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Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
MIT News
20 Jul 2017
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from MI...
Bringing neural networks to cellphones
MIT News
19 Jul 2017
In recent years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — in areas such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, computer vision, and automatic translation — have come courtesy of s...
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Midwest Speech and Language Days 2017 Posters, with Michael White, Dmitriy Dligach and Denis Newman-Griffiths
MeiXing Dong
08 Jul 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong conducts interviews at the 2017 Midwest Speech and Language Days workshop in Chicago. She talks with Michael White of Ohio State University about question interpretation ...
Talking Machines: Bias variance dilemma for humans and the arm farm, with Jeff Dean
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2017
In episode four of season three Neil introduces us to the ideas behind the bias variance dilemma (and how how we can think about it in our daily lives). Plus, we answer a listener question about how t...
The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed
Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron D. Ames, Eric Feron and Magnus Egerstedt
29 Jun 2017
When developing algorithms for coordinating the behaviors of swarms of robots it is crucial that the algorithms are actually deployed and tested on real hardware platforms. Unfortunately, building and...
Spider webs as computers
Helmut Hauser
27 Jun 2017
Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They have evolved over more than 200 million years and can be found in almost every corner of our planet. They are one of the most successful animals. Not less imp...
Robots offer the elderly a helping hand
Horizon Magazine
20 Jun 2017
by Helen Massy-Beresford
Low birth rates and higher life expectancies mean that those over 65 years old now will account for 28.7 % of Europe’s population by 2080, according to Eurostat, the EU...
From drinking straws to robots
Harvard Gazette
16 Jun 2017
By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer
At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft rob...
Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Dillenbourg Lab
NCCR Robotics
16 Jun 2017
Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg and the team from the Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction (CHILI) Lab, explain how they are building robots to use in the classrooms of tomorrow. It is CH...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: Co4Robots
SPARC
09 Jun 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
Finally! Google sells Boston Dynamics to SoftBank
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2017
In a long-awaited transaction, The New York Times Dealbook announced that SoftBank was buying Boston Dynamics from Alphabet (Google). Also included in the deal is the Japanese startup Schaft. Acquisit...
Mori: A modular origami robot
NCCR Robotics
08 Jun 2017
The fields of modular and origami robotics have become increasingly popular in recent years, with both approaches presenting particular benefits, as well as limitations, to the end user. Christoph Bel...
Localization uncertainty-aware exploration planning
Autonomous exploration and reliable mapping of unknown environments corresponds to a major challenge for mobile robotic systems. For many important application domains, such as industrial inspection o...
Looking at new trends in Distributed Robotics Systems and Society
Eduardo Castello Ferrer
06 Jun 2017
It isn’t a secret that distributed robotic systems are starting to revolutionize many applications from targeted material delivery (e.g., Amazon Robotics) to precision farming. Assisted by technolog...
Giving robots a sense of touch
MIT News
05 Jun 2017
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact...
The Uncanny Valley of human-robot interactions
Oliver Mitchell
02 Jun 2017
The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the flying object. In a demonstration of DJI’s newest drone, the audience marveled at the Cok...
Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
CSAIL MIT
02 Jun 2017
Computer scientists have been working for decades on automatic navigation systems to aid the visually impaired, but it’s been difficult to come up with anything as reliable and easy to use as the wh...
Researcher to develop bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee for prosthetics
UWE Bristol
01 Jun 2017
A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics La...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: BADGER
SPARC
26 May 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
Finding the right morphology to simplify control for soft robotics
Martin Garrad
23 May 2017
The way animals move has yet to be matched by robotic systems. This is because biological systems exploit compliant mechanisms in ways their robotic cousins do not. However, recent advances in soft ro...
What has twenty years of RoboCup taught us?
Oliver Mitchell
23 May 2017
In 1985, a twenty-two year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion. Twelve years later, he was defeated by the only player capable of challenging the grandmaster, IBM’s Deep Blu...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: An.Dy
SPARC
19 May 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...
Watch this omnicopter fetch a ball
Dario Brescianini
17 May 2017
We have developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multirotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude. The traject...
Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Paik Lab
NCCR Robotics
15 May 2017
Meet the NCCR Robotics Paik Lab (RRL, EPFL) - headed by Professor Jamie Paik, the lab is dedicated to creating interactive robotic systems using cutting edge manufacturing techniques. The lab speciali...
Launch of the Chairless Chair announced
NCCR Robotics
12 May 2017
Last month, Swiss start-up and NCCR Robotics and ETH Zurich spin-off noonee, announced the start of series production and sales launch of their Chairless Chair. The company was founded in 2014 and sin...
Teaching robots to teach other robots
CSAIL MIT
10 May 2017
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...
3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings
MIT News
01 May 2017
The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list further, with the de...
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Geometric Methods in Computer Vision, with Kostas Daniilidis
Jack Rasiel
30 Apr 2017
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In this episode, Jack Rasiel speaks with Kostas Daniilidis, Professor of Computer and Information at the University of Pennsylvania, about new developments in computer vision and ...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects – 2016 presented at #ERF2017
SPARC
27 Apr 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and one pro...
Machine learning requires careful stewardship says Royal Society
The Royal Society
25 Apr 2017
The many potential social and economic benefits from advances in AI-based technologies depend entirely on the environment in which these technologies evolve, says the Royal Society. According to a new...
Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Auke Ijspeert and BioRob
NCCR Robotics
25 Apr 2017
The Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob) is part of the Institute of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In this video, meet Professor Auk...
EU-funded robotics technology experiments present their work at Hannover Messe
Robohub Editors
25 Apr 2017
From 24 – 28 April, four ECHORD++ experiments will present their work at Hannover Messe, the world's biggest trade show. You can see the latest advances in EU-funded robotics technology development ...
Two Horizon 2020 projects researching EU Digital Industrial Platform for Robotics
Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
18 Apr 2017
Market pull for better factory automation and the ever-increasing relevance of software in every domain are triggering a rethink in how we develop software for robotics. Techniques such as Model Driv...
Explained: Neural networks
MIT News
18 Apr 2017
In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest automatic translator — have resulted from a technique...
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Kickstart Accelerator, with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni
Audrow Nash
17 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni about Kickstart Accelerator, a Swiss Startup Accelerator. Siegwart leads the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich and is on...
Engineering highly adaptable robots requires new tools for new rules
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
13 Apr 2017
Northwestern University mechanical engineering professor Todd Murphey and his team are engineering robots that one might say could make robotic assistance as seamless as "humanly" possible. With suppo...
