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To err is algorithm: Algorithm fallibility and economic organisation

Juan Mateos-Garcia 18 May 2017

Algorithmic fails Dig below the surface of some of today’s biggest tech controversies and you are likely to find an algorithm misfiring:[1] YouTube advertising controversy: The algorithm place...

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Trik Embedded Platform, with Roman Luchin

Audrow Nash and Christina Brester 13 May 2017

In this episode, Audrow Nash and Christina Brester conduct interviews at the 2016 International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation conference in Moscow, Russia. They speak with Roman...

Smart Grasping System available on ROS Development Studio

Ruben Alves 10 May 2017

Would you like to make a robot to grasp something, but you think that is impossible to you just because you can’t buy a robot arm? I’m here to tell that you can definitely achieve this without buy...

LIDAR vs RADAR: A detailed comparison

Robots for Roboticists 09 May 2017

I was recently asked about the differences between RADAR and LIDAR. I gave the generic answer about LIDAR having higher resolution and accuracy than RADAR. And RADAR having a longer range and performi...

SICK LMS full LIDAR teardown

Robots for Roboticists 28 Apr 2017

I recently found a SICK LMS291 in the trash (dumpster diving time!). It is a bit of an older model---manufactured in August 2000---however the fundamentals should be similiar to the current generation...

Want to build a Moon base? Easy, just print it

Morgan Saletta 21 Apr 2017

Planetary Resources, a company hoping to make asteroid mining into a trillion dollar industry, earlier this year unveiled the world’s first 3D printed object made from bits of an asteroid. 3D pri...

The startup Launch Pad Competition blasts off at Automate 2017

Oliver Mitchell 13 Apr 2017

What does Magic Johnson and a twenty foot robot have in common? You guessed it, Automate 2017. While this might seem like an odd pairing, it accurately reflects the current state of the robotics indu...

Registration now open for 2nd annual Robotic Art Competition

Robohub Editors 11 Apr 2017

The 2017 second annual robotic art competition with $100,000 in cash prizes is now open for team registration. An international competition for all ages, the contest’s goal is to challenge teams to ...

No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Apr 2017

A new report from Navigant Research includes the chart shown below, ranking various teams on the race to robocar deployment. It’s causing lots of press headlines about how Ford is the top company an...

Vertical farms profiled on CBS Morning News

Frank Tobe 05 Apr 2017

CBS News profiled a New Jersey vertical farm providing baby kale, arugula, spinach and romaine to nearby Newark and NYC groceries. They boast 130 times more productivity, 95% less water and no pest...

Grow a house with plant-robot hybrids

Horizon Magazine 30 Mar 2017

Robots and plants are being intricately linked into a new type of living technology that its creators believe could be used to grow a house....

Collaborating machines and avoiding soil compression

John Payne 17 Mar 2017

Soil compression can be a serious problem, but it isn't always, or in all ways, a bad thing. For example, impressions made by hoofed animals, so long as they only cover a minor fraction of the soil s...

Envisioning the future of robotics

Víctor Mayoral Vilches 16 Mar 2017

Robotics is said to be the next technological revolution. Many seem to agree that robots will have a tremendous impact over the following years, and some are heavily betting on it. Companies are inves...

Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine

Horizon Magazine 13 Mar 2017

Today’s self-driving car isn’t exactly autonomous – the driver has to be able to take over in a pinch, and therein lies the roadblock researchers are trying to overcome. Automated cars are hurtl...

Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?

Ronald Yu 09 Mar 2017

Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...

Programming for robotics: Introduction to ROS

Péter Fankhauser 07 Mar 2017

This handy video-tutorial course gives an introduction to the Robot Operating System (ROS), including many of the available tools that are commonly used in robotics. With the help of different example...

Mind control: Correcting robot mistakes using EEG brain signals

CSAIL MIT 06 Mar 2017

For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, for example, or giving them explicit comm...

Artificial intelligence: Utopia or dystopia?

Margaret Boden 02 Mar 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a major role in human economies and societies, and it will play an even bigger role in the coming years. To ponder the future of AI is thus to acknowledge th...

Bristol professors to play role in creating robots for dangerous nuclear sites

UWE Bristol 01 Mar 2017

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is part of a consortium which has received a £4.6 million grant to build a new generation of robots for use in nuclear sites. The funding from the ...

3D-printed houses and cars on the horizon as manufacturing goes large

Horizon Magazine 01 Mar 2017

Housebuilders and makers of car parts in a few decades time may need nothing more than a large robotic arm, some raw ingredients and a programmable design, thanks to the next-generation of 3D printing...

Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton

Philip English 23 Feb 2017

Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...

Legal artificial intelligence: Can it stand up in a court of law?

Ronald Yu 21 Feb 2017

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly mentions what has become known as the “10,000-hour rule”, which states that to become world-class in any field you must devote 10,000 hours of “...

Switzerland invites international startups to disrupt key industries

Robohub Editors 16 Feb 2017

Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators and an initiative of digitalswitzerland, has today announced that applications are open to inte...

5 global problems that AI could help us solve

Alex Gray 10 Feb 2017

There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...

Wearable AI that can detect the tone of a conversation

CSAIL MIT 01 Feb 2017

It’s a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions like Asperger’s, this can make social situations extremely stressf...

Building character AI through machine learning

Brad Knox 01 Feb 2017

Modern character AI could be better. I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...

Soft exosuit economies: Understanding the costs of lightening the load

Wyss Institute 30 Jan 2017

Last year, Harvard’s soft exosuit team provided first proof-of-concept results showing that its wearable robot could lower energy expenditure in healthy people walking with a load on their back. Mad...

Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?

Alex Kirkpatrick 27 Jan 2017

On the 15th November 2016, the IEEE’s AI and Ethics Summit posed the question: “Who does the thinking?” In a series of key-note speeches and lively panel discussions, leading technologists, leg...

Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change

Horizon Magazine 26 Jan 2017

The shells on crustaceans and molluscs off the Norwegian Atlantic coast are not as thick as they once were. This is because of ocean acidification, where increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphe...

The infrastructure of life part 1: Safety

Alan Winfield 26 Jan 2017

Part 1: Autonomous Systems and Safety We all rely on machines. All aspects of modern life, from transport to energy, work to welfare, play to politics depend on a complex infrastructure of physical...

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