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    A fleet of miniature cars for experiments in cooperative driving
    The deployment of connected, automated, and autonomous vehicles presents us with transformational opportunities for road transport. These opportunities reach beyond single-vehicle automation: by enabl...
    06 October 2018, by , and

    DelFly Nimble mimics the high-speed escape of fruit flies
    Bio-inspired flapping wing robots hold a great potential. The promise is that they can fly very efficiently even at smaller scales, while being able to fly fast, hover, and make quick maneuvers. We no...
    26 September 2018, by and

    Rodney Brooks on the future of robotics and AI
    If you follow the robotics community on the twittersphere, you'll have noticed that Rodney Brooks is publishing a series of essays on the future of robotics and AI which has been gathering wide attent...
    29 August 2018, by

    Robots and jobs
    Will a robot take my job? Media headlines often speculate about robots taking our jobs. We’re told robots will replace swaths of workers from taxi drivers to caregivers. While some believe this wi...
    29 August 2018, by

    Soft multi-functional robots get really small
    By Benjamin Boettner Roboticists are envisioning a future in which soft, animal-inspired robots can be safely deployed in difficult-to-access environments, such as inside the human body or in spaces ...
    09 August 2018, by

    When recurrent models don’t need to be recurrent
    By John Miller An earlier version of this post was published on Off the Convex Path. It is reposted here with the author’s permission. In the last few years, deep learning practitioners have p...
    09 August 2018, by



    Disney launches new era of autonomy with gravity defying stickmen and more
    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...
    25 July 2018, by

    Simulation-based internal models for safer robots
    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...
    16 July 2018, by

    Fundings, acquisitions and IPOs, June 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....
    01 July 2018, by

    What is artificial intelligence? (Or, can machines think?)
    Here are the slides from my York Festival of Ideas keynote yesterday, which introduced the festival focus day Artificial Intelligence: Promises and Perils....
    21 June 2018, by

    Nearly 1000 research videos from #ICRA2018
    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...
    25 May 2018, by

    Shared autonomy via deep reinforcement learning
    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...
    24 April 2018, by

    Robot Launch 2018 in full swing – like Tennibot!
    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...
    24 April 2018, by

    Robotics fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: March 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!...
    04 April 2018, by

    Cheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder
    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...
    30 March 2018, by

    Personalizing wearable devices
    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 ...
    08 March 2018, by

    Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move
    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...
    28 February 2018, by

    Robots in Depth with Henrik Christensen
    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...
    23 February 2018, by

    Call for evidence – European Robotics Flagship
    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...
    14 February 2018, by

    Learning robot objectives from physical human interaction
    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...
    08 February 2018, by

    Best practices in designing effective roadmaps for robotics innovation
    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 ...
    22 January 2018, by and

    A round up of robotics and AI ethics: part 1 principles
    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...
    09 January 2018, by

    Indoor drone shows are here
    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...
    09 January 2018, by

    10 most read Robohub articles in 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....
    27 December 2017, by

    Robohub Podcast is on Patreon!
    Robohub Podcast has launched a campaign on Patreon!...
    07 December 2017, by

    Call for robot holiday videos 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 ...
    01 December 2017, by

    Announcing the shortlist for Robot Launch 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...
    22 November 2017, by

    Join the Robohub community!
    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...
    24 October 2017, by

    25 women in robotics you need to know about – 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...
    10 October 2017, by , , and

    A language to design control algorithms for robot swarms
    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 ...
    28 September 2017, by

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