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The real soft robots that inspired Baymax, with Chris Atkeson
Helmut Hauser
28 Apr 2015
Baymax, the lovable, inflatable robot star of Disney’s recent hit, Big Hero 6, is far from a movie fantasy. With their soft cushiony bodies, robots like Baymax have very real prospects as future car...
Commercial drone market projected to grow 109% CAGR
Frank Tobe
27 Apr 2015
Markets and Markets, a Dallas, TX research firm, in an 189-page $4,650 report, is projecting that the global commercial drones market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 109.3% and ...
Reddit AMA with Robohub team
Robohub Editors
27 Apr 2015
Ever wondered how to publicize your robotics research? Looking for tips on crowdfunding your robotics startup? Need help connecting with colleagues, or advice on technical aspects of your project? Rob...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/27/15
Earlier this month, the United Nations held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical and legal implications of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The Meeting, which was attended by delegates...
Manufacturing next-generation robotic manipulation
Rich Mahoney and SRI International
27 Apr 2015
Every April, National Robotics Week fuels a heightened awareness around robotics, its impact on society, and its growing importance in a wide variety of fields and applications. Robotics, however, nev...
Talking Machines: Developing effective medicine by predicting molecular activity, with George Dahl
Talking Machines
24 Apr 2015
In episode nine we talk with George Dahl, of  the University of Toronto, about his work on the Merck molecular activity challenge on kaggle and speech recognition. George recently successfully defend...
#ICRA15 video trailer: Preview the latest in robotics and AI
Sabine Hauert
23 Apr 2015
#ICRA15 just released a trailer featuring some of the highlights from the conference. It’s a nice sneak peak at the latest robots that will be presented in Seattle this May.
A must-watch!...
People and Robots: UC’s new multidisciplinary CITRIS initiative wants humans in the loop
Andra Keay and Hallie Siegel
22 Apr 2015
Since 2001, the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) has leveraged multi-disciplinary research to tackle large societal proble...
Sino-Russian robotics boosted as Skolkovo signs $200M deal with Chinese investment fund
Hallie Siegel
22 Apr 2015
Russia's Skolkovo Foundation and the Chinese Cybernaut Investment Group signed an agreement yesterday in Beijing to create a joint Russian-Chinese business incubator, a robotics accelerator program, ...
Japan looks to distributed, cooperative control to help manage energy market deregulation
DigInfo TV
21 Apr 2015
Japan's power industry is currently centralized, but it aims to deregulate by around 2020. Coupled with this major structural market change, the expansion of thermal, nuclear and renewable power gener...
Teaching tykes to program robots
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
21 Apr 2015
Playgrounds are popular spaces for young children to play and learn. They promote exploration of the physical environment and motor and social skill development, allowing young children to be autonomo...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/20/15
Last week, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical, legal, and humanitarian implications of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LA...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #16/52: JeffCam in a lake
Thomas Schmickl
19 Apr 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 â€...
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Soft Robotics Toolkit, with Donal Holland
Ron Vanderkley
17 Apr 2015
In this podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks to Donal Holland of Harvard University about his team’s work on the Soft Robotics Toolkit....
Underwater Dreams: The story of undocumented teens who win underwater robot competition
Frank Tobe
16 Apr 2015
Underwater Dreams is a documentary that follows a team of undocumented students from an Arizona high school and shows their perseverance and ingenuity to win a NASA- and ONR-sponsored underwater rob...
Tracing human evolution with robots
ETH Zurich
16 Apr 2015
By Samuel Schlaefli
With the help of robots, archaeologists may soon be able to compare their findings with data from thousands of experimental reference samples, enabling them to determine tool us...
3D Robotics presents SOLO, their most consumer oriented drone yet
Ioannis K. Erripis
15 Apr 2015
Following a Kubrick's 2001 lookalike teaser video, 3D Robotics (3DR) presented their most ambitious product yet, ‘SOLO’ - an advanced quadcopter that above all focuses on ease of use and hassle-fr...
ABB launches YuMi and acquires gomTec
Frank Tobe
15 Apr 2015
ABB leapt into the collaborative robotics space at the Hannover Messe trade show by launching their two-armed YuMi robot and simultaneously announcing their acquisition of German startup gomTec, wh...
Virtual role-play and robo-tutors
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
14 Apr 2015
Cyberlearning project teaches language and cross-cultural communication with avatars and robots.
Communication skills are critical in a global economy.
Since communication often occurs across cu...
2014 was another record year for robotics
Frank Tobe
13 Apr 2015
2014 was another record year for robotics. The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) estimates that about 225,000 robots sold in 2014, 27% more than 2013’s best-year-ever record....
Researchers use artificial tail to study how we adapt to brain-machine interfaces
DigInfo TV
13 Apr 2015
Researchers from the Keio Institue of Pure and Applied Sciences (KiPAS) are working to reveal the mechanism by which newly acquired knowledge and information is transmitted and evolves among organisms...
Amazon Prime Air gets an updated FAA exemption
Frank Tobe
13 Apr 2015
In a 9-page legal letter, with 28 itemized conditions and limitations, the FAA issued an exemption to Amazon to enable Prime Air to test in US airspace....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/13/15
As the FAA grants more and more exemptions for the commercial use of drones, the immediate future of the domestic drone industry is beginning to take shape. We combed through the FAA’s drone exempti...
Live tweets from UN #CCWUN debate on lethal autonomous weapons
Robohub Editors
13 Apr 2015
Experts from all over the world are gathered at the United Nations in Geneva today to debate questions surrounding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) for the Convention on Certain Conventiona...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #15/52: TRAILER LilyCam in a wild river
Thomas Schmickl
12 Apr 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 â€...
Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
Frank Tobe
10 Apr 2015
Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....
#WeRobot 2015 on now in Seattle
Robohub Editors
10 Apr 2015
The fourth annual We Robot conference on robotics, law and policy kicked off today in Seattle at the University of Washington School of Law. ...
How robots can help build better doctors
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Apr 2015
A young doctor leans over a patient who has been in a serious car accident and invariably must be experiencing pain. The doctor's trauma team examines the patient's pelvis and rolls her onto her side ...
OpenBionics prosthetic hands: Open source, affordable, lightweight, anthropomorphic
Minas Liarokapis, Agisilaos Zisimatos, George Kontoudis, Christoforos Mavrogiannis and Kostas Kyriakopoulos
09 Apr 2015
OpenÎ’ionics is an open-source initiative for the development of affordable, light-weight, modular robot hands and prosthetic devices, and can be easily reproduced using off-the-shelf materials....
Talking Machines: Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton
Talking Machines
09 Apr 2015
In episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning to better understand how it’s d...
Unpowered exoskeleton improves efficiency of human walking
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
08 Apr 2015
Humans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input ...
Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Apr 2015
Most recent robocar press has been about the Delphi drive from San Francisco to New York, which is now completed. Congratulations to the team. Few teams have tried to do such a long course that invo...
Video: Giving robots and prostheses a sense of touch
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
07 Apr 2015
The UCLA Biomechatronics Lab develops a language of touch that can be "felt" by computers and humans alike.
Research engineers and students in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Biomech...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The National Air and Space Museum recently took possession of a rather special drone: the Center for the Study of the Drone’s very own Phantom I quadcopte...
Robohub Digest Mar. 2015: EU drone framework, Amazon drones in Canada, cancer-fighting nanotech, Google goes surgical
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
06 Apr 2015
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The Year of CoCoRo Video #14/52: LilyCam in a Lake
Thomas Schmickl
05 Apr 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 â€...
