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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....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/8/17
May 1, 2017 – May 7, 2017
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The European Aviation Safety Association has propo...
JANUS creates a new era for digital underwater communications
Francesca Nacini
04 May 2017
NATO Nations have agreed to use JANUS, a new underwater communications device, as the NATO Standard for digital underwater communications. This is the first time a digital underwater communication pr...
Robohub Digest 04/17: Robots and jobs, Royal Society’s machine learning report, and spring events
**Editor's note: Due to yesterday's May bank holiday in the UK, we’re posting the April Digest one day late.** A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is relea...
Hardhat bots take over construction sites
Oliver Mitchell
02 May 2017
RobotLabNYC’s third installment will be on June 13, in New York City with Howard Morgan (FirstRound Capital) and Tom Ryden (MassRobotics); together, we will be “Exploring The Autonomous Future...
3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings
MIT News
01 May 2017
The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list further, with the de...
Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be driven by machine learning
The Royal Society and Will Kay
01 May 2017
Over the past few weeks, we’ve blogged about how machine learning is transforming research, nuclear decommissioning, and astronomy. Building on our “Ask the Experts” panel discussion on driverle...
Hosts of Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence and Ryan Adams
Talking Machines
28 Apr 2017
Talking Machines is entering its third season and going through some changes. Our founding host Ryan is moving on and in his place, Neil Lawrence of Amazon is taking over as co-host. We say thank you ...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects – 2016 presented at #ERF2017
SPARC
27 Apr 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 one pro...
Dr Rustam Stolkin and robots that learn: Nuclear robotics meets machine learning
The Royal Society and Susannah Odell
27 Apr 2017
How can we create robots that can carry out important tasks in dangerous environments? Machine learning is supporting advances in the field of robotics. To find out more, we talked to Dr Rustam Stolki...
Recap from International Robotics Week
RoboValley
26 Apr 2017
It was the event we have worked towards since the founding of RoboValley: the International Robotics Week. Last week, we were able to show the whole world what RoboValley has built in the past years a...
Machine learning requires careful stewardship says Royal Society
The Royal Society
25 Apr 2017
The many potential social and economic benefits from advances in AI-based technologies depend entirely on the environment in which these technologies evolve, says the Royal Society. According to a new...
EU-funded robotics technology experiments present their work at Hannover Messe
Robohub Editors
25 Apr 2017
From 24 – 28 April, four ECHORD++ experiments will present their work at Hannover Messe, the world's biggest trade show. You can see the latest advances in EU-funded robotics technology development ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/24/17
April 17, 2017 – April 23, 2017
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A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed four suspected members of al-Qaeda. According to Yemeni officials, the strike targeted al-Qaeda fighters in...
Want to build a Moon base? Easy, just print it
Morgan Saletta
21 Apr 2017
Planetary Resources, a company hoping to make asteroid mining into a trillion dollar industry, earlier this year unveiled the world’s first 3D printed object made from bits of an asteroid.
3D pri...
Looking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
MIT News
21 Apr 2017
The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic shift with the introduction of autonomous driving — or computer-driven cars. Computer vision scientist and Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua PhD ...
ARIAC Qualifier 3 is now open
Open Source Robotics Foundation
21 Apr 2017
We are happy to announce that Qualifier 3 is now open for the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC)! ARIAC is a simulation-based competition is designed to promote agility in in...
Silicon Valley Robot Block Party attracts over 1000 attendees
Silicon Valley Robotics
20 Apr 2017
The 2017 Silicon Valley Robot Block Party set a new high for attendance with over 1000 robot fans plus investors, exhibitors and media. 45 different companies, organizations and groups were represent...
#ERF2017 workshop: Developing the next level Model Driven Robotic Software Ecosystem
Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
20 Apr 2017
The first public RobMoSys Workshop took place on at the ERF in Edinburgh with more than 50 participants. The room was packed. When the interaction discussions began, the crowd split into small groups ...
Two Horizon 2020 projects researching EU Digital Industrial Platform for Robotics
Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
18 Apr 2017
Market pull for better factory automation and the ever-increasing relevance of software in every domain are triggering a rethink in how we develop software for robotics. Techniques such as Model Driv...
Explained: Neural networks
MIT News
18 Apr 2017
In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest automatic translator — have resulted from a technique...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/17/17
April 10, 2017 – April 16, 2017
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A drone strike in the Sinai reportedly killed one person. According to al-Jazeera, the strike targeted a house in Rafah, a town that borders the Gaza Stri...
Crash Course Computer Science video series
John Payne
17 Apr 2017
Crash Course is a video channel you can access through YouTube. Crash Course Computer Science is an ongoing playlist of fast-moving videos that begin with the most basic underpinnings of digital comp...
A vision for Nigeria’s youth: FIRST LEGO league competition held in Nigeria
Stella Uzochukwu
14 Apr 2017
In March, robot programming students took part in the 2016-17 FIRST LEGO LEAGUE competition (FLL) with the theme ‘ANIMAL ALLIES’. FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is a program that supports children and...
