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Introducing H-ROS: the Hardware Robot Operating System
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
20 Oct 2016
I’m delighted to announce a new game-changing standard for building robot hardware components: H-ROS (the Hardware Robot Operating System). H-ROS provides manufacturers tools for building interope...
Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
CSAIL MIT
13 Oct 2016
3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
It’s not only engineers who work in robotics
Hallie Siegel
12 Oct 2016
Robotics has always been an interdisciplinary field - one that integrates knowledge from computer science, mechanical, electrical, controls, and other areas of engineering. But as robots move out of f...
Disney’s one-legged untethered hopping robot
Robohub Editors
12 Oct 2016
Disney Research presents their design and control for an untethered, energetically autonomous single-legged hopping robot. While this isn't the first hopping robot to be built, it is the first not to ...
Powered arm prosthesis race at Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
07 Oct 2016
This week, the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland and today we present to you the second of the NCCR Robotics teams to be taking part in the competition, LeMano. The Cyba...
In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Christian Bettstetter
07 Oct 2016
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
Virtual race: Competing in Brain Computer Interface at Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
05 Oct 2016
This week the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. Cybathlon is the brainchild of NCCR Robotics co-director and ETH Zurich professor Robert Riener, and is designed to faci...
3-D printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
CSAIL MIT
03 Oct 2016
Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of BattleBots knows that robots can break - and often it’s because they don’t have the proper padding to protect themselves.
But this week rese...
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RSS 2016 Posters, with Gangyuan Jing, Rico Jonschkowski, Matthew Gombolay and Dorsa Sadigh
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several researchers presenting their work at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
XoSoft: Intelligent trousers designed to assist people with limited mobility
Advancement in healthcare and medicine and other comforts of modernity make us live longer than our ancestors: the life expectancy of the average European nearly doubled during the last century. As li...
Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots
Micha Rappaport
22 Sep 2016
Mobile robots can be used in many applications, they are especially suited for environments that are unreachable or too dangerous for humans. In many cases, these environments have to be explored and ...
EQ-Radio: Detecting emotions with wireless signals
CSAIL MIT
21 Sep 2016
By measuring your heartbeat and breath, this device from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab can tell if you’re excited, happy, angry or sad
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Designing and deploying a fleet of autonomous boats on the canals of Amsterdam
MIT News
20 Sep 2016
MIT has signed an agreement to engage in research collaborations with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in the Netherlands. The collaboration’s flagship project, led ...
Machines can learn by simply observing, without being told what to look for
Roderich Gross
15 Sep 2016
We have developed a new machine learning method at the University of Sheffield called Turing Learning that allows machines to model natural or artificial systems....
HAPTIX program underway to create prosthetic hand system that moves and feels like a real hand
Open Source Robotics Foundation
09 Sep 2016
By: Brian Gerkey
Fundamentally, robotics is about helping people. Robots help us manufacture things, help us build things, and help make our lives easier and more convenient. As robotic systems in...
Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)
Kassie Perlongo
30 Aug 2016
Lionfish are invasive to the Atlantic Ocean and their voracious appetites are destroying coral reef ecosystems. RISE (Robots in Service of the Environment) is a new non-profit company looking to rest...
Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots
Though recent advances in design, fabrication, and programming technologies promise to enable rapid digital manufacturing of functional robotic systems, many challenges need to be addressed to realize...
Introducing the Octobot: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Harvard SEAS
25 Aug 2016
By: Leah Burrows
A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft r...
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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses, with Hugh Herr
Audrow Nash
20 Aug 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to the amputation of both of his legs below the knee and how th...
People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones
Adriana Hamacher
19 Aug 2016
Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests....
Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light
Robohub Editors
19 Aug 2016
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioinspired mic...
Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape
Victoria Webster
12 Aug 2016
Think of a traditional robot and you probably imagine something made from metal and plastic. Such “nuts-and-bolts” robots are made of hard materials. As robots take on more roles beyond the lab, s...
Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
10 Aug 2016
In this article, our humanoid robot iCub is put to the test using manipulation and interaction as sources of knowledge and new experience, as well as, providing a means to explore and control the envi...
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Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson
Audrow Nash
06 Aug 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
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Physics-Based Optimization for Robot Control, with Emo Todorov
Audrow Nash
23 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Emo Todorov, Director of Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Washington, about a physics-based optimization method for controlling robots. Todorov ...
Driving, flying, and climbing in a sand and gravel pit
Tim Barfoot
18 Jul 2016
In June, the University of Toronto (as part of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network) carried out a set of field trials at an old sand and gravel pit in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. This involved thr...
Are skintight suits the future of robotic exoskeletons?
Steve Davis
13 Jul 2016
Children with a rare neurological disease were recently given the chance to walk for the first time thanks to a new robotic exoskeleton. These devices – which are essentially robotic suits that give...
Recreating ancient vertebrate’s first step on dry land, with a robot
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
12 Jul 2016
Could a tail have allowed ancient vertebrates to make the transition from water to land?
Reporting in Science today, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Cl...
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Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
Audrow Nash
09 Jul 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
Live coverage: Robocup 2016
Robohub Editors
30 Jun 2016
Robocup 2016 kicks off today in Leipzig, Germany. The event brings together 3,500 participants from 45 countries and regions competing in 17 disciplines....
Boston Dynamics made a new robot: SpotMini
Robohub Editors
23 Jun 2016
SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, d...
Building better trust between humans and machines
MIT News
23 Jun 2016
MIT-SUTD researchers are creating improved interfaces to help machines and humans work together to complete tasks....
Teaching machines to predict the future
CSAIL MIT
21 Jun 2016
When we see two people meet, we can often predict what happens next: a handshake, a hug, or maybe even a kiss. Our ability to anticipate actions is thanks to intuitions born out of a lifetime of exper...
Teaching robots the physics of sliding and pushing objects
Jiaji Zhou
16 Jun 2016
The Manipulation Lab at the CMU Robotics Institute proposes a computational model that relates an applied robot action to the resultant object motion. Their research won the Best Conference Paper Awar...
Using soft robots for artificial muscles
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
15 Jun 2016
Forget steel and aluminum. The robots of tomorrow may be able to squish, stretch and squeeze.
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Novel robotic devices, part of the emerging field of soft robotics, offer many advances ov...
MIT’s AI passes Turing Test for sound
CSAIL MIT
13 Jun 2016
Nearly 70 years after the "Turing Test" was first proposed, the question remains: can we create intelligent machines that exhibit behavior indistinguishable from humans?
In December MIT researchers...
