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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
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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...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/25/16
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A federal judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration has the authority to require Austin and Bret Haughwout to turn over documents relating to two homemade drones. In 2015, the Haugh...
What’s new in robotics this week? SoftBank spending $32 billion on ARM
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
22 Jul 2016
Softbank spending $32 billion on ARM; tactile intelligence is the future of robotic grasping; a 'cyborg' robot is built out of sea slug muscles and 3D printing; a German robot grills up sausages and...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 4
Open Source Robotics Foundation
21 Jul 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...
Why football, not chess, is the true final frontier for robotic artificial intelligence
Daniel Polani
20 Jul 2016
The perception of what artificial intelligence was capable of began to change when chess grand master and world champion Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing program, in 1997. Deep ...
Law-abiding robots? What should the legal status of robots be?
Anders Sandberg
18 Jul 2016
News media are reporting that the EU is considering turning robots into electronic persons with rights and apparently industry spokespeople are concerned that Brussels’ overzealousness could hinder ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/18/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
A cache of personal documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011 includes several letters that refer to the drones used by the U...
Driving, flying, and climbing in a sand and gravel pit
Tim Barfoot
18 Jul 2016
In June, the University of Toronto (as part of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network) carried out a set of field trials at an old sand and gravel pit in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. This involved thr...
A European perspective on robot law: Interview with Mady Delvaux-Stehres
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
15 Jul 2016
10 years after the release of the EURON Roboethics Roadmap and we are witnessing a technology revolution. In the last 10 years, we've seen: Google’s self-driving car, Amazon’s KIVA system, drone...
Robot Launch 2016 searching for the world’s best robotics and AI startups
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
13 Jul 2016
We need you! Silicon Valley Robotics and Robohub have just launched the 2016 Robot Launch global online startup competition. Pitch your robotics startup online to an audience of top VCs, investors and...
Recreating ancient vertebrate’s first step on dry land, with a robot
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
12 Jul 2016
Could a tail have allowed ancient vertebrates to make the transition from water to land?
Reporting in Science today, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Cl...
Over 1,000 robots in use by US law enforcement, based on public data
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Robots are an increasingly common sight in U.S. police departments. These unmanned ground vehicles are used for roles that are deemed too hazardous for law enforce...
Anki’s new Cozmo SDK turns toy robots into sophisticated research tools
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Jul 2016
Anki’s new robot Cozmo (with free SDK) shows that this consumer robotics startup has got bigger plans than simply dominating the smart toy category. Founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Insti...
MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor
CSAIL MIT
11 Jul 2016
Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Growing numbers of robots are being transferred from the U.S. Department of Defense to domestic law enforcement agencies. We have conducted an in-depth anal...
What’s new in robotics this week? Amazon’s robot champion
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
08 Jul 2016
Amazon's robot champion; Bipedal robot's testing terrain; Robots thinking like predators; Major flaw in Turing Test; Google car is cyclist-aware and more. Find out what's happening in our robotics un...
Talking Machines: Automatic Translation and t-SNE, with Hal Daume
Talking Machines
08 Jul 2016
In episode thirteen of season two, we talk about t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE), take a listener question about statistical physics, plus, speak with Hal Daume of the University ...
The Robot Afterlife: An exciting story about the post-factory years
Charlotte Shea and Robotiq Inc.
06 Jul 2016
Do you ever wonder what happens to those faithful working industrial robots when they retire? Whether they are stored in a closet, used for new manufacturing cells or turned into art, every robot has ...
Robohub Digest 06/16: Celebrating collaboration, record robot sales, ethical debates and Brexit
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
05 Jul 2016
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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...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/4/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria is the first major war in which drones have been used extensively to create aerial videos of events on the ground, pr...
Automatica’s exhibitors were trumpeting Industry 4.0. Is this the turning point for robotics?
SPARC and Adriana Hamacher
04 Jul 2016
Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution - was the main theme at the largest robot and automation fair in the world, Germany's AUTOMATICA, which took place in Munich throughout the last week o...
Live coverage: Robocup 2016
Robohub Editors
30 Jun 2016
Robocup 2016 kicks off today in Leipzig, Germany. The event brings together 3,500 participants from 45 countries and regions competing in 17 disciplines....
How template matching works in robot vision
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
30 Jun 2016
What does a robot vision system see when it detects an object on the production line? Computer vision systems have become both advanced and intuitive in recent years. It can be easy to forget that the...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/27/16
Workers with Virginia-based Hazon Solutions inspect a telephone poll using a drone. Credit: Dan Gettinger
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Federal Aviation Administration published its m...
What’s new in robotics this week? Limiting cuteness in robot design
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
24 Jun 2016
Automatica coverage; new sUAS rules; limiting cuteness in robot design; bots to become electronic persons?; European Robotics League launches, and more. Find out what's happening in our robotics unive...
Boston Dynamics made a new robot: SpotMini
Robohub Editors
23 Jun 2016
SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, d...
Building better trust between humans and machines
MIT News
23 Jun 2016
MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....
New partnership looks to strengthen European robot industry
Samuel Brøgger
22 Jun 2016
A new EU-funded, robot technology transfer partnership is looking to help manufacturing and robotics companies with robot consultancy, networking, and funding....
FAA announcement for sUAS met with industry excitement
Diana Marina Cooper
21 Jun 2016
This morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the highly anticipated rules governing the operation of small UAS (sUAS) for commercial purposes. The new rules are scheduled to take...
Teaching machines to predict the future
CSAIL MIT
21 Jun 2016
When we see two people meet, we can often predict what happens next: a handshake, a hug, or maybe even a kiss. Our ability to anticipate actions is thanks to intuitions born out of a lifetime of exper...
Talking Machines: Fantasizing cats and data numbers, with Iain Murray
Talking Machines
20 Jun 2016
In episode twelve of season two, we discuss generative adversarial networks, take a listener question about using machine learning to improve or create products, and lastly, speak with Iain Murray fro...
