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ROSCon & IROS 2017: Towards a human-friendly robots horizon
IROS 2017 for a better horizon “Friendly people, friendly robots”. This is the theme of IROS 2017, held in Vancouver…

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The European Robotics League is coming to Barcelona!
European Robotics League (ERL) in Barcelona Robots from all over Europe will descend on Barcelona for the European Robotics League’s…

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The intern guide to SLAM part II: loop closure & new framework
Next up in our SLAM series is intern Tessa Pannen, who is studying a Computational Engineering Science MA at the…
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TIAGo Steel loans for European Robotics League: winners announced!
Meet the teams Back in May, we announced our intention to lend TIAGo Steel robots to teams who wanted to enter…

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Behind the scenes of Robocup: hacking TIAGo
TIAGo at the RoboCup If you saw the modified TIAGo that competed at Robocup 2017 in Japan, you probably noticed…

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Humanoid robots, imitation learning and torque control
Discover TALOS with Aleš Ude This week, we interview Head of the Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics at the…
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2017: The year of the stock-taking robot
In the face of growing competition from e-commerce, brick-and-mortar stores are having to innovate. With lower costs, speed and ease-of-use…

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The definitive intern guide to SLAM: place recognition & loop closure
SLAM – simultaneous localisation and mapping – is a technique robots use to build a map of their environment, ascertain…