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US feds propose $4B investment in robocars, seek unified regulatory policy
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Jan 2016
NHTSA, the federal car safety agency, has been talking about getting into the robocar game for a while, and now declares it wants more involvement with two important details:
Unlike California, th...
Flying robots, with Dario Floreano (Part two)
Last month we caught up with Dario Floreano, the head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Here we continue our discussion,...
Solving delivery robots as a service: Interview with Savioke CEO Steve Cousins
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
14 Jan 2016
In this second Silicon Valley Robotics Case Study, Savioke CEO Steve Cousins talks about his alpha customers and early trials, discusses the evolution of his company's business strategy, and describ...
Savioke receives $15M in Series A funding to scale their business
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
13 Jan 2016
Savioke reached $17.6 Million in funding with a $15 Million Series A round from Intel Capital, EDBI, Northern Light Venture Capital. This funding will allow Savioke to scale their business, deploying...
Robocar news from CES 2016
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Jan 2016
I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Our Media Portals page was created in January 2015 to serve as resources for individuals interested in studying drones. As the Bard spring academic semester...
Soft spot for soft robots? Register for the 2016 Soft Robotics Competition
Harvard SEAS
11 Jan 2016
By Adam Zewe | SEAS
If you have a soft spot for robotics, this competition is right up your alley. With separate tracks for academic researchers, college students, and high school students, the...
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Microrobots for Harvesting Crystals, with Simone Schürle
Audrow Nash
09 Jan 2016
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Simone Schürle, advisor and co-founder of MagnebotiX, about using small robots to harvest crystals. These crystals can be used to infer at...
How friendly is your AI? It depends on the rewards
Two years after the small London-based startup DeepMind published their pioneering work on “Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, they have become one of the leaders in the chase for Ar...
New insect-inspired vision strategy could hasten development of mini-drones
Guido de Croon
07 Jan 2016
New research published today in the Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics by the Micro Air Vehicle laboratory of TU Delft shows that an insect-inspired vision strategy can help indoor flying drone...
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move
CSAIL MIT
06 Jan 2016
By Adam Conner-Simons
We humans take for granted our remarkable ability to predict things that happen around us. For example, consider Rube Goldberg machines: One of the reasons we enjoy them is b...
Foxconn shopping for robot manufacturer to keep pace with brisk Pepper sales
Frank Tobe
05 Jan 2016
In an article about the pace of sales for the SoftBank Pepper robot, the China Post reported that Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision (AKA Foxconn) has sent a team of 30 to survey the US market for futu...
Interview with IJARS, with Howie Choset and Seth Hutchinson
The IJARS team sat down at ICRA with two influential academics in robotics: Professor Howie Choset (Carnegie Mellon University) and Professor Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...
This flying machine uses ducted fans for propulsion and control
Michael Muehlebach
05 Jan 2016
The Flying Platform is a new flying machine developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. Its purpose is to study the use of electric ducted fans as control and propulsion ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/4/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
2015 was a busy year in the drone world. As we head into 2016, we looked back at the biggest news stories of the year. Here’s the 2015 Drone Year in Revie...
2015 robotics fundings, IPOs, acquisitions and failures
Frank Tobe
04 Jan 2016
From the 2015 archives of The Robot Report: 54 fundings of $1.267 billion, 31 acquisitions totalling over $1.97 billion, and one IPO -- all adding up to some surprisingly large figures. ...
New Sino-Israeli Robotics Institute gets $20 million initial funding
Frank Tobe
30 Dec 2015
A consortium of Chinese companies, municipalities and investors -- including Siasun, the largest robotics firm in China and the city of Guangzhou -- have inked a deal to set up a $20 million R&...
Competing market research reports agree: Expect double-digit growth for most robotics segments
Frank Tobe
30 Dec 2015
The number of research reports covering the robotics industry has grown exponentially in the last few years. Eighty-one have been previewed on The Robot Report thus far in 2015. The latest batch of 2...
XPRIZE calling all innovators to help map our ocean
Jyotika Virmani
29 Dec 2015
There is a very interesting planet near us. It has almost 130 million square miles of land and the longest continuous mountain chain in the solar system, spanning over 40,000 miles. This planet receiv...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29/15
In the News
Drones have been banned from World Cup ski events after a large multirotor drone that was being used to film a race nearly hit one of the skiers. Austrian skier Marcel Hirsche...
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Construction Drilling, with Konrad Fagertun
Audrow Nash
27 Dec 2015
Transcript below.
In this episode Audrow Nash interviews Konrad Fagertun, Chief Operating Officer of nLink in Norway....
The robotics year, 2015 in review
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
25 Dec 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, it's a good time to take a look back at a few of the stories and trends that defined the past year. So, without further ado.. ...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 6
Robohub Editors
25 Dec 2015
Happy holidays everyone! Here's our last video in the holiday video series from MIT. ...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 5
Robohub Editors
24 Dec 2015
New holiday robot videos from the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), Robot Drive In Movies, Georgia Tech's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) and RE2 Robotics....
Speedy robots may someday run to the rescue
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
24 Dec 2015
Rescuers in Turkey are working tirelessly to free this young boy, one of the many victims of Sunday's devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake. He's not yet been freed, but some have been lucky. Rescue w...
Registration now open for #ICRA16’s Airbus Shopfloor Challenge
Airbus Group
23 Dec 2015
The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge invites robotics teams from around the world to create innovative robotic solutions for a real-life manufacturing challenge, and compete live at the IEEE 2016 Internatio...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 4
Robohub Editors
23 Dec 2015
From Boston Dynamics, Universal Robots, ZenRobotics, and Artiminds. Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org!...
UK Royal Society wants to hear your thoughts on machine learning
Aleks Berditchevskaia
23 Dec 2015
The UK Royal Society would like to hear your thoughts on machine learning – you are invited to answer some or all of the questions set out in a Call for Evidence here. The closing date for evidence ...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 3
Robohub Editors
22 Dec 2015
New videos from DTI and Robotiq. Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org! ...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 2
Robohub Editors
22 Dec 2015
New videos from the Bristol Robotics Lab and KU Leuven. Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org!...
SpaceX delivers 11 satellites and successfully lands a first stage on land
Robohub Editors
21 Dec 2015
UPDATE: SpaceX successfully completed both the primary mission of setting to orbit 11 ORBCOMM satellites and the secondary mission of landing the first stage of Falcon 9 rocket with pinpoint accuracy ...
Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 1
Robohub Editors
21 Dec 2015
Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to info [at] robohub.org!...
Yamaha RMAX crop sprayer gets full FAA approval
Frank Tobe
21 Dec 2015
The FAA granted Yamaha Motor Corporation an Agricultural Aircraft Operations certificate for their RMAX crop spraying remotely piloted helicopters....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/21/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military’s future-making technology organization, is playing a crucial role in the development of ...
Blue River Technology, Jibo and others get holiday funding
Frank Tobe
18 Dec 2015
Jibo got $16 million from Asian VCs to enable Jibo to speak and sell in Japan and China, while Blue River Technology got $17 million from a group of agricultural VCs to expand product development to n...
NSF and partners award $37M to advance nation’s co-robots
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
18 Dec 2015
Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) -- in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Admi...
