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    Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
    By Jennifer Chu MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the strings....
    14 June 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Walter Wohlkinger
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Walter Wohlkinger from Blue Danube Robotics about their Airskin, a safety sensor covering robots and machines....
    07 June 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Anouk Wipprecht
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Anouk Wipprecht, a Dutch FashionTech Designer who incorporates technology and robotics into fashion. She thinks that “Fashion lacks Micro...
    01 June 2018, by

    BDD100K: A large-scale diverse driving video database
    By Fisher YuTL;DR, we released the largest and most diverse driving video dataset with richannotations called BDD100K. You can access the data for research now at http://bdd-data.berkeley.edu. We ha...
    01 June 2018, by

    TDM: From model-free to model-based deep reinforcement learning
    By Vitchyr Pong You’ve decided that you want to bike from your house by UC Berkeley to the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a nice 20 mile ride, but there’s a problem: you’ve never ridden a bike befo...
    01 June 2018, by

    Teaching chores to an artificial agent
    By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon For many people, household chores are a dreaded, inescapable part of life that we often put off or do with little care. But what if a robot assistant could help ...
    01 June 2018, by



    Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb
    By Helen Knight Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to precisely control their bo...
    01 June 2018, by

    ANYbotics wins ICRA 2018 Robot Launch competition!
    ANYbotics led the way in the ICRA 2018 Robot Launch Startup Competition on May 22, 2018 at the Brisbane Conference Center in Australia. Although ANYbotics pitched last out of the 10 startups presentin...
    30 May 2018, by and

    Nearly 1000 research videos from #ICRA2018
    The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and is a premier international forum for robotics researchers to pres...
    25 May 2018, by

    Garbage-collecting aqua drones and jellyfish filters for cleaner oceans
    By Catherine Collins The cost of sea litter in the EU has been estimated at up to €630 million per year. It is mostly composed of plastics, which take hundreds of years to break down in nature, and...
    25 May 2018, by

    Fleet of autonomous boats could service some cities, reducing road traffic
    By Rob Matheson The future of transportation in waterway-rich cities such as Amsterdam, Bangkok, and Venice — where canals run alongside and under bustling streets and bridges — may include auton...
    25 May 2018, by

    Making driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
    By Larry Hardesty In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Eit...
    25 May 2018, by

    Videos from European Robotics Forum 2018
    The European Robotics Forum 2018 (ERF2018), the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, took place in Tampere on 13-15 March 2018. ERF2018 brought together over 900 leading scien...
    25 May 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Paul Ekas
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Paul Ekas about his EZGripper and how he designed it to be low cost, lightweight, robust and to offer reliable gripping of small and large ...
    20 May 2018, by

    We want to end the de-industrialisation of Europe – Prof. Jürgen Rüttgers
    by Rex Merrifield He leads the High Level Group on Industrial Technologies, which on 24 April released a report called Re-finding industry – Defining Innovation to make recommendations on EU resear...
    20 May 2018, by

    Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
    By Jennifer Chu Training drones to fly fast, around even the simplest obstacles, is a crash-prone exercise that can have engineers repairing or replacing vehicles with frustrating regularity....
    20 May 2018, by

    Albatross robot takes flight
    By Jennifer Chu MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a sailboat....
    20 May 2018, by

    Robot transitions from soft to rigid
    By Leah Burrows Even octopuses understand the importance of elbows. When these squishy, loose-limbed cephalopods need to make a precise movement — such as guiding food into their mouth — the musc...
    09 May 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Linda Thayer
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Linda Thayer about how to apply for, maintain and use patents....
    07 May 2018, by

    Self-driving cars for country roads
    By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon Uber's recent self-driving car fatality underscores the fact that the technology is still not ready for widespread adoption. The reality is that there aren’t m...
    07 May 2018, by

    Magni and Misty – are these the droids we’ve been looking for?
    Both are crowdfunding right now — Magni has only 1 week days to go and Misty has just launched today. Both robots come from pedigree robotics companies and both robots are top of the line in ...
    03 May 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Frank Tobe
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Frank Tobe about his experience covering robotics in The Robot Report and creating the index Robo-Stox....
    26 April 2018, by

    Shared autonomy via deep reinforcement learning
    By Siddharth Reddy Imagine a drone pilot remotely flying a quadrotor, using an onboard camera to navigate and land. Unfamiliar flight dynamics, terrain, and network latency can make this system chall...
    24 April 2018, by

    ROBOTT-NET use case: Danfoss automated assembly line
    Short delivery time, high flexibility and reduced costs for handling parts before assembly. These are the main goals that Danfoss Drives wanted to achieve by creating an automated assembly line. But w...
    24 April 2018, by

    Robot Launch 2018 in full swing – like Tennibot!
    With the Robot Launch 2018 competition in full swing – deadline May 15 for entries wanting to compete on stage in Brisbane at ICRA 2018 – we thought it was time to look at last years’ Robot Laun...
    24 April 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with David Johan
    In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with David Johan, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Robotics....
    18 April 2018, by

    Drones as first responders
    In a basement of New York University in 2013, Dr. Sergei Lupashin wowed the room of one hundred leading technology enthusiasts with one of the first indoor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) demonstrations...
    17 April 2018, by

    Robotic gaits to save energy
    The choice of gait, that is whether we walk or run, comes to us so naturally that we hardly ever think about it.  We walk at slow speeds and run at high speeds.  If we get on a treadmill and slowly ...
    17 April 2018, by

    Westworld season 2
    Great news here at Dreaming Robots as we’ve just been able to confirm with Sky Atlantic and NowTV that we will be live tweeting again each episode of the new series of HBO’s completely fan...
    17 April 2018, by

    Towards a virtual stuntman
    Motion control problems have become standard benchmarks for reinforcement learning, and deep RL methods have been shown to be effective for a diverse suite of tasks ranging from manipulation to locomo...
    11 April 2018, by

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