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Assistive robots compete in Bristol

SPARC 26 Jun 2017

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....

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 2

Robohub Editors 22 Dec 2015

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!...

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Adriana Hamacher 27 Nov 2015

[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 ...

Robots now have their own living space at Bristol Robotics Lab

Adriana Hamacher 11 Sep 2015

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...

Morphological computation: The hidden superpower of soft-bodied robots

Helmut Hauser and Adriana Hamacher 10 Sep 2015

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, ...

Yesterday I looked through the eyes of a robot

Alan Winfield 20 Apr 2015

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 ...

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