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Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence 25 Aug 2014

Pediatric Robot Surgeon According to a recent report from NASA, some of their engineers and a team of researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have recently developed a robotic su...

Inroads in perception

Frank Tobe 22 Aug 2014

Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....

Bridge inspection robot detects corrosion in hard-to-reach spots | ETH News

Hallie Siegel 22 Aug 2014

The aim was to develop a robot that could detect corrosion in all areas – including sites inaccessible to people – and at the earliest possible stage. The researchers did not have to search long f...

ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”

Nathan Labhart 21 Aug 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-15 In this guest lecture, Rüdiger Dillmann from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, talks about paradigms for robot learning and the proper...

Coordinated UAV docking

Autonomous Robots Blog 18 Aug 2014

This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be both safe and maneuverable, but their s...

Grasping with robots – which object is in reach?

Autonomous Robots Blog 17 Aug 2014

This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Imagine a robot reaching for a mug on the table, only to realize that it is too far,...

Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes

Sabine Hauert 14 Aug 2014

There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robo...

AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research Center

Hallie Siegel 11 Aug 2014

This report covers experts’ views about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and their impact on jobs and employment. The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the ...

Targeting a robotic brain capable of thoughtful communication

DigInfo TV 11 Aug 2014

The Hagiwara Lab in the Department of Information and Computer Science of Keio University's Faculty of Science and Technology is trying to realize a robotic brain that can carry on a conversation, or ...

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Stiquito, with James Conrad

Audrow Nash 08 Aug 2014

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews James Conrad, professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about the history of the autonomous walking robot, Stiquito....

Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph

Hallie Siegel 07 Aug 2014

A research group led by electrical and computer engineering expert Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface that could enable users to control a pair of robotic legs with thei...

Robocars love the draft | Automaton

Hallie Siegel 05 Aug 2014

If you are willing to leave much of the driving in the hands of the guy behind the steering wheel, and all you want is to manage tight spacing for efficient drafting, then the solution to the problem ...

VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft

Dronologista 05 Aug 2014

One of the main disadvantages of copter drones is their low energy efficiency: in order to create and maintain a sufficient lift, a lot of energy is needed, thus decreasing the endurance of the UAV. T...

This robot needs just a few seconds to learn to walk again after you break its legs

Hallie Siegel 04 Aug 2014

As we move slowly towards a future where robots are mobile, rather than bolted securely in-place on a production line, robots will begin to experience the same kind of bumps and bruises that humans e...

When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News

Hallie Siegel 01 Aug 2014

Levine and How developed an algorithm that can efficiently calculate just how much information any node in the graph gives you about any other — what in information theory is called “mutual inform...

Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition

Sabine Hauert 01 Aug 2014

A large crowd of experts in artificial intelligence gathered around the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony before catching their flights, or enjoying one last night in Québec City. The competition...

ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”

Nathan Labhart 31 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-12-01 In this guest lecture, Dustin Li from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China, talks about the design of a robot that autonomously d...

What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?

Alan Winfield 28 Jul 2014

Want to create human-equivalent AI? Well, broadly speaking, there are three approaches open to you: design it, reverse-engineer it or evolve it. The third of these - artificial evolution - is attrac...

Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals

Dronologista 25 Jul 2014

Search and rescue operations are increasingly using drones, and the speed and ease with which UAVs can be launched is especially important when applying them as an emergency response tool. Jonathan C...

New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers | MIT News

Hallie Siegel 18 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/FTJW5YSRZhw Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. The device, worn around one’s wrist, works essentially like two extra fing...

Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video

Thomas Schmickl 16 Jul 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 �...

Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)

Andra Keay 15 Jul 2014

The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference (RSS14) is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16, and we are picking up where we left off yesterday on our coverage of t...

Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states | MIT News

Hallie Siegel 15 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/aozu2C9Kmlg Read more on MIT News...

Building Social Robots: The Journey of Pleo

Bob Christopher and Jibo 11 Jul 2014

Building a robot company is difficult, very difficult. It requires unwavering belief in yourself, in your idea, in your team and ultimately in your product. But it is also one of the most thrilling ex...

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”

Nathan Labhart 10 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-17 In this guest lecture, Josh Bongard from the University of Vermont (USA) and co-author of How the body shapes the way we think (MIT Press), talks ab...

Grizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN

Clearpath Robotics 09 Jul 2014

by Ryan Gariepy I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and t...

The next big things in robotics

Alan Winfield 08 Jul 2014

Last week I attended the launch event for a new NESTA publication called Our work here is done: Visions of a Robot Economy....

Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?

Open Roboethics Initiative 08 Jul 2014

Photo by Roland Dobbins, Wikimedia A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous...

How do you want to interface with your autonomous car? Poll results

Open Roboethics Initiative 07 Jul 2014

Those of you who watched the 80’s TV series “Knight Rider” might remember the dialogue between Michael Knight and its super-car, KITT. Some of you might be more familiar with scenes between “J...

The next era of conversational technology

Roberto Pieraccini and Jibo 04 Jul 2014

In 1922, the Elmwood Button Co. commercialized a toy that could respond to voice commands. The toy, called Radio Rex, was a dog made of celluloid that would leap out of its house when you called its n...

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

Nathan Labhart 03 Jul 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10 In this guest lecture, Koh Hosoda from Osaka University, Japan, talks about human and humanoid intelligence, movement, and bouncing, and introduces t...

Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 2014

Frank Tobe 02 Jul 2014

When you see a slick robot - say for instance the new Aldebaran Pepper robot - you can easily be distracted by the design, the gestures, the interaction, the cuteness. But AUTOMATI...

My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll

Open Roboethics Initiative 30 Jun 2014

You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....

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