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UK funding of novel robotics concepts
Wolfgang Heller
28 Jan 2013
The Technology Strategy Board (UK) is to invest up to £1m in feasibility studies to accelerate the development of novel Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) concepts towards demonstration and explo...
Record order for KUKA Robotics
Wolfgang Heller
25 Jan 2013
Europe’s largest robot and equipment manufacturer German KUKA Roboter has won two record orders from German carmakers in November 2012.
The first order of 6,000 industrial robots came from Volk...
Innovative cooperation between workers and robots at Mercedes-Benz
Wolfgang Heller
25 Jan 2013
German automotive company Daimler has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with German KUKA AG, a leading systems integrator and robotics manufacturing company. The partnership focuses on huma...
EU-project: Walking like humans
Wolfgang Heller
25 Jan 2013
A consortium coordinated by by the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, will develop and demonstrate human-like gait and posture in a controlled compliant biped robot as a result of a combi...
Intuitive Surgical’s stock jumps 9% in one day
Frank Tobe
23 Jan 2013
... 4th quarter earnings were 23% higher than last year’s Q4 and income rose 16%. That’s 15 straight quarters beating analysts expectations. 2012 revenue was $2.178 billion.
... Intuitive...
Roadmap for creating Singooglarity?
Wolfgang Heller
23 Jan 2013
Ray Kurzweil, one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, announced in December 2012 that he will be joining Google as Director of Engineering to work on new projects involving mach...
New report shows that robots CREATE jobs
Frank Tobe
23 Jan 2013
... At an International Federation of Robotics (IFR) CEO Round Table held at Automate 2013, in Chicago, IFR executives presented a recap of a new research report on the positive impact of industrial r...
Day 1 at Automate 2013
Frank Tobe
22 Jan 2013
... In keynote, Dr. Henrik Christensen, Director of Robotics, GA Tech, described the technologies, advancements and myriad evidences of dramatic movement in robotics....
Vitirover, solar-powered mower for vineyards
John Payne
21 Jan 2013
Powered by sunlight alone, and working at 500 meters per hour, VITIROVER can cover about a hectare per hundred hours of operation. If your vineyard is larger than that you'll want more than one. VIT...
CBS News 60 Minutes provides new definition of robots
Frank Tobe
14 Jan 2013
CBS News Reporter Steve Kroft interviews Rodney Brooks at ReThink Robotics.
Click on the image to see the segment.
On Sunday, January 13, CBS News 60 Minutes reported on robots. Their focal po...
Empowered by UAVs
Wolfgang Heller
10 Jan 2013
The U.S. military UAV market is projected to grow at an 12% CAGR reaching $18.7 billion in 2018 according to a new report of Market Research Media Ltd. The report finds that the U.S. military UAV mark...
Overview of robotics at CES 2013
Andra Keay
09 Jan 2013
Robotics is still the picture rather than the story at International CES, the largest innovation and consumer electronics display in the world. When CNET’s Next Big Thing panel discussed “What is ...
Multilateral manipulation by human-robot collaborative systems
Wolfgang Heller
09 Jan 2013
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas. A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to design the optimum workplace ...
$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....
