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Assistive robots compete in Bristol

The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) will host the first European- Commission funded European Robotics League (ERL) tournament for service robots to be held in the UK....

26 June 2017, by SPARC

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 2

New videos from the Bristol Robotics Lab and KU Leuven. Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org!...

22 December 2015, by Robohub Editors

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

[clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...

27 November 2015, by Adriana Hamacher

Robots now have their own living space at Bristol Robotics Lab

Bristol Robotics Laboratory, one of the world’s leading centres for robotics, has opened a “living lab,” a replica apartment to test assistive robots designed to help elderly people live more in...

11 September 2015, by Adriana Hamacher

Morphological computation: The hidden superpower of soft-bodied robots

Soft robots are versatile, often much safer, more energy-efficient, robust and resilient than their more rigid counterparts. But one of the biggest challenges facing soft robotics is control - often, ...

10 September 2015, by Helmut Hauser and Adriana Hamacher

Yesterday I looked through the eyes of a robot

Yesterday I looked through the eyes of a robot. It was a NAO robot fitted with a 3D printed set of goggles, so that the robot has two real cameras on its head (the eyes of the NAO robot are not in ...

20 April 2015, by Alan Winfield