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Bipedal robot uses high-speed vision to run
Masatoshi Ishikawa
15 Oct 2014
We have developed a visually controlled bipedal running robot named ACHIRES: Actively Coordinated High-speed Image-processing Running Experiment System. [tweetquote]This robot has a leg length of 14cm...
What would you want your robot home to do for you?
Open Roboethics Initiative
14 Oct 2014
The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are getting 'smarter': we wear smart watches, carry smart phones, and many of us are now living in smart homes that are equipped with intellige...
Wearable technology that feels like skin | Wall Street Journal
Hallie Siegel
14 Oct 2014
When it comes to the future of computing, there is one major known and a principal unknown.
The known, with almost guaranteed certainty, is that the next era of computing will be wearables. The unk...
UCSD investing in robotics
Frank Tobe
14 Oct 2014
At a one-day forum at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Chancellor Pradeep Khosla did two unusual things: he spent most of the day at the Contextual Robotics Technologies International F...
Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
Dan Novischi
08 Oct 2014
Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR) is a small and powerful mobile robot platform that is designed to be used in a heterogeneous robotic swarm that is currently under development at the Laboratory of Artific...
Self-driving car test sites
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2014
Swarm communication and urban city driving are integral to the safe deployment of self-driving cars. Mercedes-Benz and a joint Michigan-based consortium are setting up secure test sites in California ...
CoCoRo CeBIT
Thomas Schmickl
08 Oct 2014
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo ...
Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2014
The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup.
Brad Nelson heads th...
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Quest for Computer Vision, with Peter Corke
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about computer vision - the subject of his plenary talk at IROS 2014 (link to slides below). He begins ...
Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014
Mathieu Labbé
03 Oct 2014
Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....
3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals
Joel Gibbard
02 Oct 2014
Our [tweetquote] 3D-printed prosthetic hand project has made the global finals of Intel's Make it Wearable competition![/tweetquote] Open Bionics came out of the Open Hand Project, where we developed ...
Reader poll: How much control should a bathing robot have?
Open Roboethics Initiative
01 Oct 2014
http://youtu.be/0ac2qwStrdo
A few years ago, researchers at the University of British Columbia (AJung Moon, Peter Danielson and Mike Van der Loos) studied the public acceptance of a number of diff...
Experiments designing an ethical robot
Alan Winfield
30 Sep 2014
In my last post I wrote about our work on robots with internal models: robots with a simulation of themselves and their environment inside themselves. I explained that we have built a robot with a ...
SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge
Patrick Goebel
29 Sep 2014
A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...
IROS Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 3)
Robohub Editors
26 Sep 2014
More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS: soft untethered robots that jump, visual localization within LIDAR maps, time-delayed tele-operated surgical robotics, and grippers. See also Part ...
#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15
Sabine Hauert
26 Sep 2014
Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. This year we'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. The submission dead...
Artificial General Intelligence that plays Atari video games: How did DeepMind do it?
Last December, an article named “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning” was uploaded to arXiv by employees of a small AI company called DeepMind. Two months later [tweetquote]Google bough...
Attaining “embodiment” in brain-machine interface technologies: gTec’s Christoph Guger
Daniel Faggella
23 Sep 2014
Link to audio file (26:36), or listen on iTunes
In this interview TechEmergence talks to Dr. Christoph Guger, founder of gTec, a company that focuses on creating devices and parts for the field of...
Microsoft layoffs claims Robotics Research team over the weekend | Neowin
Hallie Siegel
22 Sep 2014
Microsoft is in the middle of a massive restructuring right now, with around 18,000 employees being let go. And while most of those employees are redundant thanks to the Nokia purchase, it looks l...
IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)
Robohub Editors
20 Sep 2014
More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS. See also Part 1....
IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)
Robohub Editors
17 Sep 2014
The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) is on in Chicago, and members of the robotics research community have descended on the Windy City. This year th...
On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures
Alan Winfield
08 Sep 2014
So. We've been busy in the lab the last few months. Really exciting. Let me explain.
For a couple of years I've been thinking about robots with internal models. Not internal models in the classical...
Open Brain-Computer Interface: An Interview with Conor Russomanno
Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence
08 Sep 2014
Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a rapidly growing field that offers huge potential for many applications, such as medical grade BCIs to help people with sensory-motor disabilities. Currently, a nu...
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M-Blocks, with John Romanishin
Audrow Nash
05 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews John Romanishin from MIT, about his modular robotics project ‘M-Blocks’. M-Blocks are small cubes (5 cm on a side) that have no external actuators, yet the...
ShanghAI Lectures: Kevin Warwick “AI with biological brains”
Nathan Labhart
04 Sep 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15
In this guest lecture, Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading, UK, talks about a closed-loop interface between a biological network and a robot, ...
Announcing the Winners of the IROS 2014 Baxter Contest! | Rethink Robotics
Hallie Siegel
04 Sep 2014
Luis F. C. Figueredo, from Automation and Robotics Lab. at the University of Brasilia (Currently working with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group in the CSAIL Lab at MIT). Luis came up ...
How brain signals could control a variety of devices: BrainGate’s Beata Jarosiewicz
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
03 Sep 2014
Link to audio file (23:28), or listen on iTunes
In this interview, TechEmergence talks to Dr. Beata Jarosiewicz from Brown's BrainGate project about the science of making sense of the brain's inner...
Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
Open Roboethics Initiative
03 Sep 2014
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
Your robot doggie could really be pleased to see you
Alan Winfield
02 Sep 2014
There have been several stories in the last few weeks about emotional robots - robots that feel. Some are suggesting that this is the next big thing in robotics. It's something I wrote about in t...
NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
29 Aug 2014
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liqui...
Google’s secret drone delivery program
Frank Tobe
29 Aug 2014
The Atlantic revealed the inside story of Google's two-year secret X-labs drone-delivery project in a detailed story by Alexis Madrigal. Project Wing, as the drone-delivery venture is called, has alre...
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
28 Aug 2014
http://youtu.be/GJ0Pmk_UDY4
New research coming out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggests that letting robots have control over human tasks in manufac...
New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
28 Aug 2014
In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggesting ...
Planning robot motions that humans can relate to
Autonomous Robots Blog
28 Aug 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Imagine a scenario where a robot and a human are collaborating side by side to perfo...
Efficient robotic components under development using fundamental mechanism research
DigInfo TV
26 Aug 2014
At the Morita Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Keio University Faculty of Science, researchers are advancing with research and development of unique robots from the perspective o...
Finally somebody debunks the Pew Research Center’s “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs” report
Frank Tobe
25 Aug 2014
Kudos to Erik Sofge, Boston-based reporter for Popular Science Magazine. His recent story, "Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy," cleverly pokes holes wh...
