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#DARS16 live coverage and video trailer: From robot swarms to origami modules
Sabine Hauert
07 Nov 2016
The 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) in London this week brings together the very best working in multi-robot systems....
Robotics tutor for primary school children
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
04 Nov 2016
By: Ian Salter
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
Talking Machines: ANGLICAN and Probabilistic Programming
Talking Machines
04 Nov 2016
In episode seventeen of season two, we get an introduction to Min Hashing, talk with Frank Wood the creator of ANGLICAN, about probabilistic programming and his new company, INVREA, and take a listene...
Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
Robohub Editors
03 Nov 2016
In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...
Clearpath Robotics launches “Warthog UGV”, the amphibious robot
Clearpath Robotics
03 Nov 2016
Clearpath Robotics, a leading provider of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, has partnered with ARGO XTR to release Warthog – a large, amphibious, all-terrain mobile robot desig...
Robot Launch 2016 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round one
Andra Keay
02 Nov 2016
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for their “Readers’ Pick” startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we’ll be publishing 10 videos. Our ultimate Robohub Readers...
Unmanned and underneath: Stay in the know about underwater drones
Dan Gettinger
02 Nov 2016
Editor's note: This article is adapted from a post from November 2015 and includes recent developments and updated spending figures.
In October 2016, the U.K. Royal Navy hosted Unmanned Warr...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/31/16
October 24, 2016 – October 30, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Last year, we posted one of our regular “Need to Know” cheat sheets about the growing field of underwater drone...
Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding
Zee Dubrovsky
31 Oct 2016
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Root is a robot, originally developed at Harvard University, that helps anyone from four to ...
No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
Robohub Editors
28 Oct 2016
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
Making computers explain themselves
MIT News
28 Oct 2016
In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classi...
Announcing the Robot Launch Shortlist
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Oct 2016
It's time to showcase the Robot Launch semifinalists, or 'The Shortlist'. Every week over the next month you will meet 9-10 very interesting robotics and AI startups from all over the world and you w...
A variable stiffness fiber that self-heals
NCCR Robotics
27 Oct 2016
A group from Floreano Lab, EPFL and NCCR Robotics has today published their novel variable stiffness fibre with self-healing capability.
Soft “hardware” components are becoming more and more po...
Electric motors expanding application and efficiency in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
MIT News
25 Oct 2016
Electric motors have been around since Thomas Davenport built the first functional model in 1834, and they have played a growing part in our lives ever since. Today, they continue to replace diesel an...
Protecting infrastructure and innovation, under Section 2209 of the FAA extension
Diana Marina Cooper
25 Oct 2016
On July 15, 2016, Congress enacted the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act (the “Act”), which among other things, directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a process to enable appli...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/24/16
October 17, 2016 – October 23, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In their perennial bid to better understand the weather, scientists are increasingly turning to drones, from high-a...
Robot-assisted search and rescue conducts joint training exercise with Italian Coast Guard
Robin Murphy and Gianluca Antonelli
24 Oct 2016
The Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station conducted a joint training exercise with the Italian Coast Guard in Genoa, Italy to prevent fu...
Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
MIT News
21 Oct 2016
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
20 Oct 2016
I’m delighted to announce a new game-changing standard for building robot hardware components: H-ROS (the Hardware Robot Operating System). H-ROS provides manufacturers tools for building interope...
Schiaparelli, are you there? The high risks of space robotics again crash home
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Oct 2016
In Darmstadt, Germany, European Space Agency (ESA) teams are scrambling to confirm contact with the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), Schiaparelli—the spectre of Philae still hau...
Who are the most active robotics investors?
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
19 Oct 2016
You may be surprised, but I’m not. These are the people I see regularly both in Silicon Valley and overseas interacting with the robotics community. That makes them the smart money (most of the time...
Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84
CSAIL MIT
18 Oct 2016
Whitman Richards '53, PhD '65, professor emeritus of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, died o...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/17/16
October 10, 2016 – October 16, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. president plays a key role in determining the country’s counterterrorism policies, including the use of ...
President Obama discusses artificial intelligence with Media Lab Director Joi Ito
MIT News
17 Oct 2016
When President Barack Obama agreed to guest-edit the November issue of WIRED, he selected MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito for an exchange of ideas about artificial intelligence (AI). Their recent inter...
White House releases reports focusing on opportunities and challenges of AI
Dave Gershgorn
14 Oct 2016
While the future of artificial intelligence is probably going to be driven by Silicon Valley, the folks in Washington DC want their say about how it will work, too.
In two reports, the White House ...
Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
CSAIL MIT
13 Oct 2016
3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
It’s not only engineers who work in robotics
Hallie Siegel
12 Oct 2016
Robotics has always been an interdisciplinary field - one that integrates knowledge from computer science, mechanical, electrical, controls, and other areas of engineering. But as robots move out of f...
Launching the Women in Robotics network
Silicon Valley Robotics
11 Oct 2016
Women in Robotics is a new international professional community. If you are a woman who works in robotics, or who aspires to, we are inviting you to join! ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/10/16
October 3, 2016 – October 9, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Syria killed Abu al-Farai al-Masri, an Egyptian-born veteran of al-Qaeda and leader of Jabhat al-Nusra. According to a statement b...
Oxbotica’s autonomous vehicle software learns its environment and how it changes over time
Kassie Perlongo
10 Oct 2016
Oxbotica, a UK technology company with a focus on mobile robotics and driverless vehicles, has created Selenium, an autonomous software system acting similar to a 'brain' for a vehicle. Selenium can...
Welcoming new global partners
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
10 Oct 2016
Silicon Valley Robotics held an innovation tour for some of our global partners ahead of the RoboBusiness conference in San Jose. Representatives from Odense Robotics Cluster, Invest in Denmark and De...
Powered arm prosthesis race at Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
07 Oct 2016
This week, the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland and today we present to you the second of the NCCR Robotics teams to be taking part in the competition, LeMano. The Cyba...
In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Christian Bettstetter
07 Oct 2016
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
Virtual race: Competing in Brain Computer Interface at Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
05 Oct 2016
This week the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. Cybathlon is the brainchild of NCCR Robotics co-director and ETH Zurich professor Robert Riener, and is designed to faci...
Drone flight through narrow gaps using onboard sensing and computing
In this work, we address one of the main challenges towards autonomous drone flight in complex environments, which is flight through narrow gaps....
