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AI holidays 2023
Thanks to those that sent and suggested AI and robotics-themed holiday videos, images, and stories. Here’s a sample to get you into the spirit this season....
31 December 2023, by
AIhub and Lucy Smith
Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives
By Farshad Arvin, Martin Stefanec, and Tomas Krajnik
Be it the news or the dwindling number of creatures hitting your windscreens, it will not have evaded you that the insect world in bad shape.
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31 December 2023, by
The Conversation
Robot Talk Episode 63 – Ayse Kucukyilmaz
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Ayse Kucukyilmaz from the University of Nottingham about collaboration, conflict and failure in human-robot interactions.
31 December 2023, by
Robot Talk
Interview with Dautzenberg Roman: #IROS2023 Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation sponsored by OMRON Sinic X Corp.
The award-winning author describe their work on an aerial robot which can exert large forces onto walls.
19 November 2023, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Robot Talk Episode 62 – Jorvon Moss
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Jorvon (Odd-Jayy) Moss from Digikey about making robots at home, and robot design and aesthetics.
17 November 2023, by
Robot Talk
California is the robotics capital of the world
In California, robotics technology is a small fish in a much bigger technology pond, and that tends to conceal how important Californian companies are to the robotics revolution.
12 November 2023, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
Robot Talk Episode 61 – Masoumeh Mansouri
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri from the University of Birmingham about culturally sensitive robots and planning in complex environments.
10 November 2023, by
Robot Talk
The 5 levels of Sustainable Robotics
Robots can solve the UN SDGs and not just via the application area.
08 November 2023, by
Andra Keay
Using language to give robots a better grasp of an open-ended world
By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.
06 November 2023, by
MIT News
Robot Talk Episode 60 – Carl Strathearn
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Carl Strathearn from Edinburgh Napier University about humanoid robots, realistic robot faces and speech.
03 November 2023, by
Robot Talk
AAAI Fall Symposium: Patrícia Alves-Oliveira on human-robot interaction design
We summarise the first keynote from the symposium on artificial intelligence for human-robot interaction.
31 October 2023, by
AIhub and Lucy Smith
Robots for deep-sea recovery missions in sci-fi and reality
A science fiction/science fact review of Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove, the fictionalized version of the Hughes Glomar Explorer expedition 50 years before the OceanGate Titan tragedy.
30 October 2023, by
Robin Murphy
Do humans get lazier when robots help with tasks?
Humans carrying out quality assurance tasks spotted fewer errors when they had been told that robots had already checked a piece, suggesting they relied on the robots and paid less attention to the work.
29 October 2023, by
Frontiers Journals & Blog
Robot Talk Episode 59 – Ffion Llewellyn
In the latest episode of the Robot Talk podcast, Claire chatted to Ffion Llewellyn from Oshen about sea-faring robots and ocean sensing.
27 October 2023, by
Robot Talk
Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming – Interview with Michael Littman
"A deeper knowledge of computing can be very empowering, and I wanted to bring that to a larger audience."
26 October 2023, by
AIhub and Lucy Smith
