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Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90

Silicon Valley Robotics 01 Dec 2015

Robotics Industry Association | Joseph F. Engelberger, an engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered the robotics field, died peacefully at his home this morning, December 1, 2015, in Newtown, Connecticu...

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...

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Adriana Hamacher 27 Nov 2015

[clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...

On the ethics of research in robotics, with Raja Chatila

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 25 Nov 2015

In this video lecture, IEEE Fellow Raja Chatila shares his views on [tweetquote]why roboticists are duty-bound to educate the wider public on the state of advanced robotics[/tweetquote], and also t...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

Thomas Schmickl 24 Nov 2015

In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT -- Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...

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....

Four classic movie robots that are no longer far fetched

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 18 Nov 2015

Cinemagoers have long been fascinated by fictional robots, but they're not usually realistic -- until now. Thanks to technological advancements, some of the classic movie robots are now a realistic p...

Echoes of the DRC at Humanoids 2015

Ricardo Téllez 13 Nov 2015

Last week, the Humanoids 2015 conference was held in Seoul, Korea. It's the first event to focus on humanoid robots since the Darpa Robotics Challenge (DRC) earlier this year and, in fact, the locati...

Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 27 Oct 2015

In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...

Stanford’s self-driving Delorean goes drifting for Back to the Future Day

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Oct 2015

Last night, I attended Stanford’s unveiling of their newest research vehicle for self-driving. An old Delorean has been heavily modified in order to perform drifting experiments - where you let the ...

Final days to register for $1m UAE competition

Adriana Hamacher 19 Oct 2015

The first UAE Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Awards for Good aim to encourage research and development to meet challenges in the health, education and social services sectors. But less than two w...

Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights

Adrien Briod 08 Oct 2015

Drones, lights and nature combine in Drone Courtship, a short movie about a magical encounter between two flying robots set in a forest of centennial trees. A collaboration between Atelier D. Schlae...

Soft robotic gripper can pick up and identify wide array of objects

CSAIL MIT 02 Oct 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL Robots have many strong suits, but delicacy traditionally hasn’t been one of them. Rigid limbs and digits make it difficult for them to grasp, hold, and manipulat...

Teaching a brain-controlled robotic prosthetic to learn from its mistakes

NCCR Robotics 01 Oct 2015

Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) -- where brain waves captured by electrodes on the skin are used to control external devices such as a robotic prosthetic -- are a promising tool for helping people w...

euRathlon 2015 announces Grand Challenge winners

Marta Palau Franco 29 Sep 2015

Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the euRathlon competition is the first outdoor competition where teams of land, sea and air robots must cooperate in a realistic disaster-response scenario. F...

Live tweets and pictures from #IROS2015

Sabine Hauert 29 Sep 2015

The 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany....

Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo

Open Source Robotics Foundation 23 Sep 2015

The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....

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...

Documentary of a cyborg drummer

Robohub Editors 18 Sep 2015

[focus08] Beautiful short documentary by The Atlantic about amputee drummer Jason Barnes and Georgia Tech professor of music technology Gil Weinberg that explores "how robotics and artificial int...

Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on

Hallie Siegel 18 Sep 2015

[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...

#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...

Icelandic research institute unveils ethical robotics policy

Adriana Hamacher 16 Sep 2015

The Icelandic Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIIM) has become the first R&D centre in the world to adopt a policy that repudiates development of robotic technologies intended for military oper...

SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help

Satyandra Gupta 15 Sep 2015

Socrates famously said that “the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Yet while we often equate human intelligence with the ability to recognize when help is needed and where to see...

Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones

Hallie Siegel 10 Sep 2015

The Snapdragon Flight developer platform had its first public demo today at Qualcomm's Robotics Accelerator event, Techstars Demo Day. Designed specifically for the consumer drone market, Snapdragon F...

Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment

Ioannis K. Erripis 04 Sep 2015

In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...

When you need someone from Canada to calibrate your robot in New Zealand

Ilian Bonev 20 Aug 2015

Many researchers think that robot calibration is an issue that has been successfully resolved decades ago, but they are wrong. While the underlying theory is well established, its practical applicatio...

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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru

Audrow Nash 07 Aug 2015

Transcript below. In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....

Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions

Nicole Mirnig 23 Jul 2015

While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...

Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015

Robohub Editors 10 Jul 2015

Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...

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Towards Automating Fieldwork, with Hans-Peter Grothaus

Per Sjöborg 10 Jul 2015

Transcript included. In this episode, Per Sjöborg talks to Hans-Peter Grothaus, from CLAAS, about automation in agriculture....

Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!

Philipp Oettershagen 09 Jul 2015

The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...

#ICRAcam (Part 5): Flying w/o sensors, learning to swim, manipulating from primitives, & injecting at high speed

Robohub Editors 08 Jul 2015

In Part Five of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about passively stabilizing MAVs without using inertial sensors, a robot that learns different swimming gaits from experience, building high level m...

#ICRAcam (Part 4): Robot-assisted microsurgery, clothing de-wrinkler, collaborative interaction, & 3D scene reconstruction

Robohub Editors 30 Jun 2015

In Part Four of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about control for a microsurgical device for soft tissue, a robot that can find wrinkles in clothing and straighten them out, collaborative task le...

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