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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/23/17
January 16, 2017 – January 22, 2017
News
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Yemen killed at least three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. According to local officials, both strike...
Combining automation and mobility to create a smarter world
MIT News
20 Jan 2017
By: Catherine Marguerite | Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachus...
Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Jan 2017
The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...
Open Bionics partners with NHS for feasibility study to develop hands for amputees
Kassie Perlongo
19 Jan 2017
Open Bionics is to be awarded to £100,000 through SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England initiative, as part of its new challenge to fund innovations that will support children living with disability and lo...
How is Robohub doing? Take our annual reader survey
Kassie Perlongo
18 Jan 2017
It's time to get your feedback about how we are doing at Robohub. What do you love reading? What would you change? [tweetquote]Take Robohub's reader survey to get your voice heard and earn a chance t...
A Pepper-warm reception at Decos
Thosha Moodley
18 Jan 2017
Like some angular alien architecture, Decos' futuristic development lab appears freshly landed in a martian lanscape. Underneath the sharp geometry and vectors, inside, the highly innovative company...
Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Jan 2017
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather th...
EU needs to take the lead on regulating robots and artificial intelligence, MEPs suggest
Robohub Editors
16 Jan 2017
EU rules for the fast-evolving field of robotics, for example, compliance with ethical standards and liability for accidents involving driverless cars, should be put forward by the EU Commission, urge...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/16/17
January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017
News
Popular French hobby drone maker Parrot laid off 290 out of 840 workers after posting growing losses in recent months. Parrot lost $27.8 million in the ...
#IROS2016 in pictures
MeiXing Dong and Audrow Nash
15 Jan 2017
The 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) took place in October, in Daejeon, Korea. IROS is an annual robotics conference that seeks to "explore the fronti...
#CES2017 in pictures
Kassie Perlongo
13 Jan 2017
CES 2017 has come and gone. As a first-timer in attendance, I couldn't help but marvel at the featured robots and all robotics related gadgets, toys, start-ups, wearables, and AI coming to market. I'l...
Brian Cox presents Science Matters: Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Robohub Editors
11 Jan 2017
We're beginning to see more and more jobs being performed by machines, even creative tasks like writing music or painting can now be carried out by a computer.
But how and when will machines be abl...
MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance
MIT News
10 Jan 2017
The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the ...
Implantable microrobots: Manufacturing intricate biocompatible micromachines
Columbia Engineering
10 Jan 2017
A team of researchers led by Biomedical Engineering Professor Sam Sia at Columbia Engineering has developed a way to manufacture microscale machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in t...
Robot Life Survey
What might the first western explorer have thought upon encountering whales, flamingos and iguanas? What would have they thought of these strange near-fantastical creatures?
What is it like for 21s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17
January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...
A report on the ELS Workshop 2016
The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Social Robots in Healthcare and Education Workshop (also called ELS Workshop) was held in Yokohama the 14th Nov 2016 during the JSAI-isAI Conference. The works...
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
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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...
