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The Open Academic Robot Kit, with Raymond Sheh
Ron Vanderkley
16 Oct 2015
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Raymond Sheh, who is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing at Curtin University and head of the Intelligent Robots Group....
Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
16 Oct 2015
Though it's been anticipated for a few months now, Tesla announced yesterday the release of their highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year....
Robo Wunderkind: A robot anyone can build
Rustem Akishbekov
16 Oct 2015
Robo Wunderkind is a buildable and programmable robot, designed to teach children the basics of robotics and coding through a unique modular design and intuitive app. It has been specifically engineer...
CyPhy Works and Righthand Robotics get funded
Frank Tobe
15 Oct 2015
[tweetquote]The varied world of robotics appears to be in favor with venture capitalists.[/tweetquote] CyPhy Works just got $22 million to scale up building UAVs for the consumer market, and Righthand...
#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline extended to October 23!
Sabine Hauert
15 Oct 2015
Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. We'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. Last year's videos were viewe...
Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
Thomas Schmickl
15 Oct 2015
Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...
Tweets from #ICRW2015 International Collaborative Robotics Workshop 2015
Robohub Editors
15 Oct 2015
The Robotic Industry Association's International Collaborative Robotics Workshop is on today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Check out tweets from the event....
Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
14 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, Tully Foote -- ROS...
Robocar news roundup: Google’s hire, BMW/Mercedes carsharing, Apple clues, and more
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Oct 2015
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During a very busy September of travel, I let a number of important stories fall through the cracks. The volume of mainstream press articles on Robocars is immense. Mos...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The MQ-9 Reaper is perhaps the most famous military drone in history. While many will immediately recognize its distinctive shape, few outside the Pentagon ...
In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
09 Oct 2015
Digital fabrication enables the seamless combination of digital design with physical construction processes. To fully exploit this emerging technology within architecture, robotic fabrication must be ...
Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris
Talking Machines
09 Oct 2015
In episode twenty one we talk with Quaid Morris of the University of Toronto, who is using machine learning to find a better way to treat cancers. ...
Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Oct 2015
In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....
Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights
Adrien Briod
08 Oct 2015
Drones, lights and nature combine in Drone Courtship, a short movie about a magical encounter between two flying robots set in a forest of centennial trees. A collaboration between Atelier D. Schlae...
Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread
Marianne Lucien and ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2015
Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create "Rock Print" -- a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial u...
Robots in Depth: Melonee Wise on building robots, and robot companies
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
06 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, Per talks to Melo...
Robohub Digest 09/15: Big brands, and cozying up to robots
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
05 Oct 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. ...
Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser
05 Oct 2015
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/5/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Unmanned aircraft have already revolutionized war and commerce, but now a new breed of ultra-high-altitude aircraft capable of remaining airborne for extens...
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Micro and Nano Robotics, with Brad Nelson
Audrow Nash
02 Oct 2015
Transcript below.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Brad Nelson, Professor at ETH Zurich, about his research regarding micro and nano robotics. They discuss many of Nelson’s projects: ret...
IFR predicts 15% industrial robot growth through 2018
Frank Tobe
02 Oct 2015
At a press event to launch the IFR's World Robotics Industrial Robots statistical review of 2014 (with projections through 2018), the $1,350 report forecasts a 15% CAGR, thereby doubling the annual n...
ROSCon Livestream Oct. 3-4
Open Source Robotics Foundation
02 Oct 2015
This year’s ROSCon is nearly upon us and we will be livestreaming presentations free of charge, courtesy of Qualcomm, beginning 9:00 a.m. CEST, 2015, 12:00 a.m. PDT or 3:00 a.m. EDT on October 3, 2...
Soft robotic gripper can pick up and identify wide array of objects
CSAIL MIT
02 Oct 2015
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL
Robots have many strong suits, but delicacy traditionally hasn’t been one of them. Rigid limbs and digits make it difficult for them to grasp, hold, and manipulat...
Robohub turns three!
Sabine Hauert
01 Oct 2015
Robohub turns three today, and what a year it's been! Just last month we got our 7000th twitter follower, saw a viral post garner over 18K page views, and launched two new video series (here and here...
August/September robotics fundings report
Frank Tobe
01 Oct 2015
August and September equity fundings, joint ventures, acquisitions and venture funds continue the momentum exhibited throughout 2015 of serious money flowing into robotics startups....
How is Robohub doing? Take our annual reader survey
Hallie Siegel
01 Oct 2015
It's time to get your feedback about how we are doing at Robohub. What do you like? What would you change? [tweetquote]Take Robohub's annual reader survey to get your voice heard and earn a chance t...
Teaching a brain-controlled robotic prosthetic to learn from its mistakes
NCCR Robotics
01 Oct 2015
Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) -- where brain waves captured by electrodes on the skin are used to control external devices such as a robotic prosthetic -- are a promising tool for helping people w...
Shopping via telepresence makes for good PR; how long before it’s mainstream?
Michael Savoie
29 Sep 2015
Robots are great for doing dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs, and few jobs are more dangerous and downright dull (at times) than waiting in line to buy the latest tech gadget. Last week in Palo Alto,...
euRathlon 2015 announces Grand Challenge winners
Marta Palau Franco
29 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, the euRathlon competition is the first outdoor competition where teams of land, sea and air robots must cooperate in a realistic disaster-response scenario. F...
Live tweets and pictures from #IROS2015
Sabine Hauert
29 Sep 2015
The 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/28/15
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At the Center for the Study of the Drone
One year ago, the British Parliament authorized military intervention against the Islamic State. We have dived into the Royal Air Force’s repor...
Talking Machines: The Master Algorithm, with UW’s Pedro Domingos
Talking Machines
25 Sep 2015
In episode 20 we chat with Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington, who has just published a book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World....
Day Four at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
25 Sep 2015
Weather conditions challenged the teams participating on the second day of euRathlon 2015 two-domain sub-challenges. The morning started with the remaining team that had yet to participate in the la...
Day Three at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
24 Sep 2015
The first day of euRathlon 2015 two-domain sub-challenges started with the land and air (L+A) combined scenario, followed in the afternoon by the sea and land (S+L), where robots had to search for mis...
Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
24 Sep 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 first episode, Per speaks ...
#RoboBusiness Day 1: Computing to change from transaction processing to cognition processing
Frank Tobe
24 Sep 2015
"Cognitive computing will be to computing what transaction processing is today.” So said IBM's Robert High in his keynote talk at RoboBusiness yesterday. In less than 10 years the volume of our bu...
