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by Nathan Labhart

09 July 2013

New programmable materials can sense their own movements

Engineers 3D print materials with networks of sensors directly incorporated.

16 August 2022, by MIT News

Robots will open more doors than they close

There is more that roboticists should be doing to advance the debate on robotic labor beyond the current obsessive focus on job-stealing robots.

14 August 2022, by Michael Lee and Science Robotics

The best sci-fi books that describe how robots really work

I have loved science fiction ever since I was a kid and read all my Dad’s ancient issues of Analog Science Fiction and Fact from the 1940s.

12 August 2022, by Robin Murphy

Robochop makes garden trimming a snip

Automation and computer-aided designs are seeding the future of home gardens. With the onset of designer gardens as a service and rose-pruning robots, weekends spent toiling in the garden will be more productive and personalised.

09 August 2022, by Horizon Magazine

Building a python toolbox for robot behavior

This post describes pyrobosim, a ROS2 enabled 2D mobile robot simulator for behavior prototyping.

07 August 2022, by Sebastian Castro

UBR-1 on ROS2 Humble

It has been a while since I’ve posted to the blog, but lately I’ve actually been working on the UBR-1 again after a somewhat long hiatus.

04 August 2022, by Michael Ferguson