Demo Day: the most exciting day of the year (Jan 28th, 3pm CET)

Computational Design

IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Ali Khademhosseini: Biomaterials, soft robotics and the Terasaki Institute

Designing customized “brains” for robots

DOE’s E-ROBOT Prize targets robots for construction and built environment

The future of robotics research: Is there room for debate?

Self-supervised learning of visual appearance solves fundamental problems of optical flow

Deep Sea Mining

Women in Robotics Update: introducing our 2021 Board of Directors

Robotics trends at #CES2021

How to keep drones flying when a motor fails

IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Podcast with Hod Lipson: Can we design self-aware robots?

Women in Robotics Update: Melonee Wise, Maren Bennewitz, Alicia Casals

#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered leg prosthesis race (with interview)

Science Magazine robot videos 2020

The Year Of The SPAC And What It Means For Hardware

Women in Robotics Update: Ecem Tuglan, Tuong Anh Ens, Sravanthi Kanchi, Kajal Gada, Dimitra Gkatzia

James Bruton focus series #3: Virtual Reality combat with a real robot

Holiday robot videos 2020

Carlotta Berry’s talk – Robotics Education to Robotics Research (with video)

Women in Robotics Update: Ruzena Bajcsy and Radhika Nagpal

Who are the Visionary companies in robotics? See the 2020 SVR Industry Award winners

#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the functional electrical stimulation bike race (with interview)

What does Innovation look like in robotics? See the SVR 2020 Industry Award winners

Shaping the UK’s future with smart machines: Findings from four ThinkIns with academia, industry, policy, and the public

Let’s talk about the future of Air cargo.

A catalog of robotics-related books (+ call for holiday season suggestions)

Meet the robotics community champions in the SVR Good Robot Industry Awards

The Advantage of Fins

Call for robot holiday videos 2020

Robohub wins Champion Award in SVR ‘Good Robot’ Industry Awards

Celebrating the good robots!

Nikolas Martelaro’s talk – Remote user research for human-robot interaction – with video

Women in Robotics Update: Robin Murphy, Ayanna Howard

James Bruton focus series #2: Barcode scanner guitar synths

Should robots be gendered? comments on Alan Winfield’s opinion piece

#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with interview + story of pilot)

Women in Robotics Update: Maja Mataric, Arianna Menciassi

#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with interview)

Ultra-sensitive and resilient sensor for soft robotic systems

Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance

Women in Robotics Update: Girls Of Steel

James Bruton focus series #1: openDog, Mini Robot Dog & openDog V2

Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons

Why we need a robot registry

Davide Scaramuzza’s seminar – Autonomous, agile micro drones: Perception, learning, and control (with video)

Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video

Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties

Women in Robotics Update: Elizabeth Croft, Helen Greiner, Heather Knight

Robotics sector brings robotics to the public in annual European showcase

#IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics

#IROS2020 Original Series: Real Roboticist

Women in Robotics Update: Sarah Bergbreiter, Aude Billard, Cynthia Breazeal

Multisensory Perception

Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon Global Edition 2020, the Olympics dedicated to new prosthetic technologies

CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers

Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes

Exploring Venus with a Clockwork Rover

A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail

RoboTED: a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment

Lily the barn owl reveals how birds fly in gusty winds

International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS)

Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects

Women in Robotics panel celebrating Ada Lovelace Day

Empowering Farmers Through Root AI

Robot swarms follow instructions to create art

30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2020

Online events to look out for on Ada Lovelace Day 2020

Planetary Drilling

Plan2Explore: Active model-building for self-supervised visual reinforcement learning

Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise

AWAC: Accelerating online reinforcement learning with offline datasets

Micro-scale Surgical Robots

Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs

Can RL from pixels be as efficient as RL from state?

Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry

Cutting surgical robots down to size

Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot

Data systems that learn to be better

Introspective Robots