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    ‘Robot kindergarten’ trains droids of the future
    Less than 100 years from now, robots will be friendly, useful participants in our homes and workplaces, predicts UBC mechanical engineering professor and robotics expert Elizabeth Croft. We will be li...
    27 May 2016, by

    Ingestible origami robot
    By: Larry Hardesty In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated...
    13 May 2016, by

    Should robots be gendered?
    Should robots be gendered? I have serious doubts about the morality of designing and building robots to resemble men or women, boys or girls. Let me explain why....
    20 April 2016, by

    Why robots need to be able to say ‘No’
    Should you always do what other people tell you to do? Clearly not. Everyone knows that. So should future robots always obey our commands? At first glance, you might think they should, simply because ...
    13 April 2016, by

    Can I trust my robot? And should my robot trust me?
    If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions....
    07 April 2016, by

    3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required
    By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL One reason we don’t yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, ...
    06 April 2016, by



    Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot
    Fellow Robots, in partnership with Lowes Hardware, today launched the OSHbot as a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. Although the robot can only give informatio...
    28 October 2014, by

    What should a robot do? Designing robots that know right from wrong
    A large robot comes out of an office mailroom carrying a package marked “Urgent” to deliver to the boss upstairs. After navigating down the hall at maximum speed, it discovers someone is already w...
    29 April 2014, by and

    Cubelets are growing up as Moss
    Three years after their successful Cubelets, Modular Robotics launched a new kickstarter today for Moss. It’s like Cubelets just got clever and maybe a little bit more fashionable too. Moss is a dyn...
    07 November 2013, by

    Play-i want to bring a robot to every child
    After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures, many of us have been waiting for Play-i to come out of stealth and show us their stuff. Play-i are a Silicon Valley bas...
    29 October 2013, by

    ‘Design a Robot’ competitions
    Didn’t get a robot entered in the DARPA grand robotics challenge (DRC)? Never mind, there are several robot design and business model competitions on at the moment, from social robots, to affordable...
    06 September 2013, by

    Dash launching Dragon hardware crowdfunding platform
    Dash is the first product to launch today on Dragon Innovation‘s new hardware crowdfunding site. Dragon Innovation was founded in 2009 by Scott Miller and Herman Pang, ex iRobot and Hasbro. Dragon a...
    08 August 2013, by

    Does crowdfunding derisk robotics?
    Crowdfunding is often cited as one of the mechanisms accelerating robot startups, alongside COTS, reduced costs, rapid prototyping, digital manufacturing, smart phones, connectivity etc. The entire pr...
    30 July 2013, by

    Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival
    While I love getting robots in the mail, crowdfunding sites are also good for supporting a whole range of robot related activities. The 3rd annual Robot Film Festival just launched a Kickstarter campa...
    27 June 2013, by

    Robotics infiltrates Engadget’s Expand
    The first Engadget Expand expo at Fort Mason in San Francisco was a great weekend out with lots of robotics. In fact the striking thing was how much of the event was talking about or demonstrating rob...
    19 March 2013, by

    Robots on TV
    Verizon and GE have produced television advertisements that include robots. The ads are playing frequently and nationally. They are good, they're being talked about and tweeted, audiences like them, a...
    04 February 2013, by

    CES gets robots all wrong
    In my opinion, the International Consumer Electronics Show used robots gratuitously, out of context and without benefit to robotics companies. It’s a category problem more than anything else and is ...
    15 January 2013, by

    Robot startup series #2: Bob Christopher
    Bob Christopher was CEO of Ugobe, the company that made Pleo, the robot dinosaur, one of the first successful consumer robotics products. Greg Appelhof is the CEO of TRG, a global retail company speci...
    13 November 2012, by

    Will robots drive manufacturing back to the US?
    Automated robots are producing manufactured and machined consumer and industrial goods around the world, but obstacles remain for widescale adoption, The New York Times reports. See on www.thomasnet....
    10 September 2012, by

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