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Embodied Interactions: from Robotics to Dance, with Kim Baraka
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...
02 December 2020, by
Lauren Klein
Showing robots how to drive a car… in just a few easy lessons
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....
27 November 2020, by
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Natalia Calvo’s talk – How children build a trust model of a social robot in the first encounter? – with video
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....
24 November 2020, by
Talking Robotics
Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
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...
23 November 2020, by
MIT News
#IROS2020 BiR-IROS: Black in Robotics
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...
19 November 2020, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
#IROS2020 Original Series: Real Roboticist
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 ...
16 November 2020, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
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Multisensory Perception, with Jivko Sinapov
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...
15 November 2020, by
Shihan Lu
Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon Global Edition 2020, the Olympics dedicated to new prosthetic technologie
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...
13 November 2020, by
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers
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...
11 November 2020, by
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
A raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail
By Nicola Nosengo
NCCR Robotics researchers at EPFL have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility....
31 October 2020, by
NCCR Robotics
RoboTED: a case study in Ethical Risk Assessment
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...
28 October 2020, by
Alan Winfield
Electronic design tool morphs interactive objects
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...
23 October 2020, by
MIT News
Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
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...
18 October 2020, by
Frontiers Journals & Blog
Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
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...
04 October 2020, by
Wyss Institute
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Micro-scale Surgical Robots, with Eric Diller
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...
23 September 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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Humanized Intelligence in Academia and Industry, with Ayanna Howard
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...
08 September 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista
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...
25 August 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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Introspective Robots, with Nathan Michael
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...
09 August 2020, by
Lilly Clark
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315
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Exploring from a Distance, with Muralidharan Arikara
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...
28 July 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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Robotics Manipulation with MoveIt, with Dave Coleman
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...
31 May 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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RoboBee’s Untethered Flight, with Farrell Helbling
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...
20 May 2020, by
Kate Zhou
This drone can play dodgeball – and win
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...
19 March 2020, by
NCCR Robotics
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Haptics and Virtual Interactions, with Heather Culbertson
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...
17 February 2020, by
Shihan Lu
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303
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Fostering Creativity: RSS Pioneers and the YOLO Robot, with Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
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...
02 February 2020, by
Lauren Klein
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Listening like a Human, Playing like a Machine, with Gil Weinberg
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...
10 January 2020, by
Audrow Nash
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On the Novelty Effect in Human-Robot Interaction, with Catharina Vesterager Smedegaard
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 ...
09 December 2019, by
Audrow Nash
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Cobots for safe and cheap assembly of frequency converters
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...
07 December 2019, by
Thilo Zimmermann
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Using Natural Language in Human-Robot Collaboration, with Brad Hayes
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...
11 November 2019, by
Audrow Nash
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Robust Robotics and the Quest for Intelligence, with Nicholas Roy
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...
29 October 2019, by
Lilly Clark
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
“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...
21 October 2019, by
Thilo Zimmermann
