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Spotlights on Three Exhibitors from CVPR 2022
Abate De Mey
01 Sep 2022
Short interview spotlights with three inspiring startups that exhibited at CVPR2022.
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359
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Perception and Decision-Making for Underwater Robots, with Brendan Englot
Lilly Clark
21 Aug 2022
Prof Brendan Englot, from Stevens Institute of Technology, discusses the challenges in perception and decision making for underwater robots - especially in the field.
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358
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Underwater Human-Robot Interaction #ICRA2022, with Michael Fulton
Abate De Mey
22 Jul 2022
Michael Fulton describes his unique robot-to-human communication system using exaggerated body language.
Exhibitors from ICRA 2022
Abate De Mey
11 Jul 2022
We give a spotlight to four exhibitors from ICRA 2022: Tangram Vision, FLX Solutions, Exyn Technologies, and Pollen Robotics. Each speak to the value their companies bring to robotics and give live demos.
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356
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Controlling a Drone After Sudden Rotor Failure #ICRA2022, with Sihao Sun
Abate De Mey
06 Jun 2022
Dr. Sihao Sun on his research for controlling a quadcopter after one of its rotors faces a sudden failure. His research takes in real-world assumptions where the quadcopter may already be in a compromised, difficult to correct orientation.
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355
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SLAM fused with Satellite Imagery #ICRA2022, with John McConnell
Abate De Mey
25 May 2022
John McConnell discusses the research presented at ICRA 2022 to reduce drift in SLAM algorithms by incorporating overhead satellite imagery.
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353
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Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition Spotlight, with Yu Sun
Abate De Mey
21 May 2022
Yu Sun, previous chair of the Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition, speaks on the value that this competition brought to the robotics community.
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352
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Early Days of ICRA Competitions, with Bill Smart
Abate De Mey
21 May 2022
Bill Smart, one fo the early ICRA Competition Chairs, dives into the high-level decisions involved with creating a meaningful competition.
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350
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Improving Perception through Interaction, with Carolyn Matl
Shihan Lu
21 Apr 2022
Dr. Carolyn Matl, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, explains why Interactive Perception and soft tactile sensors are critical for manipulating challenging objects such as liquids, grains, and dough.
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347
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Event Cameras – An Evolution in Visual Data Capture, with Davide Scaramuzza
Abate De Mey
08 Mar 2022
Davide Scaramuzza deep dives into Event Cameras, a fundamentally new approach to capturing visual data
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344
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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.
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340
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NVIDIA and ROS Teaming Up To Accelerate Robotics Development, with Amit Goel
Abate De Mey
23 Oct 2021
Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA, discusses the new collaboration between Open Robotics and NVIDIA. The collaboration will dramatically improve the way ROS and NVIDIA's line of products such as Isaac SIM and the Jetson line of embedded boards operate together.
Sense Think Act Podcast: Dave Coleman
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
02 Oct 2021
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dave Coleman, Chief Executive Officer at PickNik Robotics. Dave speaks at a high level about what MoveIt is and what problems it helps roboticists solve, they t...
Carlotta Berry’s talk – Robotics Education to Robotics Research (with video)
Robotics Today
22 Dec 2020
A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Carlotta Berry from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In her talk, Carlotta presented the multidisciplinary benefits of ro...
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325
podcast
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 ...
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324
podcast
Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
Lauren Klein
02 Dec 2020
Robohub Podcast · Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance
In this episode, our interviewer Lauren Klein speaks with Kim Baraka about his PhD research to enable robots to engage in social int...
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323
podcast
Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov
Shihan Lu
15 Nov 2020
Robohub Podcast · Multisensory Perception
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Jivko Sinapov, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, about his work on beh...
Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon Global Edition 2020, the Olympics dedicated to new prosthetic technologie
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
13 Nov 2020
IIT’s teams will compete in the "Powered Arm Prosthesis" category showing two different robotic arm prostheses made in Italy: SoftHandPro and Hannes. The race course is about 30 metres long and will...
A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
NCCR Robotics
31 Oct 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
NCCR Robotics researchers at EPFL have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility....
Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
Frontiers Journals & Blog
18 Oct 2020
By Conn Hastings, science writer
Controlling a swarm of robots to paint a picture sounds like a difficult task. However, a new technique allows an artist to do just that, without worrying about pro...
Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
Wyss Institute
04 Oct 2020
By Tim Sullivan / Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Communications
A group based out of the Spaulding Motion Analysis Lab at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital published “Enabling Precision Rehabi...
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318
podcast
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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317
podcast
Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista
Lauren Klein
25 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Gennaro Notimista, a robotics PhD student in the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems Labo...
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316
podcast
Introspective Robots, with Nathan Michael
Lilly Clark
09 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Introspective Robots
In this episode, Lilly interviews Nathan Michael, Professor and Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab at the Robotics Institute within Carnegie M...
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315
podcast
Exploring from a Distance, with Muralidharan Arikara
Lauren Klein
28 Jul 2020
Robohub Podcast · Exploring From a Distance
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Muralidharan Arikara, CEO of Xarpie Labs. Xarpie Labs creates visualization and simulation experiences within t...
This drone can play dodgeball – and win
NCCR Robotics
19 Mar 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
Drones can do many things, but avoiding obstacles is not their strongest suit yet – especially when they move quickly. Although many flying robots are equipped with cameras that...
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304
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Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson
Shihan Lu
17 Feb 2020
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Dr. Heather Culbertson, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, about her work in haptics. Dr. Culbertson...
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303
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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...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
Thilo Zimmermann
07 Dec 2019
At Danfoss in Gråsten, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) is testing, as part of a pilot project in the European robot network ROBOTT-NET, several robot technologies: Manipulation using force s...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
Thilo Zimmermann
21 Oct 2019
“Within the framework of the European project ROBOTT-NET we are developing software and robotic solutions for the prevention and control of rodents in enclosed spaces”, says Marco Lorenzo, Service...
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295
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inVia Robotics: Product-Picking Robots for the Warehouse, with Rand Voorhies
Lauren Klein
07 Oct 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein speaks with Dr. Rand Voorhies, co-founder and CTO of inVia Robotics. In a world where consumers expect fast home delivery of a variety of goods, inVia’s mission is to h...
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291
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Medieval Automata and Cathartic Objects: Modern Robots Inspired by History, with Michal Luria
Lauren Klein
22 Jul 2019
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Michal Luria, a PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about research that explores the boundaries of Human-R...
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279
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Safe Robot Learning on Hardware, with Jaime Fernández Fisac
Audrow Nash
04 Feb 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Jaime Fernández Fisac, a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, working with Professors Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin, and Anca Dragan. Fisac is ...
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278
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IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 3 of 3), with Ryan Gariepy, Lars Grimstad and Péter Fankhauser
Audrow Nash
20 Jan 2019
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Ryan Gariepy, Lars Grimstad, and Péter Fankhauser....
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256
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Socially Assistive Robots, with Maja Matarić
Audrow Nash
19 Mar 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Maja Matarić, a professor at the University of Southern California and the Chief Science Officer of Embodied, about socially assistive robotics. Socially ass...
A language to design control algorithms for robot swarms
Lenka Pitonakova
28 Sep 2017
Designing and representing control algorithms is challenging in swarm robotics, where the collective swarm performance depends on interactions between robots and with their environment. The currently ...
