Robot Talk Episode 157 – Generating new robot designs, with Josie Hughes
Claire chatted to Josie Hughes from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne about using AI to develop new designs for robotic manipulators…
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Claire chatted to Josie Hughes from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne about using AI to develop new designs for robotic manipulators…
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Read summary →The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is updating its 12-year-old safety requirements for personal care robots. A lot ha…
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Read summary →This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic…
Read summary →Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time on Saturday in a final overshadowed by five countries’ boycott over Gaza, claim…
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Read summary →Federal prosecutors expect to unseal an indictment against the 94-year-old Raul Castro in Miami on May 20.
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Read summary →Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
Read summary →Day 3 at ERL 2026 ☀️ 📍 Scheveningen, The Hague 📅 May 13–15, 2026 www.erl2026.eu That is a wrap on the European Robotics League (ERL) 2026…
Read summary →Thirty-four European states plus Australia, Costa Rica and the EU said on Friday they would join a future special tribunal for Ukraine to p…
Read summary →This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Gavin Kenneally from Ghost Robotics about robot dogs for defence, security, and public safety. Gavin Kenneally is the Co-…
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Read summary →The Tokyo resident has admitted to the charges and says he knew the girl was 15 years old at the time.
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