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‘Green Brain’ aims to build robot bees
Andra Keay
02 Oct 2012
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Sussex are trying to build an artificial honey bee brain. Called 'Green Brain', this project aims to simulate insect sensory systems, primarily seeing an...
World Maker Faire New York
John Payne
30 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/_jc2UdIqDMA
Hot on the heels of the Open Hardware Summit, comes the World Maker Faire New York. In progress as I write, it is being held at the New York Hall of Science, Q...
Open Hardware Summit and MakerBot
John Payne
30 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/FU08-_-A17Y
The attached video, posted by Make Magazine, addresses what was apparently a subject of much discussion at the 2012 Open Hardware Summit, this past Thursday, w...
Robotics and the mountain of things we throw away
Frank Tobe
30 Sep 2012
“Cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash - surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-ca...
UC Davis Receives $1.25M from NSF
John Payne
28 Sep 2012
This video shows the type of work that is being supported by two grants, totaling $1.25 Million, awarded earlier this week to UC Davis by the National Science Foundation. Both of the projects receivin...
Video: Watch flying robots cooperate, throw and catch balls
Markus Waibel
27 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGJBV1xnJI
My colleagues at the ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have just released a new video. Here is what Robin Ritz, Lead Researcher on the project, has ...
3 reasons to crowdfund a robot
Andra Keay
26 Sep 2012
Kickstarter’s recent decision making it very difficult for hardware projects to use the platform just highlights two very useful things to know about crowdfunding. Firstly, not all crowdfunding plat...
Robots or immigrants in shrinking Japan
Wolfgang Heller
25 Sep 2012
Who will take over future jobs and welfare services in a shrinking Japan, immigrants or robots? According to a projection of the overall size and the age breakdown of the future population in Japan ...
Grishin’s first investment: Double Robotics
Andra Keay
21 Sep 2012
It was announced today that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 into Y Combinator startup Double Robotics. Double Robotics have already sold out their first order of affordable telepresence rob...
Thymio II toolset complete
John Payne
11 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/RTi7DjqlGO8
Thymio II was introduced at the 2011 EPFL Robotic Festival. Now, with the introduction of Aseba, the creative toolset associated with it is complete. Aseba allows even yo...
Walking paper robot
Markus Waibel
09 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7nS7_Kf7E
This is insane - and really cool: This biped robot is made out of paper, folded with origami precision, and driven by an elastic band.
Here's...
2011 industrial and service robotics statistics
Frank Tobe
07 Sep 2012
The International Federation of Robotics has released their 2012 books reflecting 2011 results, and projections for 2012-2015....
Credit Suisse picks 7 automation/robotics stocks
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2012
Max Nisen of Business Insider wrote recently of a list of seven stock picks discovered in a Credit Suisse report on long term trends. One of those trends was increasing global automation (particularly...
A #botiful evening at Robotics Meetup
Andra Keay
22 Aug 2012
Claire Delauney’s Botiful Kickstarter campaign is in its last hours and as she crosses the funded line, Claire shares with us some of her strategies and insights into running a successful Kickstarte...
New wave of deft robots is changing global industry | NY Times
Markus Waibel
21 Aug 2012
An article in today's edition of the NY Times gives a comprehensive overview of robotic's influence on assembly lines and warehouses in the manufacturing and distribution industries.
Two quotes to ...
ETH summer school on soft robotics
Markus Waibel
17 Aug 2012
ETH Zurich's summer school on Soft Robotics is over. But as of today, you can have a look at the lecture videos and lecture material online!
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Chameleon robot changes color depending on surroundings
Markus Waibel
17 Aug 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1WFU4G-WU
A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by researchers at Harvard University. It was in...
Kickstarter and robots – not always #botiful
Andra Keay
14 Aug 2012
SF Bay Area Robotics meetup – August 21 7pm – 8.30pm at Lemnos Labs – is a kickstarter edition. Claire Delauney will share her experience with Botiful, as she reaches the final 12 hours of her K...
Cardboard robots are coming
Andra Keay
09 Aug 2012
Ken Ihara’s creation “The Cardboard Robot” has just been funded on Kickstarter. The Cardboard Robot is a giant industrial sized robot arm with a reach just shy of 6 feet. Attach the smart pho...
Curiosity lands safely and In working order
John Payne
06 Aug 2012
Depending on which time zone you're in, either yesterday evening or early this morning, a rocket-powered sky crane lowered the Curiosity rover gently to the surface of Mars, just in time for Curiosity...
Parrot invests in SenseFly and Pix4D
John Payne
01 Aug 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVxOleKf8s
Last week, SenseFly and Pix4D announced deals with drone maker Parrot, in which Parrot will invest in both companies, 5 million Swiss francs in SenseFly and...
The beginning of something important: InTouch Health and iRobot’s RP-VITA
Frank Tobe
01 Aug 2012
Last week I attended the 7th Annual Remote Presence Clinical Innovations Forum hosted by InTouch Health in Santa Barbara, CA, a two-day users conference disseminating the latest information regarding ...
Quote from Clay Johnson, author of “The Information Diet”
John Payne
30 Jul 2012
We industrialized our agricultural firms, consolidating them into multinational, billion dollar publicly traded corporations. As a result, they no longer have nutritional responsibility, they have fid...
QNA’s tactical robot controller
John Payne
28 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/qQqp03-PUBE
Many robots, one controller, or at least that's the idea. The Tactical Robot Controller (or TRC) is the latest innovation out of QinetiQ North America's Unmanned Systems G...
Mazor Robotics’ Renaissance okayed for brain surgery
John Payne
27 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/HiHpiwBW5z0
Mazor Robotics announced on July 16th that its Renaissance robotic platform, already in wide use for spinal surgery, has received U.S. FDA clearance for use in brain surge...
InTouch Health & iRobot announce RP-VITA
John Payne
27 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/hoAPTpwkFtw
In a joint press release, US companies InTouch Health and iRobot have announced a new telepresence robot for hospitals. The robot called "RP-VITA" builds on iRobot's AVA p...
Robot Launchpad on Robots Podcast
Andra Keay
26 Jul 2012
Robots Podcast is the place to hear the latest well informed news and views on robotics. I’m honored to have been interviewed about Robot Launchpad for the July 13 2012 podcast. Robots is a non...
2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival
John Payne
24 Jul 2012
The 2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival screening took place nine days ago, in the 3LD Art & Technology Center (New York City). Selected entries appear on the Robot Film Festival website, and Au...
Headlights that see through rain; A robotic seamstress
Frank Tobe
20 Jul 2012
Normally I don't write about scientific breakthroughs that may or may not turn into commercial products. But these two are sure winners and I wanted to share them with you....
Explosive motions
Sabine Hauert
16 Jul 2012
Throwing, hitting, jumping or kicking are often referred to as explosive movements since they require the sudden release of large amounts of energy to be successful. Instead of using large and powerfu...
Toddler robot with realistic facial expressions
John Payne
16 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/Quai3SpKD08
On which side of the 'uncanny valley' would you place the robotic child in the above video? Researchers at Osaka University are developing a robot in the form of a 1-to-2 ...
Artificial cerebellum
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
Researchers in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, and in the Department of Computer Architecture and Electronics, University of Almería, have developed a b...
Aeroponics (using mist in place of full submersion)
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
LED lights are far more efficient than incandescents, but enough light to drive photosynthesis will still require significant power, so one still might ask where the power is going to come from....
Aldebaran’s Shape the World recruiting video
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/-KvEyV8X5II
Having noticed a recent trend towards robotics companies releasing videos with high production values, this one caught my eye. Aldebaran Robotics is hiring, and produced a...
Hizook on video ethics in robotics research
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
Last Monday (July 2nd), Hizook posted a thoughtful piece, Being Honest in Robot Videos: Motion Capture, Speedup Rates, and Teleoperation, which covers even more ground than its title suggests. The art...
3D printing blood vessels and metal
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/9VHFlwJQIkE
Above, researchers at UPenn and MIT print blood vessels, using sugar. Once the sugar hardens, cells suspended in gel are added. Once the gel solidifies, the su...
