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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
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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...
Mayfield Robotics to introduce enhanced interactions with Kuri
Kuri
07 Mar 2017
It’s been about 8 weeks since we first introduced Kuri to the world at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and we’re incredibly, amazingly, stupendously happy to keep hearing from people ab...
Leg over wheels: Ghost robotics’ Minitaur proves legged capabilities over difficult terrain
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Mar 2017
Ghost Robotics—a leader in fast and lightweight direct-drive legged robots—announced recently that its Minitaur model has been updated with advanced reactive behaviors for navigating grass, rock, ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/6/17
February 27, 2017 – March 5, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We spoke to The Daily Beast to help make sense of ISIL’s growing use of armed consumer drones in the conflict in Sy...
Mind control: Correcting robot mistakes using EEG brain signals
CSAIL MIT
06 Mar 2017
For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, for example, or giving them explicit comm...
Robohub Digest 02/17: Asilomar AI principles, robot tax, drone art and Super Bowl LI
Alex Kirkpatrick and Jana Witt
06 Mar 2017
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By 2030, will traffic jams be a thing of the past?
Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd
03 Mar 2017
Imagine a future where self-driving cars, trains and buses are all seamlessly connected through an app, where traffic jams are a thing of the past and redundant car parks have been turned into green s...
Yves Behar designs a security robot for Cobalt Robotics
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
02 Mar 2017
Cobalt Robotics has launched their stylish security robot. The robot was designed by Yves Behar and as a fabric covered robot, it’s putting a new spin on soft robotics! Behar’s goal was to creat...
Bristol professors to play role in creating robots for dangerous nuclear sites
UWE Bristol
01 Mar 2017
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is part of a consortium which has received a £4.6 million grant to build a new generation of robots for use in nuclear sites. The funding from the ...
3D-printed houses and cars on the horizon as manufacturing goes large
Horizon Magazine
01 Mar 2017
Housebuilders and makers of car parts in a few decades time may need nothing more than a large robotic arm, some raw ingredients and a programmable design, thanks to the next-generation of 3D printing...
Shakey is first robot to receive IEEE Milestone award
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
28 Feb 2017
Shakey the Robot, the world’s first mobile, intelligent robot, developed at SRI International between 1966-1972, was the first robot to be honored with a prestigious IEEE Milestone in Electrical En...
Boston Dynamics’ newest robot: Introducing Handle
Kassie Perlongo
28 Feb 2017
Handle is a research robot standing 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic actuators, with a range of about 15 miles o...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/27/17
February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Dronescapes is a collection of vibrant, mystical paintings of drones by Australian artist Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fo...
Insect-inspired mechanical resilience for multicopters
NCCR Robotics
27 Feb 2017
Over recent years the explosion in popularity of drones, both professionally and for amateur use, has inspired researchers to consider how to make flying robots as safe and robust as possible. Previou...
Robust bipedal Cassie to transform robot mobility
Kassie Perlongo
24 Feb 2017
Cassie is an advanced legged mobility robot. Created by Oregon State University spin-off, Agility Robotics, Cassie's engineering team has big plans for this robot to assist rescuers in disaster relief...
Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
Philip English
23 Feb 2017
Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...
Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE: Semi-finalists set sail on a journey to illuminate the ocean
Jyotika Virmani
22 Feb 2017
We have just taken another momentous step in the journey to unveil the hidden wonders of our own planet!
Since the launch of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE at the American Geophysical Union Fall ...
Drones for good 2.0: How WeRobotics is redefining the use of unmanned systems in developing countries
Waypoint
22 Feb 2017
Robotics undoubtedly has the potential to improve lives in the developing world. However, with limited budgets and expertise on the ground, putting this technology in place is no small task. Step forw...
Ocado evaluating robotic manipulation for online shopping orders
Graham Deacon
21 Feb 2017
Ocado, the world’s largest online-only supermarket, has been evaluating the feasibility of robotic picking and packing of shopping orders in its highly-automated warehouses through the SoMa project,...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/20/17
February 13, 2017 – February 19, 2017
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Telecommunications firm Verizon has acquired Skyward, a drone operations management company. Skyward develops software for drone operators to manage ...
What we talk about when we talk about robotics
Fabio Bonsignorio
20 Feb 2017
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is a collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver. In his collection, he doesn’t provide a direct definition of love but instead lets ...
Putting data in the hands of doctors
MIT News
17 Feb 2017
Computer scientist Regina Barzilay is working with MIT students and medical doctors in an ambitious bid to revolutionize cancer care. She is relying on a tool largely unrecognized in the oncology wor...
Discovering optimal strategies for fast robotic walking and climbing
NCCR Robotics
17 Feb 2017
Chances are that you’ve never given much thought to how insects walk, or what combination of leg movements–or gaits–is most stable or fastest, but, if like a group of scientists from Ramdya, Flo...
Cargo drones deliver in the Amazon rainforest
Patrick Meier
16 Feb 2017
The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines an...
Switzerland invites international startups to disrupt key industries
Robohub Editors
16 Feb 2017
Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators and an initiative of digitalswitzerland, has today announced that applications are open to inte...
NAIST OpenHand M2S released
Felix von Drigalski
16 Feb 2017
The NAIST OpenHand M2S was developed by a team of students as part of the school’s annual CICP project (read the blog post about it here), in which students can propose and organize their own resear...
