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#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the functional electrical stimulation bike race (with interview)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Dec 2020
In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of PULSE Racing from VU University Amsterdam. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post)...
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The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo
Abate De Mey
16 Dec 2020
Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins
Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...
Nikolas Martelaro’s talk – Remote user research for human-robot interaction – with video
Talking Robotics
15 Dec 2020
On Friday the 11th of December, Nikolas Martelaro (Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute) gave an online seminar on ways robot design teams can do remote user...
#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with interview + story of pilot)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
07 Dec 2020
In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the HSR Enhanced team from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST). In addition, we inter...
#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with interview)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
04 Dec 2020
The last edition of CYBATHLON took place on 13-14 November, 2020. This competition, created by ETH Zurich and run as a non-profit project, aims to advance in the research and development of assistive ...
Ultra-sensitive and resilient sensor for soft robotic systems
Wyss Institute
02 Dec 2020
By Leah Burrows / SEAS communications
Newly engineered slinky-like strain sensors for textiles and soft robotic systems survive the washing machine, cars and hammers....
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Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
Lauren Klein
02 Dec 2020
Robohub Podcast · Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance
In this episode, our interviewer Lauren Klein speaks with Kim Baraka about his PhD research to enable robots to engage in social int...
Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
27 Nov 2020
By Caitlin Dawson
USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations....
Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video
Talking Robotics
24 Nov 2020
On Friday the 13th of November, Talking Robotics hosted an online talk with PhD student Natalia Calvo from Uppsala University in Sweden. Now you can watch the recorded seminar....
Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
MIT News
23 Nov 2020
By David L. Chandler
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the ability to produce a twis...
#IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Nov 2020
The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) has teamed up with Black in Robotics (website, Twitter) to release a new special series named BiR-IROS: Black in Rob...
#IROS2020 Original Series: Real Roboticist
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
16 Nov 2020
Are you curious about the people behind the robots? The 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) features a new Original Series called Real Roboticist hosted by ...
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Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov
Shihan Lu
15 Nov 2020
Robohub Podcast · Multisensory Perception
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Jivko Sinapov, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, about his work on beh...
Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon Global Edition 2020, the Olympics dedicated to new prosthetic technologie
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
13 Nov 2020
IIT’s teams will compete in the "Powered Arm Prosthesis" category showing two different robotic arm prostheses made in Italy: SoftHandPro and Hannes. The race course is about 30 metres long and will...
CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
11 Nov 2020
Involving potential users of a particular technology in the research and development (R&D) process is a very powerful way to maximise success when such technology is deployed in the real world. In add...
A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
NCCR Robotics
31 Oct 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
NCCR Robotics researchers at EPFL have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility....
RoboTED: a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment
Alan Winfield
28 Oct 2020
A few weeks ago I gave a short paper at the excellent International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2020), outlining a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment - see our paper here. Our c...
Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects
MIT News
23 Oct 2020
By Rachel Gordon
We’ve come a long way since the first 3D-printed item came to us by way of an eye wash cup, to now being able to rapidly fabricate things like car parts, musical instruments, and...
Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
Frontiers Journals & Blog
18 Oct 2020
By Conn Hastings, science writer
Controlling a swarm of robots to paint a picture sounds like a difficult task. However, a new technique allows an artist to do just that, without worrying about pro...
Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
Wyss Institute
04 Oct 2020
By Tim Sullivan / Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Communications
A group based out of the Spaulding Motion Analysis Lab at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital published “Enabling Precision Rehabi...
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Micro-scale Surgical Robots, with Eric Diller
Audrow Nash
23 Sep 2020
Robohub Podcast · Micro-scale Surgical Robots
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Eric Diller, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, on wireless micro-scale robots that could event...
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Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry, with Ayanna Howard
Lauren Klein
08 Sep 2020
Robohub Podcast · Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Ayanna Howard, Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech...
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Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista
Lauren Klein
25 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Gennaro Notimista, a robotics PhD student in the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems Labo...
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Introspective Robots, with Nathan Michael
Lilly Clark
09 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Introspective Robots
In this episode, Lilly interviews Nathan Michael, Professor and Director of the Resilient Intelligent Systems Lab at the Robotics Institute within Carnegie M...
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Exploring from a Distance, with Muralidharan Arikara
Lauren Klein
28 Jul 2020
Robohub Podcast · Exploring From a Distance
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Muralidharan Arikara, CEO of Xarpie Labs. Xarpie Labs creates visualization and simulation experiences within t...
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Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt, with Dave Coleman
Audrow Nash
31 May 2020
Robohub Podcast · Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Dave Coleman, CEO of PickNik Robotics, about the open source robotics manipulation platform called Mo...
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RoboBee’s Untethered Flight, with Farrell Helbling
Kate Zhou
20 May 2020
In this episode, Kate Zhou interviews Farrell Helbling, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Microrobotics lab, who has worked on developing the RoboBee, an insect-inspired robot that is the lightest vehicl...
This drone can play dodgeball – and win
NCCR Robotics
19 Mar 2020
By Nicola Nosengo
Drones can do many things, but avoiding obstacles is not their strongest suit yet – especially when they move quickly. Although many flying robots are equipped with cameras that...
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Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson
Shihan Lu
17 Feb 2020
In this episode, Shihan Lu interviews Dr. Heather Culbertson, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, about her work in haptics. Dr. Culbertson...
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Fostering Creativity: RSS Pioneers and the YOLO Robot, with Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Lauren Klein
02 Feb 2020
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Human-Robot Interaction researcher Patrícia Alves-Oliveira. Alves-Oliveira tells us about the upcoming RSS Pioneers workshop at the 2020 Robotics: Science and...
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301
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Listening like a Human, Playing like a Machine, with Gil Weinberg
Audrow Nash
10 Jan 2020
In this episode, our interviewer Audrow Nash speaks to Gil Weinberg, Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Music and the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Weinberg l...
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On the Novelty Effect in Human-Robot Interaction, with Catharina Vesterager Smedegaard
Audrow Nash
09 Dec 2019
In this episode, we take a closer look at the effect of novelty in human-robot interaction. Novelty is the quality of being new or unusual.
The typical view is that while something is new, or “a ...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
Thilo Zimmermann
07 Dec 2019
At Danfoss in Gråsten, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) is testing, as part of a pilot project in the European robot network ROBOTT-NET, several robot technologies: Manipulation using force s...
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Using Natural Language in Human-Robot Collaboration, with Brad Hayes
Audrow Nash
11 Nov 2019
In this episode, we hear from Brad Hayes, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, who directs the university's Collaborative AI and Robotics lab. The lab’s wor...
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Robust Robotics and the Quest for Intelligence, with Nicholas Roy
Lilly Clark
29 Oct 2019
In this episode Lilly Clark interviews Nicholas Roy, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, about the Quest for Intelligence initiative and his research in robust robotics. Roy discusses ho...
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
Thilo Zimmermann
21 Oct 2019
“Within the framework of the European project ROBOTT-NET we are developing software and robotic solutions for the prevention and control of rodents in enclosed spaces”, says Marco Lorenzo, Service...
