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Engineering highly adaptable robots requires new tools for new rules
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
13 Apr 2017
Northwestern University mechanical engineering professor Todd Murphey and his team are engineering robots that one might say could make robotic assistance as seamless as "humanly" possible. With suppo...
The startup Launch Pad Competition blasts off at Automate 2017
Oliver Mitchell
13 Apr 2017
What does Magic Johnson and a twenty foot robot have in common? You guessed it, Automate 2017. While this might seem like an odd pairing, it accurately reflects the current state of the robotics indu...
#ERF2017 in tweets
SPARC
12 Apr 2017
The European Robotics Forum in Edinburgh late March brought together over 800 people from industry, academia and government. #ERF2017 is the premier event for European Robotics, with a staggering 1M i...
CSAIL launches artificial intelligence initiative with industry
CSAIL MIT
12 Apr 2017
From self-driving cars to the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI) has reached new levels of sophistication in recent years. With that in mind, this week MIT’s Computer Science and Artif...
European Robotics League gearing up for 2017-2018 season
SPARC
11 Apr 2017
The European Robotics League has closed a successful first season. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for research, the ERL brings a common framework for two indoor robotics compe...
Registration now open for 2nd annual Robotic Art Competition
Robohub Editors
11 Apr 2017
The 2017 second annual robotic art competition with $100,000 in cash prizes is now open for team registration. An international competition for all ages, the contest’s goal is to challenge teams to ...
Congratulations to Apellix: 2017 Automate Launch Pad winner
Silicon Valley Robotics
11 Apr 2017
Congratulations to Apellix, the winner of Automate 2017 Startup Launch Pad competition. Also, honorable mention goes to Kinema Systems and Sake Robotics. The Apellix received a $10,000 check sponsored...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/10/17
April 3, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Public Safety Drones
Police and first responder drones were once a sci-fi fantasy; now they are a reality, appearing with increasing frequency in cities and towns ...
The robot industry is hiring. Do you have the skills?
Hallie Siegel
10 Apr 2017
A new white paper by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) says that as many as 2 million US manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the next ten years due to a lack of skilled workers. According t...
Sports-concussion dilemma: Robot doctors could be the answer in rural America
UT Southwestern
07 Apr 2017
From bustling cities to tiny farming communities, the bright lights of the local stadium are common beacons to the Friday night ritual of high school football. But across the sprawling stretches of ru...
Billion $dollar acquisitions continue: ABB acquires B&R
Frank Tobe
04 Apr 2017
ABB, one of the Big Four global robot makers, has acquired Austrian industrial automation integrator and components manufacturer B&R (Bernecker & Rainer) Automation for an undisclosed amount b...
Robohub Digest 03/17: #ERF2017, UK budget promises, International Women’s Day and drone safety issues
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 Apr 2017
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Robolliance on-hand for ISC West’s Unmanned Security Expo
Robohub Editors
03 Apr 2017
This week (April 05-07, 2017), the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas will host ISC West 2017 in what they say is "the largest security industry trade show in the U.S.", drawing an estimated 29,000+ secur...
Did any April Fools’ Day robot pranks fool you?
Robohub Editors
02 Apr 2017
April Fools' Day brings out the pranksters and tomfoolery. Some companies (see: Google) step up their game each year! Here are a few robotics or techie related ones we spotted. Any others you enjoyed...
Grow a house with plant-robot hybrids
Horizon Magazine
30 Mar 2017
Robots and plants are being intricately linked into a new type of living technology that its creators believe could be used to grow a house....
DroneClash: Delft University of Technology organising first anti-drone race
RoboValley
29 Mar 2017
To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will host the first ever anti-drone competition: D...
Simple, creative robotics: Fotokite and ‘Walk to Beat’ receive top awards for innovative designs at European Robotics Forum
SPARC
28 Mar 2017
The 2017 European Robotics Forum in Edinburgh brought together over 800 people from robotics academia and industry. In an effort to bridge the two, euRobotics hosted an Entrepreneurship and TechTransf...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/27/17
March 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed Qari Yasin, an al-Qaeda leader who was responsible for a 2008 attack on a hotel in Islamabad. The strike took pla...
Toward printable, sensor-laden “skin” for robots
MIT News
27 Mar 2017
In this age of smartphones and tablet computers, touch-sensitive surfaces are everywhere. They’re also brittle, as people with cracked phone screens everywhere can attest.
Covering a robot — or...
Baidu loses A.I. star Andrew Ng
Frank Tobe
23 Mar 2017
In a surprise move which shook Baidu's stock, Andrew Ng, Baidu's Chief Scientist and partner with Baidu's founder Robin Li Yanhong in expanding Baidu's AI activities into machine learning, driverless ...
Classroom robotics: Training teachers to code
Amanda Jaakkola
22 Mar 2017
*All images credit: ROBBO
30 teachers arrived, excited to learn. They rolled up their sleeves and placed laptops and Robot kits on the floor. The room filled with excitement (and laughter!) as ever...
Living and working with robots: Live coverage of #ERF2017
Sabine Hauert
22 Mar 2017
Over 800 leading scientists, companies, and policymakers working in robotics will convene at the European Robotics Forum (#ERF2017) in Edinburgh, 22-24 March. This year’s theme is “Living and Wor...
Engineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
MIT News
22 Mar 2017
Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature’s hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the topmost leaves, and pumping sugars pr...
Worm-inspired material strengthens, changes shape in response to its environment
MIT News
21 Mar 2017
A new material that naturally adapts to changing environments was inspired by the strength, stability, and mechanical performance of the jaw of a marine worm. The protein material, which was designed ...
Living and working with robots: European Robotics Forum to focus on robotics markets and future of work
Kassie Perlongo
21 Mar 2017
Over 800 leading scientists, companies, and policymakers working in robotics will convene at the European Robotics Forum (#ERF2017) in Edinburgh, 22-24 March. This year’s theme is “Living and Wor...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/20/17
March 13, 2017 – March 19, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We spoke to Rolling Stone about the implications of recent advances in swarming drone technology for the future of warf...
Japan’s World Robot Summit posts challenges for teams
Silicon Valley Robotics
20 Mar 2017
Japan is holding a huge robot celebration in 2018 in Tokyo and 2020 in Aichi, Fukushima, hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and industry (METI) and the New Energy Industrial Technology Developme...
Security for multirobot systems
MIT News
17 Mar 2017
Distributed planning, communication, and control algorithms for autonomous robots make up a major area of research in computer science. But in the literature on multirobot systems, security has gotten...
Collaborating machines and avoiding soil compression
John Payne
17 Mar 2017
Soil compression can be a serious problem, but it isn't always, or in all ways, a bad thing. For example, impressions made by hoofed animals, so long as they only cover a minor fraction of the soil s...
Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
Horizon Magazine
15 Mar 2017
If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...
Three years on: An update from Leka, Robot Launch winner
Ladislas de Toldi
15 Mar 2017
Nearly three years ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for their robotic toy set on changing the way children with developmental disorders learn, play and progress. Leka...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/13/17
March 6, 2017 – March 12, 2017
News
Germany reportedly intends to acquire the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton high-altitude surveillance drone, according to a story in Sueddeutsche Zeitung. In 2...
Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine
Horizon Magazine
13 Mar 2017
Today’s self-driving car isn’t exactly autonomous – the driver has to be able to take over in a pinch, and therein lies the roadblock researchers are trying to overcome. Automated cars are hurtl...
Beyond 5G: NSF awards $6.1 million to accelerate advanced wireless research
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Mar 2017
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $6.1 million, five-year award to accelerate fundamental research on wireless communication and networking technologies through the foundation's Platfo...
Reactions from experts: Robotics and tech to receive funding boost from UK government
Kassie Perlongo
09 Mar 2017
Yesterday, the UK government announced their budget plans to invest in robotics, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and faster broadband. The spending commitments include:
£16m to create...
Supporting Women in Robotics on International Women’s Day.. and beyond.
Silicon Valley Robotics
08 Mar 2017
International Women’s Day is raising discussion about the lack of diversity and role models in STEM and the potential negative outcomes of bias and stereotyping in robotics and AI. Let’s balance...
