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James Bruton focus series #3: Virtual Reality combat with a real robot
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
26 Dec 2020
It's Saturday, it's the turn of another post of the James Bruton focus series, and it's Boxing Day in the UK and most of the Commonwealth countries. Even if this holiday has nothing to do with boxing,...
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Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
Lauren Klein
02 Dec 2020
Robohub Podcast · Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance
In this episode, our interviewer Lauren Klein speaks with Kim Baraka about his PhD research to enable robots to engage in social int...
Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
Frontiers Journals & Blog
18 Oct 2020
By Conn Hastings, science writer
Controlling a swarm of robots to paint a picture sounds like a difficult task. However, a new technique allows an artist to do just that, without worrying about pro...
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Exploring from a Distance, with Muralidharan Arikara
Lauren Klein
28 Jul 2020
Robohub Podcast · Exploring From a Distance
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Muralidharan Arikara, CEO of Xarpie Labs. Xarpie Labs creates visualization and simulation experiences within t...
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A Whimsical Robotic Artist, with Patrick Tresset
Audrow Nash
16 Oct 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Patrick Tresset, a London based artist, on robots that draw people using a pen and paper in a way that is similar to the drawing process for humans. Tresset dis...
How to build a robot – the creative way
Robohub Editors
11 Jan 2018
Here's a cute video about how UK-based Rusty Squid designs robots....
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
Those amazing flying machines
Oliver Mitchell
16 Aug 2017
Last year, Intel partnered with Lady Gaga on the Super Bowl Halftime Show to showcase its latest aerial technology called “Shooting Star.” Intel did a reprise performance of its Shooting S...
Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of intelligent technology
Alan Winfield
14 Jul 2017
Here are the slides I gave recently as member of panel Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of intelligent technology, at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence 201...
2017 Robot Art Competition winners announced
Robohub Editors
19 May 2017
A record number of teams submitted beautiful robot-created artwork for the second year of this 5-year worldwide competition. In total, there were 38 teams from 10 countries who submitted 200 differen...
World Book Day 2017: 20 robot related books to inspire kids and teens
Alex Kirkpatrick
23 Apr 2017
Happy International World Book and Copyright Day! It's a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading, held annually on 23 April---a symbolic date coinciding with the anniversary of the ...
Registration now open for 2nd annual Robotic Art Competition
Robohub Editors
11 Apr 2017
The 2017 second annual robotic art competition with $100,000 in cash prizes is now open for team registration. An international competition for all ages, the contest’s goal is to challenge teams to ...
Asimov’s laws of robotics are not the moral guidelines they appear to be
Tom Sorell
29 Mar 2017
Seventy-five years ago, the celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround. Set on Mercury, it features a sophisticated robot nicknamed Speedy that has been or...
RoboThespian stars in UK play Spillikin, a love story
Frank Tobe
21 Mar 2017
In a poignant play traveling throughout the UK, a robot is co-star and companion to the wife of the (now deceased) robot builder, with the wife developing early Alzheimer's. The play explores very hu...
The art of drone flight: Creating drone costumes
Léa Pereyre
07 Feb 2017
Drone costume designer Léa Pereyre showcases several of her imaginative designs and describes her experience with dreaming up new concepts for this emerging art form.
Check out more designs on the...
Drone shows: Creative potential and best practices
Drone shows, such as the ones shown above, are a new and rapidly evolving sector of the entertainment industry....
Robot Life Survey
What might the first western explorer have thought upon encountering whales, flamingos and iguanas? What would have they thought of these strange near-fantastical creatures?
What is it like for 21s...
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 4
Robohub Editors
22 Dec 2016
Happy holidays! Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 3
Robohub Editors
20 Dec 2016
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 2
Robohub Editors
16 Dec 2016
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Holiday gifts ideas for Robogeeks – 2016
Kassie Perlongo
15 Dec 2016
Robotic toys and gear are getting better every year! Need some gift ideas for that special robot geek in your life? We put together some favourite gift ideas, from stocking stuffers, amazing robot t...
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 1
Robohub Editors
13 Dec 2016
Our first few submissions have now arrived! Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Dehyping robotics: Sabine Hauert at TEDx Berlin
Robohub Editors
13 Dec 2016
Robohub President Sabine Hauert gave an insightful talk at TEDx Berlin about what we try and do here at Robohub: ensuring truthful, fair, balanced robotics information is being shared. As our loyal re...
Call for holiday robot videos 2016
Robohub Editors
09 Dec 2016
That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at editors@robohub.org and share the ...
When robots become art: Interview with Yi-Wei Keng
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
29 Nov 2016
How can robotics help to enhance the development of the modern arts? Japan’s famous playwright, stage director Oriza Hirata and leading roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro launched the “Robot Theater Proj...
SOCIAL ROBOTICS JAPAN: Robot Town Sagami’s strange, yet surprisingly hopeful, anime promo
Reno Tibke
09 Nov 2016
SOCIAL ROBOTICS JAPAN is adapted from a bimonthly column published in Japan’s Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (日刊工業新聞/Business & Technology Daily Newspaper). The 101-year-old, nationally circul...
Art meets robotics in Patrick Tresset’s OPLINE Prize entry
Andra Keay
27 Oct 2016
The OPLINE Prize is the first online contemporary art award, where the audience vote for the winner out of 10 nominated artists. The winning artist receives 4,000 Euros and exhibitions. The winner al...
Why watching Westworld’s robots should make us question ourselves
Tony Prescott
21 Oct 2016
For a sci-fi fan like me, fascinated by the nature of human intelligence and the possibility of building life-like robots, it’s always interesting to find a new angle on these questions. As a re-ima...
Cinema meets robots at the Robotic Online Short Film Festival
Ricardo Dominguez Jover
19 Oct 2016
The upcoming Robotic Online Short Film Festival (or ROS festival) is a science fiction short film festival planning to focus on robotics related themes. The deadline for submitting short films is No...
The relationship between dance and robotic fabrication – with video
Syuko Kato
01 Aug 2016
UCL’s Interactive Architecture Lab has developed a new type of choreography – one that explores the potential for dialogue between humans and robots – and the way we might design cooperatively i...
Flying robots perform 100th show on Broadway, using new localization technology and algorithms
Bill Keays and Markus Waibel
29 Jul 2016
Since April, a troupe of eight flying machines has been performing in a Cirque du Soleil Broadway show called Paramour. This group of quadcopters has now completed its first 100 shows in front of a li...
SoftBank jumpstarts IoT by buying ARM for $32 billion
Frank Tobe
19 Jul 2016
The announcement that SoftBank will spend $32 billion to acquire ARM Holdings means the Japanese firm is buying the most important company in the world of mobile processors for smartphone and Intern...
RoboThespian gets its own YouTube channel
Kassie Perlongo
24 Jun 2016
The team behind RoboThespian, a life-sized humanoid robot designed for human interaction in a public environment, have launched a new YouTube channel: Robot's World. The robot is very much real an...
#ICRA16 duckies and robots: a poetic tribute
Robohub Editors
04 May 2016
ICRA is the largest conference on Robotics and Automation. This year, the robotics community reflected on the strong and natural relationship between robots and rubber duckies. This is the result:
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Where should robots go when they retire?
Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura
12 Apr 2016
Most robots, when their creators are done with them, meet one of two fates. Either they’re stashed away, in some corner of a lab, closet or basement, or they’re cannibalized to make another robot....
AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’
Frank Tobe
08 Apr 2016
From the Smithsonian comes news - and a must-see fascinating video - about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature...
