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Space for the masses as helium balloons and remote control planes reach through the stratosphere
Horizon Magazine
21 Nov 2016
Space will soon be within the grasp of everyday people, small countries, researchers or start-up companies thanks to a fleet of low-cost launch vehicles under development across Europe.
From remote...
Keeping a robotic eye on pollution
Horizon Magazine
19 Nov 2016
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By Ethan Bilby.
Field robots and plane-based remote sensors can patrol the earth and the sky to monitor the gases that cause climate ch...
What’s New in Robotics This Week – Nov 18
Robotiq Inc.
18 Nov 2016
Unrequited bot love; new drones rules; Jibo raises $13m; artificial skin for robots; cobots lend a helping arm; Japan's 1st robot bus trial; plant-bot hybrids and much more. Find out what's happening...
Robot Launch 2016 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round three
Andra Keay
17 Nov 2016
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for their “Readers’ Pick” startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we’ll be publishing 10 videos. Our ultimate Robohub Readers...
Air, land, and sea: ERL Emergency Robots competition dates announced
Marta Palau Franco
15 Nov 2016
The European Robotics League (ERL) is pleased to announce the dates for the major tournament of the ERL Emergency Robots competition. The 2017 challenge will be held in Piombino, Italy, from 15-23 Sep...
Eliminating cords with wireless ‘millimeter wave’ virtual reality headsets
MIT News
14 Nov 2016
One of the limits of today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/14/16
November 7, 2016 – November 13, 2016
News
President Obama has directed the Department of Defense to target the leadership of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syria-based organization that has been linked t...
Care-O-bot 4 celebrates its premiere as a shopping assistant
Fraunhofer IPA
14 Nov 2016
In January 2015, Fraunhofer IPA presented a prototype of the “Care-O-bot 4” service robot. The charming helper is now proving its worth in the real world. “Paul” the robot has been greeting cu...
New U.S. Robotics Roadmap calls for regulation, research and education
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
11 Nov 2016
A new U.S. Robotics Roadmap released Oct. 31 calls for better policy frameworks to safely integrate new technologies, such as self-driving cars and commercial drones, into everyday life. The document...
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
MIT News
11 Nov 2016
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che...
Robot Launch 2016 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round two
Andra Keay
10 Nov 2016
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for their “Readers’ Pick” startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we’ll be publishing 10 videos. Our ultimate Robohub Readers...
Driverless-vehicle options now include scooters
CSAIL MIT
10 Nov 2016
By: Larry Hardesty
At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer ...
Students develop cheap 3D printing technique for soft robotics
RoboValley
09 Nov 2016
By Jurjen Slump.
Students of Delft University of Technology have developed a new add-on for a 3D printer that can cast silicones inside a 3D printed shell during the printing process. This new, and...
What is good robot design?
Silicon Valley Robotics
08 Nov 2016
Let’s stop talking about bad robots and start talking about what makes a robot good....
Robots at your service and empowering healthy ageing at #ERW2016
Robohub Editors
07 Nov 2016
European Robotics Week 2016 (#ERW2016) is kicking off 18-22 November in Amsterdam. The central event 'Robots at your Service' is about focussing on robotic technologies to help ageing populations l...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/7/16
October 31, 2016 – November 6, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Syria killed Haydar Kirkan, a senior member of al-Qaeda and former aide to Osama bin Laden. According to a Pentagon spokesperson...
Robohub Digest 10/16: White House reports, Westworld, ESA space race and Robot Launch
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
07 Nov 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....
#DARS16 live coverage and video trailer: From robot swarms to origami modules
Sabine Hauert
07 Nov 2016
The 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) in London this week brings together the very best working in multi-robot systems....
Robotics tutor for primary school children
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
04 Nov 2016
By: Ian Salter
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
Talking Machines: ANGLICAN and Probabilistic Programming
Talking Machines
04 Nov 2016
In episode seventeen of season two, we get an introduction to Min Hashing, talk with Frank Wood the creator of ANGLICAN, about probabilistic programming and his new company, INVREA, and take a listene...
Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
Robohub Editors
03 Nov 2016
In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...
Clearpath Robotics launches “Warthog UGV”, the amphibious robot
Clearpath Robotics
03 Nov 2016
Clearpath Robotics, a leading provider of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, has partnered with ARGO XTR to release Warthog – a large, amphibious, all-terrain mobile robot desig...
Robot Launch 2016 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round one
Andra Keay
02 Nov 2016
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for their “Readers’ Pick” startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we’ll be publishing 10 videos. Our ultimate Robohub Readers...
Unmanned and underneath: Stay in the know about underwater drones
Dan Gettinger
02 Nov 2016
Editor's note: This article is adapted from a post from November 2015 and includes recent developments and updated spending figures.
In October 2016, the U.K. Royal Navy hosted Unmanned Warr...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/31/16
October 24, 2016 – October 30, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Last year, we posted one of our regular “Need to Know” cheat sheets about the growing field of underwater drone...
Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding
Zee Dubrovsky
31 Oct 2016
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Root is a robot, originally developed at Harvard University, that helps anyone from four to ...
No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
Robohub Editors
28 Oct 2016
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
Making computers explain themselves
MIT News
28 Oct 2016
In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classi...
Announcing the Robot Launch Shortlist
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Oct 2016
It's time to showcase the Robot Launch semifinalists, or 'The Shortlist'. Every week over the next month you will meet 9-10 very interesting robotics and AI startups from all over the world and you w...
A variable stiffness fiber that self-heals
NCCR Robotics
27 Oct 2016
A group from Floreano Lab, EPFL and NCCR Robotics has today published their novel variable stiffness fibre with self-healing capability.
Soft “hardware” components are becoming more and more po...
Electric motors expanding application and efficiency in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
MIT News
25 Oct 2016
Electric motors have been around since Thomas Davenport built the first functional model in 1834, and they have played a growing part in our lives ever since. Today, they continue to replace diesel an...
Protecting infrastructure and innovation, under Section 2209 of the FAA extension
Diana Marina Cooper
25 Oct 2016
On July 15, 2016, Congress enacted the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act (the “Act”), which among other things, directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a process to enable appli...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/24/16
October 17, 2016 – October 23, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In their perennial bid to better understand the weather, scientists are increasingly turning to drones, from high-a...
Robot-assisted search and rescue conducts joint training exercise with Italian Coast Guard
Robin Murphy and Gianluca Antonelli
24 Oct 2016
The Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station conducted a joint training exercise with the Italian Coast Guard in Genoa, Italy to prevent fu...
Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
MIT News
21 Oct 2016
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
