RoboCup2025 is currently taking place in Salvador, Brazil. With day one of the main competition complete, things are hotting ...

A screenshot from the new simulator that will be trialled for a special challenge at RoboCup2025.

The system Kiva developed comprises on 5 key components: Custom designed Kiva shelves (“pods”) that are mobile and highly flexible A grid of 2D QR codes implanted on the floor (known as “fiducials”) ...

Claire chatted to Will Kinghorn from Made Smarter about how to increase adoption of new tech by small manufacturers. Will Kinghorn is an automation and robotics specialist for the Made Smarter ...

Behavior trees execute in discrete update steps known as ticks. When a BT is ticked, usually at some specified rate, its child nodes recursively tick based on how the tree is constructed. After a node ...

Claire chatted to Gabriel Skantze from KTH Royal Institute of Technology about having natural face-to-face conversations with robots.

Keenan Wyrobek is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Zipline, the world’s first drone delivery service whose focus is delivering life-saving medicine to the most difficult to reach ...

Claire chatted to Amy LaViers from the Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab about the creative relationship between humans and machines. Amy LaViers works at the intersection of robotics and dance. Her ...

Kaspar Althoefer is Director of the Centre for Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). His research focuses on soft robotics, tactile perception, intelligent manipulation, and ...

TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects With Residual Physics. Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez and Thomas Funkhouser. IEEE Transactions on Robotics; vol. 36, no. 4, pp.

Claire chatted to Catherine Menon from the University of Hertfordshire about designing home assistance robots with ethics in mind. Catherine Menon is a principal lecturer at the University of ...

Claire chatted to Josie Gotz from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about robotics for material recovery, reuse and recycling. Josie Gotz is a Senior Research Engineer in the Intelligent Robotics ...