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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...
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...
