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How the brain recognizes faces
MIT News
01 Dec 2016
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
Generating predictive videos using deep-learning
CSAIL MIT
28 Nov 2016
Living in a dynamic physical world, it’s easy to forget how effortlessly we understand our surroundings. With minimal thought, we can figure out how scenes change and objects interact.
But what...
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100/100 Computer Vision Challenge, with Dieter Fox
Audrow Nash
26 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dieter Fox, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, about the 100/100 Computer Vision Tracking Challen...
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
Filippo Arrichiello
16 Nov 2016
Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
Eliminating cords with wireless ‘millimeter wave’ virtual reality headsets
MIT News
14 Nov 2016
One of the limits of today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI ...
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
MIT News
11 Nov 2016
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che...
Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
CSAIL MIT
10 Nov 2016
By: Larry Hardesty
At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer ...
Students develop cheap 3D printing technique for soft robotics
RoboValley
09 Nov 2016
By Jurjen Slump.
Students of Delft University of Technology have developed a new add-on for a 3D printer that can cast silicones inside a 3D printed shell during the printing process. This new, and...
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
08 Nov 2016
What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
Can a brain-computer interface convert your thoughts to text?
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
01 Nov 2016
By Srividya Sundaresan, Frontiers Science Writer
Ever wonder what it would be like if a device could decode your thoughts into actual speech or written words? While this might enhance the capabilit...
Making computers explain themselves
MIT News
28 Oct 2016
In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classi...
Future robots will learn through curiosity and self-generated goals
Gianluca Baldassarre and Vieri Giuliano Santucci
27 Oct 2016
Imagine a friend asking for help to tidy up her room that is full of objects and furniture. Now imagine for some reason your friend will not be there to help (we are all lazy) and she just describes, ...
A variable stiffness fiber that self-heals
NCCR Robotics
27 Oct 2016
A group from Floreano Lab, EPFL and NCCR Robotics has today published their novel variable stiffness fibre with self-healing capability.
Soft “hardware” components are becoming more and more po...
mROBerTO: The modular millirobot for swarm behavior studies
Justin Kim
26 Oct 2016
Developed by a team at the University of Toronto, mROBerTO (milli-ROBot TORonto) is designed for swarm-robotics researchers who might wish to test their collective-behavior algorithms with real physic...
Electric motors expanding application and efficiency in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
MIT News
25 Oct 2016
Electric motors have been around since Thomas Davenport built the first functional model in 1834, and they have played a growing part in our lives ever since. Today, they continue to replace diesel an...
Robot-assisted search and rescue conducts joint training exercise with Italian Coast Guard
Robin Murphy and Gianluca Antonelli
24 Oct 2016
The Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station conducted a joint training exercise with the Italian Coast Guard in Genoa, Italy to prevent fu...
Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
20 Oct 2016
I’m delighted to announce a new game-changing standard for building robot hardware components: H-ROS (the Hardware Robot Operating System). H-ROS provides manufacturers tools for building interope...
Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
CSAIL MIT
13 Oct 2016
3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
Disney’s one-legged untethered hopping robot
Robohub Editors
12 Oct 2016
Disney Research presents their design and control for an untethered, energetically autonomous single-legged hopping robot. While this isn't the first hopping robot to be built, it is the first not to ...
Powered arm prosthesis race at Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
07 Oct 2016
This week, the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland and today we present to you the second of the NCCR Robotics teams to be taking part in the competition, LeMano. The Cyba...
Virtual race: Competing in Brain Computer Interface at Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
05 Oct 2016
This week the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. Cybathlon is the brainchild of NCCR Robotics co-director and ETH Zurich professor Robert Riener, and is designed to faci...
3-D printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
CSAIL MIT
03 Oct 2016
Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of BattleBots knows that robots can break - and often it’s because they don’t have the proper padding to protect themselves.
But this week rese...
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RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
XoSoft: Intelligent trousers designed to assist people with limited mobility
Advancement in healthcare and medicine and other comforts of modernity make us live longer than our ancestors: the life expectancy of the average European nearly doubled during the last century. As li...
Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots
Micha Rappaport
22 Sep 2016
Mobile robots can be used in many applications, they are especially suited for environments that are unreachable or too dangerous for humans. In many cases, these environments have to be explored and ...
EQ-Radio: Detecting emotions with wireless signals
CSAIL MIT
21 Sep 2016
By measuring your heartbeat and breath, this device from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab can tell if you’re excited, happy, angry or sad
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Designing and deploying a fleet of autonomous boats on the canals of Amsterdam
MIT News
20 Sep 2016
MIT has signed an agreement to engage in research collaborations with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in the Netherlands. The collaboration’s flagship project, led ...
Machines can learn by simply observing, without being told what to look for
Roderich Gross
15 Sep 2016
We have developed a new machine learning method at the University of Sheffield called Turing Learning that allows machines to model natural or artificial systems....
HAPTIX program underway to create prosthetic hand system that moves and feels like a real hand
Open Source Robotics Foundation
09 Sep 2016
By: Brian Gerkey
Fundamentally, robotics is about helping people. Robots help us manufacture things, help us build things, and help make our lives easier and more convenient. As robotic systems in...
Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)
Kassie Perlongo
30 Aug 2016
Lionfish are invasive to the Atlantic Ocean and their voracious appetites are destroying coral reef ecosystems. RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) is a new non-profit company looking to rest...
Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots
Though recent advances in design, fabrication, and programming technologies promise to enable rapid digital manufacturing of functional robotic systems, many challenges need to be addressed to realize...
Introducing the Octobot: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Harvard SEAS
25 Aug 2016
By: Leah Burrows
A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft r...
People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones
Adriana Hamacher
19 Aug 2016
Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests....
Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light
Robohub Editors
19 Aug 2016
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired mic...
Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
Victoria Webster
12 Aug 2016
Think of a traditional robot and you probably imagine something made from metal and plastic. Such “nuts-and-bolts” robots are made of hard materials. As robots take on more roles beyond the lab, s...
Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
10 Aug 2016
In this article, our humanoid robot iCub is put to the test using manipulation and interaction as sources of knowledge and new experience, as well as, providing a means to explore and control the envi...
