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SpaceX nails landing on drone ship
Kassie Perlongo
11 Apr 2016
After several unsuccessful attempts, SpaceX finally made a perfect touchdown with its Falcon 9 rocket on the drone ship, aptly named: 'Of Course I Still Love You.' A historic moment with the help...
AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’
Frank Tobe
08 Apr 2016
From the Smithsonian comes news - and a must-see fascinating video - about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature...
Talking Machines: Machine learning and society, with Neil Lawrence
Talking Machines
08 Apr 2016
Episode seven of season two is a little different than our usual episodes; Ryan and Katherine returned from a conference where they got to talk with Neil Lawrence from University of Sheffield about so...
Robots that may help you in your silver age
SPARC
07 Apr 2016
By 2020, a quarter of Europeans will be over 60. In their silver age, many would like to stay in their homes and will require care from family or social workers....
National Robotics Week 2016
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2016
Happy National Robotics Week! This week robot-related activities, events, and talks are happening all across the US. Are you attending any events near you? ...
3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required
CSAIL MIT
06 Apr 2016
By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
One reason we don’t yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, ...
Smart Digital Factory Lab showcasing Industry 4.0
Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette and Robotiq Inc.
05 Apr 2016
We often see robotic or automated cells purposed to do a single motion or a very specific application. However, with all the new technology available in the market, it is interesting to see how each s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/4/16
3/28/16 – 4/3/16
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The U.S. military announced that it carried out a drone strike in Somalia targeting Hassan Ali Dhoore, a senior leader of al-Shabab’s intelligence and security division...
Robohub Digest 03/16: Robotics’ first unicorn, AlphaGo success, and Tay and Google Car failures
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
04 Apr 2016
[tweetquote]A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news[/tweetquote], our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products
Tyson Messori
04 Apr 2016
UPDATE: Only 7 days left to back Sweep! They are now almost 80% funded....
Japan’s first 5-axis hybrid 3D printer
DigInfo TV
04 Apr 2016
In a collaborative research effort, Enomoto Kogyo, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, and software company C&G Systems have developed Japan’s first 5-axis hybrid 3D printer, capable of ...
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Hadrian Bricklaying Robot, with Mark Pivac
Ron Vanderkley
02 Apr 2016
Transcript below.In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mark Pivoc from FastBrick about Hadrian the bricklaying robot. Fastbrick is an Australian robotics firm aiming to disrupt the local bric...
April Fools’ Day hijinks with robots
Robohub Editors
01 Apr 2016
Lots of companies have been promoting hilarious robot news pranks. Here are a few that caught our eye. What are some of your favourites?...
Teach your dog to code with robots!
Silicon Valley Robotics
01 Apr 2016
Spoiler alert. It’s April 1. But this is actually happening, just not quite the way SF educational robot startup Wonder Workshop describe it in this wonderful video about their new release – Wonde...
Wireless localizer could mean safer drones and password-free WiFi
CSAIL MIT
01 Apr 2016
By Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
We’ve all been there, impatiently twiddling our thumbs while trying to locate a WiFi signal. But what if, instead, the WiFi could locate us?...
#ERF2016 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches
Robohub Editors
01 Apr 2016
Robohub was at the European Robotics Forum in Lubljana, Slovenia last week. We captured pitches from some of the European projects presented at the conference and funded under the last Horizon2020 cal...
Drones to help farmers with weed control
Horizon Magazine
01 Apr 2016
by Fintan Burke
The last place you might expect to find drones and rovers is checking up on a corn field, but they could soon join tractors and ploughs on a farmer’s list of must-have agricultura...
iRobot’s $199 floor mopper designed for Chinese markets
Frank Tobe
31 Mar 2016
iRobot has been streamlining its operations to focus on consumer products and enhancing shareholder value. Recent moves to divest their defense division, launch a low-cost Braava Jet floor cleaner...
3D Robotics undergoing layoffs and other challenges
Frank Tobe
29 Mar 2016
3D Robotics unveiled sweeping changes by closing its San Diego facility, reducing staff at its Berkeley headquarters and in Austin, TX, and acknowledging that co-founder and president Jordi Muñoz ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/28/16
3/21/16 – 3/27/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On Friday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration released 582 new reports of incidents involving drones in the national airsp...
Talking Machines: Software and statistics for machine learning, with Rob Tibshirani
Talking Machines
27 Mar 2016
In episode six of season two, we talk about how to build software for machine learning (and what the roadblocks are), we take a listener question about how to start exploring a new dataset, plus, we t...
Phone-based laser rangefinder works outdoors
MIT News
27 Mar 2016
The Microsoft Kinect was a boon to robotics researchers. The cheap, off-the-shelf depth sensor allowed them to quickly and cost-effectively prototype innovative systems that enable robots to map, inte...
Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore
MIT News
27 Mar 2016
An exciting “driverless race” is underway among tech giants the United States: In recent months, Google, Uber, and Tesla have made headlines for developing self-driving taxis for big cities....
Why making robots is still hard
SPARC
23 Mar 2016
Making robots is no easy task. If you talk to roboticists, they will tell you that it took years before the last robot they built or programmed was any good at performing a specific task. And although...
Interview: Billion dollar brain with Professor Alois Knoll
Robotics and Automation News
23 Mar 2016
By: Abdul Montaqim
Professor Knoll, one of the most influential roboticists in Europe, is currently the co-ordinator of the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (Echord), and one of...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/21/16
3/14/16 – 3/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In our new report, “Analysis of U.S. Drone Exemptions 2014-2015,” we studied 2,700 FAA permits for non-recreational drone use to ...
Focus on innovation, skills, and regulation at #ERF2016 panel discussion
Kassie Perlongo
22 Mar 2016
The opportunities for building “digital” environments where robots are integral parts, such as in manufacturing and processing industries, transport, health and environment, smart cities and regi...
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Satellite Assembly in Space, with John Lymer
Andrew Vaziri
19 Mar 2016
In this episode, Andrew Vaziri speaks with John Lymer, Chief Architect of Robotics and Automation at SSL. They highlight key programs in space robotics from the 1980s through to SSL’s current progra...
Harvest Automation stumbles with warehouse robot
Frank Tobe
19 Mar 2016
In a Boston Globe story by Scott Kirsner, it was revealed that Harvest Automation's CEO has departed, as have 3/4 of the 30 employees that worked there in 2015. The company is attempting to sell it...
Live coverage of #ERF2016
Robohub Editors
18 Mar 2016
The next edition of the European Robotics Forum is kicking off in Ljubljana.
This 3-day event, from March 21-23, is a meeting point for at least 600 scientists, companies and robotics officials fr...
Robotics has its first unicorn – small SF startup Cruise Automation
Andra Keay
18 Mar 2016
Forget about Google and Boston Dynamics. This week the real news is that GM acquired small San Francisco based startup Cruise Automation for the rumored sum of more than $1B US, according to Fortune....
Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2016
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Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...
Report: Analysis of U.S. drone exemptions 2014-2015
The Centre for the Study of the Drone has released a new report on the state of the growing commercial drone industry....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/14/16
3/7/16 – 3/13/16
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A major U.S. airstrike in Somalia reportedly killed at least 150 al-Shabab fighters. The strike, which was carried out by manned and unmanned aircraft, targeted a compoun...
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Agilic and PiBot, with Harry Gee
Abate De Mey
14 Mar 2016
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Harry Gee, founder of the robotics startup Agilic. Harry discusses his company and the robots he designed using the Raspberry Pi and Pi zero. He then discusse...
Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches
Talking Machines
14 Mar 2016
In episode five of season two, Ryan walks us through variational inference. We put some listener questions about Go and how to play it to Andy Okun, president of the American Go Association (who is in...
