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Personalizing wearable devices
Wyss Institute
08 Mar 2018
By Leah Burrows
When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a bit ...
ML 2.0: Machine learning for many
MIT News
08 Mar 2018
Today, when an enterprise wants to use machine learning to solve a problem, they have to call in the cavalry. Even a simple problem requires multiple data scientists, machine learning experts, and dom...
Robots in Depth with Jana Tumova
Robots in Depth
02 Mar 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Jana Tumova, Assistant Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, about formal verification of computer systems and synthesizing c...
Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move
Wyss Institute
28 Feb 2018
By Leah Burrows
Who needs legs? With their sleek bodies, snakes can slither up to 14 miles-per-hour, squeeze into tight spaces, scale trees, and swim. How do they do it? It’s all in the scales. As...
Custom carpentry with help from robots
MIT News
28 Feb 2018
By Adam Conner-Simons and Rachel Gordon
Every year thousands of carpenters injure their hands and fingers doing dangerous tasks such as sawing....
Robots in Depth with Henrik Christensen
Robots in Depth
23 Feb 2018
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Henrik Christensen, the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair of Robot Systems and a Professor of Computer Science at Dept. of Computer Science and E...
New brain computer interfaces lead many to ask, is Black Mirror real?
Oliver Mitchell
22 Feb 2018
It’s called the “grain,” a small IoT device implanted into the back of people’s skulls to record their memories. Human experiences are simply played back on “redo mode...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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 ...
Looping quadrotor balances an inverted pendulum
Robohub Editors
15 Dec 2017
This latest video from the D'Andrea lab shows a quadrotor performing a looping trajectory while balancing an inverted pendulum at the same time.
The video is pretty self-explanatory and includes l...
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 1
Robohub Editors
15 Dec 2017
Our first few submissions have now arrived! Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
MIT News
15 Dec 2017
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multiuniversity, multidisciplin...
Swiss drone industry map
Simon Johnson
13 Dec 2017
The Swiss Drone Industry Map above (click for larger image) is an attempt to list and group all companies and institutions in Switzerland that provide a product or service that makes commercial operat...
