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Ultra-sensitive and resilient sensor for soft robotic systems
Wyss Institute
02 Dec 2020
By Leah Burrows / SEAS communications
Newly engineered slinky-like strain sensors for textiles and soft robotic systems survive the washing machine, cars and hammers....
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Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
Lauren Klein
02 Dec 2020
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...
Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
27 Nov 2020
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....
Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video
Talking Robotics
24 Nov 2020
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....
Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
MIT News
23 Nov 2020
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...
#IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Nov 2020
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...
#IROS2020 Original Series: Real Roboticist
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
16 Nov 2020
Are you curious about the people behind the robots? The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) features a new Original Series called Real Roboticist hosted by ...
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323
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Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov
Shihan Lu
15 Nov 2020
Robohub Podcast · Multisensory Perception
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Jivko Sinapov, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, about his work on beh...
CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
11 Nov 2020
Involving potential users of a particular technology in the research and development (R&D) process is a very powerful way to maximise success when such technology is deployed in the real world. In add...
RoboTED: a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment
Alan Winfield
28 Oct 2020
A few weeks ago I gave a short paper at the excellent International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2020), outlining a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment - see our paper here. Our c...
Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects
MIT News
23 Oct 2020
By Rachel Gordon
We’ve come a long way since the first 3D-printed item came to us by way of an eye wash cup, to now being able to rapidly fabricate things like car parts, musical instruments, and...
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319
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Micro-scale Surgical Robots, with Eric Diller
Audrow Nash
23 Sep 2020
Robohub Podcast · Micro-scale Surgical Robots
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Eric Diller, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, on wireless micro-scale robots that could event...
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318
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Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry, with Ayanna Howard
Lauren Klein
08 Sep 2020
Robohub Podcast · Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech...
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317
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Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista
Lauren Klein
25 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Gennaro Notimista, a robotics PhD student in the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems Labo...
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315
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Exploring from a Distance, with Muralidharan Arikara
Lauren Klein
28 Jul 2020
Robohub Podcast · Exploring From a Distance
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Muralidharan Arikara, CEO of Xarpie Labs. Xarpie Labs creates visualization and simulation experiences within t...
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311
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Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt, with Dave Coleman
Audrow Nash
31 May 2020
Robohub Podcast · Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Dave Coleman, CEO of PickNik Robotics, about the open source robotics manipulation platform called Mo...
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310
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RoboBee’s Untethered Flight, with Farrell Helbling
Kate Zhou
20 May 2020
In this episode, Kate Zhou interviews Farrell Helbling, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics lab, who has worked on developing the RoboBee, an insect-inspired robot that is the lightest vehicl...
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304
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Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson
Shihan Lu
17 Feb 2020
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Dr. Heather Culbertson, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, about her work in haptics. Dr. Culbertson...
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303
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Fostering Creativity: RSS Pioneers and the YOLO Robot, with Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Lauren Klein
02 Feb 2020
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Human-Robot Interaction researcher Patrícia Alves-Oliveira. Alves-Oliveira tells us about the upcoming RSS Pioneers workshop at the 2020 Robotics: Science and...
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301
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Listening like a Human, Playing like a Machine, with Gil Weinberg
Audrow Nash
10 Jan 2020
In this episode, our interviewer Audrow Nash speaks to Gil Weinberg, Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Weinberg l...
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299
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On the Novelty Effect in Human-Robot Interaction, with Catharina Vesterager Smedegaard
Audrow Nash
09 Dec 2019
In this episode, we take a closer look at the effect of novelty in human-robot interaction. Novelty is the quality of being new or unusual.
The typical view is that while something is new, or “a ...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
Thilo Zimmermann
07 Dec 2019
At Danfoss in Gråsten, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) is testing, as part of a pilot project in the European robot network ROBOTT-NET, several robot technologies: Manipulation using force s...
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297
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Using Natural Language in Human-Robot Collaboration, with Brad Hayes
Audrow Nash
11 Nov 2019
In this episode, we hear from Brad Hayes, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, who directs the university's Collaborative AI and Robotics lab. The lab’s wor...
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296
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Robust Robotics and the Quest for Intelligence, with Nicholas Roy
Lilly Clark
29 Oct 2019
In this episode Lilly Clark interviews Nicholas Roy, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, about the Quest for Intelligence initiative and his research in robust robotics. Roy discusses ho...
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293
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A Robot to Help with Artificial Insemination, with Zhuoran Zhang
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Zhuoran Zhang, PhD student at the University of Toronto, about how robots can be used to assist in artificial insemination. Zhang discusses how precise robotic ...
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292
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Robot Operating System (ROS) & Gazebo, with Brian Gerkey
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics about the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo. Both ROS and Gazebo are open source and are widely used in the robotics co...
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291
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Medieval Automata and Cathartic Objects: Modern Robots Inspired by History, with Michal Luria
Lauren Klein
22 Jul 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Michal Luria, a PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about research that explores the boundaries of Human-R...
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289
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On Design in Human-Robot Interaction, with Bilge Mutlu
Audrow Nash
24 Jun 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bilge Mutlu, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about design-thinking in human-robot interaction. Professor Mutlu discusses design-th...
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288
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On Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation, with Milind Tambe
Lauren Klein
11 Jun 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Professor Milind Tambe of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California about his research using artificial ...
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286
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Halodi Robotics’ EVEr3: A Full-size Humanoid Robot, with Bernt Børnich
Audrow Nash
13 May 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bernt Børnich, CEO, CTO, and Co-founder of Halodi Robotics, about Eve (EVEr3), a general purpose full-size humanoid robot, capable of a wide variety of tasks. ...
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285
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On Storytelling Robots for Children, with Hae Won Park
Lauren Klein
01 May 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Hae Won Park, a Research Scientist in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, about storytelling robots for children. Dr. Park elaborates on enabling r...
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284
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ERICA: A Robot Made to Look Human, with Dylan Glas
Audrow Nash
15 Apr 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dylan Glas, Senior Robotics Software Architect at Futurewei Technologies and former chief architect for the ERICA android in the ERATO Ishiguro Symbiotic Human-...
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280
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Semantics in Robotics, with Amy Loutfi
Audrow Nash
18 Feb 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Amy Loutfi, a professor at Örebro University, about how semantic representations can be used to help robots reason about the world. Loutfi discusses semantic...
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279
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Safe Robot Learning on Hardware, with Jaime Fernández Fisac
Audrow Nash
04 Feb 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Jaime Fernández Fisac, a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, working with Professors Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin, and Anca Dragan. Fisac is ...
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278
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IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 3 of 3), with Ryan Gariepy, Lars Grimstad and Péter Fankhauser
Audrow Nash
20 Jan 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Ryan Gariepy, Lars Grimstad, and Péter Fankhauser....
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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 3 of 3), with Pauline Pounds, Philippe Morere and Yujung Liu
Audrow Nash
09 Jan 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Pauline Pound, Philippe Morere, and Yujung Liu about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in ...
