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Duckietown Competition Spotlight, with Dr Liam Paull
Abate De Mey
17 May 2022
Dr. Liam Paull, cofounder of the Duckietown competition talks about the only robotics competition where Rubber Duckies are the passengers on an autonomous driving track.
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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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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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261
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Cozmo, by Anki, with Andrew Neil Stein
Abate De Mey
29 May 2018
In this episode, Abate interviews Andrew Stein from Anki. At Anki they developed an engaging robot called Cozmo which packs sophisticated robotic software inside a lifelike, palm sized, robot. Cozmo r...
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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...
How artificial intelligence will transform higher education
David Gann and Mark Dodgson
09 Aug 2017
As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the wa...
Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology
The Conversation
22 Jun 2017
A subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington.
Patrick Bennett, CC BY-ND
By Eran Klein, University of Washington and Katherine Pratt, Unive...
To err is algorithm: Algorithm fallibility and economic organisation
Juan Mateos-Garcia
18 May 2017
Algorithmic fails
Dig below the surface of some of today’s biggest tech controversies and you are likely to find an algorithm misfiring:[1]
YouTube advertising controversy: The algorithm place...
Kids celebrate robotics at RoboFes 2017
Alberto Moreno
17 May 2017
Robo Done, the robotic academy franchise for kids from Osaka, Japan, celebrated Japan’s Day of the Children on the 5th of May at their annual event, Robot Festival 2017 or RoboFes. The event welcome...
24 research reports that dissect the robotics industry
Frank Tobe
05 May 2017
After reading the press releases for this batch of 24 research reports, although they vary widely in their forecasts, they almost all agree that most segments of the robotics industry are expected to...
Does AI pose a threat to society?
Alan Winfield
03 May 2017
Last week I had the pleasure of debating the question "does AI pose a threat to society?" with friends and colleagues Christian List, Maja Pantic and Samantha Payne. The event was organised by the B...
Dr Rustam Stolkin and robots that learn: Nuclear robotics meets machine learning
The Royal Society and Susannah Odell
27 Apr 2017
How can we create robots that can carry out important tasks in dangerous environments? Machine learning is supporting advances in the field of robotics. To find out more, we talked to Dr Rustam Stolki...
Why it’s difficult to trust robots
Joffrey Becker
19 Apr 2017
Robots raise all kinds of concerns. They could steal our jobs, as some experts think. And if artificial intelligence grows, it might even be tempted to enslave us, or to annihilate the whole of humani...
The legal issues of robotics
Andrea Bertolini
06 Apr 2017
Robots are the technology of the future. But the current legal system is incapable of handling them. This generic statement is often the premise for considerations about the possibility of awarding ri...
The cheap arm project: An affordable, open-source robotics project
Dominic Cassidy and Guido Bugmann
30 Mar 2017
What do you get when you put together wood and rope? Well according to Plymouth University's Professor Guido Bugmann: a low-cost, open source, 2 meter tall robot! All buildable for under £2000. The C...
UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
SPH Engineering
09 Mar 2017
UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
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Teach Xemo to Move, with Jeff Sprenger
Abate De Mey
31 Oct 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Jeff Sprenger, founder of the startup Xemory in Vermont, USA. At Xemory they are developing a robot simulation game called Xemo, where players learn to animate...
White House launches public workshops on AI issues
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
04 May 2016
The White House today announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial i...
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
MIT News
21 Apr 2016
MIT has offered courses on everything from pirate training to “street-fighting math,” but a new robotics class is truly one for the birds....
Vote for your favourite AI video – AAAI Video Competition People’s Choice Award
Sabine Hauert
01 Feb 2016
You get to decide the winner of the People’s Choice Award for the AI Video Competition 2016!...
Survey on your experience with robotics competitions
Mahmoud AbdelAziz
14 Jan 2016
From Grand Challenges such as the recent DRC, to STEM events such as FIRST, to startup pitches such as Robot Launch, competitions have been used to push the state of the art in the field, inspire the ...
The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
CIS Blog
30 Dec 2015
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. ...
How many axes does my robot need?
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
09 Dec 2015
Anyone who has been in robotics long enough is eventually tasked with figuring out how many axes they will need for their robot. Most robots have somewhere between three and seven axes, but how d...
Come with me to the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition
Michael Savoie
13 Jul 2015
It wouldn’t be June in Colorado without the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition. Started back in 2009, the annual event is held at their global headquarters near Boulder, CO. ...
One year later: Update from Leka, Robot Launch 2014 Grand Winner
Ladislas de Toldi and Leka
02 Jul 2015
Almost one year ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for Moti, a robotic toy that helps autistic children learn to regulate their own emotions through play. Leka cofounde...
Thymio goes wireless!
Robohub Editors
04 Jun 2015
Thymio is a playful robot designed to help children discover programming, motors, light and motion sensors, and ultimately, logical and inventive thinking - right out of the box. Earlier versions...
Complete force control in constrained under-actuated mechanical systems: Lecture by Francesco Nori
In this video lecture, Franceso Nori from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) walks us through the progress that's been made in humanoid robots in recent years. For example, the humanoids at ...
3D Robotics launches app development kit ‘DroneKit’
Ben Fisher
26 Mar 2015
3D Robotics has unveiled DroneKit, an open-source development kit for app development. This is a clear invite for the wider development community to build upon 3DR's flight control software....
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
Talking Machines
17 Mar 2015
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
Open science: Preaching what I practice
Alan Winfield
22 Jan 2015
Open science isn't one thing - it is a set of practices that range from making sure your papers are openly accessible (which is relatively easy), to open notebook science, which makes the process ope...
iCub philosophy, history and recent results: Lecture by Giorgio Metta
In this lecture, Giorgio Metta describes the history and philosophy behind the iCub project, and presents some recent results....
ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich
ETH Zurich
12 Dec 2014
ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 million ...
Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis
Phillip Walker
13 Nov 2014
The Ground Drone Project wants to make a [tweetquote]low cost ground robot chassis for hobbyists and inventors that is capable of traversing challenging obstacles[/tweetquote]. The project’s origina...
Video: Robotics at Skolkovo
Robohub Editors
31 Oct 2014
See an overview of projects from the Skolkovo robotics cluster....
Spark Aerial: Your aerial cinematography flight school
Dronologista
28 Aug 2014
The proliferation of UAVs means that there is a growing number of UAV operators. Sometimes these operators have some experience, but in most of the cases they have none. To make things worse, nowadays...
