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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Overview of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards – with survey on autonomous cars
Vladimir Estivill Castro
26 Oct 2017
The International Conference on Robot Ethics and Safety Standards (ICRESS-2017) took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 20th to 21st October 2017. Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira and João Silva Sequeira ...
Humanoids 2017 photo contest – vote here
Serena Ivaldi
24 Oct 2017
For the first time, Humanoids 2017 is hosting a photo contest. We received 39 photos from robotics laboratories and institutes all over the world, showing humanoids in serious or funny contexts....
How to start with self-driving cars using ROS
Ricardo Téllez
24 Oct 2017
Self-driving cars are inevitable.
In recent years, self-driving cars have become a priority for automotive companies. BMW, Bosch, Google, Baidu, Toyota, GE, Tesla, Ford, Uber and Volvo are investin...
Join the Robohub community!
Sabine Hauert
24 Oct 2017
As you know, Robohub is a non-profit dedicated to connecting the robotics community to the public. Over nearly a decade we’ve produced more than 200 podcasts and helped thousands of roboticists comm...
Talking Machines: The pace of change and the public view of machine learning, with Peter Donnelly
Talking Machines
19 Oct 2017
In episode ten of season three we talk about the rate of change (prompted by Tim Harford), take a listener question about the power of kernels, and talk with Peter Donnelly in his capacity with the Ro...
Robohub Podcast
Audrow Nash
16 Oct 2017
I am happy to announce that Robots Podcast will be renamed to "Robohub Podcast"....
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Felipe Chavez from Kiwi
Robohub Editors
13 Oct 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
Teleoperating robots with virtual reality
MIT News
12 Oct 2017
Certain industries have traditionally not had the luxury of telecommuting. Many manufacturing jobs, for example, require a physical presence to operate machinery....
Why engineering schools globally need more creative women
At McMaster University, 40 per cent of assistant professors in engineering are now women and the school is working hard to make the profession more equitable for women.
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Robotic bugs train insects to be helpers
Horizon Magazine
10 Oct 2017
by Aisling Irwin
Tiny mobile robots are learning to work with insects in the hope the creatures’ sensitive antennae and ability to squeeze into small spaces can be put to use serving humans....
Aerial manipulator for contact inspection selected for innovation prize
Anibal Ollero
05 Oct 2017
The European project AEROARMS is one of 10 innovations selected to compete for the Innovation Radar Prize in the "Industrial & Enabling Tech" category. AEROARMS is a European project that proposes to ...
RoboBusiness 2017: What’s cooking in robotics?
Oliver Mitchell
05 Oct 2017
Mike Toscano, the former president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, emphatically declared at the September RobotLab forum that “anyone who claims to know the futur...
Energy, enthusiasm and spirit of cooperation: Award winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 announced
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
A language to design control algorithms for robot swarms
Lenka Pitonakova
28 Sep 2017
Designing and representing control algorithms is challenging in swarm robotics, where the collective swarm performance depends on interactions between robots and with their environment. The currently ...
“Superhero” robot wears different outfits for different tasks
MIT News
27 Sep 2017
From butterflies that sprout wings to hermit crabs that switch their shells, many animals must adapt their exterior features in order to survive. While humans don’t undergo that kind of metamorphosi...
#ERLEmergency2017 in tweets
SPARC
27 Sep 2017
The ERL Emergency Robots 2017 (#ERLemergency2017) major tournament in Piombino, Italy, gathered 130 participants from 16 universities and companies from 8 European countries. Participating teams desig...
Drones can almost see in the dark
Davide Scaramuzza
26 Sep 2017
We want to share with you our recent breakthrough teaching drones to fly using an eye-inspired camera, which opens the door to them performing fast, agile maneuvers and flying in low-light environment...
#IROS2017 Live Coverage
Robohub Editors
26 Sep 2017
The 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) is being held in Vancouver Canada this week. The theme of IROS 2017 is “Friendly People, Friendly Robots”. ...
