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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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A Social Robot Companion for Older Adults, with Dor Skuler

Audrow Nash 18 Mar 2019

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, ...

Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden

Joe Jones 06 Jul 2017

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...

Understanding social robotics

Thosha Moodley 24 Jan 2017

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...

Watch this service robot predict your organizing preferences

Nichola Abdo 18 Jan 2016

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...

Robotic assistive devices for independent living

Kavita Krishnaswamy and Tim Oates 08 Jun 2015

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...

Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?

Open Roboethics Initiative 17 Sep 2014

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 ...

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

Nathan Labhart 23 Jan 2014

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,...

Mapping in the Cloud

Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah 23 Dec 2013

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...