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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...
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....
