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Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
MIT News
20 Jul 2017
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from MI...
Robots to the rescue!
Peter Feuilherade
19 Jul 2017
This article was first published on the IEC e-tech website.
Rapid advances in technology are revolutionizing the roles of aerial, terrestrial and maritime robotic systems in disaster relief, search...
Bringing neural networks to cellphones
MIT News
19 Jul 2017
In recent years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — in areas such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, computer vision, and automatic translation — have come courtesy of s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/17/17
The South Korean Navy conducted shipboard flight tests for the TR-60 tilt-rotor UAV. Source: KARI
July 10, 2017 – July 16, 2017
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IROS Workshop: Best practices in designing roadmaps for robotics innovation
Hallie Siegel and AJung Moon
16 Jul 2017
Join us at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) for a full day workshop that will bring together international stakeholders in robotics to examine ...
Lakeside Research Days: Swarming in cyber physical systems
Christian Bettstetter
16 Jul 2017
An interdisciplinary workshop on self-organization and swarm intelligence in cyber physical systems was held at Lakeside Labs this week. Experts presented their work and discussed open issues in this ...
Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence Conference: Live stream
Sabine Hauert
13 Jul 2017
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence is convening their first annual conference, this Thursday and Friday, in Cambridge UK.
The two days of conference will focus on topics that cut ...
Miniaturizing the brain of a drone
MIT News
13 Jul 2017
By Jennifer Chu
In recent years, engineers have worked to shrink drone technology, building flying prototypes that are the size of a bumblebee and loaded with even tinier sensors and cameras. Thus fa...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/10/17
The U.S. Army is developing a drone that moves like a flying squirrel. Credit: David McNally/U.S. Army
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted members of al-Shabab. It is the second drone...
Swarms of smart drones to revolutionise how we watch sports
Horizon Magazine
11 Jul 2017
by Joe Dodgshun
Drone innovators are transforming the way we watch events, from football matches and boat races to music festivals....
Second edition of Springer Handbook of Robotics
Bruno Siciliano
09 Jul 2017
The Second Edition of the award-winning Springer Handbook of Robotics edited by Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib has recently been published. The contents of the first edition have been restructured...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: CYBERLEGs++
SPARC
09 Jul 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden
Joe Jones
06 Jul 2017
Update: The response to Tertill’s crowdfunding campaign has amazed and delighted us! Pledges totalling over $250,000 have come from 1000+ backers. We're shipping to all countries, with over a fifth...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Nick Kohut from Dash Robotics
Robohub Editors
06 Jul 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: Bias variance dilemma for humans and the arm farm, with Jeff Dean
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2017
In episode four of season three Neil introduces us to the ideas behind the bias variance dilemma (and how how we can think about it in our daily lives). Plus, we answer a listener question about how t...
Peering into neural networks
MIT News
03 Jul 2017
By Larry Hardesty
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing large sets of training data, are responsible for today’s best-performing artificial intelligence systems...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/3/17
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In a podcast at The Drone Radio Show, Arthur Holland Michel discusses the Center for the Study of the Drone’s recent research on local drone regulations, pu...
The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed
Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron D. Ames, Eric Feron and Magnus Egerstedt
29 Jun 2017
When developing algorithms for coordinating the behaviors of swarms of robots it is crucial that the algorithms are actually deployed and tested on real hardware platforms. Unfortunately, building and...
ARM Institute West Coast meeting review
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
29 Jun 2017
Robotics manufacturing in the US will be getting federal support to match business or startup investments via the new Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Institute. Perhaps more importantly, the ARM...
A robotic doctor is gearing up for action
Horizon Magazine
29 Jun 2017
A robotic doctor that can be controlled hundreds of kilometres away by a human counterpart is gearing up for action. Getting a check-up from a robot may sound like something from a sci-fi film, but sc...
UAV-based crop and weed classification for future farming
Crops are key for a sustainable food production and we face several challenges in crop production. First, we need to feed a growing world population. Second, our society demands high-quality foods. Th...
Spider webs as computers
Helmut Hauser
27 Jun 2017
Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They have evolved over more than 200 million years and can be found in almost every corner of our planet. They are one of the most successful animals. Not less imp...
Drones that drive
CSAIL MIT
27 Jun 2017
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature - many birds, insects and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibiliti...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/24/17
June 19, 2017 – June 25, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In an interview with Robotics Tomorrow, Center for the Study of the Drone Co-Director Arthur Holland Michel discusses t...
Assistive robots compete in Bristol
SPARC
26 Jun 2017
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) will host the first European- Commission funded European Robotics League (ERL) tournament for service robots to be held in the UK....
Shrinking data for surgical training
MIT News
21 Jun 2017
Laparoscopy is a surgical technique in which a fiber-optic camera is inserted into a patient’s abdominal cavity to provide a video feed that guides the surgeon through a minimally invasive procedure...
Robots offer the elderly a helping hand
Horizon Magazine
20 Jun 2017
by Helen Massy-Beresford
Low birth rates and higher life expectancies mean that those over 65 years old now will account for 28.7 % of Europe’s population by 2080, according to Eurostat, the EUâ...
Thought leadership in social sector robotics
Patrick Meier
20 Jun 2017
WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/19/17
June 12, 2017 – June 18, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed two individuals suspected of being members of al-Qaeda. The strike targeted a vehicle in Shabwa province, one ...
From drinking straws to robots
Harvard Gazette
16 Jun 2017
By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer
At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft rob...
Talking Machines: Overfitting and asking ecological questions, with Professor (Emeritus) Tom Dietterich
Talking Machines
16 Jun 2017
In episode three, season three of Talking Machines, we dive into overfitting, take a listener question about unbalanced data and speak with Professor (Emeritus) Tom Dietterich from Oregon State Univer...
How to reduce Zika using flying robots
Patrick Meier
15 Jun 2017
Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at wo...
Indoor show drones make history on Broadway
Christian Hoffmann
14 Jun 2017
Over the past year, 398 audiences of up to 2,000 people witnessed an octet of colorful lampshades perform an airborne choreography during Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway show Paramour, which ran until ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/12/17
June 5, 2017 – June 11, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
At Washington D.C.’s WTOP radio, Center for the Study of the Drone co-director Dan Gettinger discusses the growing use...
Making Pepper walk: Understanding Softbank’s purchase of Boston Dynamics
Oliver Mitchell
12 Jun 2017
It is unclear if Masayoshi Son, Chairman of Softbank, was one of the 17 million YouTube viewers of Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog before acquiring the company for an undisclosed amount this past Thursday...
