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We are happy to dedicate this post to our new volunteer: Shaunak Kapur. Shaunak is a soon-to-be senior in high school (Texas), and he has been captivated by robotics from a young age. He has participated in numerous robotics competitions (namely VEX and FRC), pursued robotics/engineering internships and robotics-based research projects, and even worked to develop robot products in medical applications that aid individuals with motor skill impediments.

Shaunak’s volunteering role will be to summarize the most exciting news in robotics that comes up, either in academia or industry.

If you are interested in his impressive skills and experience at his young age, you can check out his CV below. Welcome to our community, Shaun!

Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit.

Have a last minute holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to daniel.carrillozapata@robohub.org

And as a late entry, here we have the video from PAL Robotics:

That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!

Drop your submissions down our chimney at daniel.carrillozapata@robohub.org and share the spirit of the season.

For inspiration, here are our two first videos:

Thanks to all those that sent us their holiday videos. It’s been a tough year for everyone. We hope these videos make these holidays a bit more special.

Did we miss your video? You can send it to daniel.carrillozapata@robohub.org and we’ll include it in this list.

We wish you the very best for these holidays and the year 2021!

The Women in Robotics network is putting together an open catalog of books related to robotics and technology. Whether you would like to share your own collection with the community, or you just want to find your next read or the perfect holiday season gift (let’s be honest, we all love robots, and we want everyone to love robots), this is a great place to start.

Current titles on the catalog include Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (Anna Wiener) or Sex, Race, and Robots – How to Be Human in the Age of AI (Ayanna Howard). You can access the catalog through this link. And if you would like to contribute with a book suggestion, you can use this form to send it.

That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!

Drop your submissions down our chimney at daniel.carrillozapata@robohub.org and share the spirit of the season.

For inspiration, here is our first submission:

That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!

Drop your submissions down our chimney at daniel.carrillozapata@robohub.org and share the spirit of the season.

For inspiration, here is our first submission:

That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub!

Drop your submissions down our chimney at sabine.hauert@robohub.org and share the spirit of the season.

For inspiration, check out submissions from last year.

IJCAI, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is happening from the 10th to 16th August in Macao, China. We’ll be posting updates throughout the week thanks to the AIhub Ambassadors on the ground. Stay tuned.

You can follow the tweets at #IJCAI2019 or below.

Tweets by IJCAIconf

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 Multimodal Representations for Contact-Rich Tasks”. You can read the paper on arxiv here.

Audrow Nash was there to capture her pitch.

And here’s the official video about the work.

Full reference
Lee, Michelle A., Yuke Zhu, Krishnan Srinivasan, Parth Shah, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei, Animesh Garg, and Jeannette Bohg. “Making sense of vision and touch: Self-supervised learning of multimodal representations for contact-rich tasks.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10191 (2018).

Thanks to all for sending your holiday videos, here’s the last of this year’s series. Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit.
Have a last minute holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to sabine.hauert@robohub.org. Read More

That’s right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at sabine.hauert@robohub.org and share the spirit of the season.

For inspiration, here are our first submissions .

Here’s a cute video about how UK-based Rusty Squid designs robots. Rusty Squid is a studio for experimental robotic engineering and design, working within the contemporary arts.

David McGoran, Creative Director says “We explore the design space before committing to sensors and autonomous behaviour. During the design process, we created our own bespoke tools to effectively communicate with engineers, artists and designers. One of the bespoke tools featured in How We Build a Robot is called the Story Machine; we use it for, what we call, ‘Relationship Design’.”

Happy holidays everyone! Here are some more robot videos to get you into the holiday spirit.
Have a last minute holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org. Read More