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Bristol professors to play role in creating robots for dangerous nuclear sites
UWE Bristol
01 Mar 2017
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is part of a consortium which has received a £4.6 million grant to build a new generation of robots for use in nuclear sites. The funding from the ...
Putting data in the hands of doctors
MIT News
17 Feb 2017
Computer scientist Regina Barzilay is working with MIT students and medical doctors in an ambitious bid to revolutionize cancer care. She is relying on a tool largely unrecognized in the oncology wor...
Discovering optimal strategies for fast robotic walking and climbing
NCCR Robotics
17 Feb 2017
Chances are that you’ve never given much thought to how insects walk, or what combination of leg movements–or gaits–is most stable or fastest, but, if like a group of scientists from Ramdya, Flo...
NAIST OpenHand M2S released
Felix von Drigalski
16 Feb 2017
The NAIST OpenHand M2S was developed by a team of students as part of the school’s annual CICP project (read the blog post about it here), in which students can propose and organize their own resear...
Transparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
MIT News
02 Feb 2017
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underw...
Wearable AI that can detect the tone of a conversation
CSAIL MIT
01 Feb 2017
It’s a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions like Asperger’s, this can make social situations extremely stressf...
Soft exosuit economies: Understanding the costs of lightening the load
Wyss Institute
30 Jan 2017
Last year, Harvard’s soft exosuit team provided first proof-of-concept results showing that its wearable robot could lower energy expenditure in healthy people walking with a load on their back. Mad...
Implantable microrobots: Manufacturing intricate biocompatible micromachines
Columbia Engineering
10 Jan 2017
A team of researchers led by Biomedical Engineering Professor Sam Sia at Columbia Engineering has developed a way to manufacture microscale machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in t...
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A Wearable Robotic Extra-Finger for Grasp Compensation, with Domenico Prattichizzo
Audrow Nash
07 Jan 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Domenico Prattichizzo, Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena and Senior Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova in Italy, about a ...
Customer story: Deployable, autonomous vibration control of bridges using Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
05 Jan 2017
Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is developin...
Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
CSAIL MIT
19 Dec 2016
Machines that predict the future, robots that patch wounds and wireless emotion-detectors are just a few of the exciting projects that came out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
Learning words from pictures
MIT News
16 Dec 2016
Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files an...
Design, simulate and build a custom drone
CSAIL MIT
05 Dec 2016
This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want?
A new system fro...
How the brain recognizes faces
MIT News
01 Dec 2016
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
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100/100 Computer Vision Challenge, with Dieter Fox
Audrow Nash
26 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Dieter Fox, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, about the 100/100 Computer Vision Tracking Challen...
Keeping a robotic eye on pollution
Horizon Magazine
19 Nov 2016
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By Ethan Bilby.
Field robots and plane-based remote sensors can patrol the earth and the sky to monitor the gases that cause climate ch...
Assistive robot operated via a brain-computer interface
Filippo Arrichiello
16 Nov 2016
Research and development of robotic assistive technologies has gained tremendous momentum in the last decade due to several factors such as the maturity level reached by several technologies, the adva...
Eliminating cords with wireless ‘millimeter wave’ virtual reality headsets
MIT News
14 Nov 2016
One of the limits of today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI ...
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221
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Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
MIT News
11 Nov 2016
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che...
Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
CSAIL MIT
10 Nov 2016
By:Â Larry Hardesty
At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer ...
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
08 Nov 2016
What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
Robotics tutor for primary school children
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
04 Nov 2016
By: Ian Salter
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
Robohub Editors
28 Oct 2016
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
MIT News
21 Oct 2016
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
CSAIL MIT
13 Oct 2016
3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Christian Bettstetter
07 Oct 2016
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
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RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
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217
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LunaRoo, with Jürgen Leitner
Ron Vanderkley
17 Sep 2016
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews Jürgen "Juxi" Leitner, a researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robots Vision in the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Leitner spe...
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216
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ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation, with Ekaterina Bereziy
Audrow Nash
02 Sep 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Ekaterina Bereziy, Founder and CEO of ExoAtlet, about exoskeletons for the disabled and for rehabilitation.
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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr
Audrow Nash
20 Aug 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to the amputation of both of his legs below the knee and how th...
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214
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Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
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213
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Physics-Based Optimization for Robot Control, with Emo Todorov
Audrow Nash
23 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Emo Todorov, Director of Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Washington, about a physics-based optimization method for controlling robots. Todorov ...
MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor
CSAIL MIT
11 Jul 2016
Robot from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab suggests where to move patients and who should do C-sections....
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212
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Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
Audrow Nash
09 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
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211
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ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier
Audrow Nash
25 Jun 2016
This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Societyâ€...
