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The Monospinner: world’s mechanically simplest controllable flying machine
The Monospinner (Fig.1), developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, is the mechanically simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence. It has only one moving part ...
Robohub Digest 04/16: FAA reauthorization, drone ships and US National Robotics Week
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
03 May 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....
FIRST hosts 20,000 students in world’s largest robotics competition
Frank Tobe
03 May 2016
More than 20,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis to compete in the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship. The 4-day event ended...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/2/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
From April 11 to 15, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons convened hundreds of delegates from member states and non-governmental or...
Octopus points to the future for keyhole surgery
Horizon Magazine
02 May 2016
by Rex Merrifield
Keyhole, or minimally invasive, surgery can offer many benefits over more traditional, open operations, including reduced risk of infections, quicker recovery times and less scarrin...
IdeaHub, ABB recruiting innovators for 2nd round robotics accelerator programme
Simon Blair and IdeaHub / Venturebright
02 May 2016
Innovation platform, The IdeaHub, is once again recruiting robotics and software innovators worldwide to take on the challenge of improving the way we work and interact with the next generation of ind...
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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Abate De Mey
01 May 2016
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
What’s new in robotics this week? SpaceX sending Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
29 Apr 2016
Musk for Mars; Mexican robotics revolution; Russia "battle bot"; MIT student's robot kitchen; Integrating automation; and more. Find out what's happening in our robotics universe this week....
Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war
Alaa Khamis
28 Apr 2016
Landmines are one of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare. In the military, they are considered the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses. The simplicity and cost-effect...
MIT CSAIL’s 6-foot-tall NASA humanoid robot has landed
CSAIL MIT
28 Apr 2016
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL
This week MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) received an unusual package: a six-foot-tall, 300-pound humanoid robot that NASA h...
Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Apr 2016
New Zealand’s government innovation agency Callaghan Innovations and Silicon Valley’s innovation non-profit SVForum organized Transforming AgTech, an event bringing together New Zealand and US a...
Cable-driven parallel robots: Motion simulation in a new dimension
To date, cable-driven parallel robots have been used in production environments, where they meet high requirements. The systems surpass conventional industrial robots in size and payload by between on...
10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
26 Apr 2016
No agricultural robotics startup will be successful without a strong connection to the farm. And here are 10 strategies for creating that connection I’ve seen succeed. Thanks to the great panel a...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/25/16
4/18/16 – 4/24/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The recently released movie Eye in the Sky offers a sobering portrait of contemporary counterterrorism operations. In an interview, d...
A robotic fish to save the seas
Silicon Valley Robotics
23 Apr 2016
It’s a water drone, it’s an aquatic robot…it’s a BIV, as in Bio-Inspired Vehicle and these marine BIVs are designed to combat the degrading state of our waterways....
Robotic consensus
MIT News
22 Apr 2016
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized algorithms, in which each rob...
Talking Machines: Remembering David MacKay
Talking Machines
22 Apr 2016
Recently Professor David MacKay passed away. We’ll spend this episode talking about his extensive body of work and its impacts. We’ll also talk with Philipp Hennig, a research group leader at the ...
What to expect from autonomous cars
SPARC
21 Apr 2016
Over 25,700 people died in car crashes in the European Union in 2014, and 200,000 came home with life-changing injuries....
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
MIT News
21 Apr 2016
MIT has offered courses on everything from pirate training to “street-fighting math,” but a new robotics class is truly one for the birds....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/18/16
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A British Airways passenger jet reportedly collided with a drone on final approach to Heathrow airport. According to The Guardian, a ground crew that inspected the Airbus A320 upon its arrival a...
How to hire women
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
18 Apr 2016
It’s super hard to find skilled people willing to work for robotics companies in Silicon Valley. Even though robotics is awesome and going to change the world. Because big companies with big payche...
Root: A robot to empower the next generation of coders
Wyss Institute
18 Apr 2016
Computing is currently the fastest growing segment in the STEM fields, yet education in this area has lagged behind technological progress and demand. In early 2016, President Barack Obama unveiled hi...
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Mecha Monsters, with Silas Adekunle
Audrow Nash
17 Apr 2016
Transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Silas Adekunle, Co-founder and CEO of Reach Robotics. They speak about Reach Robotics’ first product, Mecha Monsters: legged, gaming robo...
New startup accelerator looks to enable smart and connected machines
Sabine Hauert
14 Apr 2016
The Kickstart Accelerator program in Switzerland is currently accepting applications from early-stage startups making "smart and connected machines", namely robots....
Why robots need to be able to say ‘No’
Matthias Scheutz
13 Apr 2016
Should you always do what other people tell you to do? Clearly not. Everyone knows that. So should future robots always obey our commands? At first glance, you might think they should, simply because ...
Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat
Christian Bettstetter
13 Apr 2016
Samira Hayat is following her calling: She has been a member of the Mobile Systems research team at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems since 2012. Before that, she studied in Trento. Ma...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/11/16
4/4/16 – 4/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Every few years, the Federal Aviation Administration has to be authorized so that it can receive funding and do its job. The U.S. Cong...
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....
