Category: Robohub
Making sense of vision and touch: #ICRA2019 best paper award video and interview
PhD candidate Michelle A. Lee from the Stanford AI Lab won the best paper award at ICRA 2019 with her work “Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of […]
#291: Medieval Automata and Cathartic Objects: Modern Robots Inspired by History, with Michal Luria
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Michal Luria, a PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, about research that explores the boundaries of Human-Robot Interaction. Michal […]
Robots in Depth with Federico Pecora
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Federico Pecora about AI and robotics. Federico Pecora is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Center for Applied […]
Professor Emeritus Fernando Corbató, MIT computing pioneer, dies at 93
Corbató in 1965, using one of MIT’s mainframe computersImage: Computer History Museum By Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon Fernando “Corby” Corbató, an MIT professor emeritus whose work in the 1960s […]
Concrete Choreography
The installation Concrete Choreography presents the first robotically 3D printed concrete stage, consisting of columns fabricated without formwork and printed in full height within 2.5 hours. Robotic concrete printing allows […]
Automated system generates robotic parts for novel tasks
A new MIT-invented system automatically designs and 3-D prints complex robotic actuators optimized according to an enormous number of specifications, such as appearance and flexibility. To demonstrate the system, the […]
Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
A devoted teacher and cherished colleague, Patrick Winston led CSAIL’s Genesis Group, which focused on developing AI systems that have human-like intelligence, including the ability to tell, perceive and comprehend […]
Robots in Depth with Andreas Bihlmaier
In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andreas Bihlmaier about modular robotics and starting a robotics company. Andreas shares how he started out in computers and […]
Using artificial evolution to design bespoke surgical snakebots
In a world first, Australian Centre for Robotic Vision researchers are pushing the boundaries of evolution to create bespoke, miniaturised surgical robots, uniquely matched to individual patient anatomy. The cutting-edge […]
Tiny motor can “walk” to carry out tasks
This walking microrobot was built by the MIT team from a set of just five basic parts, including a coil, a magnet, and stiff and flexible structural pieces.Photo by Will […]