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How the brain recognizes faces
MIT News
01 Dec 2016
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
Robotics tutor for primary school children
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
04 Nov 2016
By: Ian Salter
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
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Teach Xemo to Move, with Jeff Sprenger
Abate De Mey
31 Oct 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Jeff Sprenger, founder of the startup Xemory in Vermont, USA. At Xemory they are developing a robot simulation game called Xemo, where players learn to animate...
In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Christian Bettstetter
07 Oct 2016
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
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217
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LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
Ron Vanderkley
17 Sep 2016
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Robohub Editors
22 Feb 2016
Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
Cannybots: Smart toy cars for play and learning
Anish Mampetta
30 Oct 2015
Cannybots are smart toy cars that introduce kids to programming, 3D-printing, robotics and AI, through play. They can be controlled and programmed from a phone or tablet to drive around, or to pla...
Work, play and STEM: How robotics will bridge the gap
Ricky Ye
08 Oct 2015
As advancements to how we approach STEM education and initiatives are on the rise around science, engineering and mathematics, we’re seeing a greater impact on how we recognize children’s developm...
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191
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TechBridgeWorld, with M. Bernardine Dias
Audrow Nash
18 Sep 2015
Transcript below
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews M. Bernardine Dias, Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about TechBridgeWorld. TechBridgeW...
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Robots and Communication, with Eleanor Sandry
Ron Vanderkley
21 Aug 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Dr. Eleanor Sandry of Curtin University about her new book Robots and Communication. In the interview, we explore human to anim...
Thymio goes wireless!
Robohub Editors
04 Jun 2015
Thymio is a playful robot designed to help children discover programming, motors, light and motion sensors, and ultimately, logical and inventive thinking - right out of the box. Earlier versions...
Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski
ConnectEd Studios
09 Feb 2015
At ConnectEd Studios we had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Marek Michalowski, a co-founder of BeatBots. BeatBots is the robotic design studio behind the Keepon, and creates dynamic robotic ...
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175
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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis
Audrow Nash
06 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...
GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android
Grasp IO, Inc.
03 Dec 2014
GraspIO is part hardware and part software, and gives everyone an easy way to build electronics projects using smartphones and tablets. It’s the world’s first DIY electronics platform with easy-to...
New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music
Vivek Mano
04 Nov 2014
Meet Wigl! Wigl is an interactive educational robot with a musical ear. We’ve launched our Indiegogo campaign for Wigl, the first musical robot buddy for kids. Wigl is controlled by musical notes th...
ShanghAI Lectures: Inman Harvey “Metaphorical homunculi: we don’t really have little men inside our heads”
Nathan Labhart
11 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Inman Harvey from the University of Sussex, UK, talks about Representation and its issues....
Edison: A low cost robotics platform
Brenton O’Brien
03 Aug 2014
Edison is a programmable and LEGO-compatible robot that is tackling the high cost of entry level robotics; it has recently launched on Kickstarter, and is available for just $39 AUD ($37 USD) and le...
Tweet to drive a robot!
Clearpath Robotics
13 Jun 2014
Happy Birthday!! Clearpath is officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s like ...
The People’s Bot: Robotic telepresence for the public good
Kate Darling
26 Apr 2014
Have you ever wanted to attend a conference that was too far away, expensive, or sold out? Whether you're a penniless researcher, interested youth, or a group of elderly people who want to live in oth...
Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
Ioannis K. Erripis
17 Jan 2014
NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...
Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
Mike Hamer
23 Dec 2013
Aisoy, a spanish robotics startup, is motivated by the goal of building intelligent, personal, "social" robots, which make our lives easier and funnier. Their robot, the Aisoy1, is their first step to...
International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up
John Payne
23 Dec 2013
Materials used to produce International Robot Olympiad competition events.
The 2013 (15th annual) International Robot Olympiad competition has come to a close. Next year it will take place in Beiji...
International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture
John Payne
18 Dec 2013
Let me admit up front that I'm not the best person to be covering a robotics competition. In fact this is only the second one I've attended; the first, Sparkfun's AVC, is a tough act to follow and set...
Breaking it down with the DanceBot: Getting started with electronics
Raymond Oung
12 Oct 2013
The MP3 DanceBot is a little robot that dances to the beat of your music. It’s a project that began in the summer of 2011 to introduce students to the basics of electronics and robotics. Students le...
Getting Started in Robotics, with Erin Kennedy
Sabine Hauert
04 Oct 2013
Link to audio file (22:28)
In this episode, Sabine Hauert talks with Erin Kennedy at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT. Kennedy is famously know as RobotGrrl, the self-made roboticist and proud maker o...
Classroom robotics: Motivating independent learning and discovery
Sharon Marzouk
03 Oct 2013
Sharon Marzouk with a class of excited youngsters and their Thymio-based creations.
Sharon has found classroom robotics is an excellent motivator for independent learning and discovery: “The way I ...
Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team located in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to draw more young women into engineering. We've already heard what it's like to be part of an all-girls ro...
My pathway to robotics
Jaidyn Edwards
25 Sep 2013
My name is Jaidyn Edwards. I am eighteen years old and live in South Australia. For me, being interested in robotics was part of an evolutionary process built upon a few core interests I had as a chil...
Drones for Schools
Matthew Schroyer
24 Sep 2013
To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
Getting started in robotics, an educational concern
Claude Baumann
23 Sep 2013
I am profoundly convinced that if we are able to preserve the natural curiosity of early childhood in growing up individuals, without fail they will develop a durable attraction to science, technology...
Origami Robots, with Nick Kohut
Matthew Schroyer
20 Sep 2013
Link to audio file (24:09)
In this episode Matthew Schroyer speaks with Nick Kohut, CEO of Dash Robotics, about their foldable hexapod robot and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign to get them into the...
Travis Deyle on “Do robots need heads?”
Travis Deyle
15 Aug 2013
The obvious answer to this question is "No: there are lots of robots without heads." It's not even clear that social robots necessarily require a head, as even mundane robots like the Roomba are anthr...
SparkFun National Tour
John Payne
12 Aug 2013
Following their east and west coast tours late last year, SparkFun has embarked on the ambitious goal of taking their experiential learning nationwide, with 50 stops in 50 states.
From the SparkFun...
SparkFun Redbot
John Payne
09 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/AGVsV4abajo
The ready-made platform (kit) options just keep getting better. Here SparkFun shows off its new Redbot kit, which includes everything you need to put together a basic mo...
Drone Journalism, with Matthew Schroyer
Sabine Hauert
09 Aug 2013
Link to audio file (41:02)In this episode, we speak with Matthew Schroyer, founder of DroneJournalism.org, co-founder of Drones for Good, and developer of the “Drones for Schools” program which te...
Calling all do-it-yourselfers: Robohub seeking contributions for focus series on “Getting Started in Robotics”
Mike Hamer
08 Aug 2013
In light of the popularity of his AR.Drone tutorials, we have invited Robohub contributor Mike Hamer to act as Guest Editor for our next focus series "Getting Started in Robotics."
Like many ch...
