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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
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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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