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    Humanoid robot with open electronics
    We’re pleased to announce the public release of information on a long-standing collaboration between OSRF and Sandia National Labs. The Intelligent Systems Control Department at Sandia is developing...
    17 December 2014, by

    ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
    ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 million ...
    12 December 2014, by

    Evolving swimming robots to study origins of extinct vertebrates
    Hypotheses about the evolution of traits in ancient species are difficult to test, as the relevant animals have often been extinct for thousands or millions of years. In the present study, a populatio...
    09 December 2014, by , , , and

    NSF’s 40-year history supporting US robotics research
    The fundamental research in computing and engineering that has enabled robotics to develop in the US has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) since its inception. Yet despite these ...
    27 November 2014, by

    Evaluating the effectiveness of robot behaviors in human-robot interactions
    This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Robots that interact with everyday users may need a combination of speech, gaze, and...
    26 November 2014, by

    Firmer footing for robots with smart walking sticks
    Anyone who has ever watched a humanoid robot move around in the real world — an "unstructured environment," in research parlance — knows how hard it is for a machine to plan complex movements, bal...
    26 November 2014, by



    The CORAL group: Interview with Joydeep Biswas and Brian Coltin
    Our newest video interview features PhD student Joydeep Biswas, who works with Dr. Manuela Veloso’s CORAL research group, and scientist Brian Coltin, who is at NASA's Ames Intelligent Research g...
    26 November 2014, by

    National Science Foundation and federal partners award $31.5M to advance co-robots in US
    From disaster recovery to caring for the elderly in the home, scientists and engineers are developing robots that can handle critical tasks in close proximity to humans, safely and with greater resili...
    20 November 2014, by

    NERVE Center: The robot playground
    By Meghan Hennessey What’s the NERVE Center, you ask? It’s the robot testing facility at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and THE place to be when visiting the Boston area. We couldn...
    19 November 2014, by

    Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids
    Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3D printing technology....
    18 November 2014, by and

    Video: Autonomous robot surgery on deformable tissue phantoms
    Automating repetitive surgical subtasks such as cutting and debridement can facilitate supervised tele-surgery, and reduce surgeon fatigue and procedure times. Programming these tasks can be difficu...
    13 November 2014, by , and

    New soft ‘antagonistic’ actuator enables robots to fold
    Traditionally, many key robot components (including sensors and actuators) are rigid, and this makes it difficult for researchers and industry to make them truly compliant with their surroundings. It...
    03 November 2014, by

    Video: Robotics at Skolkovo
    See an overview of projects from the Skolkovo robotics cluster....
    31 October 2014, by
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    Nylon Fishing Line Actuator, with Geoff Spinks

    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Geoffrey Spink from Wollogong University about his team’s work on artificial muscles....
    31 October 2014, by

    Bipedal robot uses high-speed vision to run
    We have developed a visually controlled bipedal running robot named ACHIRES: Actively Coordinated High-speed Image-processing Running Experiment System. [tweetquote]This robot has a leg length of 14cm...
    15 October 2014, by

    Wearable technology that feels like skin | Wall Street Journal
    When it comes to the future of computing, there is one major known and a principal unknown. The known, with almost guaranteed certainty, is that the next era of computing will be wearables. The unk...
    14 October 2014, by

    Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
    Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR) is a small and powerful mobile robot platform that is designed to be used in a heterogeneous robotic swarm that is currently under development at the Laboratory of Artific...
    08 October 2014, by

    CoCoRo CeBIT
    The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo ...
    08 October 2014, by

    Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
    The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup. Brad Nelson heads th...
    07 October 2014, by
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    Quest for Computer Vision, with Peter Corke

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about computer vision - the subject of his plenary talk at IROS 2014 (link to slides below). He begins ...
    03 October 2014, by

    Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014
    Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....
    03 October 2014, by

    Reader poll: How much control should a bathing robot have?
    http://youtu.be/0ac2qwStrdo A few years ago, researchers at the University of British Columbia (AJung Moon, Peter Danielson and Mike Van der Loos) studied the public acceptance of a number of diff...
    01 October 2014, by

    Experiments designing an ethical robot
    In my last post I wrote about our work on robots with internal models: robots with a simulation of themselves and their environment inside themselves. I explained that we have built a robot with a ...
    30 September 2014, by

    SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge
    A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...
    29 September 2014, by

    IROS Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 3)
    More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS: soft untethered robots that jump, visual localization within LIDAR maps, time-delayed tele-operated surgical robotics, and grippers. See also Part ...
    26 September 2014, by

    Artificial General Intelligence that plays Atari video games: How did DeepMind do it?
    Last December, an article named “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning” was uploaded to arXiv by employees of a small AI company called DeepMind. Two months later [tweetquote]Google bough...
    25 September 2014, by , , and

    Attaining “embodiment” in brain-machine interface technologies: gTec’s Christoph Guger
    Link to audio file (26:36), or listen on iTunes In this interview TechEmergence talks to Dr. Christoph Guger, founder of gTec, a company that focuses on creating devices and parts for the field of...
    23 September 2014, by

    On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures
    So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain. For a couple of years I've been thinking about robots with internal models. Not internal models in the classical...
    08 September 2014, by

    Open Brain-Computer Interface: An Interview with Conor Russomanno
    Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a rapidly growing field that offers huge potential for many applications, such as medical grade BCIs to help people with sensory-motor disabilities. Currently, a nu...
    08 September 2014, by and
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    M-Blocks, with John Romanishin

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews John Romanishin from MIT, about his modular robotics project ‘M-Blocks’. M-Blocks are small cubes (5 cm on a side) that have no external actuators, yet the...
    05 September 2014, by

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