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    Teaching machines to predict the future
    When we see two people meet, we can often predict what happens next: a handshake, a hug, or maybe even a kiss. Our ability to anticipate actions is thanks to intuitions born out of a lifetime of exper...
    21 June 2016, by

    Teaching robots the physics of sliding and pushing objects
    The Manipulation Lab at the CMU Robotics Institute proposes a computational model that relates an applied robot action to the resultant object motion. Their research won the Best Conference Paper Awar...
    16 June 2016, by

    Using soft robots for artificial muscles
    Forget steel and aluminum. The robots of tomorrow may be able to squish, stretch and squeeze. [focus11] Novel robotic devices, part of the emerging field of soft robotics, offer many advances ov...
    15 June 2016, by

    MIT’s AI passes Turing Test for sound
    Nearly 70 years after the "Turing Test" was first proposed, the question remains: can we create intelligent machines that exhibit behavior indistinguishable from humans? In December MIT researchers...
    13 June 2016, by

    Soft-bodied robots: Actuators inspired by muscle
    To make robots more cooperative and have them perform tasks in close proximity to humans, they must be softer and safer. A new actuator developed by a team led by George Whitesides, Ph.D. — who is a...
    01 June 2016, by

    ‘Robot kindergarten’ trains droids of the future
    Less than 100 years from now, robots will be friendly, useful participants in our homes and workplaces, predicts UBC mechanical engineering professor and robotics expert Elizabeth Croft. We will be li...
    27 May 2016, by



    Airborne tech is coming to the rescue
    by Fintan Burke ‘There’s no real way to determine how safe it is to approach a building, and what is the safest route to do that,’ said Dr Angelos Amditis of the Institute of Communication an...
    25 May 2016, by

    Using static electricity, RoboBees cling to surfaces
    By Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications In a recent article in Science, Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energ...
    24 May 2016, by

    Robot bees open the lid on hive behaviour
    by Steve Gillman It’s part of a series of projects where researchers are building robots that mimic evolutionary traits of animals in order to interact with the world in a more efficient way. ...
    23 May 2016, by

    Ingestible origami robot
    By: Larry Hardesty In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated...
    13 May 2016, by

    Making an autonomous robotic ecosystem: Hortum Machina B
    Largely architecture is understood as static. Buildings do not conform to nature, its environment and nor to human beings. We, as architects, feel the need to integrate plants in buildings to the poi...
    13 May 2016, by and

    Cable-driven parallel robots: Motion simulation in a new dimension
    To date, cable-driven parallel robots have been used in production environments, where they meet high requirements. The systems surpass conventional industrial robots in size and payload by between on...
    27 April 2016, by , and

    New startup accelerator looks to enable smart and connected machines
    The Kickstart Accelerator program in Switzerland is currently accepting applications from early-stage startups making "smart and connected machines", namely robots....
    14 April 2016, by

    3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required
    By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL One reason we don’t yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, ...
    06 April 2016, by

    Wireless localizer could mean safer drones and password-free WiFi
    By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL We’ve all been there, impatiently twiddling our thumbs while trying to locate a WiFi signal. But what if, instead, the WiFi could locate us?...
    01 April 2016, by

    Gestures improve communication – even with robots
    By: Abigail Pattenden In the world of robot communication, it seems actions speak louder than words. Scientists in the UK have discovered that by getting robot avatars to “talk with their hands,...
    31 March 2016, by

    Why making robots is still hard
    Making robots is no easy task. If you talk to roboticists, they will tell you that it took years before the last robot they built or programmed was any good at performing a specific task. And although...
    23 March 2016, by

    Interview: Billion dollar brain with Professor Alois Knoll
    By: Abdul Montaqim Professor Knoll, one of the most influential roboticists in Europe, is currently the co-ordinator of the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (Echord), and one of...
    23 March 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches
    In episode five of season two, Ryan walks us through variational inference. We put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in...
    14 March 2016, by

    Applying direct transcription methods to robot motion planning
    When you walk across a room or down a path, your brain is making thousands of decisions on how best to move. For example, how best to use your weight, scanning for any obstacles or uneven surfaces, ...
    08 March 2016, by

    Testing the lifetime of human-machine interfaces in a few days
    Thousands of repetitions in the space of just a few days: while manually impossible, this can be accomplished by a newly developed robot system from Fraunhofer IPA. Whether it’s a matter of pressing...
    07 March 2016, by and

    New electrical film that is both solid and liquid
    As soft robotics increases in both scope and popularity, it is becoming more and more vital that each element of the electrical circuits contained within are also soft and elastic and able to continue...
    29 February 2016, by

    A new quadrupedal robot, the ANYmal
    ANYmal is a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in difficult terrains. It is capable of running and climbing, and with its incorporated laser sensors and cameras, the robot can perce...
    25 February 2016, by

    Enabling human-robot rescue teams
    By Larry Hardesty, MIT CSAIL Autonomous robots performing a joint task send each other continual updates: “I’ve passed through a door and am turning 90 degrees right.” “After advancing 2 fe...
    18 February 2016, by

    Creating a synthetic “second skin” with soft pneumatic actuators
    Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are an up and coming solution to the contradictory design criteria that many robotic systems have – high torque/force often means greater weight and volume, which is ...
    17 February 2016, by

    What’s new in robotics this week? Chameleon robot blends in with its surroundings
    Soft bots; record-breaking North American robot sales; robots saving refugees; chameleon robot blends in with its surroundings; Robot Law and more....
    12 February 2016, by and

    Understanding joint impedance with a knee exoskeleton
    When designing exoskeletons for rehabilitation of patients after spinal cord injury or stroke, a constant concern is creating them to be as natural as possible to best enable user training to rebuild ...
    09 February 2016, by

    Vote for your favourite AI video – AAAI Video Competition People’s Choice Award
    You get to decide the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the AI Video Competition 2016!...
    01 February 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Gaussian processes and OpenAI, with IIya Sutskever
    In episode two of season two Ryan introduces us to Gaussian processes, we take a listener question on K-means. Plus, we talk with Ilya Sutskever the director of research for OpenAI. (For more from Ily...
    29 January 2016, by

    Talking Machines: Real human actions and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Jenn Wortman Vaughan
    In episode one of season two, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Women in Machine Learning (WiML) with its co-founder -- and our guest host for this episode -- Hanna Wallach of Microsoft Research....
    28 January 2016, by

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