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From member to mentor: Life after being a FIRST student
Molly Urbina
12 Jun 2017
3! 2! 1! Go! Suddenly, robots jerk into motion and zoom across the field to score points, crossing over several types of terrain and shooting balls into high and low goals. Another buzzer sounds, driv...
Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days
MIT News
09 Jun 2017
In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected regions, carrying communications payloads that p...
Finally! Google sells Boston Dynamics to SoftBank
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2017
In a long-awaited transaction, The New York Times Dealbook announced that SoftBank was buying Boston Dynamics from Alphabet (Google). Also included in the deal is the Japanese startup Schaft. Acquisit...
Mori: A modular origami robot
NCCR Robotics
08 Jun 2017
The fields of modular and origami robotics have become increasingly popular in recent years, with both approaches presenting particular benefits, as well as limitations, to the end user. Christoph Bel...
AI for Good Global Summit welcomes “new frontier” for sustainable development
Robohub Editors
07 Jun 2017
The world's brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanitarian action will meet with industry leaders and academia at the AI for Good Global Summit, 7-9 June 2017, to discuss how AI will...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/5/17
May 29, 2017 – June 4, 2017
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A German court has thrown out a protest filed by U.S. drone maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems over the German military’s decision to acquire the I...
Robohub Digest 05/17: RoboCup turns 20, ICRA in Singapore, robot inspector helps check bridges
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
05 Jun 2017
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Giving robots a sense of touch
MIT News
05 Jun 2017
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact...
VENTURER driverless car project publishes results of first trials
UWE Bristol
05 Jun 2017
VENTURER is the first Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project to start in the UK. The results of VENTURER preliminary trials show that the handover process is a safety critical issue in the developme...
The Uncanny Valley of human-robot interactions
Oliver Mitchell
02 Jun 2017
The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the flying object. In a demonstration of DJI’s newest drone, the audience marveled at the Cok...
Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
CSAIL MIT
02 Jun 2017
Computer scientists have been working for decades on automatic navigation systems to aid the visually impaired, but it’s been difficult to come up with anything as reliable and easy to use as the wh...
Researcher to develop bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee for prosthetics
UWE Bristol
01 Jun 2017
A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics La...
Artificial intelligence: Europe needs a “human in command approach,” says EESC
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
01 Jun 2017
The EU must pursue a policy that ensures the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe in favor, and not conducive to the detriment, acts of society and social welfare,...
Livestream: Committee to take stance in the European debate on artificial intelligence
Kassie Perlongo
31 May 2017
Today, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is going to debate its stance in the European discussion on AI and will express conflicting views on certain issues, especially on the questi...
Faster, more nimble drones on the horizon
MIT News
31 May 2017
There’s a limit to how fast autonomous vehicles can fly while safely avoiding obstacles. That’s because the cameras used on today’s drones can only process images so fast, frame by individual fr...
Talking machines: Graphons and “inferencing”
Talking Machines
30 May 2017
In episode two of season three Neil takes us through the basics on dropout, we chat about the definition of inference (It's more about context than you think!) and hear an interview with Jennifer Chay...
How a challenging aerial environment sparked a business opportunity
Max Ruffo
30 May 2017
We develop the fastest, smallest and lightest distance sensors for advanced robotics in challenging environments. These sensors are born from a fruitful collaboration with CERN while developing flying...
Live coverage of #ICRA2017
Robohub Editors
30 May 2017
The next edition of IEEE 2017 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is in Singapore! The event kicked off on Monday 29 May and is running until 3 June. ICRA is one of the leadin...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/29/17
May 22, 2017 – May 28, 2017
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A U.S. drone strike reportedly killed three members of the Pakistani Taliban. According to the Associated Press, the strike targeted a compound in Khost provi...
Xponential 2017 in images
The National Robotics Education Foundation
25 May 2017
The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...
SoftBank invests $5 billion into Didi Chuxing and $4 billion more in Nvidia
Frank Tobe
24 May 2017
SoftBank, the giant telecom company, is venturing out into the world of robotics and transportation services. DealStreet Asia said that SoftBank is trying to transform itself into the 'Berkshire Hatha...
The sunny side of the roboconomy in the Middle East
Mauricio Zuazua
24 May 2017
The Middle East and North Africa's youthful, fast-urbanizing population are perfectly placed to embrace technology and reap the rewards of the Fourth Industrial Revolution....
Dutch start-up launches next generation mapping drone
RoboValley
23 May 2017
Drone company Atmos UAV has launched Marlyn, a lightweight drone which flies automatically, effortlessly and at high wind speeds. One of the first customers that signed up is Skeye, Europe’s leadin...
What has twenty years of RoboCup taught us?
Oliver Mitchell
23 May 2017
In 1985, a twenty-two year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion. Twelve years later, he was defeated by the only player capable of challenging the grandmaster, IBM’s Deep Blu...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/22/17
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A U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down the Federal Aviation Administration’s drone registration requirement for recreational operators. The federal court ruled that the registration system ...
Robots on drilling platforms: Austrian-German consortium wins international competition
Robohub Editors
22 May 2017
Last week taurob, together with research partner TU Darmstadt, was announced the winner of the ARGOS Challenge, powered by Oil & Gas giant Total S.A.
In a three-year competition, five internati...
2017 Robot Art Competition winners announced
Robohub Editors
19 May 2017
A record number of teams submitted beautiful robot-created artwork for the second year of this 5-year worldwide competition. In total, there were 38 teams from 10 countries who submitted 200 differen...
The Force was strong in this robot competition
MIT News
18 May 2017
Thursday night, dozens of robots designed and built by undergraduates in a mechanical engineering class endured hours of intense, boisterous, and often jubilant competition as they scrambled to rack u...
Kids celebrate robotics at RoboFes 2017
Alberto Moreno
17 May 2017
Robo Done, the robotic academy franchise for kids from Osaka, Japan, celebrated Japan’s Day of the Children on the 5th of May at their annual event, Robot Festival 2017 or RoboFes. The event welcome...
On the future of human-centered robotics
MIT News
16 May 2017
Science and technology are essential tools for innovation, and to reap their full potential, we also need to articulate and solve the many aspects of today’s global issues that are rooted in the pol...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...
Drones land back to Earth at Xponential 2017
Oliver Mitchell
15 May 2017
JD Claridge’s story epitomizes the current state of the drone industry. Claridge, founder of xCraft, is best known for being the first contestant on Shark Tank to receive money from all the Shark...
Launch of the Chairless Chair announced
NCCR Robotics
12 May 2017
Last month, Swiss start-up and NCCR Robotics and ETH Zurich spin-off noonee, announced the start of series production and sales launch of their Chairless Chair. The company was founded in 2014 and sin...
Growing healthy resilient biological tissues on humanoid robots
Kassie Perlongo
12 May 2017
Musculoskeletal robots may one day assist the growth of replacement tissue grafts for transplant patients....
Teaching robots to teach other robots
CSAIL MIT
10 May 2017
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...
Making 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper
MIT News
08 May 2017
If you haven’t used a 3-D printer yet, you may be surprised to learn that it isn’t fully automated the way your office’s inkjet is....
