Robot Talk Episode 43 – Maitreyee Wairagkar

Education and healthcare are set for a high-tech boost

One million robots work in car industry worldwide – new record

Robot Talk Episode 42 – Thom Kirwan-Evans

Resilient bug-sized robots keep flying even after wing damage

How drones for organ transportation are changing the healthcare industry

Robotic bees and roots offer hope of healthier environment and sufficient food

Robot Talk Episode 41 – Alessandra Rossi

Mix-and-match kit could enable astronauts to build a menagerie of lunar exploration bots

Learning to compute through art

Robot Talk Episode 40 – Edward Timpson

A new bioinspired earthworm robot for future underground explorations

What is the hype cycle for robotics?

Robot Talk Episode 39 – Maria Bauza Villalonga

RoboHouse Interview Trilogy, part III: Srimannarayana Baratam and Perciv.ai

Robot Talk Episode 38 – Jonathan Aitken

Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing

Fully autonomous real-world reinforcement learning with applications to mobile manipulation

RoboHouse Interview Trilogy, part II: Wendel Postma and Project MARCH

Shaking Up The Sheetmetal Industry

Robot Talk Episode 37 – Interview with Yang Gao

Top 5 robot trends 2023

Learning challenges shape a mechanical engineer’s path

RoboHouse Interview Trilogy, part I: Christian Geckeler and the origami gripper

Robot Talk Episode 36 – Interview with Ignazio Maria Viola

Engineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots

Microelectronics give researchers a remote control for biological robots

Robot Talk Episode 35 – Interview with Emily S. Cross

Sea creatures inspire marine robots which can operate in extra-terrestrial oceans

Our future could be full of undying, self-repairing robots – here’s how

Sensing with purpose

Robot Talk Episode 34 – Interview with Sabine Hauert

Special drone collects environmental DNA from trees

The robots of CES 2023

Robotics research: How Asia, Europe and America invest – Global Report 2023

Robot Talk Episode 33 – Interview with Dan Stoyanov

When a professor meets a farmer

New robots in Europe can be workers’ best friends

Interview with Hae-Won Park, Seungwoo Hong and Yong Um about MARVEL, a robot that can climb on various inclined steel surfaces

CES unveiled 2023 all access with Brian Tong (+ interviews & keynotes)

Robot Talk Episode 32 – Interview with Mollie Claypool

Get ready to robot! Robot drawing and story competitions for primary schoolchildren now officially open for entries

Year end summary: Top Robocar stories of 2022

Futuristic fields: Europe’s farm industry on cusp of robot revolution

Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes

Science Magazine robot videos 2022 (+ breakthrough of the year)

Five ways drones will change the way buildings are designed

Robot Talk Podcast – November & December episodes (+ bonus winter treats)

Holiday robot videos 2022 updated (+ how robots prepare an Amazon warehouse for Christmas)

In search for the intelligent machine

Going out on a Bionic Limb

CLAIRE and euRobotics: all questions answered on humanoid robotics

12 years of NCCR Robotics

Soft robots gain new strength and make virtual reality gloves feel more real

2nd call for robot holiday videos 2022 (with first submissions!)

Featured video: Creating a sense of feeling

China overtakes USA in robot density, according to World Robotics 2022 Report

Looking beyond “technology for technology’s sake”

Estimating manipulation intentions to ease teleoperation

Countering Luddite politicians with life (and cost) saving machines

Call for robot holiday videos 2022

The Utah Bionic Leg: A motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees

Touch sensing: An important tool for mobile robot navigation

Study: Automation drives income inequality

Flocks of assembler robots show potential for making larger structures

Holiday robot wishlist for/from Women in Robotics

TRINITY, the European network for Agile Manufacturing

Fighting tumours with magnetic bacteria

Combating climate change with a soft robotics fish

#IROS2022 best paper awards

Robot Talk Podcast – October episodes

The original “I, Robot” had a Frankenstein complex

General purpose robots should not be weaponized: An open letter to the robotics industry and our communities

How shoring up drones with artificial intelligence helps surf lifesavers spot sharks at the beach

Precise Navigation using LEO Satellites

Robots come out of the research lab

Magnetic sensors track muscle length

Big step towards tiny autonomous drones

Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble

Battery-free smart devices to harvest ambient energy for IoT

New walking robot design could revolutionize how we build things in space

A new type of material called a mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties to create adaptable, strong structures

‘Killer robots’ will be nothing like the movies show – here’s where the real threats lie

Tiny particles work together to do big things

World robotics report: “All-time high” with half a million robots installed in one year

50 women in robotics you need to know about 2022

Recycling: An Opaque Industry

Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come

Bipedal robot achieves Guinness World Record in 100 metres

Breaking through the mucus barrier