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Robohub’s 10 most viewed articles from 2016

by Robohub Editors

30 December 2016

10: Why making robots is still hard

by SPARC

June 26, 2015 - The Tethered Robotic Explorer (TReX) robot being described by Patrick McGarey to a visiting group. The newly conceived platform was unveil to the public for the first time. TReX can climb many kind of steep terrain with the help of its onboard tether management system. It weighs roughly 90 kg and was built over a Husky from Clearpath Robotics. Photo credit: François Pomerleau - University of Toronto

9: 10 essential skills for roboticists

by Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.

Simulation results for a unmanned drone flying over downtown Los Angeles showing the true trajectory (red line), from GPS only (yellow line), and GPS aided with cellular signals (blue line). Image: ASPIN Laboratory at UC Riverside

8: No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation

by Sarah Nightingale

7: Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System

by Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Supersuit in the future? Source: Bigstockphoto

6: Are skintight suits the future of robotic exoskeletons?

by Steve Davis

5: 25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2016

by Andra Keay, Kassie Perlongo, Sabine Hauert and Hallie Siegel

The Monospinner in flight.

4: The Monospinner: world’s mechanically simplest controllable flying machine

by Weixuan Zhang, Mark Mueller and Raffaello D’Andrea

3: Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products

by Tyson Messori

2: Farming with robots

by SPARC

… and here’s Robohub’s most viewed article from 2016:

1: Meet the drone that already delivers your packages, Kiva robot teardown

by Ben Einstein

Happy new year everybody!!

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Robohub Editors

One giant leap for the mini cheetah

A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.

23 October 2021, by MIT News

Robotics Today latest talks – Raia Hadsell (DeepMind), Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley) and Antonio Bicchi (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

Robotics Today held three more online talks since we published the one from Amanda Prorok (Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems). In this post we bring you the last talks that Robotics Today...

21 October 2021, by Daniel Carrillo-Zapata and Robotics Today

Sense Think Act Pocast: Erik Schluntz

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Erik Schluntz, co-founder and CTO of Cobalt Robotics, which makes a security guard robot. Erik speaks about how their robot handles elevators, how they have hum...

19 October 2021, by Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast

A robot that finds lost items

Researchers at MIT have created RFusion, a robotic arm with a camera and radio frequency (RF) antenna attached to its gripper, that fuses signals from the antenna with visual input from the camera to locate and retrieve an item, even if the item is buried under a pile and completely out of view.

18 October 2021, by MIT News

Robohub gets a fresh look

If you visited Robohub this week, you may have spotted a big change: how this blog looks now! On Tuesday (coinciding with Ada Lovelace Day and our ‘50 women in robotics that you need to know about‘ by chance), Robohub got a massive modernisation on its look by our technical director Ioannis K. Erripis and his team.

17 October 2021, by Daniel Carrillo-Zapata

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High Capacity Ride Sharing, with Alex Wallar

In this episode, our interviewer Lilly speaks to Alex Wallar, co-founder and CTO of The Routing Company. Wallar shares his background in multi-robot path-planning and optimization, and his research on scheduling and routing algorithms for high-capacity ride-sharing. They discuss how The Routing Company helps cities meet the needs of their people, the technical ins and outs of their dispatcher and assignment system, and the importance of public transit to cities and their economics.

12 October 2021, by Lilly Clark