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Disney launches new era of autonomy with gravity defying stickmen and more

Oliver Mitchell 25 Jul 2018

Ever since the première of “Steamboat Willie” in 1928, The Walt Disney Company has pushed the envelope of imagination. Mickey Mouse is still more popular worldwide than any single human a...

Simulation-based internal models for safer robots

Alan Winfield 16 Jul 2018

Readers of this blog will know that I've become very excited by the potential of robots with simulation-based internal models in recent years. So far we've demonstrated their potential in simple ethic...

Fundings, acquisitions and IPOs, June 2018

Frank Tobe 01 Jul 2018

Twenty-seven startups raised money in June to the tune of $2.1 billion, another great month for robotics! Also during June there were ten acquisitions and two IPOs. See below for details....

What is artificial intelligence? (Or, can machines think?)

Alan Winfield 21 Jun 2018

Here are the slides from my York Festival of Ideas keynote yesterday, which introduced the festival focus day Artificial Intelligence: Promises and Perils....

Nearly 1000 research videos from #ICRA2018

Sabine Hauert 25 May 2018

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and is a premier international forum for robotics researchers to pres...

Shared autonomy via deep reinforcement learning

BAIR Blog 24 Apr 2018

By Siddharth Reddy Imagine a drone pilot remotely flying a quadrotor, using an onboard camera to navigate and land. Unfamiliar flight dynamics, terrain, and network latency can make this system chall...

Robot Launch 2018 in full swing – like Tennibot!

Silicon Valley Robotics 24 Apr 2018

With the Robot Launch 2018 competition in full swing – deadline May 15 for entries wanting to compete on stage in Brisbane at ICRA 2018 – we thought it was time to look at last years’ Robot Laun...

Robotics fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: March 2018

Frank Tobe 04 Apr 2018

Twenty-four startups were funded in March 2018 raising a combined total of $350 million. That brings the 3-month total to $1.5 billion!...

Cheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder

MIT News 30 Mar 2018

By Eric Brown If you were to ask someone to name a new technology that emerged from MIT in the 21st century, there’s a good chance they would name the robotic cheetah. Developed by the MIT Departme...

Personalizing wearable devices

Wyss Institute 08 Mar 2018

By Leah Burrows When it comes to soft, assistive devices — like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab — the wearer and the robot need to be in sync. But every human moves a bit ...

Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move

Wyss Institute 28 Feb 2018

By Leah Burrows Who needs legs? With their sleek bodies, snakes can slither up to 14 miles-per-hour, squeeze into tight spaces, scale trees, and swim. How do they do it? It’s all in the scales. As...

Robots in Depth with Henrik Christensen

Robots in Depth 23 Feb 2018

In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Henrik Christensen, the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair of Robot Systems and a Professor of Computer Science at Dept. of Computer Science and E...

Call for evidence – European Robotics Flagship

Sabine Hauert 14 Feb 2018

The European Commission is launching a new call for Flagships. Existing Flagships include the Human Brian Project, and the Graphene Flagship - each funded at the level of 1B EUR. Given the exciteme...

Learning robot objectives from physical human interaction

BAIR Blog 08 Feb 2018

Humans physically interact with each other every day – from grabbing someone’s hand when they are about to spill their drink, to giving your friend a nudge to steer them in the right direction, ph...

Best practices in designing effective roadmaps for robotics innovation

Hallie Siegel and Lenka Pitonakova 22 Jan 2018

In the past decade, countries and regions around the globe have developed strategic roadmaps to guide investment and development of robotic technology. Roadmaps from the US, South Korea, Japan and EU ...

A round up of robotics and AI ethics: part 1 principles

Alan Winfield 09 Jan 2018

This blogpost is a round up of the various sets of ethical principles of robotics and AI that have been proposed to date, ordered by date of first publication. The principles are presented here (in fu...

Indoor drone shows are here

Markus Waibel 09 Jan 2018

2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...

10 most read Robohub articles in 2017

Sabine Hauert 27 Dec 2017

This was a busy year for robotics! The 10 most read Robohub articles in 2017 show an increased interest in machine learning, and a thirst to learn how robots work and can be programmed....

Robohub Podcast is on Patreon!

Audrow Nash 07 Dec 2017

Robohub Podcast has launched a campaign on Patreon!...

Call for robot holiday videos 2017

Robohub Editors 01 Dec 2017

That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at editors@robohub.org and share the ...

Announcing the shortlist for Robot Launch 2017

Andra Keay 22 Nov 2017

The Robotics Hub, in collaboration with Silicon Valley Robotics, is currently investing in robotics, AI and sensor startups, with checks between $250,000 and $500,000. Current portfolio companies inc...

Join the Robohub community!

Sabine Hauert 24 Oct 2017

As you know, Robohub is a non-profit dedicated to connecting the robotics community to the public. Over nearly a decade we’ve produced more than 200 podcasts and helped thousands of roboticists comm...

25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017

Women In Robotics, Andra Keay, Hallie Siegel and Sabine Hauert 10 Oct 2017

Ada Lovelace Day on October 10 2017 is a day to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and there was no shortage of women to feature on Robohub’s annual Ada Lovelace Day “25 women in ro...

A language to design control algorithms for robot swarms

Lenka Pitonakova 28 Sep 2017

Designing and representing control algorithms is challenging in swarm robotics, where the collective swarm performance depends on interactions between robots and with their environment. The currently ...

A foldable cargo drone

NCCR Robotics 15 Sep 2017

The field of drone delivery is currently a big topic in robotics. However, the reason that your internet shopping doesn’t yet arrive via drone is that current flying robots can prove a safety risk t...

August 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures

Frank Tobe 02 Sep 2017

August fundings totaled $369 million but the number of August transactions, seven, was down from previous months, eg: both July and June had 19 fundings each. Acquisitions, on the other hand, remained...

New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities

NCCR Robotics 30 Aug 2017

Recent advances in soft robotics have seen the development of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) to ensure that all parts of the robot are soft, including the functional parts. These SPAs have traditiona...

Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action

Alex Kirkpatrick 14 Jul 2017

A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....