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Robots now have their own living space at Bristol Robotics Lab
Adriana Hamacher
11 Sep 2015
Bristol Robotics Laboratory, one of the world’s leading centres for robotics, has opened a “living lab,” a replica apartment to test assistive robots designed to help elderly people live more in...
Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones
Hallie Siegel
10 Sep 2015
The Snapdragon Flight developer platform had its first public demo today at Qualcomm's Robotics Accelerator event, Techstars Demo Day. Designed specifically for the consumer drone market, Snapdragon F...
Robot Launch global robotics startup competition announces top 15 finalists
Andra Keay and Hallie Siegel
09 Sep 2015
Robot Launch is the first international startup competition designed specifically to help robotics entrepreneurs get off the ground. Now in it’s second year, Robot Launch has attracted a diverse ran...
First champion crowned for FPV drone racing UK nationals
David Stock
09 Sep 2015
James Bowles has been crowned UK champion following the first UK FPV drone racing national event organised by the British FPV drone racing association. The event was held at RAF Barkston Heath near G...
Siemens’ Frontier Partner program provides software tools to robotics startups
Andra Keay
08 Sep 2015
Established in Berlin in 1847, and with a presence in Silicon Valley since the 1950s, Siemens invests more than $1B in the US each year for research and development. Now their Technology to Business ...
Robohub Digest 08/15: Jibo gets Asian funding, Russian exoskeleton gets clinical trials, and Hitchbot loses its head
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
07 Sep 2015
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/7/15
From comedy to car commercials, drones have provoked a frenzy of popular media portrayals that are equal parts funny, hyperbolic, and disturbing. We take a closer look at these representations in orde...
Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment
Ioannis K. Erripis
04 Sep 2015
In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...
BUDDY goes into final hours of crowdfunding at +500% of goal; announces new US offices
Blue Frog Robotics
04 Sep 2015
BUDDY, the world's first affordable companion robot, has reached a crowdfunding milestone. With just hours to go on the BUDDY crowdfunding project on Indiegogo, backers have contributed over $501,63...
Creating the voice behind Jibo
Jibo
02 Sep 2015
Jibo may be a robot, but the last thing the team wants is for Jibo to sound like a robot. In these two video interviews, Jibo's design team talks about how they selected Jibo’s voice, how that ...
Robotics and AI prominent in MIT’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35
Adriana Hamacher
02 Sep 2015
The MIT Technology Review’s annual list of 35 Innovators Under 35 aims to illustrate the most important emerging technologies of the moment. Released this August, the 2015 list features a number of...
#RobotLaunch2015 Finals announced, plus final round of Readers Pick
Andra Keay
02 Sep 2015
The Robot Launch competition finals will be held on Friday Sept 18 when a selection of great startups will pitch live to an investor panel. Are Robohub readers on the same wavelength as our expert pa...
Coming of age: Clearpath’s Ryan Gariepy on growing a robotics startup
Hallie Siegel
01 Sep 2015
Launched in 2009 by a group of Waterloo engineering students, Clearpath's unmistakeable bright yellow and black robots have become synonymous with unmanned vehicle research in university research ...
Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech
Frank Tobe
01 Sep 2015
Peloton Technology, a Silicon Valley startup providing truck platooning technology, got $17 million from strategic investors after receiving $16M this April. Denso Intl. was the lead investor in both...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/31/15
The U.S. National Guard operates a substantial—and strategically critical—fleet of Predator and Reaper drones in America’s wars. Now, the service is taking steps to bring those drones home for u...
Firing up The Machine
Cinefex and Graham Edwards
28 Aug 2015
Pick a robot from the movies. Go on, I know you have a favourite. There are plenty to choose from, so I’ll give you a moment …...
Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade
Talking Machines
27 Aug 2015
In episode eighteen we talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work that touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning....
Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round three
Andra Keay
26 Aug 2015
For the past two weeks, Robohub readers have been voting for the "Readers' Pick" startup from the Robot Launch competition. This week we publish the final 10 videos from our Top 30. During our live f...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/24/15
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a database of over 600 incidents in which drones interfered with the national airspace and, in some cases, came close to colliding with manned a...
Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round two
Andra Keay
19 Aug 2015
This month, Robohub readers can vote for the "Readers' Pick" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're publishing 10 videos from our Top 30. Our ultimate Robohub Readers’ Favorite...
Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable
Fotokite
19 Aug 2015
Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/17/15
Like many other regions of the world, Southeast Asia has been experiencing something of a drone boom. Hobbyists and professionals are becoming airborne in increasingly large numbers, militaries are vy...
GreyOrange gets $30m for mobile robots
Frank Tobe
14 Aug 2015
GreyOrange, an India and Singapore-based materials handling startup, has received $30m in equity funding to ramp up production of their Butler shelves-to-picker robot system....
Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten
Talking Machines
14 Aug 2015
In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology....
Clinical trials begin for Russia’s first medical exoskeleton
Skolkovo Robotics
13 Aug 2015
Clinical trials of Russia’s first medical exoskeleton have begun in a Moscow hospital, marking the latest step in the Skolkovo-backed innovation’s battle to reach the market....
Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round one
Andra Keay
12 Aug 2015
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for their "Readers' Pick" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we'll be publishing 10 videos from our Top 30. Our ultimate Robohub ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/10/15
Even though it is less than a year old, the regulated domestic commercial drone industry has already spread across the entire United States. We have created a series of maps in order to better underst...
Money continues to flow into robotics startups
Frank Tobe
06 Aug 2015
This week saw fresh funding of $11.2m for Virtual Incision, a startup developing robotically assisted surgical devices, and another $11m for Jibo, the company founded by MIT Media Lab's Cynthia Breaze...
Designing Jibo for developers
Jibo
06 Aug 2015
Through the Jibo SDK, developers have high-level access to Jibo’s audio processing, visual processing, persona and interaction, and movement capabilities. The SDK gives developers the tools to build...
Silicon Valley’s Crowne Plaza hotel launches Savioke robot delivery service
Adriana Hamacher
05 Aug 2015
Leading hotel operator the InterContinental Group is introducing delivery robots at its Crowne Plaza San Jose-Silicon Valley property. The robots, made by local startup Savioke, will deliver snacks, t...
Ads, sales and shows make a business case for robotics
Frank Tobe
03 Aug 2015
Clever ads that emphasize ROI, presentations that show production benefits, new robot sales records, capital expenditure for warehousing systems and increased attendance at trade shows are all focusi...
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...
