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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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 12 Jul 2016

Download (PDF, 599KB) Background 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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 11 Jul 2016

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

[gallery size="full" columns="1" ids="64156"] 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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 05 Jul 2016

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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 29 Jun 2016

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...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/20/16

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 20 Jun 2016

At the Center for the Study of the Drone The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have passed competing drafts of the National Defense Authorization Act, which establishes funding prioritie...

What’s new in robotics this week? First commercial 3D printer in space is up and running

Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc. 17 Jun 2016

Investing in robots; China's robotics acquisitions; robot designed to hurt; exoskeleton for kids; Russian bot escapes testing ground; 3-DP in space and more. Find out what's happening in our robotics ...

Using soft robots for artificial muscles

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 15 Jun 2016

Forget steel and aluminum. The robots of tomorrow may be able to squish, stretch and squeeze. [focus11] Novel robotic devices, part of the emerging field of soft robotics, offer many advances ov...

Small UAV turbojet engine developed in Japan

DigInfo TV 14 Jun 2016

YSEC, with support from the government, and in partnership with national research institution AIST and small- to medium-sized companies in Niigata Prefecture with superior technology in metal processi...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/13/16

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 13 Jun 2016

At the Center for the Study of the Drone Unmanned technology is becoming an increasingly hot commodity on the global market; it is no surprise, then, that the last few years have seen a spate of ca...

MIT’s AI passes Turing Test for sound

CSAIL MIT 13 Jun 2016

Nearly 70 years after the "Turing Test" was first proposed, the question remains: can we create intelligent machines that exhibit behavior indistinguishable from humans? In December MIT researchers...

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