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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
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
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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Embodied Quadrotors, with Davide Scaramuzza
Audrow Nash
31 Oct 2015
Transcript below.
In this interview, Audrow Nash speaks with Davide Scaramuzza, Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Zurich and leader of the Robotics and Perception Group, about ...
Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the challenge of building 1,024 Kilobots
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
30 Oct 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, Michael Rubenstein d...
What’s new in robotics this week? Robots can now teach each other new tricks
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
30 Oct 2015
Robots teach each other new tricks; versatile construction bots; Leeds to employ robot utility inspectors and workers; Hollywood drone mishap; Robopocalypse Now! and more....
What we know about the FAA’s new drone registration requirement, and what we don’t
Hallie Siegel
30 Oct 2015
Following informal reports on Friday, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) officially announced yesterday the creation of a task force that will guide the development of a registration proce...
Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain
ETH Zurich
30 Oct 2015
StarlETH is a multi-purpose legged transporter robot developed at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab. Combining versatility, speed, robustness, and efficiency, StarlETH walks, climbs, and runs over...
Cannybots: Smart toy cars for play and learning
Anish Mampetta
30 Oct 2015
Cannybots are smart toy cars that introduce kids to programming, 3D-printing, robotics and AI, through play. They can be controlled and programmed from a phone or tablet to drive around, or to pla...
Blueberry picking robot could win $250,000 prize
Silicon Valley Robotics
29 Oct 2015
Here’s an interesting robotics challenge – a coalition of blueberry farmers are offering a $250,000 prize for automation solutions that improve blueberry picking. The deadline for entries in the c...
Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal
Wyss Institute
28 Oct 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...
Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard
In this short video lecture, Ayanna M. Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (Georgia Institute of Technology...
snickerdoodle: A brain for your robot
Ryan Cousins and krtkl
27 Oct 2015
snickerdoodle is a tiny, low-cost, flexible computer for building and controlling connected robots. Unlike other affordable platforms with limited I/O, snickerdoodle provides access to 154 reconfigur...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/26/15
A Message from the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Center for the Study of the Drone was founded in 2012 to create original, inquiry-driven content and resources that help the public and poli...
Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research
Talking Machines
26 Oct 2015
In episode twenty two we talk with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England about his work using crowdsourcing in Machine Learning, we take a look at the workshops being presented at NIPS this ye...
Lots of great events lined up for EU Robotics Week #ERW15
Sabine Hauert
26 Oct 2015
The European Robotics Week, organised by euRobotics AISBL and taking place Nov 23-29 2015, brings together hundreds of robotics events across Europe. Over the past five years, the event has attracted ...
RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea
Wyss Institute
24 Oct 2015
By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications
Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirem...
Robots in Depth: Grishin Robotics’ Valery Komissarova on getting funding
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
23 Oct 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, Valery Komissarova ...
What’s new in robotics this week? A robot with digital hormones
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
23 Oct 2015
Why robots with "hormones" are a good thing; the return of the uncanny valley; robots falling over (intelligently); drone regulation; South Korea-Samsung investment in robot factories; and more....
Dyson releases 360 Eye in Japan for ~$1200, files legal proceedings against Bosch for VW-like cheating
Hallie Siegel
22 Oct 2015
News Brief: Dyson released its 360-Eye in Japan today -- for about $1200 USD -- and has also filed legal proceedings against Bosch, alleging that their longstanding rival is cheating EU energy eff...
Key takeaways from #ICRW2015 International Collaborative Robots Workshop
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
22 Oct 2015
Everybody agrees that 'collaborative' refers to an application, not a robot type. Everyone agrees that there are four types of human-robot collaboration in manufacturing. But in the end, what people...
