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Learning for Collaboration, Not Competition, with Jakob Foerster

Kegan Strawn 25 Jan 2022

Jakob Foerster, an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, dives into his work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.

The agricultural labor conundrum

Frank Tobe 09 Aug 2017

Instead of worrying so much about robots taking away jobs, maybe we should worry more about wages being too low for robots to even get a chance. Seasonal labor for harvesting agricultural products, p...

Does the next industrial revolution spell the end of manufacturing jobs?

The Conversation 25 Jul 2017

By Jeff Morgan, Trinity College Dublin Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemploym...

Federal regulations pass next hurdle

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Jul 2017

This week's news is preliminary, but a U.S. house committee panel passed some new federal regulations which suggest sweeping change in the US regulatory approach to robocars....

IROS Workshop: Best practices in designing roadmaps for robotics innovation

Hallie Siegel and AJung Moon 16 Jul 2017

Join us at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) for a full day workshop that will bring together international stakeholders in robotics to examine ...

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....

Thought leadership in social sector robotics

Patrick Meier 20 Jun 2017

WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...

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...

Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives

Horizon Magazine 15 Mar 2017

If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...

Drones for good 2.0: How WeRobotics is redefining the use of unmanned systems in developing countries

Waypoint 22 Feb 2017

Robotics undoubtedly has the potential to improve lives in the developing world. However, with limited budgets and expertise on the ground, putting this technology in place is no small task. Step forw...

The infrastructure of life part 2: Transparency

Alan Winfield 03 Feb 2017

Part 2: Autonomous Systems and Transparency In my previous post I argued that a wide range of AI and Autonomous Systems (from now on I will just use the term AS as shorthand for both) should be reg...

Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum

Alex Kirkpatrick 20 Jan 2017

The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...

2016: the best year yet for funding robotics startups

Frank Tobe 02 Jan 2017

2016 was a busy and abundant year for seed, crowd, series A,B,C,D and VC funding of robotics-related startups. 128 companies got funded, some multiple times. $1.95 billion, 50% more than 2015 whic...

Robots at your service: Empowering healthy aging at European Robotics Week, 2016

Thosha Moodley 08 Dec 2016

The European Robotics Week in 2016 took place from 18 to 22 November in several countries including The Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Serbia and many more. This event has been occ...

When robots become art: Interview with Yi-Wei Keng

Yueh-Hsuan Weng 29 Nov 2016

How can robotics help to enhance the development of the modern arts? Japan’s famous playwright, stage director Oriza Hirata and leading roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro launched the “Robot Theater Proj...

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ICRA 2016: Landmine Detection Challenge, with Edson Prestes

Audrow Nash 16 Oct 2016

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edson Prestes, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an organizer of the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) 20...

Robohub roundtable: Robotics and space exploration

Kassie Perlongo 11 May 2016

Every few weeks, Robohub will post a roundtable chat and discuss an engaging topic relating to robotics. In this edition, we looked at how can robotics can be part of space exploration. Privatisation ...

The coming nightmare for the car industry

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 11 May 2016

I have often written on the challenge facing existing automakers in the world of robocars. They need to learn to completely switch their way of thinking in a world of mobility on demand, and not all o...

Where should robots go when they retire?

Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura 12 Apr 2016

Most robots, when their creators are done with them, meet one of two fates. Either they’re stashed away, in some corner of a lab, closet or basement, or they’re cannibalized to make another robot....

Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games

Frank Tobe 17 Mar 2016

Embed from Getty Images Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...

WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson

Robohub Editors 04 Mar 2016

UPDATED 4 Mar: We're sad to report that Professor Tony Dyson, who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has died. We’re reposting this excellent video of his keynote at WeRobot to highlight his...

How can we use drones in the humanitarian and health sector?

Louis Potter 04 Mar 2016

Ever since I watched the exceptional 2013 TED talk by Raffaello D’Andrea on the athletic power of quadcopters I have been fascinated by the possibilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or, as t...

NHTSA redefines “driver” of self-driving car

Frank Tobe 13 Feb 2016

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) took an important step towards interpreting safety standards in ways that could make self-driving cars a reality for the public: it said that...

To err is human: raising the bar on AI

Michael Szollosy 01 Feb 2016

Last week, media outlets reported about the latest 'sure sign' of an imminent robopocalypse. Google-backed DeepMind created an AI sophisticated enough to beat a human champion in the Chinese ...

Two New Year’s resolutions for developers of automated vehicles

Bryant Walker Smith 12 Jan 2016

In the spirit of the New Year, and especially in the wake of California's draft rules for the (theoretical) operation of automated motor vehicles, I offer two resolutions for any serious developer of ...

Register your drone. It’s the law.

Frank Tobe 16 Dec 2015

The FAA has ruled that everyone who flies a drone must register. Since an estimated 700,000 drones are expected to be sold in the U.S. for the holiday gift-giving season, the registration process is s...

New comprehensive report on the risks drones pose to aircraft

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 14 Dec 2015

With the holiday season approaching, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that up to one million new drones will be entering U.S. airspace, creating potentially dangerous situations for...

Drone registration Task Force makes 11 key recommendations

Frank Tobe 24 Nov 2015

After the Task Force agreed that it was outside the scope of their objectives to debate or discuss the DOT Secretary’s decision to require registration, they undertook to develop and recommend a re...

European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society

euRobotics AISBL 19 Nov 2015

Over 600 events across the region will look at how robots will impact the way European citizens work, live and learn, as part of the 2015 European Robotics Week (#ERW2015), running 23-29 November....

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell

MIT News 15 Oct 2015

by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a de...

Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 08 Oct 2015

In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....

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