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On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures
Alan Winfield
08 Sep 2014
So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain.
For a couple of years I've been thinking about robots with internal models. Not internal models in the classical...
Open Brain-Computer Interface: An Interview with Conor Russomanno
Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence
08 Sep 2014
Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a rapidly growing field that offers huge potential for many applications, such as medical grade BCIs to help people with sensory-motor disabilities. Currently, a nu...
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M-Blocks, with John Romanishin
Audrow Nash
05 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews John Romanishin from MIT, about his modular robotics project ‘M-Blocks’. M-Blocks are small cubes (5 cm on a side) that have no external actuators, yet the...
ShanghAI Lectures: Kevin Warwick “AI with biological brains”
Nathan Labhart
04 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading, UK, talks about a closed-loop interface between a biological network and a robot, ...
Announcing the Winners of the IROS 2014 Baxter Contest! | Rethink Robotics
Hallie Siegel
04 Sep 2014
Luis F. C. Figueredo, from Automation and Robotics Lab. at the University of Brasilia (Currently working with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group in the CSAIL Lab at MIT). Luis came up ...
How brain signals could control a variety of devices: BrainGate’s Beata Jarosiewicz
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
03 Sep 2014
Link to audio file (23:28), or listen on iTunes
In this interview, TechEmergence talks to Dr. Beata Jarosiewicz from Brown's BrainGate project about the science of making sense of the brain's inner...
Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
Open Roboethics Initiative
03 Sep 2014
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
Your robot doggie could really be pleased to see you
Alan Winfield
02 Sep 2014
There have been several stories in the last few weeks about emotional robots - robots that feel. Some are suggesting that this is the next big thing in robotics. It's something I wrote about in t...
NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
29 Aug 2014
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liqui...
Google’s secret drone delivery program
Frank Tobe
29 Aug 2014
The Atlantic revealed the inside story of Google's two-year secret X-labs drone-delivery project in a detailed story by Alexis Madrigal. Project Wing, as the drone-delivery venture is called, has alre...
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
28 Aug 2014
http://youtu.be/GJ0Pmk_UDY4
New research coming out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggests that letting robots have control over human tasks in manufac...
New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
28 Aug 2014
In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggesting ...
Planning robot motions that humans can relate to
Autonomous Robots Blog
28 Aug 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Imagine a scenario where a robot and a human are collaborating side by side to perfo...
Efficient robotic components under development using fundamental mechanism research
DigInfo TV
26 Aug 2014
At the Morita Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Keio University Faculty of Science, researchers are advancing with research and development of unique robots from the perspective o...
Finally somebody debunks the Pew Research Center’s “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs” report
Frank Tobe
25 Aug 2014
Kudos to Erik Sofge, Boston-based reporter for Popular Science Magazine. His recent story, "Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy," cleverly pokes holes wh...
3 Latest news breaks in emerging tech
Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence
25 Aug 2014
Pediatric Robot Surgeon
According to a recent report from NASA, some of their engineers and a team of researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have recently developed a robotic su...
Inroads in perception
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2014
Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....
Bridge inspection robot detects corrosion in hard-to-reach spots | ETH News
Hallie Siegel
22 Aug 2014
The aim was to develop a robot that could detect corrosion in all areas – including sites inaccessible to people – and at the earliest possible stage. The researchers did not have to search long f...
ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”
Nathan Labhart
21 Aug 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Rüdiger Dillmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, talks about paradigms for robot learning and the proper...
Coordinated UAV docking
Autonomous Robots Blog
18 Aug 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be both safe and maneuverable, but their s...
Grasping with robots – which object is in reach?
Autonomous Robots Blog
17 Aug 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Imagine a robot reaching for a mug on the table, only to realize that it is too far,...
Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes
Sabine Hauert
14 Aug 2014
There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robo...
AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research Center
Hallie Siegel
11 Aug 2014
This report covers experts’ views about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and their impact on jobs and employment.
The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the ...
Targeting a robotic brain capable of thoughtful communication
DigInfo TV
11 Aug 2014
The Hagiwara Lab in the Department of Information and Computer Science of Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology is trying to realize a robotic brain that can carry on a conversation, or ...
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Stiquito, with James Conrad
Audrow Nash
08 Aug 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews James Conrad, professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about the history of the autonomous walking robot, Stiquito....
Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
07 Aug 2014
A research group led by electrical and computer engineering expert Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface that could enable users to control a pair of robotic legs with thei...
Robocars love the draft | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
05 Aug 2014
If you are willing to leave much of the driving in the hands of the guy behind the steering wheel, and all you want is to manage tight spacing for efficient drafting, then the solution to the problem ...
VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft
Dronologista
05 Aug 2014
One of the main disadvantages of copter drones is their low energy efficiency: in order to create and maintain a sufficient lift, a lot of energy is needed, thus decreasing the endurance of the UAV. T...
This robot needs just a few seconds to learn to walk again after you break its legs
Hallie Siegel
04 Aug 2014
As we move slowly towards a future where robots are mobile, rather than bolted securely in-place on a production line, robots will begin to experience the same kind of bumps and bruises that humans e...
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
01 Aug 2014
Levine and How developed an algorithm that can efficiently calculate just how much information any node in the graph gives you about any other — what in information theory is called “mutual inform...
Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition
Sabine Hauert
01 Aug 2014
A large crowd of experts in artificial intelligence gathered around the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony before catching their flights, or enjoying one last night in Québec City. The competition...
ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”
Nathan Labhart
31 Jul 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-01
In this guest lecture, Dustin Li from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China, talks about the design of a robot that autonomously d...
What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?
Alan Winfield
28 Jul 2014
Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are three approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it. The third of these - artificial evolution - is attrac...
Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals
Dronologista
25 Jul 2014
Search and rescue operations are increasingly using drones, and the speed and ease with which UAVs can be launched is especially important when applying them as an emergency response tool. Jonathan C...
New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
18 Jul 2014
http://youtu.be/FTJW5YSRZhw
Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. The device, worn around one’s wrist, works essentially like two extra fing...
Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video
Thomas Schmickl
16 Jul 2014
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 ...
