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The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo

Abate De Mey 16 Dec 2020

Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...

More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace

Jonathan Downey 23 Jun 2017

Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...

Xponential 2017 in images

The National Robotics Education Foundation 25 May 2017

The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 16 May 2017

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...

Technical challenges in machine ethics

Yueh-Hsuan Weng 08 Feb 2017

Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...

Robotics in harsh environments

Alex Regrettier 04 Nov 2016

In the field of hostile conditions, outer space is often considered the epitome of harsh environments. However, it’s not necessary to travel so far in order to locate situations with extreme condi...

In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones

Christian Bettstetter 07 Oct 2016

Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...

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Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson

Audrow Nash 06 Aug 2016

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...

Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war

Alaa Khamis 28 Apr 2016

Landmines are one of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare. In the military, they are considered the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses. The simplicity and cost-effect...

The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/22/16

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 22 Feb 2016

2/15/16 – 2/21/16 At the Center for the Study of the Drone In October, the White House announced that it will deploy a Predator drone unit to Cameroon. We have obtained the first photographic ...

ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10

Frank E. Schneider 01 Dec 2015

Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...

Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW

Open Roboethics Initiative 17 Nov 2015

On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties....

Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin

Robohub Editors 15 Oct 2015

AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...

Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Marta Palau Franco 21 Sep 2015

Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...

#eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios

Marta Palau Franco 16 Sep 2015

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...

Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto

Robohub Editors 24 Jun 2015

FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...

DRC is not just about building robots; it’s about building community

Gill Pratt and DARPA Robotics Challenge 03 Jun 2015

Something remarkable is happening in Building 9 here at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. Imagine a long, giant warehouse-like building divided into 24 bays, within which people from around the world are...

DARPA’s Robotics Challenge: A pocket-sized guide to the finals

Adriana Hamacher 03 Jun 2015

DARPA's latest Challenge reaches its climax on 6 June 2015, when 25 finalists compete for $3.5m of prize money in what’s possibly the most anticipated robotic contest ever. Since its inception in 20...

Live tweets from UN #CCWUN debate on lethal autonomous weapons

Robohub Editors 13 Apr 2015

Experts from all over the world are gathered at the United Nations in Geneva today to debate questions surrounding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) for the Convention on Certain Conventiona...

Should robots make life/death decisions? UN to discuss lethal autonomous weapons next week

Open Roboethics Initiative 10 Apr 2015

Should robots be allowed to make life and death decisions? This will be the topic of heated debate at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva next week (April 13-17th, 2015). As part of...

FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections

Frank Tobe 17 Mar 2015

Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...

Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open

Marta Palau Franco 13 Feb 2015

euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...

Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship

The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech 06 Feb 2015

In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...

euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research

Marta Palau Franco 23 Jan 2015

euRathlon is an EU-funded project that aims to set the standard for research through robotics competitions. It not only provides opportunities to test advanced emergency response robots in very chall...

Island Forum 2014: Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence

LEE Chor Pharn and Aaron MANIAM 06 Jan 2015

The Singapore Ministry of Defence convened the sixth edition of the Island Forum in November 2014 to explore the emerging future of artificial intelligence and robotics, developments that could have e...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 09 Dec 2014

At the Center for the Study of the Drone In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its power. In an in-...

Robo-Wars: The regulation of robotic weapons

Alexander Leveringhaus and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford 05 Dec 2014

Robotic weapons, whether autonomous or remote controlled, have generated widespread controversy in recent years. Alex Leveringhaus, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed ...

Minesweepers 2014: Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining

Alaa Khamis 21 Nov 2014

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an outdoor robotic competition initiated by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – Egypt Chapter that aims to raise public awareness of the seriousne...

First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)

Zoe Fragoulopoulou 30 Oct 2014

ALCOR Lab members describe their experience. From September 23rd to October 2nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise (TJEx) took place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pi...

This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company

CIS Blog 23 Oct 2014

Cars are already close to driving themselves down the highway. How far are we then from military weapons systems that decide on their own when and where to fire? "You want the scary answer?" asks C...

euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2

Marta Palau Franco 02 Oct 2014

euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...

Liquid Robotics continues its growth by partnering with Boeing

Frank Tobe 24 Sep 2014

Sunnyvale-based Liquid Robotics continues their growth-by-partnering formula by striking another collaboration, this time with Boeing....

Clearpath’s public stance on Killer Robots sets precedence in corporate responsibility

AJung Moon 20 Aug 2014

Last week the Waterloo-based Clearpath publicly pledged not to develop lethal autonomous weapons, otherwise known as "killer robots". In an open letter to the public, Clearpath's CTO Ryan Gariepy wr...

See what it’s like to go off-road inside the Marines’ self-driving vehicle | The Verge

Hallie Siegel 28 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/sFkj36JJ8mk The US military has been working on self-driving vehicles of its own for several years now, and earlier this month a video was published showing just what it's...

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