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    Back to Robot Coding part 3: testing the EBB
    In part 2 a few weeks ago I outlined a Python implementation of the ethical black box. I described the key data structure - a dictionary which serves as both specification for the type of robot, and t...
    23 March 2021, by

    System detects errors when medication is self-administered
    From swallowing pills to injecting insulin, patients frequently administer their own medication. But they don’t always get it right. Improper adherence to doctors’ orders is commonplace, accountin...
    19 March 2021, by

    Maximum Entropy RL (Provably) Solves Some Robust RL Problems
    By Ben Eysenbach Nearly all real-world applications of reinforcement learning involve some degree of shift between the training environment and the testing environment. However, prior work has obse...
    15 March 2021, by

    Robots that feel by seeing
    While modern cameras provide machines with a very well-developed sense of vision, robots still lack such a comprehensive solution for their sense of touch. At ETH Zurich, in the group led by Prof. Raf...
    06 March 2021, by

    Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones
    By Daniel Ackerman If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in fl...
    02 March 2021, by

    Digital Innovation Hubs: €1.5 billion network to support green and digital transformation starts to take shape
    A two-day discussion on the future of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) took place last month, as over 2000 stakeholders and policy-makers gathered online for the first time to take stock of the...
    28 February 2021, by



    Self-supervised policy adaptation during deployment
    Our method learns a task in a fixed, simulated environment and quickly adapts to new environments (e.g. the real world) solely from online interaction during deployment. The ability for hum...
    26 February 2021, by

    Back to Robot Coding part 2: the ethical black box
    In the last few days I started some serious coding. The first for 20 years, in fact, when I built the software for the BRL LinuxBots. (The coding I did six months ago doesn't really count as I was onl...
    20 February 2021, by

    RoMi-H: Bringing robot traffic control to healthcare
    Imagine for a moment that a road is used only for a single car and driver. Everything is smooth and wonderful. Then you wake up from that utopian dream and remember that our road networks have multipl...
    15 February 2021, by

    Fabricating fully functional drones
    By Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL From Star Trek’s replicators to Richie Rich’s wishing machine, popular culture has a long history of parading flashy machines that can instantly output any item to ...
    09 February 2021, by

    Soft robots for ocean exploration and offshore operations: A perspective
    Most of the ocean is unknown. Yet we know that the most challenging environments on the planet reside in it. Understanding the ocean in its totality is a key component for the sustainable development ...
    06 February 2021, by

    Wielding a laser beam deep inside the body
    A microrobotic opto-electro-mechanical device able to steer a laser beam with high speed and a large range of motion could enhance the possibilities of minimally invasive surgeries By Benjamin Boet...
    04 February 2021, by

    Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish
    By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate, and evade predators. No one fish or sub-group of fish coordinates th...
    01 February 2021, by

    IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute
    Interesting discussion with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini, CEO of the Terasaki Institute, and one of the pioneers of the Bioengineering field. Prof. Ali’s journey from Harvard and UCLA to the Terasaki In...
    26 January 2021, by

    Designing customized “brains” for robots
    By Daniel Ackerman Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, rob...
    25 January 2021, by

    Self-supervised learning of visual appearance solves fundamental problems of optical flow
    Flying insects as inspiration to AI for small drones How do honeybees land on flowers or avoid obstacles? One would expect such questions to be mostly of interest to biologists. However, the rise o...
    19 January 2021, by

    How to keep drones flying when a motor fails
    Robotics researchers at the University of Zurich show how onboard cameras can be used to keep damaged quadcopters in the air and flying stably – even without GPS....
    14 January 2021, by

    IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?
    Interesting discussion with Hod Lipson, head of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University in New York. Can robots be self-aware? Can they design other robots and self-repair? Why should we evolve rob...
    13 January 2021, by

    #CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered leg prosthesis race (with interview)
    Finishing this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the startup Circleg from Switzerland. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post)....
    10 January 2021, by

    Science Magazine robot videos 2020
    Did you manage to watch all the holiday robot videos of 2020? If you did but are still hungry for more, I have prepared this compilation of Science Magazine videos featuring robotics research that wer...
    06 January 2021, by

    #CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the functional electrical stimulation bike race (with interview)
    In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of PULSE Racing from VU University Amsterdam. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post)...
    19 December 2020, by

    Nikolas Martelaro’s talk – Remote user research for human-robot interaction – with video
    On Friday the 11th of December, Nikolas Martelaro (Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute) gave an online seminar on ways robot design teams can do remote user...
    15 December 2020, by

    #CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with interview + story of pilot)
    In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the HSR Enhanced team from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST). In addition, we inter...
    07 December 2020, by

    #CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with interview)
    The last edition of CYBATHLON took place on 13-14 November, 2020. This competition, created by ETH Zurich and run as a non-profit project, aims to advance in the research and development of assistive ...
    04 December 2020, by

    Ultra-sensitive and resilient sensor for soft robotic systems
    By Leah Burrows / SEAS communications Newly engineered slinky-like strain sensors for textiles and soft robotic systems survive the washing machine, cars and hammers....
    02 December 2020, by
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    Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka

    Robohub Podcast · Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance In this episode, our interviewer Lauren Klein speaks with Kim Baraka about his PhD research to enable robots to engage in social int...
    02 December 2020, by

    Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons
    By Caitlin Dawson USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations....
    27 November 2020, by

    Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video
    On Friday the 13th of November, Talking Robotics hosted an online talk with PhD student Natalia Calvo from Uppsala University in Sweden. Now you can watch the recorded seminar....
    24 November 2020, by

    Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
    By David L. Chandler Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twis...
    23 November 2020, by

    #IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics
    The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) has teamed up with Black in Robotics (website, Twitter) to release a new special series named BiR-IROS: Black in Rob...
    19 November 2020, by

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