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3,400 healthcare jobs in the US required robotics experience and skills
Frank Tobe
16 Jul 2013
... More than 3,400 healthcare jobs in the US required robotics experience and skills - a 32% gain year-over-year, according to WANTED Analytics....
Campus Party Europe comes to the O2 in London September 2-7
Robohub Editors
12 Jul 2013
Up to 10,000 young geeks from across Europe will camp out in tents and sleeping bags for five days of intense 24/7 hacking, networking and elbow-rubbing with experts from some of the world's most infl...
More space robots as Grishin funds NanoSatisfi
Andra Keay
11 Jul 2013
NanoSatisfi, a Silicon Valley based cubesat startup, today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Ki...
Intuitive Surgical stock sinks
Frank Tobe
10 Jul 2013
... After months of negative news about poorly trained surgeons, class action suits claiming poor communications with shareholders, an FDA review, an article saying that procedure costs were too high,...
2 cute robots: one funded by Japan’s Space Agency the other by Kickstarter
Frank Tobe
30 Jun 2013
Japan’s cute talking robot will take off August 4th for the Space Station. Kirobo, a 13” 2# mini-humanoid robot remembers faces, can move its head and arms, and is expected to help keep company an...
Oxford Martin School founder and GF2045 keynote speaker James Martin dies
Frank Tobe
29 Jun 2013
... At Global Future 2045, in NYC, June 15-16, the keynote speaker represented rampant technological change as both a problem and a benefit, and it needed to be addressed as such. He died on June 24....
DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2013
The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
Robohub focus on frontier robotics: High risks, high rewards
Hallie Siegel
27 Jun 2013
Researchers and entrepreneurs are used to weighing the potential risks and rewards of any project they are thinking of putting time and money into. Potential financial investors — be they govern...
Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2013
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...
Dreaming of Robot Avatars
David Peins
23 Jun 2013
I attended the conference, “Global Futures 2045" at Alice Tully Hall in NYC on Saturday June 15th. I confess that I was a little skeptical about a conference about immortality and I voiced my skep...
Big week for robotic mergers and acquisitions
Frank Tobe
21 Jun 2013
... MakerBot sells out to Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) for $403 million plus another $200 million if it meets certain targets. Stratasys adds a low-priced product to it’s line of 3D printing pro...
AFRON 2013 Robot Design Challenge
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2013
Today, AFRON announced the 2013 Design Challenge, with a goal of augmenting the robots from the first $10 robot design challenge. In 2012, the AFRON launched with a Design Challenge to build a $10 rob...
LIDAR finds a lost city in Cambodia
Frank Tobe
17 Jun 2013
... Using LIDAR technology to create terrain maps, archaeologists have uncovered a whole city in Cambodia by discovering unexplained “bumps”....
Use of da Vinci surgical robots discussed on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams
Frank Tobe
16 Jun 2013
... NBC’s Rock Center focused on the case of a da Vinci surgical robot used to do a hysterectomy where dangerous complications ensued. A suit is in progress....
First responder and military ground robots to grow at close to 20%
Frank Tobe
14 Jun 2013
... New $3,800 report by Wintergreen Research says that first responder and military ground robot marketplace will expand at close to 20% annually for the rest of the decade....
$201 million in venture funding in 2012; up from $194 in 2011
Frank Tobe
12 Jun 2013
... Roboticist and entrepreneur Travis Deyle keeps tract of venture funding during the year and has provided not just a list, but a profile of the companies receiving the money....
New robot cars and AI app shown at Apple Developer’s Conference
Frank Tobe
12 Jun 2013
... First thing shown at Apple Developer’s Conference was Anki’s new AnkiDrive app and cars....
TED Global 2013 speaker Lian Pin Koh on “Conservation Drones”
Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich
11 Jun 2013
Lian Pin Koh (left) and Serge Wich (right) in Zurich with an early prototype of Conservation Drone.
TED Global speaker/drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh and fellow researcher Serge Wich share how drones a...
Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans
Robohub Editors
11 Jun 2013
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
Update with the full video below
Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...
Behind the scenes at TED Global: Raffaello D’Andrea and team demo amazing quadrotor “athletes”
Markus Waibel and Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
With reporting and photos by Dario Brescianini and Mark Mueller and timelapse video by James Duncan Davidson.
Raffaello D'Andrea juggles quadrotors at TED Global 2013.
A quadrocopter swoops th...
iRobot unveils new AVA 500 mobile robot for professionals
Frank Tobe
11 Jun 2013
New iRobot AVA 500, planned for 2014 delivery, navigates autonomously and can be sent from point A to B using an iPad....
SparkFun AVC 2013
John Payne
09 Jun 2013
Most robotics hobbyists will be familiar with the name SparkFun, associating it with an electronics and robotics parts and kits supply house, located in Boulder, Colorado, and perhaps also with the in...
AWE2013: Hardware for an augmented world
Andra Keay
06 Jun 2013
Day One of AWE2013, the Augmented World Expo, finished with Sphero, the robot ball, taking out the first ‘Auggie Award’ for hardware. Sphero, by Orbotix, won the Auggie for their augmented reality...
AWE2013: What is the augmented world?
Andra Keay
05 Jun 2013
Augmented reality and virtual reality have been overhyped and underdelivering for years but there are many indications that things are changing. It’s not just that Google Glass has been on the stree...
Israel is top global exporter of UAS
Frank Tobe
03 Jun 2013
... Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting firm, reported that Israel’s UAS export revenue totaled $4.6 billion from 2005 to 2012. In terms of the number of systems sold, Israel is the ...
Growing Robogals
Andra Keay
29 May 2013
In 2012, Marita Cheng was named Young Australian of the Year for her efforts to create a girl friendly robotics culture. Marita founded Robogals, an international student run organization that helps y...
Coming soon, to protect texters (like you?)
Frank Tobe
28 May 2013
CrashAlert is an app under development by Pourang Irani and Juan David Hincapié-Ramos at the University of Manitoba. They wanted to find a realistic solution to the ongoing dangers posed by walking a...
3D printing: Is the law ready for the future?
CIS Blog
28 May 2013
Three dimensional printing turns bits into atoms. The technology is simply amazing. These machines draw on programming, art and engineering to enable people to design and build intricate, beautiful, f...
Tibion Bionic Leg Wins IERA Award
Frank Tobe
25 May 2013
... The Tibion Bionic Leg won the 2013 IERA (Invention and Entrepreneurship Award in Robotics and Automation) Prize at the recent ICRA Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany....
Jury finds Intuitive Surgical’s training practices NOT at fault
Frank Tobe
24 May 2013
... Jurors reached a 10-2 verdict after a 5-week trial. Intuitive Surgical owes no damages based on claims by the family that Intuitive had inadequately trained the doctor who performed the operation....
SWIVL finds it’s niche
Frank Tobe
23 May 2013
... IndieGoGo-funded swiveling personal camera and follow-me device has sold 10,000 units thus far; 1,250 to schools and universities....
Maker Faire overview
Andra Keay
22 May 2013
http://youtu.be/5APvyZHf1Dk
It’s impossible to see everything at Maker Faire but I tried. I was exhibiting with my hackerspace Robot Garden and had the pleasure of being both a participant and ...
Kinect completely redone. Windfall for robotics.
Frank Tobe
22 May 2013
... The new Kinect, released a few days ago, uses an infrared light to illuminate whatever is in front of the sensor, and the pixels of an infrared camera watch for each pulse to reflect back. Just li...
Is the commercialization of UASs passing the US by?
Frank Tobe
20 May 2013
Forget the debate about the military use of drones (but if you must know, here’s a comprehensive FAQ on the issue)....
Are accelerators the new incubators and angel investors?
Frank Tobe
19 May 2013
... Tech startups can lead to big business. Last year Y Combinator reported their top 21 projects were worth $4.7 billion! Just last week Airware, a Y Combinator startup, received the biggest round of...
Accelerators and opportunities for robotics startups
Andra Keay
19 May 2013
New accelerators are opening and existing programs are expanding. It’s an exciting time to be a robotics or hardware startup. In my next post I’ll talk about some of the sorts of startups that inv...
