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Robot Talk Podcast – November & December episodes (+ bonus winter treats)
Episode 24 – Gopal Ramchurn Claire chatted to Gopal Ramchurn from the University of Southampton about artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and renewable energy. Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Turing Fellow, and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is the Director of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub and Co-Director of… → Read More
Holiday robot videos 2022 (+ how robots prepare an Amazon warehouse for Christmas)
Image generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 with prompt “a robot surrounded by humans, Santa Claus and a Christmas tree at Christmas, digital art”. Happy holidays everyone! And many thanks to all those that sent us their holiday videos. Here are some robot videos of this year to get you into the spirit of the season. We wish you the very best for these holidays and the year 2023 :) And here are some… → Read More
2nd call for robot holiday videos 2022 (with first submissions!)
That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at daniel.carrillozapata@robohub.org and share the spirit of the season. Here are our first two submissions of the roundup: → Read More
Robot Talk Podcast – October episodes
Episode 20 – Paul Dominick Baniqued Claire talked to Dr Paul Dominick Baniqued from The University of Manchester all about brain-computer interface technology and rehabilitation robotics. Paul Dominick Baniqued received his PhD in robotics and immersive technologies at the University of Leeds. His research tackled the integration of a brain-computer interface with virtual reality and hand… → Read More
Robots come out of the research lab
This year’s Swiss Robotics Day – an annual event run by the EPFL-led National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics – will be held at the Beaulieu convention center in Lausanne. For the first time, this annual event will take place over two days: the first day, on 4 November, will be reserved for industry professionals, while the second, on 5 November, will be open to the public.… → Read More
From a PhD in swarm robotics to open science and psychotherapy for researchers’ well-being
It was the Summer of 2013. I was all alone at home, listening to music with my headphones. All of the sudden, I could hear someone was heavily banging on the door of my apartment. I dashed. I opened the door. To my surprise, I found my neighbour all shaky. Without hesitation, she dragged me inside her flat, towards the bathroom. She could barely say anything, but she managed to explain that she… → Read More
Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines
Dr. Akira Kakugo and his team from Hokkaido University in Japan sent us a video presentation of his recent paper ‘Cooperative cargo transportation by a swarm of molecular machines’, published in Science Robotics. ‘Despite the advancements in macro-scale robots, the development of a large number of small-size robots is still challenging, which is crucial to enhance the scalability of swarm… → Read More
The one-wheel Cubli
Researchers Matthias Hofer, Michael Muehlebach and Raffaello D’Andrea have developed the one-wheel Cubli, a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel. How is it possible to stabilize the two tilt angles of the system with only a single reaction wheel? The key is to design the system such that the inertia in one direction is higher than in the… → Read More
Coffee with a Researcher (#ICRA2022)
As part of her role as one of the IEEE ICRA 2022 Science Communication Awardees, Avie Ravendran sat down virtually with a few researchers from academia and industry attending the conference. Curious about what they had to say? Read their quotes below! > “I really believe that learned methods, especially imitation and transfer learning, will enable scalable robot applications in human and… → Read More
After a few years apart, IEEE #ICRA2022 reunited the robotics community again
The 39th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) took place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia (USA) and online May 23-27. ICRA 2022 brought together the world’s top researchers and companies to share ideas and advances in the fields of robotics and automation. Nearly 8,000 participants from academia and industry, including 4700 in… → Read More
Tamim Asfour’s Keynote talk – Learning humanoid manipulation from humans
Through manipulation, a robotic system can physically change the state of the world. This is intertwined with intelligence, which is the ability whereby such system can detect and adapt to change. In his talk, Tamim Asfour gives an overview of the developments in manipulation for robotic systems his lab has done by learning manipulation task models from human observations, and the challenges and… → Read More
Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners
Their work, FlingBot: the unreasonable effectiveness of dynamic manipulations for cloth unfolding, was highly praised by the judging committee. “To me, this paper constitutes the most impressive account of both simulated and real-world cloth manipulation to date.”, commented one of the reviewers. Below, the authors tell us more about their work, the methodology, and what they are planning next.… → Read More
Top tweets from the Conference on Robot Learning #CoRL2021
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) is an annual international conference specialised in the intersection of robotics and machine learning. The fifth edition took place last week in London and virtually around the globe. Apart from the novelty of being a hybrid conference, this year the focus was put on openness. OpenReview was used for the peer review process, meaning that the reviewers’… → Read More
Robohub gets a fresh look
If you visited Robohub this week, you may have spotted a big change: how this blog looks now! On Tuesday (coinciding with Ada Lovelace Day and our ‘50 women in robotics that you need to know about‘ by chance), Robohub got a massive modernisation on its look by our Technical Editor Ioannis K. Erripis and his team. > There are many improvements and new features but the biggest update apart from… → Read More
Online events to look out for on Ada Lovelace Day 2021
Online events to look out for on Ada Lovelace Day 2021 → Read More
Real Roboticist focus series #6: Dennis Hong (Making People Happy)
Real Roboticist focus series #6: Dennis Hong (Making People Happy) → Read More
Sinergies between automation and robotics
In this IEEE ICRA 2021 Plenary Panel aimed at the younger generation of roboticists and automation experts, panelists Seth Hutchinson, Maria Pia Fanti, Peter B. Luh, Pieter Abbeel, Kaneko Harada, Michael Y. Wang, Kevin Lynch, Chinwe Ekenna, Animesh Garg and Frank Park, under the moderation of Ken Goldberg, discussed about how to close the gap between both disciplines, which have many topics in… → Read More
#IROS2020 ‘Black in Robotics’ special series
Apart from the IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020 (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) original series Real Roboticist that we have been featuring in the last weeks, another series of three videos was produced together with Black in Robotics and the support of Toyota Research Institute. In this series, black roboticists give their personal examples of why diversity matters in robotics,… → Read More
#IROS2020 Plenary and Keynote talks focus series #6: Jonathan Hurst & Andrea Thomaz
#IROS2020 Plenary and Keynote talks focus series #6: Jonathan Hurst & Andrea Thomaz → Read More
#IROS2020 Real Roboticist focus series #5: Michelle Johnson (Robots That Matter)
#IROS2020 Real Roboticist focus series #5: Michelle Johnson (Robots That Matter) → Read More