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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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Mecha Monsters, with Silas Adekunle

Audrow Nash 17 Apr 2016

Transcript below. In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Silas Adekunle, Co-founder and CEO of Reach Robotics. They speak about Reach Robotics’ first product, Mecha Monsters: legged, gaming robo...

New startup accelerator looks to enable smart and connected machines

Sabine Hauert 14 Apr 2016

The Kickstart Accelerator program in Switzerland is currently accepting applications from early-stage startups making "smart and connected machines", namely robots....

Why robots need to be able to say ‘No’

Matthias Scheutz 13 Apr 2016

Should you always do what other people tell you to do? Clearly not. Everyone knows that. So should future robots always obey our commands? At first glance, you might think they should, simply because ...

Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat

Christian Bettstetter 13 Apr 2016

Samira Hayat is following her calling: She has been a member of the Mobile Systems research team at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems since 2012. Before that, she studied in Trento. Ma...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/11/16

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

4/4/16 – 4/11/16 At the Center for the Study of the Drone Every few years, the Federal Aviation Administration has to be authorized so that it can receive funding and do its job. The U.S. Cong...

SpaceX nails landing on drone ship

Kassie Perlongo 11 Apr 2016

After several unsuccessful attempts, SpaceX finally made a perfect touchdown with its Falcon 9 rocket on the drone ship, aptly named: 'Of Course I Still Love You.' A historic moment with the help...

AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’

Frank Tobe 08 Apr 2016

From the Smithsonian comes news - and a must-see fascinating video - about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature...

Talking Machines: Machine learning and society, with Neil Lawrence

Talking Machines 08 Apr 2016

Episode seven of season two is a little different than our usual episodes; Ryan and Katherine returned from a conference where they got to talk with Neil Lawrence from University of Sheffield about so...

Robots that may help you in your silver age

SPARC 07 Apr 2016

By 2020, a quarter of Europeans will be over 60. In their silver age, many would like to stay in their homes and will require care from family or social workers....

National Robotics Week 2016

Robohub Editors 06 Apr 2016

Happy National Robotics Week! This week robot-related activities, events, and talks are happening all across the US. Are you attending any events near you? ...

3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required

CSAIL MIT 06 Apr 2016

By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL One reason we don’t yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, ...

Smart Digital Factory Lab showcasing Industry 4.0

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc. 05 Apr 2016

We often see robotic or automated cells purposed to do a single motion or a very specific application. However, with all the new technology available in the market, it is interesting to see how each s...

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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 04 Apr 2016

3/28/16 – 4/3/16 News The U.S. military announced that it carried out a drone strike in Somalia targeting Hassan Ali Dhoore, a senior leader of al-Shabab’s intelligence and security division...

Robohub Digest 03/16: Robotics’ first unicorn, AlphaGo success, and Tay and Google Car failures

Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo 04 Apr 2016

[tweetquote]A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news[/tweetquote], our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....

Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products

Tyson Messori 04 Apr 2016

UPDATE: Only 7 days left to back Sweep! They are now almost 80% funded....

Japan’s first 5-axis hybrid 3D printer

DigInfo TV 04 Apr 2016

In a collaborative research effort, Enomoto Kogyo, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, and software company C&G Systems have developed Japan’s first 5-axis hybrid 3D printer, capable of ...

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