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Programming safety into self-driving cars

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 06 Feb 2015

For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...

Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship

The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech 06 Feb 2015

In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...

Human insights inspire solutions for household robots

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 05 Feb 2015

People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...

Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics

NCCR Robotics 04 Feb 2015

Much has been made of the numerous advances in robotic prosthetics and orthotics (P/O) over recent years, and the question of how to control these devices so that they work in accordance with the inte...

Developing Jibo: Animating the eye

Jibo 04 Feb 2015

Ever wonder why Jibo's eye was designed as a ball? And why does he have only one eye instead of two? Check out this video with Jibo’s Lead Designer & Animator, Fardad Faridi, as he briefly ...

AAAI Video Competition winners

Sabine Hauert 29 Jan 2015

A large crowd of AAAI-15 goers, one of the main conferences in Artificial Intelligence, gathered at the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony today in Austin, Texas. The competition aims to spread the...

Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy

Talking Machines 29 Jan 2015

On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...

Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics

Massimo Russo and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 28 Jan 2015

Raffaello D’Andrea’s robots can do amazing things: play soccer and ping-pong, perform complex choreographed acrobatics in the air, build towers brick by brick, and move pallets around warehouses. ...

Robot caregivers: How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

Open Roboethics Initiative 28 Jan 2015

With the continuous increase in life expectancy and the number of people aged 65+ on the rise, it is no wonder that many roboticists have been discussing the use of robot as companion/caregiver for e...

UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 27 Jan 2015

Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...

Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley talent

Frank Tobe 26 Jan 2015

Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Bay area have such an abundant talent pool that global companies and startups alike are setting up research labs and offices there to secure engineering and ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour

Thomas Schmickl 25 Jan 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo �...

Open science: Preaching what I practice

Alan Winfield 22 Jan 2015

Open science isn't one thing - it is a set of practices that range from making sure your papers are openly accessible (which is relatively easy), to open notebook science, which makes the process ope...

DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk

NCCR Robotics 21 Jan 2015

The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...

$87 million in European robotic projects funded

Frank Tobe 20 Jan 2015

The EU has co-funded 17 new robotics-related projects under Horizon 2020, the mechanism that the European Commission is using to stimulate the region's global competitiveness in technical innovation...

Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice

Daniel Faggella 20 Jan 2015

Link to audio file (27:29), or listen on iTunes James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS’s “Nova,” in additi...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore

Thomas Schmickl 18 Jan 2015

Who will buy your bot? End user opportunities

Adriana Hamacher 16 Jan 2015

Unless robotics is just a hobby, commercial and funding opportunities should be at the forefront of every developer's mind and at the root of these are the end users and their needs. But who are the e...

European Commission reveals details of proposed cuts to science | Science

Hallie Siegel 16 Jan 2015

A controversial plan to use research funds to pay for economic stimulusbecame more concrete this week, as European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled proposed legislation to implement t...

Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever

Talking Machines 15 Jan 2015

Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...

Teaching a robot to ‘cook’ by showing it YouTube videos of cooking shows

Yezhou Yang, Yi Li, Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos 14 Jan 2015

Most of us have at some point watched a video in order to learn how to do something. Our research shows that a robot can learn human actions by watching videos of humans performing those actions – i...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #02/52: Overview of largest swarm

Thomas Schmickl 11 Jan 2015

Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again

NCCR Robotics 08 Jan 2015

A team from EPFL and NCCR Robotics lead by Profs Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine and Silvestro Micera published an article in Science today describing their e-dura implant that could revo...

iCub philosophy, history and recent results: Lecture by Giorgio Metta

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS) 08 Jan 2015

In this lecture, Giorgio Metta describes the history and philosophy behind the iCub project, and presents some recent results....

Walking assistive devices for the elderly

Jeremy Olivier and NCCR Robotics 07 Jan 2015

When thinking about robots that can be used to care for the elderly, most people imagine humanoid robots that are meant to help with cooking, cleaning and socializing. But what if robots could be u...

Island Forum 2014: Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence

LEE Chor Pharn and Aaron MANIAM 06 Jan 2015

The Singapore Ministry of Defence convened the sixth edition of the Island Forum in November 2014 to explore the emerging future of artificial intelligence and robotics, developments that could have e...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #01/52: Overview of the Jeff robot

Thomas Schmickl 04 Jan 2015

Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning

Talking Machines 01 Jan 2015

Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...

Robot simulators and why I will probably reject your paper

Alan Winfield 18 Dec 2014

Dear robotics and AI researcher, Do you use simulation as a research tool? If you write papers with results based on simulation and submit them for peer-review, then be warned: if I should review y...

Robot Startup Series #7: Interview with Soft Robotics’ Carl Vause

Andra Keay 18 Dec 2014

[tweetquote]Soft robotics is finally leaving the research lab and entering the real world. [/tweetquote] One of the companies leading the way is a Boston-based startup that is commercializing the inn...

Humanoid robot with open electronics

Open Source Robotics Foundation 17 Dec 2014

We’re pleased to announce the public release of information on a long-standing collaboration between OSRF and Sandia National Labs. The Intelligent Systems Control Department at Sandia is developing...

ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich

ETH Zurich 12 Dec 2014

ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are founding a new translational research centre at the interface of medicine, science and engineering: the Wyss Translational Center Zurich. A USD 120 million ...

Evolving swimming robots to study origins of extinct vertebrates

Sonia Roberts, Jonathan Hirokawa, Marianne Porter, Andres Gutierrez and John Long 09 Dec 2014

Hypotheses about the evolution of traits in ancient species are difficult to test, as the relevant animals have often been extinct for thousands or millions of years. In the present study, a populatio...

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