• team
  • about
  • contribute
  • republish
    • ☰
  • News
  • Views
  • Podcast
  • Learn

    • Robohub.org

    c-Research-Innovation


    A variable stiffness fiber that self-heals
    A group from Floreano Lab, EPFL and NCCR Robotics has today published their novel variable stiffness fibre with self-healing capability. Soft “hardware” components are becoming more and more po...
    27 October 2016, by

    mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
    Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physic...
    26 October 2016, by

    Electric motors expanding application and efficiency in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
    Electric motors have been around since Thomas Davenport built the first functional model in 1834, and they have played a growing part in our lives ever since. Today, they continue to replace diesel an...
    25 October 2016, by

    Robot-assisted search and rescue conducts joint training exercise with Italian Coast Guard
    The Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station conducted a joint training exercise with the Italian Coast Guard in Genoa, Italy to prevent fu...
    24 October 2016, by and

    Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System
    I’m delighted to announce a new game-changing standard for building robot hardware components: H-ROS (the Hardware Robot Operating System). H-ROS provides manufacturers tools for building interope...
    20 October 2016, by

    Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
    3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
    13 October 2016, by



    Disney’s one-legged untethered hopping robot
    Disney Research presents their design and control for an untethered, energetically autonomous single-legged hopping robot. While this isn't the first hopping robot to be built, it is the first not to ...
    12 October 2016, by

    Powered arm prosthesis race at Cybathlon
    This week, the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland and today we present to you the second of the NCCR Robotics teams to be taking part in the competition, LeMano. The Cyba...
    07 October 2016, by

    Virtual race: Competing in Brain Computer Interface at Cybathlon
    This week the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. Cybathlon is the brainchild of NCCR Robotics co-director and ETH Zurich professor Robert Riener, and is designed to faci...
    05 October 2016, by

    3-D printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
    Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of BattleBots knows that robots can break - and often it’s because they don’t have the proper padding to protect themselves. But this week rese...
    03 October 2016, by
    ep.

    218

    podcast

    RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
    03 October 2016, by

    XoSoft: Intelligent trousers designed to assist people with limited mobility
    Advancement in healthcare and medicine and other comforts of modernity make us live longer than our ancestors: the life expectancy of the average European nearly doubled during the last century. As li...
    27 September 2016, by , and

    Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots
    Mobile robots can be used in many applications, they are especially suited for environments that are unreachable or too dangerous for humans. In many cases, these environments have to be explored and ...
    22 September 2016, by

    EQ-Radio: Detecting emotions with wireless signals
    By measuring your heartbeat and breath, this device from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab can tell if you’re excited, happy, angry or sad
....
    21 September 2016, by

    Designing and deploying a fleet of autonomous boats on the canals of Amsterdam
    MIT has signed an agreement to engage in research collaborations with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in the Netherlands. The collaboration’s flagship project, led ...
    20 September 2016, by

    Machines can learn by simply observing, without being told what to look for
    We have developed a new machine learning method at the University of Sheffield called Turing Learning that allows machines to model natural or artificial systems....
    15 September 2016, by

    HAPTIX program underway to create prosthetic hand system that moves and feels like a real hand
    By: Brian Gerkey Fundamentally, robotics is about helping people. Robots help us manufacture things, help us build things, and help make our lives easier and more convenient. As robotic systems in...
    09 September 2016, by

    Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)
    Lionfish are invasive to the Atlantic Ocean and their voracious appetites are destroying coral reef ecosystems. RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) is a new non-profit company looking to rest...
    30 August 2016, by

    Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots
    Though recent advances in design, fabrication, and programming technologies promise to enable rapid digital manufacturing of functional robotic systems, many challenges need to be addressed to realize...
    25 August 2016, by , , and

    Introducing the Octobot: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
    By: Leah Burrows A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft r...
    25 August 2016, by

    People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones
    Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests....
    19 August 2016, by

    Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light
    Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired mic...
    19 August 2016, by

    Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
    Think of a traditional robot and you probably imagine something made from metal and plastic. Such “nuts-and-bolts” robots are made of hard materials. As robots take on more roles beyond the lab, s...
    12 August 2016, by

    Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
    In this article, our humanoid robot iCub is put to the test using manipulation and interaction as sources of knowledge and new experience, as well as, providing a means to explore and control the envi...
    10 August 2016, by
    ep.

    213

    podcast

    Physics-Based Optimization for Robot Control, with Emo Todorov

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Emo Todorov, Director of Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Washington, about a physics-based optimization method for controlling robots. Todorov ...
    23 July 2016, by

    Driving, flying, and climbing in a sand and gravel pit
    In June, the University of Toronto (as part of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network) carried out a set of field trials at an old sand and gravel pit in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. This involved thr...
    18 July 2016, by

    Are skintight suits the future of robotic exoskeletons?
    Children with a rare neurological disease were recently given the chance to walk for the first time thanks to a new robotic exoskeleton. These devices – which are essentially robotic suits that give...
    13 July 2016, by

    Recreating ancient vertebrate’s first step on dry land, with a robot
    Could a tail have allowed ancient vertebrates to make the transition from water to land? Reporting in Science today, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Cl...
    12 July 2016, by

    Boston Dynamics made a new robot: SpotMini
    SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, d...
    23 June 2016, by

    Building better trust between humans and machines
    MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....
    23 June 2016, by

    ← previous page   
        next page →



    ↑
  • News
  • Views
  • Podcast
  • Learn
  • team
  • about
  • contribute
  • republish
  • AIhub resources
  • AIhub events
  • RSS
  • linkedin
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • Youtube

    • Robohub is supported by:




    Would you like to learn how to tell impactful stories about your robot or AI system?


    scicomm
    training the next generation of science communicators in robotics & AI


    ©2024 - Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence


     










    ©2021 - ROBOTS Association