 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Daniel Lofaro, Assistant Professor at George Mason University specialising in humanoid robots....
Physical adversarial examples against deep neural networks
BAIR Blog
31 Dec 2017
By Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, and Bo Li based on recent research by Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bo Li, Atul Prakash, Amir Rahmati, Dawn Song...
10 most read Robohub articles in 2017
Sabine Hauert
27 Dec 2017
This was a busy year for robotics! The 10 most read Robohub articles in 2017 show an increased interest in machine learning, and a thirst to learn how robots work and can be programmed....
Robots in Depth with Craig Schlenoff
Robots in Depth
27 Dec 2017
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Craig Schlenoff, Group Leader of the Cognition and Collaboration Systems Group and the Acting Group Leader of the Sensing and Perception Sy...
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 3
Robohub Editors
24 Dec 2017
Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit....
Reverse curriculum generation for reinforcement learning agents
BAIR Blog
24 Dec 2017
By Carlos Florensa
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful technique capable of solving complex tasks such as locomotion, Atari games, racing games, and robotic manipulation tasks, all through trai...
Machine learning and AI for social good: views from NIPS 2017
The Royal Society
20 Dec 2017
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
In early December, 8000 machine learning researchers gathered in Long Beach for 2017’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference. In the margi...
Molecular Robotics at the Wyss Institute
Wyss Institute
20 Dec 2017
By Lindsay Brownell
DNA has often been compared to an instruction book that contains the information needed for a living organism to function, its genes made up of distinct sequences of the nucleotid...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: REELER
SPARC
20 Dec 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 2
Robohub Editors
19 Dec 2017
Well, this year's videos are getting creative!...
What can we learn from insects on a treadmill with virtual reality?
Ravindra Palavalli Nettimi
19 Dec 2017
When you think of a treadmill, what comes to your mind?
Perhaps the images of a person burning calories, or maybe the treadmill fail videos online. But almost certainly not a miniature treadmill for ...
What the robots of Star Wars tell us about automation, and the future of human work
The Conversation
19 Dec 2017
BB-8 is an “astromech droid” who first appeared in The Force Awakens.
Lucasfilm/IMDB
By Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast
Millions of fans all over the world e...
Robots in Depth with Ian Bernstein
Robots in Depth
18 Dec 2017
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Ian Bernstein, the founder of several robotics companies including Sphero. He shares his experience from completing 5 successful rounds of ...
