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Meet RoboGabby: She’s on a mission to teach more girls about robotics

Kassie Perlongo 14 Oct 2016

Gabby has five goals to achieve this school year. The first goal sounds like any other young middle schooler: get straight As in her classes. Goal number two: get accepted into her school's robotics t...

Adjust how you learn and quickly pick up robotics programming

Ricardo Téllez 06 Oct 2016

"The biggest obstacle preventing robotics going mainstream is not having good programmers able to program robots," Brian Gerkey, CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation. Learning to program robots...

Should your robot have a tether?

Robots for Roboticists 22 Sep 2016

Some people swear all tethers are bad. Some recommend attaching a tether to robots in order to provide power (to save the mass and volume of the batteries), for reliable fast communications, transfer ...

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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...

Robotiq launches DoF: A community for robotics professionals

Robotiq Inc. 12 Sep 2016

Robotiq has just launched a new community called DoF. This is an open community where industrial automation professionals share their know-how and get answers to accelerate their robotics projects....

Installing and running time synchronization, with chrony

Robots for Roboticists 26 Aug 2016

Time synchronization affects many robots. Robots have more computers and sensors, so keeping everything in sync is important. Trying to look through log files where all of the times are skewed is not...

Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 3 of 3)

Alberto Molina 24 Aug 2016

Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....

Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 2 of 3)

Alberto Molina 23 Aug 2016

Dtto v2.0 is a modular self-reconfigurable robot focused on bio-inspired locomotion mechanisms. This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....

Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 1 of 3)

Alberto Molina 22 Aug 2016

This tutorial shows how to assemble a fully working Dtto Modular Robot module....

Marty: the little walking robot that’s more than a toy

Alexander Enoch 08 Aug 2016

Update: Only 4 days left to crowdfund Marty! They are over 70% towards reaching their goal! ...

Wall-climbing robots create a carbon fiber hammock (with video, images)

Robohub Editors 04 Aug 2016

Maria Yablonina's project, called Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures, demonstrates a new production process for filament structures, like carbon fiber, by crawling up the wall ...

Hello Pepper: Getting started to program robots on Android

Margaret Maynard-Reid 03 Aug 2016

I didn’t get to meet Pepper the humanoid Robot at Google I/O but I watched the video afterwards: A new development frontier: Android + Pepper the interactive robot. Love the robots’ dance! I was s...

Pros and cons for different types of drive selection

Robots for Roboticists 29 Jul 2016

In the past, we have looked at wheel design and the kinematics of skid steer and mecanum wheels. In this post, we will take a quick look at different types of mobility types (ie. wheels, tracks) and h...

Drive kinematics: Skid steer and mecanum (ROS twist included)

Robots for Roboticists 19 Jul 2016

I am often in need of the basic kinematic motion equations for skid steer vehicles. I have also recently been working with mecanum wheeled vehicles. The skid steer equations are fairly simple and easy...

Teaching the teachers: Study focuses on how teachers perceive educational robots in classrooms

NCCR Robotics 13 Jul 2016

Despite phenomenal advances in the field of robotics in recent years and specifically the field of robots for use in the classroom, there is still a large shortfall in the number of teachers who activ...

Anki’s new Cozmo SDK turns toy robots into sophisticated research tools

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 12 Jul 2016

Anki’s new robot Cozmo (with free SDK) shows that this consumer robotics startup has got bigger plans than simply dominating the smart toy category. Founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Insti...

NASA Robonaut 2 simulation: Placing an ISS panel in The Construct

Ricardo Téllez 24 Jun 2016

By Miguel Angel One of the most wanted robot simulations is a robot that can be used for anything. Robonaut is one like this. NASA kindly gave this simulation for public use and we thought here in ...

How to make a printed circuit board using a diode laser with a 3D printer

George Fomitchev 20 Jun 2016

3D-printers have opened endless possibilities for home production and rapid prototyping. You can easily create practically any model in a 3D-program and 3D print it. But until now, only a few people ...

Infographic: The making of a collaborative robot

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 10 Jun 2016

By: Nisha Cooch, NSF This month marks the fifth anniversary of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI). The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been an active leader in the program since it was l...

U of Washington Tech Policy Lab answers the question: What is a robot?

Frank Tobe 06 Jun 2016

What is a robot? There are business, legal, insurance and safety considerations which make that definition important and the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington gave it a try with an inter...

Antenna separation: How close can you go?

Robots for Roboticists 03 Jun 2016

When building a new robot mechanical engineers always ask me: how close can different antennas be to one another? It is not uncommon to try squeezing 5+ antennas on a single robot (GPS, GPS2 for headi...

Book Review: ‘Peer Reviews in Software, A Practical Guide,’ by Karl Wiegers

Robots for Roboticists 01 Jun 2016

I have been part of many software teams where we desired to do code reviews. In most of those cases the code reviews did not take place, or were pointless and a waste of time. So the question is: how ...

In automation we trust: senior thesis project examines concept of over-trusting robotic systems

Harvard SEAS 26 May 2016

By Adam Zewe Hollywood is to be believed, there are two kinds of robots, the friendly and helpful BB-8s, and the sinister and deadly T-1000s. Few would suggest that “Star Wars: the Force Awakens�...

Robotics narratives: Here, there, and everywhere

UW-Madison Science Narratives 25 May 2016

UW-Madison Science Narratives and partners have joined together to create a 5-month video and audio adventure, exploring the work of Dr Bilge Mutlu and colleagues as they craft robots from a human per...

MIT student robots battle it out, revolutionary-style

MIT News 07 May 2016

by Jennifer Chu On Thursday evening, just before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, the targets were marked, and the soldiers were … r...

White House launches public workshops on AI issues

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 04 May 2016

The White House today announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial i...

Robotics narratives: If I only had a brain

UW-Madison Science Narratives 27 Apr 2016

How to benefit from the robotic skill shortage

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 22 Apr 2016

Robotics is going to be one of the biggest job creators in modern history. But are there enough qualified people to fill those jobs? As various sectors announce skill shortages, we looked at how robot...

Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies

MIT News 21 Apr 2016

MIT has offered courses on everything from pirate training to “street-fighting math,” but a new robotics class is truly one for the birds....

Root: A robot to empower the next generation of coders

Wyss Institute 18 Apr 2016

Computing is currently the fastest growing segment in the STEM fields, yet education in this area has lagged behind technological progress and demand. In early 2016, President Barack Obama unveiled hi...

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