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Alex Owen-Hill is a freelance writer and public speaker who blogs about a large range of topics, including science, presentation skills at CreateClarifyArticulate.com, storytelling and (of course) robotics. He completed a PhD in Telerobotics from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid as part of the PURESAFE project, in collaboration with CERN. As a recovering academic, he maintains a firm foot in the robotics world by blogging about industrial robotics.

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Research Spotlight: Stable Grasping of Unknown Objects

How can you reliably grasp unknown objects and ensure that the grasp is stable? In this post we discuss a new research paper from KTH in Sweden. The researchers used a Robotiq 3-Finger Gripper to accurately predict if a grasp will be stable. But, in some cases, they found that the Robotiq Gripper was too good for their research!

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 10, 2016 7:00 AM. 6 min read time
 
Research Spotlight: Stable Grasping of Unknown Objects

How can you reliably grasp unknown objects and ensure that the grasp is stable? In this post we discuss a new research paper...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 10, 2016 7:00 AM
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A History of Robot Programming Languages

There are so many different robot programming languages! Has it always been this way? Where did they all come from? We look...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on May 03, 2016 7:00 AM
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Would You Trust Your Washing Machine in a Fire?

There have been a few high profile warnings over the past year about artificial intelligence and robotics. Elon Musk, Stephen...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 25, 2016 7:00 AM
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Are Autodidactic Robots Coming to Industry?

Why is AlphaGo such a momentous step in Artificial Intelligence? What does it have to do with robotic depalletizing? In this...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 18, 2016 7:00 AM
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Is Verbal Programming Really Feasible?

How long will it be before we can tell robots "go and do this task for me"? Will programming ever be so easy, or will we...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 13, 2016 7:00 AM
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Do Roboticists Have to Reprogram the Wheel?

Robotics suffers from an unresolved issue - as a community, we tend to hate the idea of standardization. This isn't a problem...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 11, 2016 7:00 AM
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How to Be a Great Robot Programmer

What makes a great robot programmer? In this post we ask why it's challenging to accurately comprehend the limitations of a...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Apr 06, 2016 7:00 AM
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How to Benefit from the Robotic Skill Shortage

Robotics is probably going to be one of the biggest job creators in modern history. But, are there enough qualified people to...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Mar 31, 2016 7:00 AM
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What Are the Different Programming Methods for Robots?

As the expression goes, "there's more than one way to skin a cat". You could equally say "there's more than one way to program...

Alex Owen-Hill
By Alex Owen-Hill
on Mar 24, 2016 7:00 AM
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