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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

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 �...

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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European Robotics, with European Robotics Forum, Cécile Huet and Uwe Haass

Sabine Hauert 03 Apr 2015

In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews main stakeholders in European Robotics at the European Robotics Forum in Vienna....

Beware April Fool’s Day robot hoaxes!

Robohub Editors 02 Apr 2015

We had to laugh at some of the robot news spoofs that came out on April Fool's Day yesterday. If you know of any others, please share in the comments below....

As drone use flourishes, the FAA waivers, and Amazon is forced offshore

Frank Tobe 31 Mar 2015

Funding continues to flow to drone ventures worldwide even as news from the FAA suggests it will be many years before true autonomous flight will be allowed in the US. Meanwhile Amazon feels they mus...

Matternet launches drone delivery platform

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 31 Mar 2015

I often speak about deliverbots — the potential for ground-based delivery robots. There is also excitement about drone (UAV/quadcopter) based delivery. We’ve seen many proposed projects, including...

Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 31 Mar 2015

There has been a ton of robocar news in the last four weeks. Below is just a small subset of the now constant stream of news items and articles that appear about robocars....

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/30/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 30 Mar 2015

Drone delivery, Senate hearing, law enforcement drones and many more stories. Read all the drone related news from last week on the Drone Center's Weekly roundup....

Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS

Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza 30 Mar 2015

When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #13/52: Lilycam in nature

Thomas Schmickl 29 Mar 2015

Europe agrees on regulatory drone framework to move industry forward

Ben Fisher 28 Mar 2015

There is not a week that goes by where regulation isn't a hot topic when it comes to drones. But for any regulated industry where technology is advancing greater than new rules can be agreed upon, it...

Skolkovo conference seeks to jumpstart new areas of expertise for Russian robotics

Hallie Siegel 27 Mar 2015

Part startup/investor mixer, part public showcase, part industry/academic workshop, part hackathon, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference has its sights on becoming the largest robotics gathe...

Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing

Stela Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King and Jim Young 27 Mar 2015

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 3/29/15 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

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 23 Mar 2015

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

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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