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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/23/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 23 Nov 2015

News A task force established by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration has recommended that new and existing drones be registered with the federal government. The...

No, a Google car was not ticketed for going too slow (and other robocar stories)

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 23 Nov 2015

Almost every newspaper in the world reported the story of how a motorcycle cop pulled over one of Google’s 3rd generation test cars, the 2-seaters, and many incorrectly reported that the car was gi...

‘Rise of the Robots’ receives Business Book of the Year award

Frank Tobe 23 Nov 2015

One of our choices for your summer reading -- Martin Ford's 'Rise of the Robots' -- won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award at a ceremony held last week in New York. ...

More than 180,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day

Frank Tobe 23 Nov 2015

On Singles Day 2015, a holiday for the Chinese singles and youth market, Ecovacs Robotics sold $47 million worth of robotic products. Ecovacs only has three robotic products: a line of vacuum cleaners...

What’s new in robotics this week? Empathy for robots

Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc. 20 Nov 2015

Japanese researchers have found that humans empathize with robots; Zano mini drone Kickstarter shut down; police pull over Google car; and more. ...

Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video

Hallie Siegel 20 Nov 2015

Check out this great little film by drone startup PRENAV, which took home the LOL WTF prize at the Flying Robot International Film Festival last night. According to Nathan Schuett, CEO of PRENAV, the...

New video shows bionic athletes rehearsing for upcoming Cybathlon competition

NCCR Robotics 19 Nov 2015

In 21 countries across the globe, hundreds of people are preparing for Cybathlon 2016, where cutting edge robotic assistive technologies will help people with disabilities to compete in a series of ra...

European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society

euRobotics AISBL 19 Nov 2015

Over 600 events across the region will look at how robots will impact the way European citizens work, live and learn, as part of the 2015 European Robotics Week (#ERW2015), running 23-29 November....

Case study shows new roles for robots in today’s economy

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 18 Nov 2015

Robots are starting to move out of the factory and into more common use as a service industry, where they work alongside people in places that range from the warehouse to the supermarket. Along the w...

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

MIT News 18 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL NASA announced yesterday that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will...

Nailbot: A ‘nail art’ robot that inspires creativity

Casey Schulz and Pree Walia 17 Nov 2015

Launched last week on Indiegogo, the Nailbot prints instant custom art onto your fingernails from your phone. Behind the concept is a new kind of company -- a movement to inspire confidence in girls a...

“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours

MIT News 17 Nov 2015

[clear] Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes — from Earth’s changing climate ...

Phiro is a smart robot that lets kids learn to code 5 different ways

Deepti Suchindran 16 Nov 2015

Just like reading, writing and arithmetic, problem solving and innovative thinking are essential 21st century skills our children need. Research shows that one of the most effective ways for kids to l...

What you need to know about underwater drones

Dan Gettinger 16 Nov 2015

Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/16/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 16 Nov 2015

At the Center for the Study of the Drone By now, we are well-acquainted with drones that fly, crawl, and sail, but what about drones that plumb the depths of the ocean, scouring the seas ...

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ICRA 2015 Company Showcase, with Jens Hurley, Michael Ferguson, Simon DiMaio, François Boucher and Andrew Lewis

Audrow Nash 14 Nov 2015

Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies from the International Conferences on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) showcase. The companies span the following applicatio...

What’s new in robotics this week? Robotic spacecraft riding the solar wind

Robotiq Inc. and Emmet Cole 13 Nov 2015

Solar wind for robotic spacecraft, AI in fiction ranked by evilness, the drone with no flight time limit and 10 drones you won’t need to register....

Echoes of the DRC at Humanoids 2015

Ricardo Téllez 13 Nov 2015

Last week, the Humanoids 2015 conference was held in Seoul, Korea. It's the first event to focus on humanoid robots since the Darpa Robotics Challenge (DRC) earlier this year and, in fact, the locati...

DARPA takes its Robotics Fast Track program on a West Coast tour, Nov. 17-19

Open Source Robotics Foundation 12 Nov 2015

The Open Source Robotics Foundation is joining DARPA and Tandem National Security Innovations on the road to spread the word about DARPA’s Robotics Fast Track Program. We’re proud to support the o...

A new versatile gripper with electroadhesion

NCCR Robotics 11 Nov 2015

From early childhood, when a person picks up an object using their hands they use haptic feedback to automatically adjust the force of their grip according to the object they are lifting. A completely...

Simbe Robotics launches new retail robot

Silicon Valley Robotics 10 Nov 2015

The area of service robotics is getting active, with a new retail robot startup launching today. Tally is one of several robotics startups launching today at Haxlr8r's 7th Demo Day. Tally is an inven...

Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 10 Nov 2015

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Andra Keay, directo...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/9/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 09 Nov 2015

At the Center for the Study of the Drone We have updated our database of companies currently operating drones within the U.S. In this latest update, we discuss a growing trend in companies that...

Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood

Wyss Institute 09 Nov 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...

Pittsburgh’s Robot Film Festival: Preview

Heather Knight 06 Nov 2015

The fifth Annual Robot Film Festival takes place in Pittsburgh on Saturday, 7 November 2015, at Row House Cinema. Pittsburgh loves robots so much that I like to think of it as a little island of Japa...

What’s new in robotics this week? It’s getting harder to tell a human from an android

Robotiq Inc. and Emmet Cole 06 Nov 2015

Almost human robots; N. American robotics market sets new record; Chinese robot sets walking record; will superhuman robots be our friends and more. Almost human robots, how to tell them apart from a...

Emotionally literate tech to help treat autism

Horizon Magazine and Sophie Hebden 06 Nov 2015

Few could deny the power of computer games and avatars to entertain us and perhaps even educate us. But now researchers are turning to internet and robotic technologies to develop new ways of helping ...

Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno

Talking Machines 06 Nov 2015

In episode 23 we talk with David Mimno of Cornell University about his work in the digital humanities, and explore what machine learning can tell us about lady zombie ghosts and huge bodies of liter...

15 official world records set by robots

Robotiq Inc. and Alex Owen-Hill 05 Nov 2015

Robots have been getting their names in the record books. Whether it's taking the first pictures on the moon or observing the deepest volcanic eruption, robots are setting Guinness World Records alon...

R2T2, a collaborative rescue action at the crossroads between education, robotics and space exploration LIVE STREAM

Francesco Mondala 04 Nov 2015

The scenario of a rescue after a disaster on Mars could be in the movie « The Martian ». But during this collaborative rescue action everything, except Mars, is real: remote controlled robots, commu...

Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo

CSAIL MIT 03 Nov 2015

By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously di...

Robohub Digest 10/15: Drone registration, a hand with eyes, and swarming in Venice Lagoon

Adriana Hamacher 02 Nov 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. ...

While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems emerge

Frank Tobe 02 Nov 2015

Amazon announced that at the end of September they had 30,000 Kiva robots at work in 13 fulfillment centers, effectively doubling the number of Kiva bots that it had in 2014. "Our intent is to use...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/2/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 02 Nov 2015

At the Center for the Study of the Drone Lisa Ellman knows a thing or two about the challenges of regulating domestic drones use. During a three-year stint at the White House, she served as a princ...

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