robohub focus on standardization

Robohub roundtable: Job loss through automation, Foxconn controversy

Every few weeks, Robohub will post a roundtable chat and discuss an engaging topic relating to robotics. In this edition, we looked at the controversial job loss of 60K jobs by Foxconn. Is this substa...

21 June 2016, by Robohub Editors

How to design a robotics experiment

The ability to design good scientific experiments is a key skill for any robotic researcher. Without a grasp of experimental design, even the best technological developments may never succeed in being...

08 January 2016, by Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.

Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Tully Foote -- ROS...

14 October 2015, by Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth

Vecna’s Daniel Theobald: Setting standards for robots

Vecna’s robotic logistics solutions are a family of autonomous mobile robots, built to operate within human-centric environments such as hospitals. In this in-depth interview, Daniel Theobald, the ...

22 September 2015, by Audrow Nash

Robotic research: Are we applying the scientific method?

Once upon a time validation of robotic research was relatively straightforward. Let us assume, for example, that a researcher had published in a journal a novel adaptive control law with a numerical ...

05 August 2015, by Gianluca Antonelli and Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Repeatable robotics: Standards and benchmarks from frontier science to applied technology

In a recent article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Gianluca Antonelli suggests that the Grand Challenge of robotics is to systematize the way its research is conducted. At Robohub we believe this is...

23 July 2015, by Robohub Editors

Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions

While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...

23 July 2015, by Nicole Mirnig