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$100 million P-P-P suggestion for healthcare robotics
Frank Tobe
08 Jan 2013
... Op-ed piece suggesting $100 million be invested in developing eldercare robot similar to the robot in the movie “Robot & Frank.”...
Leap Motion gets $30 million for new Kinect-like device
Frank Tobe
08 Jan 2013
... Hot new Leap Motion Kinect-like product gets another $30 million (bringing the total to $44 million).
... Leap Motion controller senses individual hand and finger movements so you can interact di...
CES Robotics 2013
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The annual CES - Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, is always a great opportunity for trendspotting and innovation hunting in consumer electronics including consumer robotics. CES 2013 ...
Father of the drone still leading the way
John Payne
01 Jan 2013
Recently profiled in The Economist, in an article titled "The dronefather", Abe Karem, founder of Leading Systems, which eventually became the division of General Atomics which builds the Predator, an...
Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
David Pietrocola
26 Dec 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...
Six rotors, six legs, one gripper
John Payne
23 Dec 2012
http://youtu.be/0sOvP9PhDQU
Those crazy guys at Mad Lab Industries have put together a multimodal contraption that flies like a hexrotor (because it is one) and walks like a hexapod (because it is al...
IBM predicts sensory technology for next 5 years
John Payne
19 Dec 2012
http://youtu.be/wXkfrBJqVcQ
In what has become an annual rite, IBM predicts the progress of 5 technologies over the next 5 years. This year the 5 they have chosen are the familiar 5 senses: touch,...
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2012)
Sabine Hauert
16 Dec 2012
My colleague Nils Napp from Radhika Nagpal's lab at Harvard attended the DARS symposium this year and agreed to share some highlights with us....
Unmanned Vehicle University accredited to grant Doctorate and Masters degrees
Frank Tobe
13 Dec 2012
Unmanned Vehicle University just received an Arizona state license to grant Graduate Doctorate and Masters Degrees in Unmanned (Air/Ground/Sea/Space) Systems Engineering.
The Arizona school also offe...
The patent grip loosens
Frank Tobe
10 Dec 2012
VGo Communications wins infringement lawsuit brought on by InTouch Health and also initiates a patent reexamination of four other InTouch patents....
Grishin Robotics invests in RobotAppStore
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2012
For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds.
Grishin Robotics are investing $250,000 into RobotAppStore, an online marketplace for robotics applications. It seems that Grishin is betting on t...
Grishin Robotics invest in RobotAppStore
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2012
For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds....
Dancing with robots
Andra Keay
06 Dec 2012
Robots parodying the latest video hits are cute but some choreographers, artists and human-robot interaction specialists have pushed the boundary of how humans and robots move in fascinating ways. Tho...
The patent grip loosens
Frank Tobe
06 Dec 2012
VGo Communications wins infringement lawsuit brought on by InTouch Health and also initiates a patent reexamination of four other InTouch patents.
InTouch Health, a company that has b...
Danish hospital first in Europe with TUG logistics robot
Wolfgang Heller
06 Dec 2012
The Danish hospital Sygehus Sønderjylland is first in Europe to use logistics robot TUG, developed by the American company Aethon. TUG specially constructed for intern logistics is already used in mo...
Liquid Robotics set records in PacX
Andra Keay
06 Dec 2012
It's been more than one year and 9,000 nautical miles since Liquid Robotics launched 4 Wave Gliders in San Francisco on November 17, 2011. On November 20, 2012 "Papa Mau" reached the east coast of Aus...
The nEUROn maiden flight
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
On December 1st, the nEUROn, Europe’s unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) stealth technology demonstrator, successfully completed its maiden flight from the Dassault Aviation company’s flight test ...
AeroVironment invests $3 million in Swedish CybAero
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
Credit. CybAero
AeroVironment Inc.(NASDAQ: AVAV) the clear leader in the man-portable, hand-launched UAS market, has announced a strategic partnership with Sweden-based CybAero (NASDAQOMXS: ...
SwRI and ROS-Industrial making progress on 5th anniversary of ROS
Frank Tobe
04 Dec 2012
... In 2011, Motoman USA partnered with SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) to enable ROS software to be available to Motoman users. “The next step for industrial robotics is to be more sensor a...
Researching robotics is getting easier
Frank Tobe
03 Dec 2012
Complementing Robohub is new app “IEEE Spectrum ROBOTS,” which provides some news but has an extensive detailed section for current-day robots of all types: from exoskeletons to remote presence; f...
KIBO robot project
Wolfgang Heller
02 Dec 2012
A Japanese humanoid communication robot being developed by the KIBO Robot project, a joint research project by Dentsu Inc., the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of...
Eating robots improve quality of life and save resources
Wolfgang Heller
01 Dec 2012
60% of EU citizens are saying that robots should be banned when it comes to the care of children, elderly people and people with disabilities, according to the Special Eurobarometer survey "Public at...
TED talk with Davide Scaramuzza on visual control of MAVs
Sabine Hauert
29 Nov 2012
Davide Scaramuzza leads the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and is Adjunct Faculty at ETH Zurich....
Swimming robots
Andra Keay
27 Nov 2012
Why should flying robots have all the headlines! This year has been full of robots that swim, so here is a small collection, from swarms to explorers, from nanobots to humanoids. ...
IEEE Spectrum Robots app
Wolfgang Heller
27 Nov 2012
Technology magazine IEEE Spectrum has launched its first iPad App "Robots" featuring 126 robots from 19 countries. The app includes technical data, interactive images, a robotic timeline and glossary....
Robots in the factory of the future
Wolfgang Heller
25 Nov 2012
The "Factories of the Future" is one of the three Public-Private Partnership included in the European Commission's recovery package launched in December 2008 to address the economic crisis. It consi...
Furby’s are back – this time with an iPhone app and translator
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2012
Hasbro has enhanced their successful Furby toy from years past with a combination of interactive programming and robotic engineering. The updated Furby includes a free Furby app to virtually feed Furb...
Iceland’s Össur wins PopSci “Best of What’s New” award for Symbionic Leg
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2012
Iceland’s Össur, a company which develops, manufactures and sells non-invasive orthopaedic and bionic prosthetics, received a Popular Science Magazine’s 2012 “Best of What’s New” award for ...
VGo gets funding to scale up for healthcare
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2012
VGo Communications received $900,000 debt financing to help the company scale up and focus on providing remote presence for the healthcare industry....
Quirky short film starring robot “Gumdrop”
Andra Keay
21 Nov 2012
In this short film from feature director Kerry Conran, Gumdrop is a 27 year old Bulgarian robot auditioning for a role in a feature film. Along the way some clever CGI allows Gumdrop to show her skil...
Losing Humanity: The case against killer robots
Mike Hamer
20 Nov 2012
Released yesterday by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, the report Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots (herein: the report) and associated press release and video (below), w...
Robots on stage
Wolfgang Heller
20 Nov 2012
The Japanese theater company Seinendan and Ishiguro Laboratory at Osaka University are exploring new dimensions of human-robot-interaction on stage, a new field involving a fusion of theater, arts and...
Stanford hosts panel on making autonomous cars legal
Sabine Hauert
18 Nov 2012
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford released a video of their panel discussion on "How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law" that took place earlier this month. The discussion builds o...
The world’s first mind-controlled implantable robotic arm
Wolfgang Heller
15 Nov 2012
The world's first implantable robotic arm controlled by thoughts is developed by researcher Max Ortiz Catalan, at the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg...
Robot music compilation
Andra Keay
14 Nov 2012
If you love lists and robots, here's a selection of some great robot music....
European Robotics Week 2012
Wolfgang Heller
10 Nov 2012
The 2nd European Robotics Week will be from 26 November to 2 December 2012 and offers one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting growing impor...
