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Trash talk hurts, even when it comes from a robot

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Nov 19, 2019 | 08:10 am

Trash talking has a long and colorful history of flustering game opponents, and now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that discouraging words can be perturbing even when uttered by a robot.

Bipedal Robot Cassie Cal Learns to Juggle

Automaton Nov 18, 2019 | 19:22 pm

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head

An imitation learning approach to train robots without the need for real human demonstrations

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Nov 18, 2019 | 14:30 pm

Most humans can learn how to complete a given task by observing another person perform it just once. Robots that are programmed to learn by imitating humans, however, typically need to be trained on a series of human demonstrations before they can effectively reproduce the desired behavior.

New continuum robot design achieves motion resolutions of 1 micron or less

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Nov 18, 2019 | 12:28 pm

A new continuum robot designed by Vanderbilt engineers achieves multi-scale motion and may open up a huge world of previously impossible complex microsurgeries.

Video Friday: Invasion of the Mini Cheetah Robots

Automaton Nov 15, 2019 | 22:55 pm

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

A method for self-supervised robotic learning that entails setting feasible goals

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Nov 15, 2019 | 14:30 pm

Reinforcement learning (RL) has so far proved to be an effective technique for training artificial agents on individual tasks. However, when it comes to training multi-purpose robots, which should be able to complete a variety of tasks that require different skills, most existing RL approaches are far from ideal.

A unifying approach for controlling flying robotic insects

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Nov 14, 2019 | 14:30 pm

One of the key problems confronting researchers in the field of microrobotics is designing and implementing reliable controllers for insect-scale micro air vehicles (FWMAVs), which are tiny flying robots typically inspired by insects. In fact, although these insect-size robots could have numerous useful applications, for instance, assisting humans in search and rescue missions or in agriculture, developing controllers that match their size and structure has so far proved to be difficult.

Quadruped Robots Can Climb Ladders Now

Automaton Nov 13, 2019 | 21:10 pm

This robot dog can scale ladders that a real dog would struggle with

Commercial UAV Show in London 2019

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones Nov 13, 2019 | 09:00 am

Here is a quick video tour for those who couldn't make it to the Commercial UAV Show in London this year. Was great to see the latest drone technology and meet people from the industry.

Comparison Table of mRo Professional Autopilots Family

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones Nov 12, 2019 | 22:30 pm

This is how you can learn at a glance the technical characteristics of the mRobotics family of autopilots and decide which device best suits your projects.The mRo autopilots are designed and manufactured to create the wide variety of platforms that the industry requires in different ways. They are designed to provide reliability for the quality of the components used and manufacturing process, versatility in their physical and logical interfaces and in some cases to offer logical security by encrypting the information processed by the[…]