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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...
‘Earworm melodies with strange aspects’ – what happens when AI makes music
Horizon Magazine
12 Jan 2018
by Kevin Casey
The first full-length mainstream music album co-written with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) was released on 12 January and experts believe that the science behind it could ...
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....
Physical adversarial examples against deep neural networks
BAIR Blog
31 Dec 2017
By Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, and Bo Li based on recent research by Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bo Li, Atul Prakash, Amir Rahmati, Dawn Song...
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...
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 3
Robohub Editors
24 Dec 2017
Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit....
Reverse curriculum generation for reinforcement learning agents
BAIR Blog
24 Dec 2017
By Carlos Florensa
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful technique capable of solving complex tasks such as locomotion, Atari games, racing games, and robotic manipulation tasks, all through trai...
Machine learning and AI for social good: views from NIPS 2017
The Royal Society
20 Dec 2017
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
In early December, 8000 machine learning researchers gathered in Long Beach for 2017’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference. In the margi...
Molecular Robotics at the Wyss Institute
Wyss Institute
20 Dec 2017
By Lindsay Brownell
DNA has often been compared to an instruction book that contains the information needed for a living organism to function, its genes made up of distinct sequences of the nucleotid...
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....
Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 2
Robohub Editors
19 Dec 2017
Well, this year's videos are getting creative!...
What can we learn from insects on a treadmill with virtual reality?
Ravindra Palavalli Nettimi
19 Dec 2017
When you think of a treadmill, what comes to your mind?
Perhaps the images of a person burning calories, or maybe the treadmill fail videos online. But almost certainly not a miniature treadmill for ...
What the robots of Star Wars tell us about automation, and the future of human work
The Conversation
19 Dec 2017
BB-8 is an “astromech droid” who first appeared in The Force Awakens.
Lucasfilm/IMDB
By Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast
Millions of fans all over the world e...
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 ...
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...
