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Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing
In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, just l...
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
Talking Machines
26 Mar 2015
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
3D Robotics launches app development kit ‘DroneKit’
Ben Fisher
26 Mar 2015
3D Robotics has unveiled DroneKit, an open-source development kit for app development. This is a clear invite for the wider development community to build upon 3DR's flight control software....
Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design
Ben Fisher
25 Mar 2015
The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...
Intuitive Surgical da Vinci Surgical System gets big endorsement and new competition
Frank Tobe
23 Mar 2015
UPDATED 3/29/15Â For over two years, Intuitive Surgical has been sued, tried, analyzed and criticized about the efficacy of their da Vinci surgical robots. But they have continued to thrive, grow and ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/23/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone offers a scathing critique of the use of military drones. But rather than approach the issue from a policy or s...
The Year of CoCoRo Video#12/52: Fun with Jeff in the pool
Thomas Schmickl
22 Mar 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€...
Sensor-driven armband used to direct robots
Frank Tobe
21 Mar 2015
ThalmicLabs' MYO gesture-based armband is making inroads driving robots, moving robot arms and on the arms of a Dutch trance music producer, DJ and radio personality....
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester
Audrow Nash
20 Mar 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...
A bionic model is born
Open Bionics
17 Mar 2015
The personalisation of healthcare devices has been a growing trend in the maker-sphere. From gold-plated hearing aids, neon walking sticks, and sparkling blade prosthetics to 3D printed arm casts, peo...
FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2015
Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
Talking Machines
17 Mar 2015
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/16/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, senior U.S. government officials told the public that Saddam Hussein’s military was developing s...
#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches part II
Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors
15 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #11/52: Out of the lab in Livorno
Thomas Schmickl
15 Mar 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€...
Ringo: An Arduino-powered robot bug for kids
Kevin King
13 Mar 2015
Ringo is a friendly pet robot bug based on the Arduino UNO that was inspired and co-designed by my 1st grade daughter Hailey and my 3rd grade son Parker, who are both already writing C code. We star...
Qualcomm to power high school robotics with Snapdragon
Andra Keay
13 Mar 2015
On March 11, FIRST® announced that its worldwide high school robotics competition, FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®), will be using the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor as the platform for its robo...
#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches Part I
Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...
#ERF2015 in pictures
Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2015
ERF is the largest robotics networking event in Europe. Having launched this week in Vienna, this year's event has attracted over 600 attendees - a record number. Check out photos from the event belo...
‘Robots or jobs’ is key focus of #ERF2015
Adriana Hamacher
12 Mar 2015
The importance of allaying public fears that robots will create mass unemployment was the theme of the opening session at the 2015 European Robotics Forum (ERF), which kicked off in Vienna on Tuesday....
Live coverage of European Robotics Forum 2015
Robohub Editors
11 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum is kicking off today in Vienna.
This 3-day event, from March 11-13, is a meeting point for at least 600 scientists, companies and robotics officials...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In late February, the Obama administration announced that it would ease long-standing restrictions on the sale of U.S. armed drones to foreign nations. The ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #10/52: Feeding Jeff with magnets
Thomas Schmickl
08 Mar 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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Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing, with Kurosh Madani
Audrow Nash
06 Mar 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Kurosh Madani from the University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC) about neural networks. The talk begins with an overview of neural networks before discussing thei...
Canada’s approach to risk management for nighttime drone flights
Diana Marina Cooper
03 Mar 2015
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) limits SUAS operations to daylight hours. The FAA concedes that the restriction on nighttime flights may neg...
Robohub Digest Feb. 2015: Fetch funding, Aldebaran shakeup, Boston Dynamics’ Spot, and Drones for Good
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
02 Mar 2015
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As a Department of Homeland Security shutdown started to look increasingly likely, we wondered what that would mean for the Customs and Border Protection’...
How Canada handles beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations
Diana Marina Cooper
02 Mar 2015
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) proposes to restrict operations that are completed beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS). However, the FAA has...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #09/52: Jeff in the water current
Thomas Schmickl
01 Mar 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€...
3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding
Frank Tobe
28 Feb 2015
The $50 million Series C funding, mainly from Qualcomm, provides the basis for a tacit partnership between Qualcomm and 3D Robotics with a goal of leveraging the pace of innovation in the smartphone i...
Foxconn begins selling noodle-making robot
Frank Tobe
28 Feb 2015
Early in 2014 Foxconn invested $25 million in Fu Jiang Robot Technology, a Shenzhen robot maker which had a dough-slicing device that was beginning to sell....
Livestream: Rodney Brooks, Abhinav Gupta, Andrew McAfee on AI and the rise of robots
Robohub Editors
27 Feb 2015
Livestream of the Council of Foreign Relations' Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology starting 02/27/2015 at 12:45 EST....
Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun
Talking Machines
26 Feb 2015
In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...
UPDATE Pepper delayed until summer; Aldebaran execs Maisonnier and Baillie leave
Frank Tobe
23 Feb 2015
UPDATED 2/23/15 Softbank announced a delay in sales of their Pepper robot from February until sometime during the summer. Aldebaran announced that CEO and Founder Bruno Maisonnier and Jean-Christop...
Bruno Maisonnier moves on from Aldebaran
Andra Keay
23 Feb 2015
Farewell and thank you to Bruno Maisonnier, the founder and CEO of Aldebaran Robotics, which is now 95% owned by Softbank. Softbank had previously acquired a majority stake in the ground breaking Fr...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/23/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The FAA’s proposed drones rules are only a draft of the final regulations. The FAA still has questions about how to best integrate commercial drones into ...
