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Robots in Depth with Dave Rollinson

In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Dave Rollinson from Hebi Robotics about their modular robotics systems....
11 February 2018, by

Israel, a land flowing with AI and autonomous cars

I recently led a group of 20 American tech investors to Israel in conjunction with the UJA and Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry. We witnessed firsthand the innovation that has produce...
10 February 2018, by

Learning robot objectives from physical human interaction

Humans physically interact with each other every day – from grabbing someone’s hand when they are about to spill their drink, to giving your friend a nudge to steer them in the right direction, ph...
08 February 2018, by

The millimeter-scale robot opens new avenues for microsurgery, microassembly and micromanipulation

By Benjamin Boettner Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes, including pick-and-place assemblies, machining, welding and food packaging. ...
02 February 2018, by

Robots in Depth with Aseem Prakash

In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Aseem Prakash, a Futurist at the Center for Innovating the Future, about how we can prepare for co-existing with robots and AI....
02 February 2018, by

Robotic interiors

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 ...
02 February 2018, by



3Q: Daron Acemoglu on technology and the future of work

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,...
02 February 2018, by

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects: RobMoSys

In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
29 January 2018, by

Robots in Depth with Daniel Pizzata

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...
29 January 2018, by

Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware

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 ...
22 January 2018, by

Robots in Depth with Erin Rapacki

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....
17 January 2018, by

Robotics innovations at CES 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...
15 January 2018, by and

‘Earworm melodies with strange aspects’ – what happens when AI makes music

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 ...
12 January 2018, by

How to build a robot – the creative way

Here's a cute video about how UK-based Rusty Squid designs robots....
11 January 2018, by

Robots in Depth with Dan Kara

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....
11 January 2018, by

Indoor drone shows are here

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...
09 January 2018, by

Robots in Depth with Daniel Lofaro

In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Daniel Lofaro, Assistant Professor at George Mason University specialising in humanoid robots....
02 January 2018, by

Physical adversarial examples against deep neural networks

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...
31 December 2017, by

10 most read Robohub articles in 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....
27 December 2017, by

Robots in Depth with Craig Schlenoff

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...
27 December 2017, by

Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 3

Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit....
24 December 2017, by

Reverse curriculum generation for reinforcement learning agents

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...
24 December 2017, by

Machine learning and AI for social good: views from NIPS 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...
20 December 2017, by

Molecular Robotics at the Wyss Institute

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...
20 December 2017, by

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: REELER

In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
20 December 2017, by

Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 2

Well, this year's videos are getting creative!...
19 December 2017, by

What can we learn from insects on a treadmill with virtual reality?

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 ...
19 December 2017, by

What the robots of Star Wars tell us about automation, and the future of human work

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...
19 December 2017, by

Robots in Depth with Ian Bernstein

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 ...
18 December 2017, by

Towards intelligent industrial co-robots

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...
18 December 2017, by







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