Top news of the week: 23.02.2021.
Robotics
, Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley and Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute People and Robots Initiative
Our next 'conversation that matters' is on People with Disabilities and robots. Join us at 6pm PDT on Tuesday February 23rd 2021
iGibson Challenge 2021
In recent years, learning algorithms have been achieving impressive results in vision-based indoor autonomous navigation. In fact, during the 2020 challenge we observed a …
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The Evolution of Robotics Force Control
Force sensing and force control are increasingly used in the broad field of robotics, although only a minority of robots today make use of this exciting technology. This post provides an ...
A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google
Margaret Mitchell was the co-leader of a group investigating ethics in AI, alongside Timnit Gebru, who said she was fired in December.
Air-powered robot needs no electronics to walk like a turtle
Soft robots are gaining a lot of attention in research circles, largely due to the safety benefits for humans who might need to work in their vicinity, and from an engineering lab at the ...
Scientists want your smartphone to sniff out cancer—just like a dog
A new study shows that it’s possible to detect cancer via smell, just like dogs do. Now researchers want to embed this technology into phones.
The Pandemic Holds These Keys to a Better Education
First of all, shorten your lectures. Now is the time to rethink the way that schools should accommodate students and teachers from all backgrounds.