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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...
Micro drones swarm above Metallica
Markus Waibel
04 Sep 2017
Metallica’s European WorldWired tour, which opened to an ecstatic crowd of 15,000 in Copenhagen's sold-out Royal Arena this Saturday, features a swarm of micro drones flying above the band. Shortly...
Robotic system monitors specific neurons
MIT News
04 Sep 2017
by Anne Trafton
Recording electrical signals from inside a neuron in the living brain can reveal a great deal of information about that neuron’s function and how it coordinates with other cells in ...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Cory Kidd from Catalia Health
Robohub Editors
02 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....
Robot learns to follow orders like Alexa
MIT News
01 Sep 2017
by Adam Conner-Simons & Rachel Gordon
Despite what you might see in movies, today’s robots are still very limited in what they can do. They can be great for many repetitive tasks, but their inab...
New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities
NCCR Robotics
30 Aug 2017
Recent advances in soft robotics have seen the development of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) to ensure that all parts of the robot are soft, including the functional parts. These SPAs have traditiona...
New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct
MIT News
30 Aug 2017
Just as drivers observe the rules of the road, most pedestrians follow certain social codes when navigating a hallway or a crowded thoroughfare: Keep to the right, pass on the left, maintain a respect...
The need for robotics standards
Ricardo Téllez
29 Aug 2017
Last week I was talking to one lead engineer of a Singapore company which is building a benchmarking system for robot solutions. Having seen my presentation at ROSCON2016 about robot benchma...
Long-term control of brain-computer interfaces by users with locked-in syndrome
NCCR Robotics
28 Aug 2017
Using Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) as a way to give people with locked-in syndrome back reliable communication and control capabilities has long been a futuristic trope of medical dramas and sci-f...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Jillian Ogle from Let’s Robot
Robohub Editors
25 Aug 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
EU’s future cyber-farms to utilise drones, robots and sensors
Horizon Magazine
25 Aug 2017
by Anthony King
Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape....
Talking Machines: Data Science Africa, with Dina Machuve
Talking Machines
25 Aug 2017
In episode seven of season three we take a minute to break way from our regular format and feature a conversation with Dina Machuve of the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology. W...
Custom robots in a matter of minutes
MIT News
24 Aug 2017
Even as robots become increasingly common, they remain incredibly difficult to make. From designing and modeling to fabricating and testing, the process is slow and costly: Even one small change can m...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/21/17
August 14, 2017 – August 20, 2017...
Using machine learning to improve patient care
MIT News
22 Aug 2017
Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these data for multiple patients while making re...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: ILIAD
SPARC
18 Aug 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
Digital symbiosis lets robot co-workers predict human behaviour
Horizon Magazine
18 Aug 2017
by Anthony King
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk fear that the robotic revolution may already be underway, but automation isn’t going to take over just yet – first machines will work alongside us.
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Robotics and AI celebrated in this year’s MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 list
Sabine Hauert
17 Aug 2017
13 researchers working in robotics and AI made the MIT Technology Review "35 Innovators Under 35" list this year....
