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    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 4 – Evolution: Cognition from scratch
    This week we publish the fourth of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments ...
    10 February 2014, by

    Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino

    Link to audio file (33:13) In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...
    07 February 2014, by

    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 3: Cognition and embodiment
    This week we publish the third of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments s...
    03 February 2014, by

    How biotech might pool the power of the human brain – with Proteo.me CEO Ivo Georgiev
    Artificial intelligence has it’s advantages. Systematically, over decades of research and development, AI has come to dominate human intelligence in a number of specific and often limited tasks. Yet...
    22 January 2014, by and

    Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal
    Photo credit: Image Agency Why do people who use Facebook spend so much of their online time there? Why do people want to share, to comment? Patrick Levy Rosenthal asked himself these answers and wa...
    14 January 2014, by and

    Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years
    Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication i...
    13 January 2014, by



    New-tech grippers hit the market
    Empire Robotics, a Boston-based start-up, is beginning to sell their VERSABALL kits, a new-tech jamming gripper enabling adaptive gripping operations with a single inexpensive tool. Filled with a g...
    13 January 2014, by

    Interdisciplinary Teams, with Giulio Sandini

    Link to audio file (41:58) In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Giulio Sandini, director of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)...
    10 January 2014, by

    Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
    Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...
    07 December 2013, by

    Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)
    The first real world trial in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will be held on December 20-21 2013 at Homestead Freeway in Florida. Yes, it's open to the public. Anyone can come along and watch huma...
    03 December 2013, by

    Noisy imitation speeds up group learning
    Broadly speaking there are two kinds of learning: individual learning and social learning. Individual learning means learning something entirely on your own, without reference to anyone else who might...
    03 December 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12 "It has increasingly been realized that some of the key characteristics underlying real-world complex dynamical systems (such as economical, financia...
    28 November 2013, by

    Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
    This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language. My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...
    20 November 2013, by

    ShanghAI Lectures: SAYA/Hiroshi Kobayashi “Hello, my name is SAYA”
    Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05 In this guest lecture, SAYA, the robotic teacher from Japan, introduces herself and talks about the Tokyo University of Science, where she was const...
    14 November 2013, by

    Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t
    Gimball is a flying robot that survives collisions. It weighs just 370g for 34cm in diameter. Photo credit: A. Herzog, EPFL. Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far ...
    30 October 2013, by

    UBR-1 robot from Unbounded Robotics revolutionizes affordable mobile manipulation | Automaton
    Why Affordable Mobile Manipulation Matters Why could UBR-1 be so revolutionary for robotics right now? Really, it's the general area of mobile manipulation that has a huge amount of potential for t...
    21 October 2013, by

    Unbounded Robotics launch affordable, all-purpose UBR-1
    Unbounded Robotics today launched UBR-1, a robot that has many of us very excited. UBR is the first robot with intelligence, manipulation and mobility for below $50k. While UBR definitely resembles a ...
    21 October 2013, by

    25 women in robotics you need to know about (2013)
    In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, we've compiled a short list of some women in robotics that everyone should know about. There are so many many more that we're already looking forward to featuring t...
    15 October 2013, by , and

    Floating interactive display could be used in ATMs of the future
    The Aerial Imaging (AI) Plate, developed by Asukanet, is a next-generation display device which can form an image which appears to be floating in midair from light that passes through it. By combining...
    09 October 2013, by

    Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton
    Boston Dynamics has just updated its YouTube channel with some new videos. One of them is an update on Atlas. Another is an update on LS3. And the third is this: WildCat, a totally new quadruped rob...
    07 October 2013, by

    MIT deploys swarm of self-assembling robot cubes | Automaton
    MIT research scientist John Romanishin has been working on (or at least thinking about) M-Blocks for the past several years, but from the sound of things, everyone thought he was nuts until he manag...
    07 October 2013, by

    Don’t build robots, build robot systems
    Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Why aren't there more intelligent mobile robots in real world applications? It's a good question, and one I'm often asked. The answer I give most often is tha...
    07 October 2013, by

    Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry, improve safety for inspectors
    Students take a research tour with Damen ship repairs in Rotterdam. A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHdK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of cond...
    30 September 2013, by , and

    PacX Challenge winner shows large scale ocean mapping abilities
    In 2011, Liquid Robotics launched the PacX Challenge for monitoring ocean data. More than 2000 people signed up for the challenge and 5 finalists were selected. 15 months, 9442 miles and 5.5 million d...
    25 September 2013, by

    From the mouths of babes (or in this case, iCubs)
    ... At a recent demo of iCub at the Italian Institute of Culture in Los Angeles, IIT Professor and director of the iCub project, Giorgio Metta discussed not only iCub’s progress, but the state of th...
    23 September 2013, by

    This robotic prosthetic hand can be made for just $1000
    The Dextrus hand is a robotic hand that can be put together for well under £650 ($1000) and offers much of the functionality of a human hand. Existing prosthetic hands are magnificent devices, capa...
    11 September 2013, by

    Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots
    What can you do with 12 RC robots all slaved to the same joystick remote control?  Common sense might say you need 11 more remotes, but our video demonstrates you can steer all the robots to any desi...
    09 September 2013, by

    Construction with Amorphous Materials, with Nils Napp

    Link to audio file (25:03) In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews Nils Napp from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Napp tells us about his...
    06 September 2013, by

    Crowdsourcing new strategies for cancer treatment: Towards swarming nanobots
    NanoDoc is our new online game to crowdsource the design of nanomedicine. The game allows bioengineers and the general public to imagine new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer....
    04 September 2013, by

    David Robert on “Do robots need heads?”
    As a robot animator I can attest to the fact that robots don't "need" heads to be treated as social entities. Research has shown that people will befriend a stick as long as it moves properly [1]. ...
    15 August 2013, by

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