How Reinforcement Learning Enables a new Generation of Robots
(T) I had the pleasure to listen to several great talks about reinforcement learning from Professor Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley at the ODSC West Conference last Fall. I am […]
Meeting Pepper – the Emotional Robot – at b8ta in Palo Alto
(T) I just received an e-mail that the b8ta store at 516 Bryant Street in Palo Alto will have for one week Pepper – the emotional robot from Aldebaran in […]
The Darpa Robotics Challenge for Semi-Autonomous Ground Robots To Help During a Disaster
(T) Darpa had its Robotics Challenge over this weekend in Pomona in Southern California. “Launched in response to a humanitarian need that became glaringly clear during the nuclear disaster at […]
Using Robots to Help Medical Staffs Against Ebola
(E) The White House is now considering robots for winning the fight against the Ebola virus: Intouch health’s remote presence robot, Xenex’s germ-zapping robot, and humanoid robots. A series of brainstorming meetings […]
Nao is Driving its Own Car
(T) RobotsLAB, an education company that provides STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) curriculum featuring robots, has developed a fun application with Nao, the famous humanoid robot: Nao is now driving its own car! […]
The Rise of Social Robots – Meet Pepper the Emotional Robot
(E) Charismatic Aldebaran’s CEO Bruno Maisonniers recently launched his latest humanoid robot: Pepper. Pepper was designed for the Japanese market, and for Aldebaran’s owner Softbank. Pepper wants to be first and foremost […]
The Rise of Social Robots – Meet Jibo the Family Robot
(E) Famous M.I.T. Professor Cynthia Breazeal, took a leave of absence from the Media Lab to work and launch her company and first commercial robot Jibo. She also announced a crowdfunding campaign […]
Would you Want an Emotional Relationship with a Digital Mind?
(T) By 2029, you might be able to have an emotional relationship with a “Digital Friend” on the Internet, on your desktop, or who knows with your wearable as did […]
Dancing with the Stars
(T) At the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris last year, Spanish Choregrapher Blanca Li explored with poetry the relationships between humans and robots. In her show Robots!, the robot character is played by Nao, the […]
From SDK to RDK or from Software Development to Robot Development
(T) Imagine that you can buy a Robot for $249 and that you can program it to help you with your Vietnamese or French cuisine or packing your suitcase the […]
The Forefront of Robotics
(T) Bloomberg TV has a great new documentary about three robotic companies in Boston, the epicenter of the robotics industry in the US. The documentary “starts at iRobot, the pioneering company […]
