By Anastasiia Nestrogaeva (Junior Consultant at the International Projects Team, Civitta) Robotics4EU is a 3-years-long EU-funded project which advocates for a wider adoption for AI-based robots ...
Robots could have a role to play in COVID-19, whether it’s automating laboratory research, helping with logistics, disinfecting hospitals, education, or allowing carers, colleagues or loved one...
https://robohub.org/covid-19-robotics-resources-ideas-for-roboticists-users-and-educators/
Catharina Vesterager Smedegaard with a new take on the novelty effect in human-robot interaction
https://robohub.org/on-the-novelty-effect-in-human-robot-interaction/
Bilge Mutlu on the design space, the evaluation space, and how features are used within a context for human-robot interaction.
Humans physically interact with each other every day – from grabbing someone’s hand when they are about to spill their drink, to giving your friend a nudge to steer them in the right directio...
https://robohub.org/learning-robot-objectives-from-physical-human-interaction/
Democratization of Robots in Factories In modern factories, human workers and robots are two major workforces. For safety concerns, the two are normally separated with robots confined in metal ca...
https://robohub.org/towards-intelligent-industrial-co-robots/
Three very different robotics startups have been battling it out over the last week to win the “Robohub Choice” award in our annual startup competition. One was social, one was medical and on...
https://robohub.org/three-very-different-startups-vie-for-robohub-choice/
In the lead up to the finals of the Robot Launch 2017 competition on December 14, we’re having one round of public voting for your favorite startup from the Top 25. While in previous years we�...
https://robohub.org/vote-for-your-favorite-in-robot-launch-startup-competition/
July, 2017 was a big month for robotics-related company funding. Four raised $588 million and 19 others raised $370.6 million for a monthly total of $958.6 million. Acquisitions also cont...
https://robohub.org/july-2017-fundings-acquisitions-ipos-and-failures/
In 1985, a twenty-two year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion. Twelve years later, he was defeated by the only player capable of challenging the grandmaster, IBM’s Dee...
https://robohub.org/what-has-twenty-years-of-robocup-taught-us/
Robots are the technology of the future. But the current legal system is incapable of handling them. This generic statement is often the premise for considerations about the possibility of awardi...
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Big Ideas February is only just gon...
In April 2016, British Standards Institution (BSI) published the world’s first ethical standard for the design, production, sale, and usage of social robots. “BS 8611: 2016 Robots and robotic...
In this article, our humanoid robot iCub is put to the test using manipulation and interaction as sources of knowledge and new experience, as well as, providing a means to explore and control the...
https://robohub.org/putting-humanoid-robots-in-contact-with-their-environment/
Robots are increasingly being considered for use in highly tense civilian encounters to minimize person-to-person contact and danger to peacekeeping personnel. Trust, along with physical quali...
Vecna’s robotic logistics solutions are a family of autonomous mobile robots, built to operate within human-centric environments such as hospitals. In this in-depth interview, Daniel Theobald,...
https://robohub.org/vecnas-daniel-theobald-sets-out-a-standardization-manifesto/
Once upon a time validation of robotic research was relatively straightforward. Let us assume, for example, that a researcher had published in a journal a novel adaptive control law with a numer...
https://robohub.org/robotic-research-are-we-applying-the-scientific-method/
In a recent article in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Gianluca Antonelli suggests that the Grand Challenge of robotics is to systematize the way its research is conducted. At Robohub we believe th...
While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the re...
https://robohub.org/towards-standarized-experiments-in-human-robot-interactions/
In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, j...
Robots that interact with everyday users may need a combination of speech, gaze, and gesture behaviors to convey their message effectively. This is similar to human-human interactions except that...
https://robohub.org/evaluating-the-effectiveness-of-robot-behaviors-in-human-robot-interactions/
Robots to install underfloor insulation in draughty homes, bots for edutainment, intelliTables and tiny robust drones flying with real bees wings – tantalising glimpses of a technology on the c...
https://robohub.org/re-work-meeting-the-challenges-of-commercialising-robotics/
Link to audio file (27:36)Human-robot interaction is a fascinating field of research in robotics. It also happens to be the field that is closely related to many of the ethical concerns raised wi...
https://robohub.org/robots-a-code-of-ethics-for-hri-practitioners/
In a crowded back room at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) spo...
The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction ...
https://robohub.org/academic-and-industry-collaboration-part-2-interview-with-hiroshi-ishirugo/
Credit: Seinendan, Sayonara The Japanese theater company Seinendan and Ishiguro Laboratory at Osaka University are exploring new dimensions of human-robot-interaction on stage, a new field involv...