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Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Dillenbourg Lab

NCCR Robotics 16 Jun 2017

Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg and the team from the Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction (CHILI) Lab, explain how they are building robots to use in the classrooms of tomorrow. It is CH...

2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: A summary

Michael Milford 15 Jun 2017

It was a hectic but interesting week at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore. Here's a brief recap of some of my observations and experiences....

From member to mentor: Life after being a FIRST student

Molly Urbina 12 Jun 2017

3! 2! 1! Go! Suddenly, robots jerk into motion and zoom across the field to score points, crossing over several types of terrain and shooting balls into high and low goals. Another buzzer sounds, driv...

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: Co4Robots

SPARC 09 Jun 2017

In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...

Finally! Google sells Boston Dynamics to SoftBank

Frank Tobe 09 Jun 2017

In a long-awaited transaction, The New York Times Dealbook announced that SoftBank was buying Boston Dynamics from Alphabet (Google). Also included in the deal is the Japanese startup Schaft. Acquisit...

Teaching ROS quickly to students

Ricardo Téllez 09 Jun 2017

Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of...

Mori: A modular origami robot

NCCR Robotics 08 Jun 2017

The fields of modular and origami robotics have become increasingly popular in recent years, with both approaches presenting particular benefits, as well as limitations, to the end user. Christoph Bel...

ICRA 2017 in Singapore: Recap

Alejandro Alonso 08 Jun 2017

ICRA, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, is an annual academic conference covering advances in robotics. It is one of the premier conferences in its field. This year, I was ...

Localization uncertainty-aware exploration planning

Christos Papachristos, Shehryar Khattak and Kostas Alexis 06 Jun 2017

Autonomous exploration and reliable mapping of unknown environments corresponds to a major challenge for mobile robotic systems. For many important application domains, such as industrial inspection o...

Looking at new trends in Distributed Robotics Systems and Society

Eduardo Castello Ferrer 06 Jun 2017

It isn’t a secret that distributed robotic systems are starting to revolutionize many applications from targeted material delivery (e.g., Amazon Robotics) to precision farming. Assisted by technolog...

Giving robots a sense of touch

MIT News 05 Jun 2017

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact...

VENTURER driverless car project publishes results of first trials

UWE Bristol 05 Jun 2017

VENTURER is the first Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project to start in the UK. The results of VENTURER preliminary trials show that the handover process is a safety critical issue in the developme...

The Uncanny Valley of human-robot interactions

Oliver Mitchell 02 Jun 2017

The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the flying object. In a demonstration of DJI’s newest drone, the audience marveled at the Cok...

Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

CSAIL MIT 02 Jun 2017

Computer scientists have been working for decades on automatic navigation systems to aid the visually impaired, but it’s been difficult to come up with anything as reliable and easy to use as the wh...

Researcher to develop bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee for prosthetics

UWE Bristol 01 Jun 2017

A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired ‘smart’ knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs. Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics La...

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: BADGER

SPARC 26 May 2017

Xponential 2017 in images

The National Robotics Education Foundation 25 May 2017

The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...

Finding the right morphology to simplify control for soft robotics

Martin Garrad 23 May 2017

The way animals move has yet to be matched by robotic systems. This is because biological systems exploit compliant mechanisms in ways their robotic cousins do not. However, recent advances in soft ro...

What has twenty years of RoboCup taught us?

Oliver Mitchell 23 May 2017

In 1985, a twenty-two year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion. Twelve years later, he was defeated by the only player capable of challenging the grandmaster, IBM’s Deep Blu...

2017 Robot Art Competition winners announced

Robohub Editors 19 May 2017

A record number of teams submitted beautiful robot-created artwork for the second year of this 5-year worldwide competition. In total, there were 38 teams from 10 countries who submitted 200 differen...

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: An.Dy

SPARC 19 May 2017

The Force was strong in this robot competition

MIT News 18 May 2017

Thursday night, dozens of robots designed and built by undergraduates in a mechanical engineering class endured hours of intense, boisterous, and often jubilant competition as they scrambled to rack u...

Watch this omnicopter fetch a ball

Dario Brescianini 17 May 2017

We have developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multirotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude. The traject...

Meet the labs of NCCR Robotics: Paik Lab

NCCR Robotics 15 May 2017

Meet the NCCR Robotics Paik Lab (RRL, EPFL) - headed by Professor Jamie Paik, the lab is dedicated to creating interactive robotic systems using cutting edge manufacturing techniques. The lab speciali...

Launch of the Chairless Chair announced

NCCR Robotics 12 May 2017

Last month, Swiss start-up and NCCR Robotics and ETH Zurich spin-off noonee, announced the start of series production and sales launch of their Chairless Chair. The company was founded in 2014 and sin...

Teaching robots to teach other robots

CSAIL MIT 10 May 2017

Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning techniques like optimization or sa...

3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings

MIT News 01 May 2017

The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list further, with the de...

Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be driven by machine learning

The Royal Society and Will Kay 01 May 2017

Over the past few weeks, we’ve blogged about how machine learning is transforming research, nuclear decommissioning, and astronomy. Building on our “Ask the Experts” panel discussion on driverle...

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