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#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Flying machines

Robohub Editors 09 May 2016

The robotics community have created a series of video tributes that showcase some of the contributions to ICRA, the largest conference in the field of robotics and automation. Episode one features fly...

Talking Machines: Sparse Coding and MADBITS, with Clement Farabet

Talking Machines 09 May 2016

In episode nine of season two, we talk about sparse coding, take a listener question about the next big demonstration for AI after AlphaGo. Plus we talk with Clement Farabet about MADBITS and the work...

Live streaming with #CHI2016

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 09 May 2016

ACM CHI the premier Human-Computer Interaction conference is being held at San Jose ‘in the heart of Silicon Valley’ May 7 - 12. There are panels and papers on robotics, and about the next gen...

MIT student robots battle it out, revolutionary-style

MIT News 07 May 2016

by Jennifer Chu On Thursday evening, just before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, the targets were marked, and the soldiers were … r...

Two upcoming robotics events you should consider attending

Frank Tobe 06 May 2016

May and June offer two important trade shows and conferences for professional and personal service robotics: Innorobo, held in Paris May 24-26 and AUTOMATICA, held June 21-24 in Munich....

Google develops a Chrysler minivan

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 May 2016

If you had asked me recently what big car company was the furthest behind when it came to robocars, one likely answer would be Fiat-Chrysler. In fact, famously, Chrysler ran ads several years ago duri...

Farming with robots

SPARC 04 May 2016

Farmers are increasingly under pressure to feed more people. The UN predicts that the world population will rise from 7.3 billion today to 9.7 billion in 2050. This growing population has become picki...

Call for euRathlon/TRADR Summer School 2016 on heterogeneity in robotic systems

Marta Palau Franco 04 May 2016

The University of Oulu will host a summer school on heterogeneity in Robotic Systems this August in Oulu, Finland, where the latest advances and developments in the field of European research within t...

White House launches public workshops on AI issues

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 04 May 2016

The White House today announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial i...

The Monospinner: world’s mechanically simplest controllable flying machine

Weixuan Zhang, Mark Mueller and Raffaello D'Andrea 03 May 2016

The Monospinner (Fig.1), developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, is the mechanically simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence. It has only one moving part ...

Robohub Digest 04/16: FAA reauthorization, drone ships and US National Robotics Week

Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo 03 May 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....

FIRST hosts 20,000 students in world’s largest robotics competition

Frank Tobe 03 May 2016

More than 20,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis to compete in the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship. The 4-day event ended�...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/2/16

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 03 May 2016

At the Center for the Study of the Drone From April 11 to 15, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons convened hundreds of delegates from member states and non-governmental or...

Octopus points to the future for keyhole surgery

Horizon Magazine 02 May 2016

by Rex Merrifield Keyhole, or minimally invasive, surgery can offer many benefits over more traditional, open operations, including reduced risk of infections, quicker recovery times and less scarrin...

IdeaHub, ABB recruiting innovators for 2nd round robotics accelerator programme

Simon Blair and IdeaHub / Venturebright 02 May 2016

Innovation platform, The IdeaHub, is once again recruiting robotics and software innovators worldwide to take on the challenge of improving the way we work and interact with the next generation of ind...

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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon

Abate De Mey 01 May 2016

Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....

What’s new in robotics this week? SpaceX sending Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018

Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc. 29 Apr 2016

Musk for Mars; Mexican robotics revolution; Russia "battle bot"; MIT student's robot kitchen; Integrating automation; and more. Find out what's happening in our robotics universe this week....

Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war

Alaa Khamis 28 Apr 2016

Landmines are one of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare. In the military, they are considered the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses. The simplicity and cost-effect...

MIT CSAIL’s 6-foot-tall NASA humanoid robot has landed

CSAIL MIT 28 Apr 2016

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL This week MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) received an unusual package: a six-foot-tall, 300-pound humanoid robot that NASA h...

Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 27 Apr 2016

New Zealand’s government innovation agency Callaghan Innovations and Silicon Valley’s innovation non-profit SVForum organized Transforming AgTech, an event bringing together New Zealand and US a...

Cable-driven parallel robots: Motion simulation in a new dimension

Martin Haegele, Philipp Miermeister and Fraunhofer IPA 27 Apr 2016

To date, cable-driven parallel robots have been used in production environments, where they meet high requirements. The systems surpass conventional industrial robots in size and payload by between on...

10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 26 Apr 2016

No agricultural robotics startup will be successful without a strong connection to the farm. And here are 10 strategies for creating that connection I’ve seen succeed. Thanks to the great panel a...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/25/16

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 25 Apr 2016

4/18/16 – 4/24/16 At the Center for the Study of the Drone The recently released movie Eye in the Sky offers a sobering portrait of contemporary counterterrorism operations. In an interview, d...

A robotic fish to save the seas

Silicon Valley Robotics 23 Apr 2016

It’s a water drone, it’s an aquatic robot…it’s a BIV, as in Bio-Inspired Vehicle and these marine BIVs are designed to combat the degrading state of our waterways....

Robotic consensus

MIT News 22 Apr 2016

Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized algorithms, in which each rob...

Talking Machines: Remembering David MacKay

Talking Machines 22 Apr 2016

Recently Professor David MacKay passed away. We’ll spend this episode talking about his extensive body of work and its impacts. We’ll also talk with Philipp Hennig, a research group leader at the ...

What to expect from autonomous cars

SPARC 21 Apr 2016

Over 25,700 people died in car crashes in the European Union in 2014, and 200,000 came home with life-changing injuries....

Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies

MIT News 21 Apr 2016

MIT has offered courses on everything from pirate training to “street-fighting math,” but a new robotics class is truly one for the birds....

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/18/16

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 19 Apr 2016

News A British Airways passenger jet reportedly collided with a drone on final approach to Heathrow airport. According to The Guardian, a ground crew that inspected the Airbus A320 upon its arrival a...

How to hire women

Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay 18 Apr 2016

It’s super hard to find skilled people willing to work for robotics companies in Silicon Valley. Even though robotics is awesome and going to change the world. Because big companies with big payche...

Root: A robot to empower the next generation of coders

Wyss Institute 18 Apr 2016

Computing is currently the fastest growing segment in the STEM fields, yet education in this area has lagged behind technological progress and demand. In early 2016, President Barack Obama unveiled hi...

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