I study human-robot interaction. Specifically I’m interested in how we can get robots to better learn from humans in the way ...

RoboCup2025 took place from 15-21 July in Salvador, Brazil. The event saw around 3000 participants competing in the various leagues. In our first social media round-up post we saw what the teams got ...

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

Claire chatted to Mario Di Castro from CERN all about robotic inspection and maintenance in hazardous environments. Mario Di Castro has a Master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University ...

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”) ...

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 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 ...

This latest version of the Cubli (2014) can jumping up, balance, and even “walk”. This new version is self contained with respect to power and uses three slightly modified bicycle brakes instead of ...

Joe Castagneri Joe Castagneri graduated with his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, with an undergrad degree in Physics. While still in university, he first joined the team at Amp Robotics in ...

RoboCup2025 is currently taking place in Salvador, Brazil. With day one of the main competition complete, things are hotting up across the many different leagues. From soccer to rescue, from ...

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 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 ...