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Towards intelligent industrial co-robots
BAIR Blog
18 Dec 2017
By Changliu Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Democratization of Robots in Factories
In modern factories, human workers and robots are two major workforces. For safety concerns, the two are normally sep...
Congratulations to Semio, Apellix and Mothership Aeronautics
Andra Keay
17 Dec 2017
The Robot Launch global startup competition is over for 2017. We've seen startups from all over the world and all sorts of application areas - and we'd like to congratulate the overall winner Semio, a...
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...
Robots in Depth with Mel Torrie
Robots in Depth
13 Dec 2017
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Mel Torrie, founder and CEO of ASI, Autonomous Solutions Inc. Mel talks about how ASI develops a diversified portfolio of vehicle automatio...
Robots solving climate change
Oliver Mitchell
13 Dec 2017
The two biggest societal challenges for the twenty-first century are also the biggest opportunities – automation and climate change. The confluence of these forces of mankind and nature intersect be...
Three very different startups vie for “Robohub Choice”
Andra Keay
12 Dec 2017
Three very different robotics startups have been battling it out over the last week to win the "Robohub Choice" award in our annual startup competition. One was social, one was medical and one was agr...
Reading a neural network’s mind
MIT News
11 Dec 2017
By Larry Hardesty
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in artificial int...
Robohub Podcast is on Patreon!
Audrow Nash
07 Dec 2017
Robohub Podcast has launched a campaign on Patreon!...
FaSTrack: Ensuring safe real-time navigation of dynamic systems
BAIR Blog
07 Dec 2017
By Sylvia Herbert, David Fridovich-Keil, and Claire Tomlin
The Problem: Fast and Safe Motion Planning Real time autonomous motion planning and navigation is hard, especially when we care about s...
Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers
Wyss Institute
07 Dec 2017
By Lindsay Brownell
Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers around the world have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky mach...
The stories we tell about technology: AI Narratives
The Royal Society
07 Dec 2017
By Susannah Odell and Natasha McCarthy
Technology narratives
The nature, promise and risks of new technologies enter into our shared thinking through narrative – explicit or implicit stories about...
Videos from the International Conference on Robot Learning
Robohub Editors
06 Dec 2017
The first International Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) happened mid-November in Mountain View, California.
You can now watch all the videos online, including talks by J. Andrew Bagnell (CMU),...
Vote for your favorite in Robot Launch Startup Competition!
Andra Keay
02 Dec 2017
In the lead up to the finals of the Robot Launch 2017 competition on December 14, we're having one round of public voting for your favorite startup from the Top 25. While in previous years we've had ...
Call for robot holiday videos 2017
Robohub Editors
01 Dec 2017
That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at editors@robohub.org and share the ...
Model-based reinforcement learning with neural network dynamics
BAIR Blog
01 Dec 2017
By Anusha Nagabandi and Gregory Kahn
Enabling robots to act autonomously in the real-world is difficult. Really, really difficult. Even with expensive robots and teams of world-class researchers, rob...
Humanoids 2017 photo competition and winners
Sabine Hauert
29 Nov 2017
The Humanoids 2017 conference earlier this month hosted an excellent photo competition. I was lucky to be one of the judges, along with Erico Guizzo from IEEE Spectrum, and Giorgio Metta as awards cha...
#ERW2017: “Robot Discovery” central event in tweets
SPARC
29 Nov 2017
The European Robotics Week 2017 (ERW2017) Central Event organised in Brussels saw the “Robots Discovery” exhibition hosted by the European Committee of the Regions on 20-23 November, where robotic...
European Robotics Week 2017: Live coverage
Robohub Editors
24 Nov 2017
We hope you're enjoying the European Robotics Week! If you're still looking for events to attend over the weekend, make sure to check out the map of 1000 happenings all over Europe....
We built a robot care assistant for elderly people – here’s how it works
The Conversation
24 Nov 2017
By Conor McGinn, Trinity College Dublin
Not all robots will take over human jobs. My colleagues and I have just unveiled a prototype care robot that we hope could take on some of the more mundane w...
The advantage of four legs
Oliver Mitchell
23 Nov 2017
Shortly after SoftBank acquired his company last October, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics confessed, “I happen to believe that robotics will be bigger than the Internet.” Many sociologist...
Announcing the shortlist for Robot Launch 2017
Andra Keay
22 Nov 2017
The Robotics Hub, in collaboration with Silicon Valley Robotics, is currently investing in robotics, AI and sensor startups, with checks between $250,000 and $500,000. Current portfolio companies inc...
DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning
BAIR Blog
22 Nov 2017
By Michael Laskey, Jonathan Lee, and Ken Goldberg
In Imitation Learning (IL), also known as Learning from Demonstration (LfD), a robot learns a control policy from analyzing demonstrations of the p...
ANDROIDS through the eye of a 19th century wooden camera
Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer
19 Nov 2017
Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer have fused their scientific and photographic interests in robots and traveled the world since 2016 to visit roboticists to discuss and photograph their creations. Th...
Efficient data acquisition in MATLAB: Streaming HD video in real-time
Florian Enner
16 Nov 2017
The acquisition and processing of a video stream can be very computationally expensive. Typical image processing applications split the work across multiple threads, one acquiring the images, and anot...
The race to own the autonomous super highway: Digging deeper into Broadcom’s offer to buy Qualcomm
Oliver Mitchell
14 Nov 2017
Governor Andrew Cuomo of the State of New York declared last month that New York City will join 13 other states in testing self-driving cars: “Autonomous vehicles have the potential to save time an...
Smart soft robotics for stroke rehabilitation
Adam Stokes
09 Nov 2017
The culmination of work by Alistair C. McConnell (lead-researcher) through his PhD and the SOPHIA team, the Soft Orthotic Physiotherapy Hand Interactive Aid (SOPHIA) forms the foundation for our futur...
How will robots and AI change our way of life in 2030?
Andra Keay
09 Nov 2017
At #WebSummit 2017, I was part of a panel on what the future will bring in 2030 with John Vickers from Blue Abyss, Jacques Van den Broek from Randstad and Stewart Rogers from Venture Beat. John talked...
Robust distributed decision-making in robot swarms
Michael Crosscombe
06 Nov 2017
Reaching an optimal shared decision in a distributed way is a key aspect of many multi-agent and swarm robotic applications....
1000 local events expected during the European Robotics Week 2017
SPARC
06 Nov 2017
The importance of robotics for Europe's regions will be the focus of a week-long celebration of robotics taking place around Europe on 17–27 November 2017. The European Robotics Week 2017 (ERW2017) ...
Happy Halloween!
Robohub Editors
31 Oct 2017
Happy Halloween everyone! Here's a selection of this year's robot videos and tweets to get you in the mood....
Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?
MIT News
28 Oct 2017
Just in time for Halloween, a research team from the MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group has introduced Shelley: the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaborat...
Congress’ automated driving bills are both more and less than they seem
Bryant Walker Smith
27 Oct 2017
Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, existing law is at least as important as...
New RoboBee flies, dives, swims, and explodes out the of water
Wyss Institute
27 Oct 2017
By Leah Burrows
We’ve seen RoboBees that can fly, stick to walls, and dive into water. Now, get ready for a hybrid RoboBee that can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water, and ...
