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Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson

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...

17 February 2020, by Shihan Lu

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A Social Robot Companion for Older Adults, with Dor Skuler

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dor Skuler, CEO and co-founder of Intuition Robotics, about a socially assistive robot for older adults named ElliQ. Skuler discusses the motivation for ElliQ, ...

18 March 2019, by Audrow Nash

Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden

Update: The response to Tertill’s crowdfunding campaign has amazed and delighted us! Pledges totalling over $250,000 have come from 1000+ backers. We're shipping to all countries, with over a fifth...

06 July 2017, by Joe Jones

Understanding social robotics

Pepper, Jibo and Milo make up the first generation of social robots, leading what promises to be a cohort with diverse capabilities and future applications. But what are social robots and what should...

24 January 2017, by Thosha Moodley

Watch this service robot predict your organizing preferences

How many of us have envisioned intelligent robots operating and assisting us in our homes with everyday tasks? Different users typically have varying preferences and expectations when it comes to tas...

18 January 2016, by Nichola Abdo

Robotic assistive devices for independent living

Autonomy is the soul of independent daily living, and a variety of assistive devices already exist to help people with severe physical disabilities achieve this. But many of them are designed to be us...

08 June 2015, by Kavita Krishnaswamy and Tim Oates

Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?

While vacuum robots continue to dominate the ‘robots at home’ market, with Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at ...

17 September 2014, by Open Roboethics Initiative

ShanghAI Lectures: Sukhan Lee “Cognitive Recognition for Service Robots”

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-10 Recognition has been a subject of intense research interest to computer vision, AI, cognitive science, as well as robotics communities for, at least,...

23 January 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Mapping in the Cloud

UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...

23 December 2013, by Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah

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