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Nov 10, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Andra Keay |Lucy Smith |Robin Murphy
Claire chatted to Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri from the University of Birmingham about culturally sensitive robots and planning in complex environments. Masoumeh Mansouri is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Her research includes two complementary areas: (i) developing hybrid robot planning methods for unstructured environments shared with humans, and (ii) exploring topics at the intersection of cultural theories and robotics.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Lucy Smith |Robin Murphy |Shaunak Kapur
Claire chatted to Carl Strathearn from Edinburgh Napier University about humanoid robots, realistic robot faces and speech. Carl Strathearn is a researcher interested in creating assistive social humanoid robots with embodied AI systems that appear, function, and interact like humans.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Lucy Smith |Robin Murphy |Shaunak Kapur
Anton Grabolle / Better Images of AI / Human-AI collaboration / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0The AAAI Fall Symposium Series took place in Arlington, USA, and comprised seven different symposia. One of these, the tenth Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) symposium was run as a hybrid in-person/online event, and we tuned in to the opening keynote, which was given by Patrícia Alves-Oliveira. As a psychology student, Patrícia’s dream was to become a therapist.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Shaunak Kapur |NC Sate |Robin Murphy |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Welcome to the 5th 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 human-robot interaction, agile movement, enhanced training methods, soft robotics, brain surgery, medical navigation, and ecological research.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
robohub.org | NC Sate |Robin Murphy |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a soft robotic tool that promises to one day transform minimally invasive endovascular surgery. The two-part magnetic tool can help to visualise in real time the fine morphological details of partial vascular blockages such as stenoses, even in the narrowest and most curved vessels. It can also find its way through severe blockages such as chronic total occlusions.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Matt Shipman |NC Sate |Robin Murphy |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
By Matt ShipmanResearchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on that work, creating a “brainless” soft robot that can navigate more complex and dynamic environments.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Roger Van Scyoc |Robin Murphy |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
By Roger Van ScyocOn a cool afternoon at the heart of the University of Washington’s campus, autumn, for a few fleeting moments, appears to have arrived early. Tiny golden squares resembling leaves flutter then fall, switching from a frenzied tumble to a graceful descent with a snap. Aptly named “microfliers” and inspired by Miura-fold origami, these small robotic devices can fold closed during their descent after being dropped from a drone.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Deborah Pirchner |Robin Murphy |Daniel Carrillo-Zapata |Oliver Mitchell
By Deborah PirchnerMalaria is an infectious disease claiming more than half a million lives each year. Because traditional diagnosis takes expertise and the workload is high, an international team of researchers investigated if diagnosis using a new system combining an automatic scanning microscope and AI is feasible in clinical settings. They found that the system identified malaria parasites almost as accurately as experts staffing microscopes used in standard diagnostic procedures.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Daniel Carrillo-Zapata |Shaunak Kapur |Robin Murphy
The new Bi-Touch system, designed by scientists at the University of Bristol and based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, allows robots to carry out manual tasks by sensing what to do from a digital helper.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
robohub.org | Daniel Carrillo-Zapata |Shaunak Kapur |Robin Murphy
By Baxi Chong (Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by mathematician and engineer Claude Shannon’s communication theory about how to transmit signals over distance.
