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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/12/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We are a decade into what is often described as “the drone revolution,” a period of remarkable growth in the development, proliferation, and use of mili...
Telepresence robots help chronically ill kids maintain social, academic ties at school
University of California, Irvine
09 Sep 2016
Chronically ill, homebound children who use robotic surrogates to “attend” school feel more socially connected with their peers and more involved academically, according to a first-of-its-kind stu...
HAPTIX program underway to create prosthetic hand system that moves and feels like a real hand
Open Source Robotics Foundation
09 Sep 2016
By: Brian Gerkey
Fundamentally, robotics is about helping people. Robots help us manufacture things, help us build things, and help make our lives easier and more convenient. As robotic systems in...
Talking Machines: Restricted Boltzmann Machines, with Eric Lander
Talking Machines
09 Sep 2016
In episode sixteen of season two, we get an introduction to Restricted Boltzmann Machines, take a listener question about tuning hyperparameters, plus, speak with Eric Lander of the Broad Institute....
Meet the pilots preparing for Cybathlon: Claudia Breidbach
NCCR Robotics
08 Sep 2016
Claudia Breidbach is pilot with Touch Bionics in the Powered Arm Prosthesis Race. When Claudia isn't preparing for the Cybathlon, she can be found competing with her skydiving team, KARMA....
Human-robot disaster response team successfully deployed robots in earthquake damaged monuments
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
08 Sep 2016
After the devastating earthquake in Amatrice, Italy, on August 24th, the Vigili del Fuoco (Italian fire brigade) requested assistance from the TRADR (Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot-Assisted...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/5/16
August 29, 2016 – September 4, 2016
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A U.S. airstrike in Syria killed Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior strategist and spokesperson for the Islamic State. According to two U.S. officials w...
Robohub Digest 08/16: Olympics, problematic crowdfunding, and NASA’s space robotics challenges
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
05 Sep 2016
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Surveying flooded mines with UNEXMIN: Interview with Norbert Zajzon
Luís Lopes
01 Sep 2016
The UNEXMIN project (Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines) started February 2016. It is an EU-funded project, from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Luís Lopes, from the La Palma...
Livestream: NASA’s final sample return robot competition
Robohub Editors
31 Aug 2016
After five years of competition by more than 40 different teams from around the globe, NASA’s Sample Return Robot Challenge has reached its final stage. The top seven teams will compete for the $1.3...
Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction
Robohub Editors
30 Aug 2016
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk. The AI computer s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/29/16
August 22, 2016 – August 28, 2016
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A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda. According to witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press, the strike t...
Introducing the Octobot: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Harvard SEAS
25 Aug 2016
By: Leah Burrows
A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft r...
Tackling the European refugee crisis with solar-powered UAVs: A fully autonomous 26 hour search-and-rescue flight
Philipp Oettershagen
24 Aug 2016
One year after having demonstrated the 81-hour continuous solar-powered flight that is still the current world record in flight endurance for all aircrafts < 50kg total mass, the AtlantikSolar UAV ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/22/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As growing numbers of countries around the world acquire and deploy military drones, the task of tracking where they are based and how they are being used b...
People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones
Adriana Hamacher
19 Aug 2016
Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests....
Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light
Robohub Editors
19 Aug 2016
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired mic...
NASA Space Robotics Challenge prepares robots for the journey to Mars
Robohub Editors
18 Aug 2016
The Space Robotics Competition is open for teams to develop and display the abilities of an R5 robot by assisting in the procedures for a NASA mission to Mars, offering a $1 million prize pool for ...
Talking Machines: Generative art and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, with Doug Eck
Talking Machines
17 Aug 2016
In episode fifteen of season two, we talk about Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, take a listener question about unbalanced data, plus, speak with Doug Eck of Google’s Magenta project....
Everything you need to know about drone racing
By Matt Windsor
This past weekend, 145 competitors from around the world gathered on New York City’s Governors Island for the second annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships. The winner wa...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/15/16
August 8, 2016 – August 14, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Earlier this month, hundreds of drones descended upon New York’s Governors Island for the second annual U.S. Nationa...
Last call for startups – Robot Launch 2016
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
13 Aug 2016
The robotics industry is maturing. The quality of startups in particular has really changed over the last 2-3 years, and this is backed up by the increasing investment levels, with over $1 billio...
Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
Victoria Webster
12 Aug 2016
Think of a traditional robot and you probably imagine something made from metal and plastic. Such “nuts-and-bolts” robots are made of hard materials. As robots take on more roles beyond the lab, s...
Exoskeletons: From helping people walk to controlling robots in space
SPARC
11 Aug 2016
44 million people aged between 15 and 64 report a basic activity difficulty, with the most prominent disabilities centered around lifting and carrying, walking, bending, sitting or standing. Strokes a...
European Robotics League posts first major tournament results
Marta Palau Franco
11 Aug 2016
The European Robotics League (ERL) is a European-based common framework for robotics competitions in the fields of Industrial Robots (ERL Industrial Robots), Service Robots (ERL Service Robots) and Em...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – Part 5
Open Source Robotics Foundation
09 Aug 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Marty: the little walking robot that’s more than a toy
Alexander Enoch
08 Aug 2016
Update: Only 4 days left to crowdfund Marty! They are over 70% towards reaching their goal! ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/8/16
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A U.S. airstrike in Yemen killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In a statement, U.S. Central Command announced that the strike took place in Yemen’s central Shabwa provi...
Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
08 Aug 2016
By: Chris Bogdon
The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from all over the globe to compete in an autonomous gro...
Wall-climbing robots create a carbon fiber hammock (with video, images)
Robohub Editors
04 Aug 2016
Maria Yablonina's project, called Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures, demonstrates a new production process for filament structures, like carbon fiber, by crawling up the wall ...
Microswimmer robot chains can decouple and reconnect in magnetic field
Robohub Editors
02 Aug 2016
Drexel University researchers, led by MinJun Kim, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, have successfully pulled off a feat that both sci-fi fans and Michael Phelps could appreciate. Using a...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/1/16
July 25, 2016 – July 31, 2016
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The U.S. Air Force has created a new training course for officers responsible for ensuring that the communications between drones and pilots are secure. The Elec...
Robohub Digest 07/16: Tesla’s Autopilot question, lethal robots, RoboCup, and a brave 10-year-old
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
01 Aug 2016
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Flying robots perform 100th show on Broadway, using new localization technology and algorithms
Bill Keays and Markus Waibel
29 Jul 2016
Since April, a troupe of eight flying machines has been performing in a Cirque du Soleil Broadway show called Paramour. This group of quadcopters has now completed its first 100 shows in front of a li...
‘IDSC Tailsitter’ flying robot performs vertical loops and easily transitions between hover and forward flight
Robin Ritz
28 Jul 2016
The IDSC Tailsitter has been designed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, as a testbed for novel control algorithms for tailsitter vehicles. The goal of the project is to dev...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and the Flint water crisis, with Jake Abernethy
Talking Machines
27 Jul 2016
In episode fourteen of season two, we discuss Perturb-and-MAP and answer a listener question about classic artificial intelligence ideas being used in modern machine learning. Plus, we speak with Ja...
