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The importance of research reproducibility in robotics
Fabio Bonsignorio
20 Sep 2017
As highlighted in a previous post, despite the fact that robotics is increasingly regarded as a 'Science', as shown by the launch of new journals such as Science Robotics, reproducibility of experimen...
Reprogramming nature
Oliver Mitchell
12 Sep 2017
Summer is not without its annoyances — mosquitos, wasps, and ants, to name a few. As the cool breeze of September pushes us back to work, labs across the country are reconvening tackling nature̵...
IBM and MIT to pursue joint research in artificial intelligence, establish new MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab
MIT News
08 Sep 2017
IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial intel...
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CUJO – Smart Firewall for Cybersecurity, with Leon Kuperman
MeiXing Dong
04 Sep 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong talks with Leon Kuperman, CTO of CUJO, about cybersecurity threats and how to guard against them. They discuss how CUJO, a smart hardware firewall, helps protect the home...
New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities
NCCR Robotics
30 Aug 2017
Recent advances in soft robotics have seen the development of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) to ensure that all parts of the robot are soft, including the functional parts. These SPAs have traditiona...
New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct
MIT News
30 Aug 2017
Just as drivers observe the rules of the road, most pedestrians follow certain social codes when navigating a hallway or a crowded thoroughfare: Keep to the right, pass on the left, maintain a respect...
Custom robots in a matter of minutes
MIT News
24 Aug 2017
Even as robots become increasingly common, they remain incredibly difficult to make. From designing and modeling to fabricating and testing, the process is slow and costly: Even one small change can m...
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241
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Tensegrity Control, with Kostas Bekris
Jack Rasiel
18 Aug 2017
In this episode, Jack Rasiel speaks with Kostas Bekris, who introduces us to tensegrity robotics: a striking robotic design which straddles the boundary between hard and soft robotics. A structure us...
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: ILIAD
SPARC
18 Aug 2017
In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation....
Digital symbiosis lets robot co-workers predict human behaviour
Horizon Magazine
18 Aug 2017
by Anthony King
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk fear that the robotic revolution may already be underway, but automation isn’t going to take over just yet – first machines will work alongside us.
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Robotics and AI celebrated in this year’s MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 list
Sabine Hauert
17 Aug 2017
13 researchers working in robotics and AI made the MIT Technology Review "35 Innovators Under 35" list this year....
New AI algorithm monitors sleep with radio waves
MIT News
09 Aug 2017
More than 50 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can also disrupt sleep. Diagnosing and monitoring these conditions usually requires a...
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240
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Biowatch: Biometric Identification Using Veins, with Matthias Vanoni
MeiXing Dong
05 Aug 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong interviews Matthias Vanoni, co-founder and CEO of Biowatch. Vanoni speaks about Biowatch, a wrist-veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile ...
Smaller, smarter, softer robotic arm for endoscopic surgery
Wyss Institute
04 Aug 2017
By Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications
Flexible endoscopes can snake through narrow passages to treat difficult to reach areas of the body. However, once they arrive at their target, these devices re...
Automatic image retouching system
MIT News
03 Aug 2017
The data captured by today’s digital cameras is often treated as the raw material of a final image. Before uploading pictures to social networking sites, even casual cellphone photographers might sp...
Artificial skin could allow robots to feel like we do
Horizon Magazine
02 Aug 2017
Artificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for robots that can feel, smart-transplants and even cyborgs....
Somersault simulation for jumping robots
Association for Computing Machinery
28 Jul 2017
In recent years engineers have been developing new technologies to enable robots and humans to move faster and jump higher. Soft, elastic materials store energy in these devices, which, if released ca...
Robot-driven device improves crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy
Columbia Engineering
27 Jul 2017
In the U.S., 3.6 out of 1000 school-aged children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). Their symptoms include abnormal gait patterns which results in joint degeneration over time. Slow walking spee...
SMART trials self-driving wheelchair at hospital
MIT News
26 Jul 2017
Singapore and MIT have been at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development. First, there were self-driving golf buggies. Then, an autonomous electric car. Now, leveraging similar technology, MIT a...
Folding robots: No battery, no wires, no problem
Wyss Institute
26 Jul 2017
The traditional Japanese art of origami transforms a simple sheet of paper into complex, three-dimensional shapes through a very specific pattern of folds, creases, and crimps. Folding robots based on...
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
Stanford University News
25 Jul 2017
By Taylor Kubota, Stanford News Service
Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of ...
Reshaping computer-aided design
MIT News
24 Jul 2017
Almost every object we use is developed with computer-aided design (CAD). Ironically, while CAD programs are good for creating designs, using them is actually very difficult and time-consuming if youâ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/24/17
July 17, 2017 – July 23, 2017
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A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan is reported...
Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
MIT News
20 Jul 2017
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from MI...
Bringing neural networks to cellphones
MIT News
19 Jul 2017
In recent years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — in areas such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, computer vision, and automatic translation — have come courtesy of s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/17/17
The South Korean Navy conducted shipboard flight tests for the TR-60 tilt-rotor UAV. Source: KARI
July 10, 2017 – July 16, 2017
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Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
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Midwest Speech and Language Days 2017 Posters, with Michael White, Dmitriy Dligach and Denis Newman-Griffiths
MeiXing Dong
08 Jul 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong conducts interviews at the 2017 Midwest Speech and Language Days workshop in Chicago. She talks with Michael White of Ohio State University about question interpretation ...
Talking Machines: Bias variance dilemma for humans and the arm farm, with Jeff Dean
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2017
In episode four of season three Neil introduces us to the ideas behind the bias variance dilemma (and how how we can think about it in our daily lives). Plus, we answer a listener question about how t...
The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed
Daniel Pickem, Paul Glotfelter, Li Wang, Mark Mote, Aaron D. Ames, Eric Feron and Magnus Egerstedt
29 Jun 2017
When developing algorithms for coordinating the behaviors of swarms of robots it is crucial that the algorithms are actually deployed and tested on real hardware platforms. Unfortunately, building and...
A robotic doctor is gearing up for action
Horizon Magazine
29 Jun 2017
A robotic doctor that can be controlled hundreds of kilometres away by a human counterpart is gearing up for action. Getting a check-up from a robot may sound like something from a sci-fi film, but sc...
Spider webs as computers
Helmut Hauser
27 Jun 2017
Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They have evolved over more than 200 million years and can be found in almost every corner of our planet. They are one of the most successful animals. Not less imp...
Drones that drive
CSAIL MIT
27 Jun 2017
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature - many birds, insects and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibiliti...
Shrinking data for surgical training
MIT News
21 Jun 2017
Laparoscopy is a surgical technique in which a fiber-optic camera is inserted into a patient’s abdominal cavity to provide a video feed that guides the surgeon through a minimally invasive procedure...
Robots offer the elderly a helping hand
Horizon Magazine
20 Jun 2017
by Helen Massy-Beresford
Low birth rates and higher life expectancies mean that those over 65 years old now will account for 28.7 % of Europe’s population by 2080, according to Eurostat, the EUâ...
From drinking straws to robots
Harvard Gazette
16 Jun 2017
By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer
At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft rob...
