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Robohub Digest 12/16: Robotics in 2017, AI economy, robocar and drone evolution, challenging the gender bias in robotics
Jana Witt and Alex Kirkpatrick
05 Jan 2017
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
CES 2017 pre-news: Ford Fusion, Nvidia, MobilEye, HERE, BMW, Intel and other partnerships
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Jan 2017
Thursday night, and I am heading off to CES, and it’s become the main show it seems for announcing robocar news. There’s already a bunch....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/02/17
December 26, 2016 – January 1, 2017
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Year in Review
2016 was many things to many p...
Robohub’s 10 most viewed articles from 2016
Robohub Editors
30 Dec 2016
Love it or leave it, 2016 just happened. But before we leap feet-first into 2017, we're taking a breath and looking back at our 10 most viewed articles from the past year. From aerial drones to agricu...
Celebrating 9 Years of ROS
Open Source Robotics Foundation
28 Dec 2016
This year marks the occasion of ROS turning 9 years old! Over the years, ROS has grown into a strong world-wide community. It’s a community with a large variety of interests: from academic research...
A look back at Cybathlon 2016
NCCR Robotics
27 Dec 2016
On 8 October 2016, the world's first Cybathlon took place in Zurich, Switzerland. The event, organised by ETH Zurich with NCCR Robotics as presenting sponsor, offered the opportunity for people with d...
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 4
Robohub Editors
22 Dec 2016
Happy holidays! Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
White House report: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the economy
Robohub Editors
22 Dec 2016
The White House released a new report on the ways that artificial intelligence will transform the US economy over the coming years and decades....
New Horizon 2020 robotics projects starting in 2017
Robohub Editors
21 Dec 2016
The list of the new H2020 project in robotics from Call 3 2016 and the call under Societal Challenges 2016 is ready. The 17 robotics projects funded under Horizon 2020 will work with a wide variety o...
All algorithms on deck: Working on robotic ships
RoboValley
20 Dec 2016
By: Jurjen Slump
QR-codes that provide autonomous vessels with traffic information on buoys, ships or port buildings. Algorithms for controlling a ship’s unexpected movements. Fleets of autonomou...
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 3
Robohub Editors
20 Dec 2016
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Technology is a means not an end: Experts on robotics for elderly care at #ERW2016
SPARC
19 Dec 2016
At the pinnacle event, panellists from Robotics for Elderly Care engaged with audience members in a lively discussion about topics ranging from how quickly technology is developing to how perceptions...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/19/16
December 12, 2016 – December 18, 2016
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Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves
CSAIL MIT
19 Dec 2016
Machines that predict the future, robots that patch wounds and wireless emotion-detectors are just a few of the exciting projects that came out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
Uber must follow California’s laws
Bryant Walker Smith
19 Dec 2016
Uber is testing its self-proclaimed “self-driving” vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California’s automated driving law. California’s Department o...
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 2
Robohub Editors
16 Dec 2016
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
Learning words from pictures
MIT News
16 Dec 2016
Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files an...
A drone that flies (almost) like a bird
NCCR Robotics
16 Dec 2016
Bioinspired robots that take their designs from biology has been a big research area in recent years, but a team from NCCR Robotics, Floreano Lab have just gone one step further and designed a feat...
How do we regulate robo-morality?
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
15 Dec 2016
In April 2016, British Standards Institution (BSI) published the world’s first ethical standard for the design, production, sale, and usage of social robots. “BS 8611: 2016 Robots and robotic devi...
‘It’s a reminder we are making a difference in the world’: Girls of Steel follow up
Theresa Richards and Andra Keay
14 Dec 2016
The Girls of Steel – a competitive FIRST team in Pittsburg, PA – is on a mission to engage more young women into engineering. Over the last few years, we’ve heard what it’s like to be part of ...
Holiday robot videos 2016: Part 1
Robohub Editors
13 Dec 2016
Our first few submissions have now arrived! Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/12/16
December 5, 2016 – December 11, 2016
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In a few weeks, we will send out our 200th Weekly Roundup. We greatly appreciate you as a subscriber and welcome yo...
Call for holiday robot videos 2016
Robohub Editors
09 Dec 2016
That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new robot holiday videos on Robohub! Drop your submissions down our chimney at editors@robohub.org and share the ...
QuadBot: The 3D printed crab-bot scuttling beyond its Kickstarter goal
Josh Elijah
09 Dec 2016
Robotics is becoming more accessible for many people, but the complexities of legged robots mean they remain beyond the reach of most consumers. The complex mechanics, electronics and code algorithms ...
Robots at your service: Empowering healthy aging at European Robotics Week, 2016
Thosha Moodley
08 Dec 2016
The European Robotics Week in 2016 took place from 18 to 22 November in several countries including The Netherlands, Austria, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Serbia and many more. This event has been occ...
One being for two origins: A new perspective on roboethics
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
08 Dec 2016
The concept One Being for Two Origins, from the teachings of Buddha, considers the unification of technology, nature, and human beings. It emerges from the theory of the three aspects: The values of t...
Latest release of Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR) for Horizon 2020 now online
Robohub Editors
07 Dec 2016
Europe’s roadmap for robotics released its latest version on 2 December. The MAR is updated annually as priorities, technologies and strategic developments shape European research development and i...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/5/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
Robohub Digest 11/16: Politics and robotics, US Robotics Roadmap, and European Robotics Week
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
05 Dec 2016
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Design, simulate and build a custom drone
CSAIL MIT
05 Dec 2016
This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want?
A new system fro...
How the brain recognizes faces
MIT News
01 Dec 2016
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
ViDi Systems wins the Robot Launch 2016 competition
Andra Keay
01 Dec 2016
Vidi Systems from Switzerland is the overall Grand Winner of the 2016 Robot Launch global startup competition, beating out many US contestants in a field that included sensors, artificial intelligenc...
Robohub is a top 10 brand in robotics
Kassie Perlongo
01 Dec 2016
Yesterday, Onalytica released a report "Robotics: Top 100 Influencers and their Brands" that analysed interactions between robotics influencers and brands on Twitter over a period of 90 ...
Commerce announces first artificial intelligence hearing today, livestream available
Robohub Editors
30 Nov 2016
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness will convene a hearing today, 30 November, at 2:30 p.m. EST on “The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence....
Understanding the four types of AI, from reactive robots to self-aware beings
Arend Hintze
30 Nov 2016
The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, ...
Giving thanks to Robohub on #GivingTuesday
Robohub Editors
29 Nov 2016
Dear Readers,
For #GivingTueday, we would like to ask you, our loyal readers, to consider donating to Robohub. From the beginning, our mission has been to help demystify robotics by hearing straight...
