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    Bristol professors to play role in creating robots for dangerous nuclear sites
    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 ...
    01 March 2017, by

    3D-printed houses and cars on the horizon as manufacturing goes large
    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...
    01 March 2017, by

    Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
    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, ...
    23 February 2017, by

    Legal artificial intelligence: Can it stand up in a court of law?
    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 “...
    21 February 2017, by

    Switzerland invites international startups to disrupt key industries
    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...
    16 February 2017, by

    5 global problems that AI could help us solve
    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...
    10 February 2017, by



    Wearable AI that can detect the tone of a conversation
    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...
    01 February 2017, by

    Building character AI through machine learning
    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...
    01 February 2017, by

    Soft exosuit economies: Understanding the costs of lightening the load
    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...
    30 January 2017, by

    Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?
    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...
    27 January 2017, by

    Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change
    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...
    26 January 2017, by

    The infrastructure of life part 1: Safety
    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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    Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth

    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They d...
    21 January 2017, by

    A Pepper-warm reception at Decos
    Like some angular alien architecture, Decos' futuristic development lab appears freshly landed in a martian lanscape. Underneath the sharp geometry and vectors, inside, the highly innovative company...
    18 January 2017, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/16/17
    January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017 News Popular French hobby drone maker Parrot laid off 290 out of 840 workers after posting growing losses in recent months. Parrot lost $27.8 million in the ...
    16 January 2017, by

    What is machine learning?
    In this fascinating animation from Oxford Sparks, we take a look at how statistics and computer science can be used to make machines that learn for themselves, without being explicitly programmed....
    16 January 2017, by

    No, a Tesla didn’t predict an accident and brake for it
    You may have seen a lot of press around a dashcam video of a car accident in the Netherlands. It shows a Tesla in AutoPilot hitting the brakes around 1.4 seconds before a red car crashes hard into a b...
    11 January 2017, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17
    January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...
    09 January 2017, by

    Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV
    Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developin...
    05 January 2017, by

    CES 2017 pre-news: Ford Fusion, Nvidia, MobilEye, HERE, BMW, Intel and other partnerships
    Thursday night, and I am heading off to CES, and it’s become the main show it seems for announcing robocar news. There’s already a bunch....
    05 January 2017, by

    Celebrating 9 Years of ROS
    This year marks the occasion of ROS turning 9 years old! Over the years, ROS has grown into a strong world-wide community. It’s a community with a large variety of interests: from academic research...
    28 December 2016, by

    What are the right disability rules for robotaxis?
    Robocars are broadly going to be a huge boon for many people with disabilities, especially disabilities that make it difficult to drive or those that make it hard to get in and out of vehicles. Exist...
    26 December 2016, by

    Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
    In this roundtable edition, we watched the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” and asked our Robohub team members: with many institutions focused on developing aerial drone technology, and ...
    06 December 2016, by
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    100/100 Computer Vision Challenge, with Dieter Fox

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dieter Fox, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, about the 100/100 Computer Vision Tracking Challen...
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    Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...
    12 November 2016, by

    Students develop cheap 3D printing technique for soft robotics
    By Jurjen Slump. Students of Delft University of Technology have developed a new add-on for a 3D printer that can cast silicones inside a 3D printed shell during the printing process. This new, and...
    09 November 2016, by

    Robotics tutor for primary school children
    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...
    04 November 2016, by

    Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System
    I’m delighted to announce a new game-changing standard for building robot hardware components: H-ROS (the Hardware Robot Operating System). H-ROS provides manufacturers tools for building interope...
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    ICRA 2016: Landmine Detection Challenge, with Edson Prestes

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edson Prestes, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an organizer of the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) 20...
    16 October 2016, by

    Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
    3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
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