For 10 years now, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been used to write robot software. It is a system that is frequently used by students in the Master of Science in Robotics program at ...

Northwestern Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student Maurice Rahme talks about what he learned teaching a Baxter robot to play checkers. Embedded Systems in Robotics is one of three required ...

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a ...

Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning where the machine is scored on their performance (“evaluation function”). Over the course of a training session, behavior that improved final ...

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has a deeper foothold in the robotics industry than you might think. Since it was first developed in 2007, the open-source framework for developing robotics software ...

A new deal is available for 90% off the The Complete Robotics eBook Bundle. This deal is for a 5 eBook bundle on robotics, where you will learn how to program using the Robot Operating System (ROS), ...

“The aim of Intrinsic is to democratize the access to robotics,” Wendy Tan White, CEO of Intrinsic, told me at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, where she appeared alongside Brian Gerkey, director of Open ...

Robots will take over the world. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow. But…they’re coming. Soon. What’s the best way to avoid Robo-pocalypse? Well, by being one of the rampaging automaton’s creators ...