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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...
Autonomous mobile additive manufacturing robot runs circles around traditional 3D printers
Harvard SEAS
18 Dec 2015
By Adam Zewe | SEAS
3D printing is revolutionizing the way objects are created, from plastic toys to ceramic dental crowns. But the seemingly boundless possibilities of 3D printing technology have ...
What’s new in robotics this week? Australia’s $310K (AUD) firefighting bot
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
18 Dec 2015
Plus: empathy for humanoids; learning to walk using neural networks; X Prize for marine robots; turtle-inspired robot … and much more. ...
New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration
XPRIZE
17 Dec 2015
At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...
Register your drone. It’s the law.
Frank Tobe
16 Dec 2015
The FAA has ruled that everyone who flies a drone must register. Since an estimated 700,000 drones are expected to be sold in the U.S. for the holiday gift-giving season, the registration process is s...
Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge
Rethink Robotics
16 Dec 2015
As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...
CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”
MIT News
15 Dec 2015
By Adam Conner-Simmons | CSAIL
Last Friday, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hosted 150 local high school students for its second annual “Hour of Code” ev...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/14/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This week we published “Drone Sightings and Close Encounters: An Analysis,” which examines over 900 incidents involving drones and manned airc...
SRI International behind new robotic technology for Verb Surgical
Silicon Valley Robotics
14 Dec 2015
SRI Robotics has long been known for advancing robotics and delivering new technology platforms to the market. Last week they introduced another transformational robotic technology being brought to ...
Drones for modesty (video)
Hallie Siegel
14 Dec 2015
We've heard of drones for good, and drones for journalism, but this is the cheekiest use of drones we've seen yet. Video by Japanese luxury online retailer Buyma. Enjoy!...
European Robotics Week #ERW2015 recap and videos
euRobotics AISBL
14 Dec 2015
With over 750 events across Europe, this year’s edition of the European Robotics Week broke all records. Throughout the week, Europeans were invited to visit laboratories, join debates, build and pr...
New comprehensive report on the risks drones pose to aircraft
With the holiday season approaching, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that up to one million new drones will be entering U.S. airspace, creating potentially dangerous situations for...
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Multi-Agent Systems and Human-Swarm Interaction, with Magnus Egerstedt
Andrew Vaziri
11 Dec 2015
Transcript below.
In this episode, Andrew Vaziri interviews Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at Georiga Tech, about his research in swarm robotics and multi-agent systems. They discuss privacy and secur...
What’s new in robotics this week? DJI is training 10K drone pilots
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
11 Dec 2015
ROS Turns 8; DJI Japan to train drone operators; farewell Nereus; New robot for kids with autism; Mercedes-Benz adds lane change tech, and much more. ...
Call for holiday robot videos
Robohub Editors
11 Dec 2015
Is it that time of year already!?!? It must be given that we just published the Holiday Gift Guide for RoboGeeks. Of course we will once again be featuring robot videos this holiday, so send your su...
BCG study finds that reshoring with robots works
Frank Tobe
10 Dec 2015
Two important findings from Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) recent survey of US manufacturing executives: (1) Of those who plan to add capacity, most plan to do so in the US, and (2) a rising perc...
$150M in VC funding (2015) for businesses that use ROS
Brian Gerkey and Open Source Robotics Foundation
08 Dec 2015
Eight years ago, Morgan Quigley, Eric Berger and Andrew Ng published a paper that was not about ROS. It was about STAIR, the STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, which used a library called Switchy...
Free global list of robot-related business and edu/research facilities exceeds 4K entries
Frank Tobe
08 Dec 2015
The Robot Report has been compiling and vetting companies that manufacture robots or are directly involved in their making since 2008. Today that list has exceeded 4,000 manufacturers, integrators,...
Robohub Digest 11/15: Service and consumer robots catching on
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
07 Dec 2015
[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. ...
New collaborative robots — and product lines — at iREX 2015
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
07 Dec 2015
We visited iREX 2015 last week at the Tokyo Big Sight. It was great to be in robotland and to be immersed in Japan's point of view on robotics. Some well-known collaborative robot manufacturers are ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/7/15
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The Academy of Model Aeronautics and Best Buy are collaborating on a project to educate new drone users on how to fly. Best Buy will begin displaying in its stores educational materials that e...
What’s new in robotics this week? Bosch unveils agricultural robot
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
04 Dec 2015
Italian humanoid; Robot Car Championship; Ethics of Robot Love; Bosch unveils agricultural robot; Tribute to Joseph Engelberger in New York Times; Robot Samurai; Geminoid F; and more. ...
#iREX2015 collaborative robots video roundup
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
04 Dec 2015
Several new collaborative robots were shown at the IREX show in Japan. Check out the video....
A helping hand for high-tech firms
Horizon Magazine
03 Dec 2015
by Jon Cartwright
Joel Gibbard started out designing prosthetic hands in his bedroom out of sheet metal, but found himself drawn to 3D printing because of its universality and low cost. Now his co...
Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90
Silicon Valley Robotics
01 Dec 2015
Robotics Industry Association | Joseph F. Engelberger, an engineer and entrepreneur who pioneered the robotics field, died peacefully at his home this morning, December 1, 2015, in Newtown, Connecticu...
Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh
Wyss Institute
01 Dec 2015
In the Disruptive Podcast series, Terrence McNally speaks directly with Wyss Institute researchers, exploring what motivates them and how they envision our future as might be impacted by their disrup...
ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10
Frank E. Schneider
01 Dec 2015
Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...
Body-enhancing exoskeletons could be stepping into industrial trials next year
Horizon Magazine
01 Dec 2015
by Jon Cartwright
Wearable technology uses electric motors and springs to augment the strength and balance of the human body. It has long been the subject of military research, but now engineers be...
