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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.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
In the last few years we have seen an exciting development in robotics and artificial intelligence: large fleets of robots have left the lab and entered the real world. Waymo, for example, has over 700 self-driving cars operating in Phoenix and San Francisco and is currently expanding to Los Angeles. Other industrial deployments of robot fleets include applications like e-commerce order fulfillment at Amazon and Ambi Robotics as well as food delivery at Nuro and Kiwibot.
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Apr 9, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Adam Zewe |Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
By Adam Zewe | MIT News OfficeInspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time. Many robotic hands pack all their powerful sensors into the fingertips, so an object must be in full contact with those fingertips to be identified, which can take multiple grasps.
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Apr 7, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
Yes, you heard that correctly: the goal is permanent airtime. Robotic flies roaming a room in RoboHouse with no human guidance – achieved within six months. In the future, 24/7 swarms like these may revolutionise aircraft inspection. Imagine a fighter jet enveloped by hundreds of nano drones that build-up a detailed picture in minutes. It’s a challenging mission, but not all challenges are equal. So we asked each Crazyflies team member: What is your favourite problem?
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
Claire chatted to Dr Maria Bauza Villalonga from DeepMind all about robot learning, transferable skills, and general AI. Maria Bauza Villalonga is a research scientist at DeepMind. In 2022, she earned her PhD in Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Alberto Rodriguez. Her research focuses on achieving precise robotic generalization by learning probabilistic models of the world that allow robots to reuse their skills across multiple tasks with high success.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
The final episode of our RoboHouse Interview Trilogy: ‘The Working Life of the Robotics Engineer’ interviews Srimannarayana Baratam. Sriman, as he is also called, co-founded the company Perciv.ai just two months after graduating. Rens van Poppel explores his journey so far. Perciv.ai claims that AI-driven machine perception could become affordable to everyone. When was this vision formed, and how did it come about? Sriman points to the period right after his graduation.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
laptrinhx.com | Rens van Poppel
The final episode of our RoboHouse Interview Trilogy: ‘The Working Life of the Robotics Engineer’ interviews Srimannarayana Baratam. Sriman, as he is also called, co-founded the company Perciv.ai just two months after graduating. Rens van Poppel explores his journey so far. Perciv.ai claims that AI-driven machine perception could become affordable to everyone. When was this vision formed, and how did it come about? Sriman points to the period right after his graduation.
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Feb 26, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Rens van Poppel |Abate De Mey
Claire chatted to Dr Jonathan Aitken from the University of Sheffield all about manufacturing, sewer inspection, and robots in the real world. Jonathan Aitken is a Senior University Teacher in Robotics at the University of Sheffield. His research is focused on building useful, useable, and expandable architectures for future robotics systems.
