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ICRA 2015 social media workshop for roboticists: Communicating your research in 140 characters or less

Hallie Siegel and Sabine Hauert 21 May 2015

Want to use social media to get more people engaged with your robotics research? Not sure how to get started? Robohub is hosting a social media workshop at ICRA this year: Communicating robotics in ...

Bionic athletes compete in disciplines drawn from everyday life

ETH Zurich 21 May 2015

By: Vanessa Bleich Next year's Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition is to...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #19/52: Electric confinement in the harbour

Thomas Schmickl 20 May 2015

The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo �...

Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data

Michael Savoie 20 May 2015

Revolve Robotics and Swymed have collaborated to create a HIPAA compliant telepresence device called Kubi that can stream medical data. This compliance is a big deal: no longer do MDs have to rel...

April equity deals, acquisitions and Chinese funds

Frank Tobe 19 May 2015

Money is flowing to robotics-related startup companies. Q1 saw nineteen equity deals totalling $317 million, and three acquisitions of undetermined amounts, but money also flowed in April....

Robotics Fast Track now accepting applications

Open Source Robotics Foundation 19 May 2015

We’re excited to announce that OSRF and BIT Systems are seeking innovative and revolutionary robotics projects for the Robotics Fast Track (RFT) effort, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Pr...

Robocar roundup: Google deploys nextgen cars on city streets; Mercedes Freightleiner tests in NV

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 19 May 2015

[clear] Google has done over 2.7 million km of testing with their existing fleet, they announced. Now, they will be putting their small “buggy” vehicle onto real streets in Mountain View. The c...

Five high school students win Robots4Us Video Contest — and a trip to the DRC Finals

DARPA Robotics Challenge 19 May 2015

Five short videos prepared by U.S. high school students have been selected as winning entries in DARPA’s “Robots4Us” video contest and will be featured at a June 7 invitational workshop on the f...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/18/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 19 May 2015

Earlier this month, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International hosted its annual Unmanned Systems 2015 conference, the world’s largest drone trade show. But what is AUVSI, what exact...

A self-deploying, foldable quadrotor for rapid rescue

NCCR Robotics 18 May 2015

The use of robots to find victims after natural disasters is fast becoming commonplace, with well documented cases where robots have been sent into areas too dangerous for rescue workers. While the ...

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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti

Audrow Nash 15 May 2015

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...

AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV

Clearpath Robotics 14 May 2015

By Rachel Gould The 2016 agBOT Robotic Seeding Challenge challenges participants to build unmanned robotic equipment to plant, measure and track multiple crop seeds to improve farming efficiency...

IdeaHub, ABB launch new robotics accelerator programme

Simon Blair and IdeaHub / Venturebright 14 May 2015

The IdeaHub recently announced the launch of a robotics accelerator programme, run on behalf of ABB Robotics, to deliver solutions to some of the biggest issues facing robotics today and in the future...

Danish co-bot maker Universal Robots sells for $350 million

Frank Tobe 13 May 2015

Privately held Danish company Universal Robots - the successful producer of the UR line of collaborative robots - has sold to Massachusetts-based Teradyne, a provider of electronic testing equipment....

Igniting a debate on legal, therapeutic and educational robotics

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Jordi Albo-Canals and Mohamed Bouri 12 May 2015

The benefits of assistive technologies are well known – reduced inefficiencies, low costs, available 24/7 and much more. But not so well known are the appropriate legal regulations that need to be ...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/12/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 12 May 2015

Last month, the U.S. Navy retired its two X-47B prototype unmanned combat drones. Known as Salty Dog 501 and Salty Dog 502, these remarkable aircraft are the most advanced and most autonomous drones e...

Airware launches new system and gets funded

Frank Tobe 11 May 2015

Airware received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, which now joins GE Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and a host of other prominent VCs in funding this au...

Talking Machines: Interdisciplinary data, with David Blei

Talking Machines 07 May 2015

[clear] In Episode 10 we talk with David Blei of Columbia University. We talk about his work on latent dirichlet allocation, topic models, the PhD program in data that he’s helping to create at C...

Shadow Robot’s Dexterous Hand can do more than cook up a storm

Adriana Hamacher 07 May 2015

The Shadow Robot Company has been perfecting its robot hands for almost two decades, but it took just a short demo by the world’s first robot chef last month to propel this small, London-based start...

Competition heats up for consumer-friendly aerial photography drones

Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis 06 May 2015

Competition is fierce in the world of consumer drones these days, especially among companies marketing products than can produce pro quality video and photography without having to hire a drone ...

Two new soft robotics competitions announced by Soft Robotics Toolkit

Soft Robotics Toolkit 06 May 2015

The Soft Robotics Toolkit recently announced two competitions for robotics research and design. In July 2015, two expert panels will award prizes to soft robotics projects submitted by students, resea...

Noonee testing Chairless Chair exoskeleton at Audi production plants

NCCR Robotics 06 May 2015

Last month, Swiss startup noonee completed the first round of testing for their Chairless Chair with German car manufacturer Audi. The Chairless Chair is a wearable sitting exoskeleton for peopl...

Muribot: Bringing university level robotics to consumers of all abilities

Michael Stone 06 May 2015

Muribot is an affordable, compact robot kit, designed to make coding and robotics easily accessible to people of all ages and skill levels. It packs in quality hardware, usually seen only at universit...

Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers

Robohub Editors 05 May 2015

This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...

Two profitable uses for robots

Frank Tobe 05 May 2015

Industrial robots keep humming along, doing the dull, dirty and dangerous work of factories around the world. Newer applications are less often known but are quickly emerging. Here are two novel ones....

Robohub Digest Apr. 2015: Robots get lost inside Fukushima, Google gets personality, and Bezos gets sub-orbital

Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel 04 May 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: 5/4/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 04 May 2015

While the most widely recognized military drones are fixed-wing designs like the Predator and Reaper, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) systems are becoming more widely used. What, exactly, are the ...

Robotic events gaining popularity

Frank Tobe 04 May 2015

2014 set new records for robotics of all types, industrial, field and service. 2015 is also setting records for attendance and number of exhibitors at robotics-related trade shows, contests and events...

The Year of the CoCoRo Video #18/52: Confining Jeff robots with an electric field

Thomas Schmickl 04 May 2015

Blue Origin successfully tests autonomous suborbital system

Ioannis K. Erripis 03 May 2015

Fifteen years after it was founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin completed a successful test flight of its ‘New Shepard’ suborbital system and emerged from their secretive modus operandi,...

Competing robotic warehouse systems

Frank Tobe 01 May 2015

As sales via online retailers steadily increase, so too does the speed with which customers want their goods delivered. Amazon, eBay, and Google all have massive and speedy warehousing operations atte...

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