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ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 6 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II
Fabio Bonsignorio
24 Feb 2014
Lecture 6 - Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II
In this second lecture hosted by the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Matteo Cianchetti builds on the previous lecture to talk about building soft actuato...
ShanghAI Lectures: Xiao’an Li “Action Skill Developmental Learning for Autonomous Soccer Robots”
Nathan Labhart
20 Feb 2014
Robocub 2013 in Eindhoven.
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In the past decade, soccer robots have been developed greatly, and some of the robot soccer games have been showing more ...
Why intelligence requires both body and brain
Colin Allen and Footnote
18 Feb 2014
Western philosophy has traditionally separated mind from matter and brain from body. In recent years, however, cognitive scientists have turned the assumption on its head that we can study the mind b...
What do teachers mean when they say ‘do it like me’?
Autonomous Robots Blog
17 Feb 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Teaching robots to do tasks is useful, and teaching them in an easy and non time-i...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 4 – Evolution: Cognition from scratch
Fabio Bonsignorio
10 Feb 2014
This week we publish the fourth of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments ...
Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino
Per Sjöborg
07 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (33:13)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 3: Cognition and embodiment
Fabio Bonsignorio
03 Feb 2014
This week we publish the third of the ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition on Robohub — we will release a new lecture from this series every Monday until the series is complete. Please use the comments s...
How biotech might pool the power of the human brain – with Proteo.me CEO Ivo Georgiev
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
22 Jan 2014
Artificial intelligence has it’s advantages. Systematically, over decades of research and development, AI has come to dominate human intelligence in a number of specific and often limited tasks. Yet...
ShanghAI Lectures: Alois Knoll, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani “Joint-Action Science and Technology”
Nathan Labhart
16 Jan 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-10
The success of the human species critically depends on our extraordinary ability to engage in joint action. Our perceptions, decisions and behaviour ar...
Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
14 Jan 2014
Photo credit: Image Agency
Why do people who use Facebook spend so much of their online time there? Why do people want to share, to comment?
Patrick Levy Rosenthal asked himself these answers and wa...
Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years
Hallie Siegel
13 Jan 2014
Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication i...
New-tech grippers hit the market
Frank Tobe
13 Jan 2014
Empire Robotics, a Boston-based start-up, is beginning to sell their VERSABALL kits, a new-tech jamming gripper enabling adaptive gripping operations with a single inexpensive tool.
Filled with a g...
7 consumer robots to look out for from CES 2014
Shima Rayej
11 Jan 2014
This year’s CES in Las Vegas showcased some of the latest technologies from both established and up-and-coming robotics companies. Drones, telepresence robots, automated cleaning devices and enter...
Interdisciplinary Teams, with Giulio Sandini
Per Sjöborg
10 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (41:58)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Giulio Sandini, director of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)...
Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda
Hallie Siegel
07 Jan 2014
An international leader in the field of robotics and automation, Toshio Fukuda is best known for his pioneering work on micro robotics systems — including microsensors and micro actuators — a...
GLXP Update: Penn State Lunar Lions now in #3 spot
Robert Morris
07 Jan 2014
What are they putting in the water in the Keystone state? It turns out that Penn State Lunar Lions team announced plans to get launched to the moon as well. They have made a deposit for a ride in ...
Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella
05 Jan 2014
Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the ...
Mapping in the Cloud
Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah
23 Dec 2013
UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...
Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel
20 Dec 2013
2022 update: A new, one-wheeled version of the Cubli has been developed. The one-wheel Cubli is a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel, as it i...
The 400lb CHIMP in the room: CMU’s Tartan Rescue Team prepares for the DRC
Shima Rayej
17 Dec 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Rescue Team has completed assembly of its 400 pound 5-foot-2 inch tall simian-like robot that will compete in the first annual DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in H...
Russia looks inward and outward at Moscow’s 2013 Open Innovations Forum
Hallie Siegel
17 Dec 2013
I was invited last month to moderate a panel discussion on the “Robotics Renaissance” at the 2013 Open Innovations Forum in Moscow. The brainchild of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Fo...
Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
Guido de Croon
16 Dec 2013
The DelFly Explorer, a flapping wing MAV equipped with a 4-gram stereo vision system that can fly completely by itself in unknown, cluttered environments. © Delft University of Technology.
The DelFl...
Google Lunar X Prize leader board: Barcelona Moon Team schedules launch ahead of Astrobotic, Moon Express, and Team Indus
Robert Morris
09 Dec 2013
The private space race is on! With the $40M at stake from the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) leading other private and pseudo-private investment, this is a real race. I, for one, love racing. By foot, ...
Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
Hallie Siegel
07 Dec 2013
Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...
CubeSats: Launching education into space
Hallie Siegel
06 Dec 2013
Three Cubesats were deployed November 19, 2013 from a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD) attached to the Kibo laboratory’s robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA.
Four more student-built CubeSat rese...
Google buys up robotics companies from DRC
Andra Keay
04 Dec 2013
If you've recently wondered where all the roboticists were going, the answer is to an unassuming complex in Palo Alto. Google has backed Android developer Andy Rubin to acquire at least 7 major roboti...
Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)
Andra Keay
03 Dec 2013
The first real world trial in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will be held on December 20-21 2013 at Homestead Freeway in Florida. Yes, it's open to the public. Anyone can come along and watch huma...
Noisy imitation speeds up group learning
Alan Winfield
03 Dec 2013
Broadly speaking there are two kinds of learning: individual learning and social learning. Individual learning means learning something entirely on your own, without reference to anyone else who might...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”
Nathan Labhart
28 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
"It has increasingly been realized that some of the key characteristics underlying real-world complex dynamical systems (such as economical, financia...
Global Machine Vision market to grow at 9.4% CAGR
Frank Tobe
26 Nov 2013
New report by Research and Markets, Global Machine Vision Market 2012-2016, a $2,500 report, forcasts global machine vision market to grow at a CAGR of 9.4% to 2016....
Medical/surgical simulation and training
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2013
As the need for training on new-tech devices increases, virtual and physical simulation systems are in demand at medical schools and hospitals worldwide. One novel new robotic invention is Patrick, th...
Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)
Mark Stephen Meadows
20 Nov 2013
This article returns to the thread of the last few months by looking at how robots can measure our emotions and body language.
My aunt, a Tennessee tobacco grower, used to remind me that God gave m...
Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control and the power of machine learning
Hallie Siegel
18 Nov 2013
Quadrocopters assembling tensile structures in the ETH Flying Machine Arena. Photo credit: Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication and the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH...
ShanghAI Lectures: SAYA/Hiroshi Kobayashi “Hello, my name is SAYA”
Nathan Labhart
14 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-05
In this guest lecture, SAYA, the robotic teacher from Japan, introduces herself and talks about the Tokyo University of Science, where she was const...
Lynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”
Lynne Parker
13 Nov 2013
I found the plenary speeches at IROS to be especially interesting. Marc Raibert gave an entertaining talk on the robots being developed at Boston Dynamics. It's encouraging to see that robots are beco...
Frank Tobe on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”
Frank Tobe
13 Nov 2013
Two images remain in my mind from IROS 2013 last week in Tokyo. The respect for Professor Emeritus Mori and his charting of the uncanny valley in relation to robotics, and the need for a Watson-type s...
