Miscellaneous

This video shows the result of a learning by imitation approach that allows two users to demonstrate an assembly skill requiring different levels of compliance. Each furniture item to assemble will have specific characteristic that needs that are transferred to the robot. Re-programming the robot for each new item would not be possible. Here, the robot can learn this skill by demonstration. One user is grasping the robot and moving it by hand to demonstrate how it should collaborate with another user (kinesthetic teaching). A force sensor mounted at the wrist of the robot and a marker-based vision tracking system is used to record the position and orientation of the table legs that need to be mounted at four different point on the table top. After demonstration, the robot learns that it should first be compliant to let the user re-orient the table top in a comfortable pose to screw the corresponding table leg. Once the user starts to screw the leg, the robot becomes stiff to facilitate the task. This behavior is not pre-programmed, but is instead learned by the robot by extracting the regularities of the task from multiple demonstrations.

Link to the AAAI'2013 paper describing this experiment:
programming-by-demonstration.org/showPubli.php?publi=3034

Credits: Leonel Rozo, Sylvain Calinon
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT),
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)

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NTUsg scientists created a robot that can identify the parts and positions of an IKEA chair and figure out how to best to assemble it in just 8 mins and 55 seconds using algorithms created by the team.

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"Robotic Assembly of Emergency Stop Buttons," by Andreas Stolt, Magnus Linderoth, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson, from Lund University, Sweden. Presented at 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan.

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The field of robotics has improved at an incredible rate recently. The future is already here... (HD - 10/2013)

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Robots are looking to work alongside us; making our jobs and lives easier, or at least more entertaining. We’ll take a closer look in our 2014 robot review.

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One of the biggest stories at CES 2015 was about robots entering the consumer world. So how will robotics continue to enter our everyday lives? Get ready to look into the future with some of the most mind-blowing consumer robots we saw at CES 2015!

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AWE (animated work environment) is a robotic wall that can change the spatial characteristics of the work environment, adapting to such activities as collaboration, presentations, and gaming. Developed at Clemson University. Video presented at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2009.

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This is a Project that was done for the Digital Ecologies 2013 during my Msc Adaptive Architecture and Computation at University College London
This term I tried to use an old Delta Robot and animate it. The object is to make the Robot to behave in a way that seems "alive" but most importantly to simulate in a certain degree how people pay attention or what seems most important. This involves how to use computer vision to distinguish important data of the real world like movement or people and map them in the behaviour of the robot. Besides developing a series of behaviours from computer vision an effort was given on how the robot could better adapt to the world, from gathering data and rethinking its behaviour.
wiki: ruairiglynn.co.uk/teaching/index.php?title=Behavioural_Robot
blog: psarras.wordpress.com

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Hold my beaker while I cross the finish line

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Japanese robots Frois and Yukirin officially tied the knot in Tokyo, Saturday, at Japan's first ever robot wedding.

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Only by building an artificial consciousness will we truly be able to understand the mysteries of our own brains
Full story: "Consciousness: Why we need to build sentient machines"

by Celeste Biever
May 15, 2013

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Samantha Carisch and Taylor Sinclair were selected as contest winners for the annual The Knot Dream Wedding (in partnership with Mashable, which organized the wedding's tech elements). The "most high-tech wedding ever" theme didn't at first resonate with the couple, but it ultimately became the most intimate part of their day.

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Amazing robotic inventions....

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