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    How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature
    "In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” This observation by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been cited in multiple contexts, ranging from tactical p...
    01 September 2016, by

    Law-abiding robots? What should the legal status of robots be?
    News media are reporting that the EU is considering turning robots into electronic persons with rights and apparently industry spokespeople are concerned that Brussels’ overzealousness could hinder ...
    18 July 2016, by

    MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor
    Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....
    11 July 2016, by

    Building better trust between humans and machines
    MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....
    23 June 2016, by

    New partnership looks to strengthen European robot industry
    A new EU-funded, robot technology transfer partnership is looking to help manufacturing and robotics companies with robot consultancy, networking, and funding....
    22 June 2016, by

    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



    Ingestible origami robot
    By: Larry Hardesty In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated...
    13 May 2016, by

    Why robots need to be able to say ‘No’
    Should you always do what other people tell you to do? Clearly not. Everyone knows that. So should future robots always obey our commands? At first glance, you might think they should, simply because ...
    13 April 2016, by

    Can I trust my robot? And should my robot trust me?
    If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions....
    07 April 2016, by

    3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required
    By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL One reason we don’t yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, ...
    06 April 2016, by

    Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh
    In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
    01 December 2015, by

    Proletarian robots getting cheaper to exploit
    After laughing uncomfortably at the headline from The Moscow Times reporting about the recent Skolkovo Robotics Conference, I parsed through the wording and found the intended meaning. But that proces...
    06 March 2014, by

    2nd International Skolkovo Robotics Conference coming March 1-2 in Moscow
    By Susan and Mike McFarlane, RobotGuide. Edited by Frank Tobe, The Robot Report. Created in 2010, Technopark "Skolkovo" provides innovative companies participating in the project to support the ...
    10 February 2014, by

    Apple, Amazon and now Google: It’s a pretty exciting day for robotics!
    There is serious momentum in robotics these days, evidenced by recent news from Apple, Amazon and Google: Apple announced that they were investing $10.5 billion in supply chain robots and automati...
    14 December 2013, by

    Robotics Summer of Learning at CMU
    This summer, students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots, design games, animate stories, and earn a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes and scholarships! The Robotics Summer of Learn...
    06 June 2013, by

    Stanford Robot Block Party – part of National Robotics Week
    I'm always surprised when I come to Stanford. I find new companies setting up shop in the area. Ford's new research lab wasn't there the last time I drove by, for example. Later, when walking aroun...
    11 April 2013, by

    Robots on TV
    Verizon and GE have produced television advertisements that include robots. The ads are playing frequently and nationally. They are good, they're being talked about and tweeted, audiences like them, a...
    04 February 2013, by

    Robot shows how to jump high
    A simple robot demonstrates the timing and motion necessary to make the highest jumps, with parallels to human jumping. See on physics.aps.org...
    30 October 2012, by

    Registration opens for the 2013 NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge – WPI
    The objective of the competition is to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technology. The competition offers as much as $1.5 million in prize money. See on www.wpi....
    29 October 2012, by

    Ada Lovelace Day: Women in robotics
    Celebrate women in science and technology today, in honor of Ada Lovelace, world’s first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day was started by Suw Charman-Anderson in 2009 in recognition that good ro...
    16 October 2012, by

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