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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/3/15
While drones have received the lion’s share of attention from among US tools in the War on Terror, Special Operations Forces are growing in reach and importance. We explore how Special Ops and dro...
Robohub Digest 07/15: Competition for Softbank, cake for Engelberger, and robot cookers for consumers
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
03 Aug 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....
Solar-powered flight for 81 hours: A new endurance world record
Philipp Oettershagen
31 Jul 2015
Two weeks after demonstrating AtlantikSolar’s first 24-hour flight, the fixed-wing team of ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab has reached another milestone: 81.5 hours and 2316 km of continuou...
Machine learning for sports & realtime predictions, w Microsoft Research’s Danny Tarlow
Talking Machines
31 Jul 2015
In episode sixteen we chat with Danny Tarlow of Microsoft Research Cambridge (in the UK not MA). Danny (along with Chris Maddison and Tom Minka) won best paper at NIPS 2014 for his paper A* Sampling. ...
Softbank will take pre-orders for enterprise version of Pepper starting Oct 1
Hallie Siegel
30 Jul 2015
Developing Story: Softbank today announced that it will be taking preorders for the enterprise version of their Pepper robot, called "Pepper for Biz" starting October 1 this year. This comes one day a...
Japanese telcos vie for share in consumer robot-as-a-service business
Hallie Siegel
29 Jul 2015
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Yesterday a second Japanese telecommunication firm entered the consumer robot-as-a-service market when the state-owned Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NT...
#IJCAI15 brings together leading researchers in AI
Sabine Hauert
28 Jul 2015
Over one thousand of the world’s top experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are in Buenos Aires this week for the 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (#IJCAI15). ...
A conversation with Jerry Kaplan, Martin Ford and John Markoff
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Jul 2015
Renowned technology commentators and authors John Markoff, Jerry Kaplan and Martin Ford entranced the audience with their perspectives on robotics, automation, AI and the impact on society. The even...
Industrial robotics pioneer Joe Engelberger turns 90
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
26 Jul 2015
"Happy Birthday!" to industrial robotics pioneer Joe Engelberger who turns 90 today, July 26. That also means that robotics as an industry is around 60 years old. Joe Engelberger and Georges Devol f...
Robotics fundings, IPOs and acquisitions for June/July
Frank Tobe
24 Jul 2015
Below are recaps of the eleven June and July fundings, IPOs and acquisitions for robot and robotics related companies, followed by a thoughtful piece by Farhad Manjoo of the NY Times about why start-u...
#ICRA16 wants you to make duckie-themed videos of robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Jul 2015
ICRA 2015 is just behind us (see our coverage) and the team is already gearing up for the next edition in Stockholm, Sweden mid-May....
Robotic flatbread maker gets $11.5 million from two venture funds
Frank Tobe
22 Jul 2015
Zimplistic, the Singapore and Silicon Valley startup behind the Rotimatic, a robotic home flatbread maker, sold over $5 million at their launch last year. Today, they have a backlog of $72M in orders...
Tiny 4K Z camera could be the perfect drone partner
Ben Fisher
21 Jul 2015
When we say drone, we ofter think of the flying platform. But that's just half the story. Drones are amazing flying tools because of their ability to position sensing payloads in the sky. Most operato...
Service robots get multiple positive forecasts
Frank Tobe
20 Jul 2015
UPDATED 7/22/15 Commercial drones will reach $4.8B by 2021. Agricultural robots will reach $16.8B by 2021 and $73.9B by 2024. And demand for healthcare robotics to show "tremendous growth" in the next...
Another robot company acquired: Vecna acquires VGo
Frank Tobe
19 Jul 2015
Vecna, a growing robotic mobility provider for hospitals and warehouses, acquired VGo, a provider of mobile telepresence devices, for an undisclosed amount....
‘World’s Most Dangerous Rivalry’ stoked by bowing Abe robot at CIROS
Frank Tobe
17 Jul 2015
The long-term rivalry between China and Japan, often characterised as the "World's Most Dangerous Rivalry," was exacerbated at the CIROS show held in Shanghai last week by a bowing Prime Minister Abe...
Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling
Talking Machines
17 Jul 2015
In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine ...
BUDDY opensource companion bot meets 100K crowdfunding goal in 1 day; now >200% funded
Blue Frog Robotics
15 Jul 2015
[tweetquote]BUDDY has something to smile about.[/tweetquote] The new open source companion robot by Blue Frog Robotics, launched an Indiegogo campaign on July 7th and sailed past its $100K crowdfu...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/13/15
Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written numerous influential works on the internal dynami...
Robocar news roundup: Google doesn’t hit Delphi but does go to Austin; Vislab sold for $30M
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Jul 2015
The press were all a-twitter about a report from Reuters that there had been a near miss between Delphi’s test car and one of Google’s, though it was quickly denied that anything happened....
Come with me to the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition
Michael Savoie
13 Jul 2015
It wouldn’t be June in Colorado without the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition. Started back in 2009, the annual event is held at their global headquarters near Boulder, CO. ...
Japan’s Haneda Airport to deploy 3 types of robots from Cyberdyne
Frank Tobe
13 Jul 2015
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Cyberdyne, the inventor of the HAL exoskeleton, is expanding their product line and Japan's Haneda Airport is their first customer....
Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015
Robohub Editors
10 Jul 2015
Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...
Siemens funds new Industrial Robotics Award in Robot Launch startup competition
Andra Keay
10 Jul 2015
Siemens has joined the Robot Launch as a sponsor, offering an impressive “Industrial Robotics Award” consisting of access to the Siemens Frontier Partner program, which provides mentorship and i...
Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!
Philipp Oettershagen
09 Jul 2015
The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...
#ICRAcam (Part 5): Flying w/o sensors, learning to swim, manipulating from primitives, & injecting at high speed
Robohub Editors
08 Jul 2015
In Part Five of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about passively stabilizing MAVs without using inertial sensors, a robot that learns different swimming gaits from experience, building high level m...
Robots in the rough: Demo day at FSR Toronto
François Pomerleau
07 Jul 2015
Nothing proves a robot's mettle like a live demonstration in front of a discerning crowd. Check out these photos and videos from Demo Day at the recent Field and Service Robotics conference (FSR) ...
Robohub Digest 06/15: DRC wraps up, Philae wakes up, and Asian dragons invest
Adriana Hamacher and Hallie Siegel
06 Jul 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....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Until the FAA implements comprehensive regulations for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft in US skies, the only companies legally permitted to fly dron...
Spillikin: a robot love story for our age and a unique campaign
Engineered Arts and Pipeline Theatre
06 Jul 2015
Robotics company Engineered Arts has teamed up with Pipeline Theatre for a new play, Spillikin: a love story between a robot and an elderly woman. The collaborators plan to debut their work at this ye...
Talking Machines: On ‘solving intelligence’, with DeepMind’s Nando de Freitas
Talking Machines
03 Jul 2015
In episode fourteen we talk with Nando de Freitas. He’s a professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior staff research scientist Google DeepMind. Right now he’s focusing o...
Robots in Europe: Live tweets and pics from #Innorobo
Robohub Editors
02 Jul 2015
Innorobo is one of the the premiere EU event dedicated to robotics and disruptive technologies. Running July 1-3 in Lyon, France, the event features talks from the likes of Carlo Ratti, Rodney Brook...
One year later: Update from Leka, Robot Launch 2014 Grand Winner
Ladislas de Toldi and Leka
02 Jul 2015
Almost one year ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for Moti, a robotic toy that helps autistic children learn to regulate their own emotions through play. Leka cofounde...
#ICRAcam (Part 4): Robot-assisted microsurgery, clothing de-wrinkler, collaborative interaction, & 3D scene reconstruction
Robohub Editors
30 Jun 2015
In Part Four of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about control for a microsurgical device for soft tissue, a robot that can find wrinkles in clothing and straighten them out, collaborative task le...
