As Ph.D. graduates face the pivotal decision of choosing a career in academia, industry, or entrepreneurship, insights from those who have recently transitioned into academia can be precious. These insights provide a fresh perspective on the challenges and rewards associated with an academic career. This second version of the article is crafted to help students make informed … [Read more...] about Navigating the Future: Insights From Early-Career Academia [Student’s Corner]
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Advancing Reproducibility, Benchmarks, and Education With Remote Sim2real: Remote Simulation to Real Robot Hardware [Competitions]
Shared and repeatable benchmark problems have historically been a fundamental driver of progress for scientific communities. In academic conferences, benchmarks, replication tracks, and competitions offer the opportunity to researchers, often with different origins, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, to quantitatively compare their ideas. In robotics, a hot and challenging … [Read more...] about Advancing Reproducibility, Benchmarks, and Education With Remote Sim2real: Remote Simulation to Real Robot Hardware [Competitions]
A Tale of Two Rovers: How Different Philosophies Foster Innovation in the 2023 University Rover Challenge [Competitions]
Since 2006, university students from around the world have converged in Hanksville, UT, USA, each summer at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) to compete in the University Rover Challenge (URC). The competition was organized by the Mars Society to challenge students to design, build, and test next-generation Mars rovers in anticipation of a future where humans and robots … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Rovers: How Different Philosophies Foster Innovation in the 2023 University Rover Challenge [Competitions]
Humanoid Robotics: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Abilities for Human-Centered Environments [From the Guest Editors]
It is evident that the scope of this “From the Guest Editors” column does not permit a comprehensive enumeration of the domains in which robotics finds application. However, they could be categorized, for example, according to the environment in which the robots operate (un)structured or the degree of autonomy exhibited. Other classifications can be made with regard to the … [Read more...] about Humanoid Robotics: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Abilities for Human-Centered Environments [From the Guest Editors]
RAS Publication Review Process Goes Double Anonymous [President’s Message]
Since the start of my presidency, I have been looking at many ways in which to install more equality across all our communities and to ensure that scientific work done worldwide stands equal chances to be published and promoted. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10931184 For the open access PDF link of this article please click here. … [Read more...] about RAS Publication Review Process Goes Double Anonymous [President’s Message]
