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    Congratulations to Semio, Apellix and Mothership Aeronautics
    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...
    17 December 2017, by

    Looping quadrotor balances an inverted pendulum
    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...
    15 December 2017, by

    Holiday robot videos 2017: Part 1
    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....
    15 December 2017, by

    Computer systems predict objects’ responses to physical forces
    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...
    15 December 2017, by

    Swiss drone industry map
    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...
    13 December 2017, by

    Robots in Depth with Mel Torrie
    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...
    13 December 2017, by



    Robots solving climate change
    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...
    13 December 2017, by

    Three very different startups vie for “Robohub Choice”
    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...
    12 December 2017, by

    Reading a neural network’s mind
    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...
    11 December 2017, by

    Robohub Podcast is on Patreon!
    Robohub Podcast has launched a campaign on Patreon!...
    07 December 2017, by

    FaSTrack: Ensuring safe real-time navigation of dynamic systems
    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...
    07 December 2017, by

    Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers
    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...
    07 December 2017, by

    The stories we tell about technology: AI Narratives
    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...
    07 December 2017, by

    Videos from the International Conference on Robot Learning
    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),...
    06 December 2017, by

    Vote for your favorite in Robot Launch Startup Competition!
    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 ...
    02 December 2017, by

    Call for robot holiday videos 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 ...
    01 December 2017, by

    Model-based reinforcement learning with neural network dynamics
    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...
    01 December 2017, by

    Humanoids 2017 photo competition and winners
    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...
    29 November 2017, by

    #ERW2017: “Robot Discovery” central event in tweets
    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...
    29 November 2017, by

    European Robotics Week 2017: Live coverage
    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....
    24 November 2017, by

    We built a robot care assistant for elderly people – here’s how it works
    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...
    24 November 2017, by

    The advantage of four legs
    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...
    23 November 2017, by

    Announcing the shortlist for Robot Launch 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...
    22 November 2017, by

    DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning
    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...
    22 November 2017, by

    ANDROIDS through the eye of a 19th century wooden camera
    Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer have fused their scientific and photographic interests in robots and traveled the world since 2016 to visit roboticists to discuss and photograph their creations. Th...
    19 November 2017, by and

    Efficient data acquisition in MATLAB: Streaming HD video in real-time
    The acquisition and processing of a video stream can be very computationally expensive. Typical image processing applications split the work across multiple threads, one acquiring the images, and anot...
    16 November 2017, by

    The race to own the autonomous super highway: Digging deeper into Broadcom’s offer to buy Qualcomm
    Governor Andrew Cuomo of the State of New York declared last month that New York City will join 13 other states in testing self-driving cars: “Autonomous vehicles have the potential to save time an...
    14 November 2017, by

    Smart soft robotics for stroke rehabilitation
    The culmination of work by Alistair C. McConnell (lead-researcher) through his PhD and the SOPHIA team, the Soft Orthotic Physiotherapy Hand Interactive Aid (SOPHIA) forms the foundation for our futur...
    09 November 2017, by

    How will robots and AI change our way of life in 2030?
    At #WebSummit 2017, I was part of a panel on what the future will bring in 2030 with John Vickers from Blue Abyss, Jacques Van den Broek from Randstad and Stewart Rogers from Venture Beat. John talked...
    09 November 2017, by

    Robust distributed decision-making in robot swarms
    Reaching an optimal shared decision in a distributed way is a key aspect of many multi-agent and swarm robotic applications....
    06 November 2017, by

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