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Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives
The Conversation
31 Dec 2023
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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Engineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
MIT News
07 Feb 2023
The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.
Interview with Hae-Won Park, Seungwoo Hong and Yong Um about MARVEL, a robot that can climb on various inclined steel surfaces
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
15 Jan 2023
We are happy to introduce the climbing robot, MARVEL (magnetically adhesive robot for versatile and expeditious locomotion), which can climb on various inclined steel surfaces.
In search for the intelligent machine
ETH Zurich
28 Dec 2022
Elvis Nava teaches robots to carry out oral and written commands. To this end, he sends them to “training camps” where they learn to combine image, text and motion data.
Combating climate change with a soft robotics fish
Robin Hall
17 Nov 2022
We have fabricated a 3D printed, cable-actuated wave spring tail made from soft materials that can drive a small robot fish.
Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble
MIT News
26 Oct 2022
Researchers create a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about what they connect with, enabling more-scalable self-assembly.
Tiny particles work together to do big things
MIT News
16 Oct 2022
Simple microparticles can beat rhythmically together, generating an oscillating electrical current that could be used to power microrobotic devices.
MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera
MIT News
27 Sep 2022
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
Shelf-stocking robots with independent movement
Joost van de Loo
23 Sep 2022
A robot that helps store employees by moving independently through the supermarket and shelving products. According to cognitive robotics researcher Carlos Hernández Corbato, this may be possible in the future. If we engineer the unexpected.
MiGriBot: a miniature robot able to perform pick-and-place operations of sub-millimeter objects
FEMTO-ST Institute
06 Sep 2022
A research team has developed a miniature robot capable of manipulating micrometric objects at the speed of 720 pick-and-place operations per minute with about one micrometer accuracy.
Robot helps reveal how ants pass on knowledge
University of Bristol
24 Aug 2022
Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another.
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Perception and Decision-Making for Underwater Robots, with Brendan Englot
Lilly Clark
21 Aug 2022
Prof Brendan Englot, from Stevens Institute of Technology, discusses the challenges in perception and decision making for underwater robots - especially in the field.
New programmable materials can sense their own movements
MIT News
16 Aug 2022
Engineers 3D print materials with networks of sensors directly incorporated.
Robochop makes garden trimming a snip
Horizon Magazine
09 Aug 2022
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.
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Underwater Human-Robot Interaction #ICRA2022, with Michael Fulton
Abate De Mey
22 Jul 2022
Michael Fulton describes his unique robot-to-human communication system using exaggerated body language.
Emergency-response drones to save lives in the digital skies
Horizon Magazine
20 Jul 2022
Uncrewed aircraft responding to fire and medical emergencies will be used to save lives - if digitalised air-traffic control can help them navigate safely in the skies over Europe.
Bees’ ‘waggle dance’ may revolutionize how robots talk to each other in disaster zones
Frontiers Journals & Blog
18 Jul 2022
A recent study presents a simple technique whereby robots view and interpret each other’s movements or a gesture from a human to communicate a geographical location.
Robotic lightning bugs take flight
MIT News
07 Jul 2022
Inspired by fireflies, researchers create insect-scale robots that can emit light when they fly, which enables motion tracking and communication.
The one-wheel Cubli
ETH Zurich and Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
30 Jun 2022
Researchers Matthias Hofer, Michael Muehlebach and Raffaello D’Andrea have developed the one-wheel Cubli, a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel. How is it possible to stabilize the two tilt angles of the system with only a single reaction wheel?
At the forefront of building with biology
MIT News
28 Jun 2022
Raman is, as she puts it, “a mechanical engineer through and through.” Today, Ritu Raman leads the Raman Lab and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Controlling a Drone After Sudden Rotor Failure #ICRA2022, with Sihao Sun
Abate De Mey
06 Jun 2022
Dr. Sihao Sun on his research for controlling a quadcopter after one of its rotors faces a sudden failure. His research takes in real-world assumptions where the quadcopter may already be in a compromised, difficult to correct orientation.
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SLAM fused with Satellite Imagery #ICRA2022, with John McConnell
Abate De Mey
25 May 2022
John McConnell discusses the research presented at ICRA 2022 to reduce drift in SLAM algorithms by incorporating overhead satellite imagery.
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354
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Autonomous Flight Demo with CMU AirLab #ICRA2022, with Sebastian Scherer
Abate De Mey
24 May 2022
Sebastian Scherer from CMU's Airlab gives us a behind-the-scenes demo at ICRA of their Autonomous Flight Control AI. Their approach aims to cooperate with human pilots and act the way they would.
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Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition Spotlight, with Yu Sun
Abate De Mey
21 May 2022
Yu Sun, previous chair of the Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition, speaks on the value that this competition brought to the robotics community.
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Early Days of ICRA Competitions, with Bill Smart
Abate De Mey
21 May 2022
Bill Smart, one fo the early ICRA Competition Chairs, dives into the high-level decisions involved with creating a meaningful competition.
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Duckietown Competition Spotlight, with Dr Liam Paull
Abate De Mey
17 May 2022
Dr. Liam Paull, cofounder of the Duckietown competition talks about the only robotics competition where Rubber Duckies are the passengers on an autonomous driving track.
Designing societally beneficial Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems
BAIR Blog
15 May 2022
In this post, we aim to illustrate the different modalities harms can take when augmented with the temporal axis of RL. To combat these novel societal risks, we also propose a new kind of documentation for dynamic Machine Learning systems which aims to assess and monitor these risks both before and after deployment.
Afreez Gan: Open Source Robot Dog, Kickstarter, and Home Robots | Sense Think Act Podcast #18
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
08 May 2022
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Afreez Gan, who is the founder and CEO of MangDang; MangDang is a Chinese startup that makes Minipupper, an open source robot dog that uses the Robot Operating S...
GelBot – A new 3D printing method to tackle sustainability in soft robots
Doctoral students have built a system to 3D print a biodegradable gel into complex shapes. They have printed finger-like robots that use intricate sensor networks to sense their own deformation and also objects in their surroundings.
RIMA, the European robotics network for Inspection and Maintenance
RI4EU
04 May 2022
RIMA project aims at bringing together Digital Innovation Hubs and Facilitators operating under a common network that allow them to join forces and competences in promoting Inspection and Maintenance (I&M) robotics in Europe.
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Improving Perception through Interaction, with Carolyn Matl
Shihan Lu
21 Apr 2022
Dr. Carolyn Matl, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, explains why Interactive Perception and soft tactile sensors are critical for manipulating challenging objects such as liquids, grains, and dough.
A flexible way to grab items with feeling
MIT News
18 Apr 2022
MIT engineers Edward Adelson and Sandra Liu duo develop a robotic gripper with rich sensory capabilities.
Robots dress humans without the full picture
MIT News
13 Apr 2022
MIT researchers design a robot that has a trick or two up its sleeve.
Touchy subject: 3D printed fingertip ‘feels’ like human skin
University of Bristol
07 Apr 2022
A highly sensitive, 3D-printed fingertip could help robots become more dexterous and improve the performance of prosthetic hands by giving them an in-built sense of touch.
Careers in robotics: What is a robotics PhD?
Sonia Roberts and Women In Robotics
26 Mar 2022
This post will take you through the overall life cycle of a PhD in the American educational system, and is intended as a basic overview for anyone unfamiliar with the process, whether they are considering a PhD or have a loved one who is currently in a PhD program and just want to learn more about what they are doing.
BirdBot is energy-efficient thanks to nature as a model
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
19 Mar 2022
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of California, Irvine constructed a robot leg that, like its natural model, is very energy efficient. BirdBot benefits from a foot-leg coupling through a network of muscles and tendons that extends across multiple joints. In this way, BirdBot needs fewer motors than previous legged robots and could, theoretically, scale to large size.
