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Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 2 of 3), with Robert Lösch, Ali Marjovi and Sophia Sakr
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Robert Lösch, Ali Marjovi, and Sophia Sakr about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Mad...
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273
podcast
Presented work at IROS 2018 (Part 1 of 3), with Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell and Martin Karlsson
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Alexandros Kogkas, Katie Driggs-Campbell, and Martin Karlsson about the work they presented at the 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and S...
ep.
272
podcast
Putting Robots in the Home, with Caitlyn Clabaugh
Audrow Nash
28 Oct 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Caitlyn Clabaugh, PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California, about lessons learned about putting robots in people's homes for human-robot interacti...
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270
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A Mathematical Approach To Robot Ethics, with Robert Williamson
Audrow Nash
01 Oct 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Robert Williamson, a Professor at the Australian National University, who speaks about a mathematical approach to ethics. This approach can get us started impl...
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264
podcast
Bio-inspired Soft Robots for Healthcare, with Yong-Lae Park
Marwa ElDiwiny
08 Jul 2018
In this episode, Marwa Mohammed Alaa Eldean Eldiwiny interviews Yong-Lae Park, Associate Professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, about the bio-inspired design and manufacture of soft...
ep.
263
podcast
ICRA 2018 Exhibition, with Juxi Leitner, Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson and James Brett
Audrow Nash
23 Jun 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Juxi Leitner, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT; and Nicholas Panitz, Ben Wilson, and James Brett, from CSIRO.
Leitner speaks about the Amazon Pickin...
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262
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Cassie, a Bipedal Robot for Research and Development, with Jonathan W. Hurst
Audrow Nash
08 Jun 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Jonathan W. Hurst, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University and CTO and co-founder of Agility Robotics, about legged locomotion,...
Personalizing wearable devices
Wyss Institute
08 Mar 2018
By Leah Burrows
When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a bit ...
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255
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Learning about Legged Locomotion from Birds, with Monica Daley
Audrow Nash
04 Mar 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Monica Daley about learning from birds about legged locomotion. To do this, Daley analyzes the gaits of guineafowl in various experiments to understand the mec...
Robotic interiors
MIT News
02 Feb 2018
By Rob Matheson
Imagine living in a cramped studio apartment in a large city — but being able to summon your bed or closet through a mobile app, call forth your desk using voice command, or have ...
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251
podcast
Open Source Prosthetic Leg, with Elliott Rouse
Audrow Nash
06 Jan 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Elliott Rouse, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, about an open-source prosthetic leg—that is a robotic knee and ankle. Rouse’s goal is to p...
Physical adversarial examples against deep neural networks
BAIR Blog
31 Dec 2017
By Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, and Bo Li based on recent research by Ivan Evtimov, Kevin Eykholt, Earlence Fernandes, Tadayoshi Kohno, Bo Li, Atul Prakash, Amir Rahmati, Dawn Song...
Robust distributed decision-making in robot swarms
Michael Crosscombe
06 Nov 2017
Reaching an optimal shared decision in a distributed way is a key aspect of many multi-agent and swarm robotic applications....
Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?
MIT News
28 Oct 2017
Just in time for Halloween, a research team from the MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group has introduced Shelley: the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaborat...
Could we build a Blade Runner-style ‘replicant’?
The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic body parts can match the strength and emotions of their human creators. As someone who builds biolo...
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245
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High-Performance Autonomous Vehicles, with Chris Gerdes
Audrow Nash
14 Oct 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make vehicles sa...
Robotic bugs train insects to be helpers
Horizon Magazine
10 Oct 2017
by Aisling Irwin
Tiny mobile robots are learning to work with insects in the hope the creatures’ sensitive antennae and ability to squeeze into small spaces can be put to use serving humans....
Energy, enthusiasm and spirit of cooperation: Award winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 announced
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
“Superhero” robot wears different outfits for different tasks
MIT News
27 Sep 2017
From butterflies that sprout wings to hermit crabs that switch their shells, many animals must adapt their exterior features in order to survive. While humans don’t undergo that kind of metamorphosi...
#ERLEmergency2017 in tweets
SPARC
27 Sep 2017
The ERL Emergency Robots 2017 (#ERLemergency2017) major tournament in Piombino, Italy, gathered 130 participants from 16 universities and companies from 8 European countries. Participating teams desig...
The importance of research reproducibility in robotics
Fabio Bonsignorio
20 Sep 2017
As highlighted in a previous post, despite the fact that robotics is increasingly regarded as a 'Science', as shown by the launch of new journals such as Science Robotics, reproducibility of experimen...
Reprogramming nature
Oliver Mitchell
12 Sep 2017
Summer is not without its annoyances — mosquitos, wasps, and ants, to name a few. As the cool breeze of September pushes us back to work, labs across the country are reconvening tackling nature̵...
IBM and MIT to pursue joint research in artificial intelligence, establish new MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab
MIT News
08 Sep 2017
IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial intel...
New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities
NCCR Robotics
30 Aug 2017
Recent advances in soft robotics have seen the development of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) to ensure that all parts of the robot are soft, including the functional parts. These SPAs have traditiona...
New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct
MIT News
30 Aug 2017
Just as drivers observe the rules of the road, most pedestrians follow certain social codes when navigating a hallway or a crowded thoroughfare: Keep to the right, pass on the left, maintain a respect...
Custom robots in a matter of minutes
MIT News
24 Aug 2017
Even as robots become increasingly common, they remain incredibly difficult to make. From designing and modeling to fabricating and testing, the process is slow and costly: Even one small change can m...
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241
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Tensegrity Control, with Kostas Bekris
Jack Rasiel
18 Aug 2017
In this episode, Jack Rasiel speaks with Kostas Bekris, who introduces us to tensegrity robotics: a striking robotic design which straddles the boundary between hard and soft robotics. A structure us...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: ILIAD
SPARC
18 Aug 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
Digital symbiosis lets robot co-workers predict human behaviour
Horizon Magazine
18 Aug 2017
by Anthony King
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk fear that the robotic revolution may already be underway, but automation isn’t going to take over just yet – first machines will work alongside us.
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240
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Biowatch: Biometric Identification Using Veins, with Matthias Vanoni
MeiXing Dong
05 Aug 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong interviews Matthias Vanoni, co-founder and CEO of Biowatch. Vanoni speaks about Biowatch, a wrist-veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile ...
Automatic image retouching system
MIT News
03 Aug 2017
The data captured by today’s digital cameras is often treated as the raw material of a final image. Before uploading pictures to social networking sites, even casual cellphone photographers might sp...
Artificial skin could allow robots to feel like we do
Horizon Magazine
02 Aug 2017
Artificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for robots that can feel, smart-transplants and even cyborgs....
Somersault simulation for jumping robots
Association for Computing Machinery
28 Jul 2017
In recent years engineers have been developing new technologies to enable robots and humans to move faster and jump higher. Soft, elastic materials store energy in these devices, which, if released ca...
Folding robots: No battery, no wires, no problem
Wyss Institute
26 Jul 2017
The traditional Japanese art of origami transforms a simple sheet of paper into complex, three-dimensional shapes through a very specific pattern of folds, creases, and crimps. Folding robots based on...
Reshaping computer-aided design
MIT News
24 Jul 2017
Almost every object we use is developed with computer-aided design (CAD). Ironically, while CAD programs are good for creating designs, using them is actually very difficult and time-consuming if youâ...
