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New dual-arm robot achieves bimanual tasks by learning from simulation
University of Bristol
29 Aug 2023
An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions.
AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
MIT News
27 Aug 2023
With a new technique, a robot can reason efficiently about moving objects using more than just its fingertips.
SVR Guide to Robotics Research and Education 2023
Silicon Valley Robotics
22 Aug 2023
This volume serves as a guide to students who are interested in studying the field of robotics in any way.
Robo-Insight #3
Shaunak Kapur
20 Aug 2023
In this third edition, we are excited to feature progress in motion, unfamiliar navigation, dynamic control, digging, agriculture, surgery, and food sorting.
Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principle
The Conversation
19 Aug 2023
Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found.
3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
12 Aug 2023
A new, shape-shifting display can sense and respond to human touch.
Can charismatic robots help teams be more creative?
Frontiers Journals & Blog
09 Aug 2023
Scientists found that students given a task by a social robot with a voice programmed to be engaging and inspiring performed better and were more creative than students who received the task from an identical robot with a flat voice.
An updated guide to Docker and ROS 2
Sebastian Castro
07 Aug 2023
2 years ago, I wrote A Guide to Docker and ROS, which is one of my most frequently viewed posts. Since then, I’ve had the chance to use Docker more in my work and have picked up some new tricks.
Interview with Roberto Figueiredo: the RoboCup experience
Lucy Smith and AIhub
04 Aug 2023
"Every time I go to RoboCup I come out thinking about what I’m going to do next. I couldn’t be more inspired."
Oceans to get better protection with connected underwater technology
Horizon Magazine
31 Jul 2023
Amid rising sea levels, plastics pollution and overfishing, the emerging Internet of Underwater Things will vastly expand knowledge about the world’s seas.
Enabling autonomous exploration
Carnegie Mellon University
30 Jul 2023
CMU-designed systems allow robots to explore on their own.
Pangolin the inspiration for medical robot
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
27 Jul 2023
Robot is made of metal and yet is soft and flexible.
Heat-resistant drone could scope out and map burning buildings and wildfires
Imperial College London
24 Jul 2023
Imperial College London and Empa researchers have built a drone that can withstand high enough temperatures to enter burning buildings.
Robo-Insight #2
Shaunak Kapur
22 Jul 2023
In this 2nd edition, we are excited to showcase progress in hazard mapping, surface crawling, pump controls, adaptive gripping, surgery, health assistance, and mineral extraction.
Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy
Université Libre de Bruxelles
20 Jul 2023
In experiments conducted with both real and simulated robots, we show how blockchain technology enables a robot swarm to neutralize harmful robots without human intervention, thus enabling the deployment of autonomous and safe robot swarms.
A faster way to teach a robot
MIT News
18 Jul 2023
A new technique helps a nontechnical user understand why a robot failed, and then fine-tune it with minimal effort to perform a task effectively.
#RoboCup2023 in tweets – part 2
AIhub and Lucy Smith
16 Jul 2023
We take a look at some of the highlights from the second half of the conference.
#RoboCup2023 in tweets – part 1
AIhub and Lucy Smith
15 Jul 2023
Find out what the participants at RoboCup have been up to in Bordeaux.
Magnetic robots walk, crawl, and swim
MIT News
10 Jul 2023
New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces.
Visual navigation to objects in real homes
Theophile Gervet
07 Jul 2023
We present a large-scale empirical study of semantic visual navigation methods comparing representative methods from classical, modular, and end-to-end learning approaches across six homes with no prior experience, maps, or instrumentation.
Robo-Insight #1
Shaunak Kapur
04 Jul 2023
In this post, we are thrilled to present a range of remarkable advancements in the field, highlighting robotics progress in terrain traversability, shape morphing, object avoidance, mechanical memory, physics-based AI techniques, and new home robotics kits.
What’s coming up at #RoboCup2023?
Lucy Smith and AIhub
03 Jul 2023
The annual RoboCup event kicks off on 4 July - find out more about the competitions and symposium.
Why diversity and inclusion needs to be at the forefront of future AI
Frontiers Journals & Blog
01 Jul 2023
Inês Hipólito is a permanent lecturer of the philosophy of AI at Macquarie University, focusing on cognitive development and the interplay between augmented cognition (AI) and the sociocultural environment. As part of our Frontier Scientist series, Hipólito caught up with Frontiers to tell us about her career and research.
Joanne Pransky: Rest in Peace (1959-2023)
Robin Murphy
29 Jun 2023
It is with great sadness that I am sharing that Joanne Pransky, the World's First Robotic Psychariatrist, and who Isaac Asimov called the real Susan Calvin has passed away.
Meet our new Robohub volunteer: Shaunak Kapur
Robohub Editors
25 Jun 2023
We are happy to dedicate this post to our new volunteer: Shaunak Kapur.
Robot Talk Episode 54 – Robotics and science fiction
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
23 Jun 2023
In this special live recording of the Robot Talk podcast at the Great Exhibition Road Festival, host Claire Asher chatted to Glyn Morgan (Science Museum), Bani Anvari (University College London) and Thrishantha Nanayakara (Imperial College London) to explore how our intelligent friends from the world of science fiction match up with state-of-the art robotics and artificial intelligence reality.
Robots with tact
Mimicking principles of the nervous system could improve prosthetic hands.
Machine-learning method used for self-driving cars could improve lives of type-1 diabetes patients
University of Bristol
17 Jun 2023
The same type of machine learning methods used to pilot self-driving cars and beat top chess players could help type-1 diabetes sufferers keep their blood glucose levels in a safe range.
Robot Talk Episode 53 – Robert Richardson
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
16 Jun 2023
In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Robert Richardson from the University of Leeds all about 3D printing, robot design, and infrastructure repair.
A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying
MIT News
14 Jun 2023
A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.
#ICRA2023 daily video digest
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
11 Jun 2023
If you missed the 2023 edition of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London, here we bring you the video digests that were made each of the main days of the conference. Enjoy!
Robot Talk Episode 52 – Sara Bernardini
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
09 Jun 2023
In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Sara Bernardini from Royal Holloway University of London all about decision-making, reconfigurable robots, and oceanography.
Sponge makes robotic device a soft touch
University of Bristol
07 Jun 2023
A simple sponge has improved how robots grasp, scientists from the University of Bristol have found.
#ICRA2023 awards finalists and winners
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
05 Jun 2023
In this post we bring you all the paper awards finalists and winners presented during the 2023 edition of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Robot Talk Episode 51 – James Kell
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
02 Jun 2023
In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to James Kell from Jacobs Engineering UK all about civil infrastructure, nuclear robotics and jet engine inspection.
We are pleased to announce our 3rd Reddit Robotics Showcase!
reddit
30 May 2023
The 2021 and 2022 events showcased a multitude of fantastic projects from the r/Robotics Reddit community, as well as academia and industry. This year’s event features many wonderful robots including...
