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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 ...
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...
Shaping animal, vegetable and mineral
Wyss Institute
19 Oct 2017
By Leah Burrows
Nature has a way of making complex shapes from a set of simple growth rules. The curve of a petal, the swoop of a branch, even the contours of our face are shaped by these processes. ...
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”. ...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics
Robohub Editors
23 Sep 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
Talking Machines: The long view and learning in person, with John Quinn
Talking Machines
23 Sep 2017
In episode nine of season three we chat about the difference between models and algorithms, take a listener question about summer schools and learning in person as opposed to learning digitally, and w...
Automatic code reuse
MIT News
20 Sep 2017
by Larry Hardesty
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows programmers to transplant code from one program into a...
Descartes revisited: Do robots think?
Oliver Mitchell
20 Sep 2017
This past week, a robotic first happened: ABB’s Yumi robot conducted the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra in Pisa, Italy. The dual-armed robot overshadowed even his vocal collaborator, Italian tenor...
A foldable cargo drone
NCCR Robotics
15 Sep 2017
The field of drone delivery is currently a big topic in robotics. However, the reason that your internet shopping doesn’t yet arrive via drone is that current flying robots can prove a safety risk t...
“Peel-and-go” printable structures fold themselves
MIT News
13 Sep 2017
by Larry Hardesty
As 3-D printing has become a mainstream technology, industry and academic researchers have been investigating printable structures that will fold themselves into useful three-dimen...
Reprogramming nature
Oliver Mitchell
12 Sep 2017
Summer is not without its annoyances — mosquitos, wasps, and ants, to name a few. As the cool breeze of September pushes us back to work, labs across the country are reconvening tackling nature̵...
3 Questions: Iyad Rahwan on the “psychological roadblocks” facing self-driving cars
MIT News
12 Sep 2017
by Peter Dizikes
This summer, a survey released by the American Automobile Association showed that 78 percent of Americans feared riding in a self-driving car, with just 19 percent trusting the techn...
Talking Machines: Machine Learning in the Field and Bayesian Baked Goods, with Ernest Mwebaze
Talking Machines
08 Sep 2017
In episode eight of season three we return to the epic (or maybe not so epic) clash between frequentists and bayesians, take a listener question about the ethical questions generators of machine learn...
IBM and MIT to pursue joint research in artificial intelligence, establish new MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab
MIT News
08 Sep 2017
IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial intel...
Gregory Falco: Protecting urban infrastructure against cyberterrorism
MIT News
05 Sep 2017
by Dara Farhadi
While working for the global management consulting company Accenture, Gregory Falco discovered just how vulnerable the technologies underlying smart cities and the “internet of th...
