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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 ...
Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb
MIT News
01 Jun 2018
By Helen Knight
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to precisely control their bo...
ANYbotics wins ICRA 2018 Robot Launch competition!
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
30 May 2018
ANYbotics led the way in the ICRA 2018 Robot Launch Startup Competition on May 22, 2018 at the Brisbane Conference Center in Australia. Although ANYbotics pitched last out of the 10 startups presentin...
Nearly 1000 research videos from #ICRA2018
Sabine Hauert
25 May 2018
The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and is a premier international forum for robotics researchers to pres...
Garbage-collecting aqua drones and jellyfish filters for cleaner oceans
Horizon Magazine
25 May 2018
By Catherine Collins
The cost of sea litter in the EU has been estimated at up to €630 million per year. It is mostly composed of plastics, which take hundreds of years to break down in nature, and...
Fleet of autonomous boats could service some cities, reducing road traffic
MIT News
25 May 2018
By Rob Matheson
The future of transportation in waterway-rich cities such as Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Venice — where canals run alongside and under bustling streets and bridges — may include auton...
Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
MIT News
25 May 2018
By Larry Hardesty
In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Eit...
Videos from European Robotics Forum 2018
SPARC
25 May 2018
The European Robotics Forum 2018 (ERF2018), the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, took place in Tampere on 13-15 March 2018. ERF2018 brought together over 900 leading scien...
Robots in Depth with Paul Ekas
Robots in Depth
20 May 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Paul Ekas about his EZGripper and how he designed it to be low cost, lightweight, robust and to offer reliable gripping of small and large ...
We want to end the de-industrialisation of Europe – Prof. Jürgen Rüttgers
Horizon Magazine
20 May 2018
by Rex Merrifield
He leads the High Level Group on Industrial Technologies, which on 24 April released a report called Re-finding industry – Defining Innovation to make recommendations on EU resear...
Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
MIT News
20 May 2018
By Jennifer Chu
Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with frustrating regularity....
Albatross robot takes flight
MIT News
20 May 2018
By Jennifer Chu
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat....
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...
