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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 EU...
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...
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
News
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
News
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...
