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#ICRAcam (Part 2): Handheld cobots, magnetic manipulators, mini robotic probes, and the Butterfly problem revisited
Robohub Editors
18 Jun 2015
Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we've got some more highlights from some of this year’s exciting papers. We’ll be sharing lots more ICRAcam videos over the next ...
#ICRAcam (Part 1): Adhesion grippers, robot life cycles, car-towing bots, and motion planning
Robohub Editors
16 Jun 2015
There was so much great research presented at ICRA in Seattle this year that it was tough to find the time to see it all. Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we are able to...
What’s hot in robotics? Four trends to watch
Frank Tobe
11 Jun 2015
Four diverse trends are having a big effect on the robotics industry worldwide, and the global media and financial gurus are paying attention to the process....
‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm
Robin Ritz
04 Jun 2015
In August 2014 Google [x] announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon's Prime Air. Called Project Wing, the system was based on a mechanically simple "t...
Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng
Talking Machines
04 Jun 2015
In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....
Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception
Frank Tobe
02 Jun 2015
Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and pick...
Team RBO from Berlin wins Amazon Picking Challenge convincingly
Andra Keay
29 May 2015
The Amazon Picking Challenge is over and two things stood out. One: how many different arm gripper solutions were possible; and two: just how difficult the challenge still is. The gap between the top...
Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research: Deadline June 5
Andra Keay
28 May 2015
Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research grants for projects in 2016. Researchers at non-profit institutions world wide can apply. LOIs can be submitted until June 5....
DARPA’s legacy: Open source simulation for robotics development and testing
DARPA Robotics Challenge
27 May 2015
When the DARPA Robotics Challenge first began to coalesce from an idea to a plan, we knew that we wanted to create a lasting legacy not only for robot hardware capabilities, but also for robotics simu...
Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence on privacy in the age of machine learning
Talking Machines
22 May 2015
In episode eleven we chat with Neil Lawrence from the University of Sheffield. We talk about the problems of privacy in the age of machine learning, and the responsibilities that come with using mach...
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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti
Audrow Nash
15 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...
IdeaHub, ABB launch new robotics accelerator programme
Simon Blair and IdeaHub / Venturebright
14 May 2015
The IdeaHub recently announced the launch of a robotics accelerator programme, run on behalf of ABB Robotics, to deliver solutions to some of the biggest issues facing robotics today and in the future...
Igniting a debate on legal, therapeutic and educational robotics
The benefits of assistive technologies are well known – reduced inefficiencies, low costs, available 24/7 and much more. But not so well known are the appropriate legal regulations that need to be ...
Shadow Robot’s Dexterous Hand can do more than cook up a storm
Adriana Hamacher
07 May 2015
The Shadow Robot Company has been perfecting its robot hands for almost two decades, but it took just a short demo by the world’s first robot chef last month to propel this small, London-based start...
Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
Robohub Editors
05 May 2015
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...
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bStem, with Todd Hylton
Audrow Nash
01 May 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Todd Hylton, Senior Vice President at Brain Corporation, about neuromorphic computers. They discuss the robotics development board bStem, which appro...
The real soft robots that inspired Baymax, with Chris Atkeson
Helmut Hauser
28 Apr 2015
Baymax, the lovable, inflatable robot star of Disney’s recent hit, Big Hero 6, is far from a movie fantasy. With their soft cushiony bodies, robots like Baymax have very real prospects as future car...
Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Apr 2015
Earlier this week I was sent some advance research from the U of Michigan about car sickness rates for car passengers. I found the research of interest, but wish it had covered some questions I think ...
How robots can help build better doctors
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Apr 2015
A young doctor leans over a patient who has been in a serious car accident and invariably must be experiencing pain. The doctor's trauma team examines the patient's pelvis and rolls her onto her side ...
OpenBionics prosthetic hands: Open source, affordable, lightweight, anthropomorphic
Minas Liarokapis, Agisilaos Zisimatos, George Kontoudis, Christoforos Mavrogiannis and Kostas Kyriakopoulos
09 Apr 2015
OpenΒionics is an open-source initiative for the development of affordable, light-weight, modular robot hands and prosthetic devices, and can be easily reproduced using off-the-shelf materials....
Clearpath and Christie demo 3D video game with robots
Clearpath Robotics
31 Mar 2015
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For our recent “hack week” we teamed up with one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world, Christie, to make a 3D video game with robots. H...
Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza
30 Mar 2015
When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...
Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design
Ben Fisher
25 Mar 2015
The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...
#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches Part I
Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...
Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes
Jibo
11 Mar 2015
In this development video, hosted by Jesse Gray & Matt Berlin of Team Jibo and the MIT Media Lab, we’ll discuss how Jibo uses movement, sound, LEDs, and screen graphics to communicate with peopl...
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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller
Audrow Nash
20 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...
New Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in architecture and digital fabrication at ETHZ
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
19 Feb 2015
In September a new Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication will be offered by the Gramazio Kohler Research chair at ETH Zurich. This one-year, full-time program f...
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 ...
3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community
Ben Fisher
11 Feb 2015
3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...
Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition
NCCR Robotics
10 Feb 2015
Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....
AAAI Video Competition winners
Sabine Hauert
29 Jan 2015
A large crowd of AAAI-15 goers, one of the main conferences in Artificial Intelligence, gathered at the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony today in Austin, Texas. The competition aims to spread the...
Robot caregivers: How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?
Open Roboethics Initiative
28 Jan 2015
With the continuous increase in life expectancy and the number of people aged 65+ on the rise, it is no wonder that many roboticists have been discussing the use of robot as companion/caregiver for e...
UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jan 2015
Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...
Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley talent
Frank Tobe
26 Jan 2015
Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Bay area have such an abundant talent pool that global companies and startups alike are setting up research labs and offices there to secure engineering and ...
$87 million in European robotic projects funded
Frank Tobe
20 Jan 2015
The EU has co-funded 17 new robotics-related projects under Horizon 2020, the mechanism that the European Commission is using to stimulate the region's global competitiveness in technical innovation...
European Commission reveals details of proposed cuts to science | Science
Hallie Siegel
16 Jan 2015
A controversial plan to use research funds to pay for economic stimulusbecame more concrete this week, as European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled proposed legislation to implement t...
