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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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 20 Apr 2015

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 �...

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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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 13 Apr 2015

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

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

OpenΒionics 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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 06 Apr 2015

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

[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 Year of CoCoRo Video #14/52: LilyCam in a Lake

Thomas Schmickl 05 Apr 2015

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