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Robots can now pick up any object after inspecting it
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....
10 September 2018, by
MIT News
European robot network helps nurses and home builders
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...
10 September 2018, by
Thilo Zimmermann
Dexterous manipulation with reinforcement learning: Efficient, general, and low-cost
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...
10 September 2018, by
BAIR Blog
Rodney Brooks on the future of robotics and AI
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...
29 August 2018, by
Sabine Hauert
Robots in Depth with Søren Peter Johansen
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Søren Peter Johansen from DTI about implementing robotic solutions....
23 August 2018, by
Robots in Depth
The AI driving olympics (the duckies go to NIPS!)
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...
23 August 2018, by
Duckietown Foundation
A GPS for inside your body
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...
23 August 2018, by
MIT News
Soft multi-functional robots get really small
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 ...
09 August 2018, by
Wyss Institute
A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem
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...
09 August 2018, by
Wyss Institute
Robots in Depth with Hans Kimblad
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Hans Kimblad about 3D printing metal or MAM, metal adaptive manufacturing....
09 August 2018, by
Robots in Depth
When recurrent models don’t need to be recurrent
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...
09 August 2018, by
BAIR Blog
Robots can learn a lot from nature if they want to ‘see’ the world
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...
31 July 2018, by
The Conversation
Robots in Depth with Sven Schmidt-Rohr
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....
25 July 2018, by
Robots in Depth
Next-generation robotic cockroach can explore under water environments
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...
25 July 2018, by
Wyss Institute
Studying aliens of the deep
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...
24 July 2018, by
Wyss Institute
Helping computers perceive human emotions
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....
24 July 2018, by
MIT News
Cell-sized robots can sense their environment
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...
24 July 2018, by
MIT News
We need a drone register to ensure privacy and safety – air traffic expert
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 ...
24 July 2018, by
Horizon Magazine
Launch of ROBOTT-NET’s pilot projects
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...
24 July 2018, by
Thilo Zimmermann
Innovative programming software used to generate robot welding programs
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 ...
16 July 2018, by
Thilo Zimmermann
“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
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...
16 July 2018, by
MIT News
Musica Automata
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...
01 July 2018, by
Leonardo Barbadoro
A robotics roadmap for Australia
VISION: Robots as a tool to unlock human potential, modernise the economy, and build national health, well-being and sustainability....
30 June 2018, by
Sue Keay
Robots in Depth with Spring Berman
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Spring Berman about her extensive experience in the field of swarm robotics....
29 June 2018, by
Robots in Depth
One-shot imitation from watching videos
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...
29 June 2018, by
BAIR Blog
Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy
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...
29 June 2018, by
MIT News
Robots in Depth with Dirk Thomas
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Dirk Thomas about his work with ROS at the OSR Foundation....
21 June 2018, by
Robots in Depth
How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures
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...
21 June 2018, by
MIT News
Robots in Depth with Andrew Graham
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....
14 June 2018, by
Robots in Depth
Teaching robots how to move objects
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...
14 June 2018, by
MIT News
