Robot Talk Episode 141 – Our relationship with robot swarms, with Razanne Abu-Aisheh

Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects

Robot Talk Episode 140 – Robot balance and agility, with Amir Patel

Taking humanoid soccer to the next level: An interview with RoboCup trustee Alessandra Rossi

Robots to navigate hiking trails

Robot Talk Episode 139 – Advanced robot hearing, with Christine Evers

Meet the AI-powered robotic dog ready to help with emergency response

MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee

Robohub highlights 2025

The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines

Robot Talk Episode 138 – Robots in the environment, with Stefano Mintchev

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

Generations in Dialogue: Human-robot interactions and social robotics with Professor Marynel Vasquez

Robot Talk Episode 137 – Getting two-legged robots moving, with Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi

Radboud chemists are working with companies and robots on the transition from oil-based to bio-based materials

Generations in Dialogue: Embodied AI, robotics, perception, and action with Professor Roberto Martín-Martín

Robot Talk Episode 136 – Making driverless vehicles smarter, with Shimon Whiteson

Teaching robot policies without new demonstrations: interview with Jiahui Zhang and Jesse Zhang

Why companies don’t share AV crash data – and how they could

Robot Talk Episode 135 – Robot anatomy and design, with Chapa Sirithunge

Learning robust controllers that work across many partially observable environments

Human-robot interaction design retreat

Robot Talk Episode 134 – Robotics as a hobby, with Kevin McAleer

ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Award 2026 open for nominations

Generations in Dialogue: Multi-agent systems and human-AI interaction with Professor Manuela Veloso

Robot Talk Episode 133 – Creating sociable robot collaborators, with Heather Knight

CoRL2025 – RobustDexGrasp: dexterous robot hand grasping of nearly any object

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI – a new podcast from AAAI

Robot Talk Episode 132 – Collaborating with industrial robots, with Anthony Jules

Teaching robots to map large environments

Robot Talk Episode 131 – Empowering game-changing robotics research, with Edith-Clare Hall

A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificial muscles promises to let soft machines see

Social media round-up from #IROS2025

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

Robot Talk Episode 130 – Robots learning from humans, with Chad Jenkins

Robot Talk at the Smart City Robotics Competition

Robot Talk Episode 129 – Automating museum experiments, with Yuen Ting Chan

What’s coming up at #IROS2025?

From sea to space, this robot is on a roll

Robot Talk Episode 128 – Making microrobots move, with Ali K. Hoshiar

Interview with Zahra Ghorrati: developing frameworks for human activity recognition using wearable sensors

Women in robotics you need to know about 2025

Robot Talk Episode 127 – Robots exploring other planets, with Frances Zhu

Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life

Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm

RoboCup Logistics League: an interview with Alexander Ferrein, Till Hofmann and Wataru Uemura

Drones and Droids: a co-operative strategy game

Call for AAAI educational AI videos

Self-supervised learning for soccer ball detection and beyond: interview with winners of the RoboCup 2025 best paper award

#ICML2025 outstanding position paper: Interview with Jaeho Kim on addressing the problems with conference reviewing

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

Robots to the rescue: miniature robots offer new hope for search and rescue operations

#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour

Researchers are teaching robots to walk on Mars from the sand of New Mexico

Engineering fantasy into reality

RoboCup@Work League: Interview with Christoph Steup

Interview with Haimin Hu: Game-theoretic integration of safety, interaction and learning for human-centered autonomy

AIhub coffee corner: Agentic AI