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Oct 24, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Shaunak Kapur |Lucy Smith |Abate De Mey
Welcome to the 6th edition of Robo-Insight, a robotics news update! In this post, we are excited to share a range of new advancements in the field and highlight robots’ progress in areas like medical assistance, prosthetics, robot flexibility, joint movement, work performance, AI design, and household cleanliness.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Andre He |Lucy Smith |Abate De Mey |Vivek Myers
By Andre He, Vivek MyersA longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has the potential to be an easy-to-use interface for humans to specify arbitrary tasks, but it is difficult to train robots to follow language instructions.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Lucy Smith |Abate De Mey |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Claire chatted to Lorenzo Jamone from Queen Mary University of London all about robotic hands, dexterity, and the sense of touch. Lorenzo Jamone is a Senior Lecturer in Robotics at Queen Mary University of London, where he is the founder and director of the CRISP group: Cognitive Robotics and Intelligent Systems for the People. He received a PhD degree in humanoid technologies at the Italian Institute of Technology.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Adam Zewe |Lucy Smith |Abate De Mey |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
By Adam Zewe | MIT NewsAnyone who has ever tried to pack a family-sized amount of luggage into a sedan-sized trunk knows this is a hard problem. Robots struggle with dense packing tasks, too. For the robot, solving the packing problem involves satisfying many constraints, such as stacking luggage so suitcases don’t topple out of the trunk, heavy objects aren’t placed on top of lighter ones, and collisions between the robotic arm and the car’s bumper are avoided.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Lucy Smith |Abate De Mey |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
A RoboCupJunior soccer match in action. In July this year, 2500 participants congregated in Bordeaux for RoboCup2023. The competition comprises a number of leagues, and among them is RoboCupJunior, which is designed to introduce RoboCup to school children, with the focus being on education. There are three sub-leagues: Soccer, Rescue and OnStage.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Abate De Mey |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Professor Steven Dhondt has a reassurance of sorts for people in the EU worried about losing their jobs to automation: relax. Dhondt, an expert in work and organisational change at the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium, has studied the impact of technology on jobs for the past four decades. Fresh from leading an EU research project on the issue, he stresses opportunities rather than threats.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Abate De Mey |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata |Andra Keay
In this episode, Abate flew to Denver, Colorado, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the future of recycling with Joe Castagneri, the head of AI at Amp Robotics. With Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) processing a staggering 25 tons of trash per hour, robotic sorting is the clear long-term solution. Recycling is a for-profit industry. When the margins don’t make sense, the items will not be recycled.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
By Ramana Vinjamuri (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County)Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information to perform an action. You can find them nearly everywhere in industrialized societies today. There are household robots that vacuum floors and warehouse robots that pack and ship goods. Lab robots test hundreds of clinical samples a day.
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Apr 15, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
In a surgery in India, a robot scans a patient’s knee to figure out how best to carry out a joint replacement. Meanwhile, in an operating room in the Netherlands, another robot is performing highly challenging microsurgery under the control of a doctor using joysticks. Such scenarios look set to become more common.
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Apr 14, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
Claire chatted to Kat Thiel from Manchester Metropolitan University all about collaborative robots, micro-factories, and fashion manufacturing. Kat Thiel is a Senior Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Manchester Fashion Institute with a research focus on Fashion Practice Research and Industry 4.0., investigating agile cobotic tooling solutions for localised fashion manufacturing.
