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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 09 Feb 2015

At the Center for the Study of the Drone President Obama’s budget for 2016 includes, among other things, the Pentagon’s spending plans for the year. These include significant investments in dro...

Qualcomm acquires KMel Robotics

Ben Fisher 09 Feb 2015

In Qualcomm's quest to shape the future of robotics, the US-based semi-conductor juggernaut acquired KMel Robotics last week for an undisclosed sum....

Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski

ConnectEd Studios 09 Feb 2015

At ConnectEd Studios we had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Marek Michalowski, a co-founder of BeatBots. BeatBots is the robotic design studio behind the Keepon, and creates dynamic robotic ...

Recent robotics transactions

Frank Tobe 09 Feb 2015

New Chinese robotics investment fund; the RIA says 2014 North American robotics set new sales record; marine robotics company gets acquired. These stories and many more … ...

Robotics research reports project upward growth

Frank Tobe 09 Feb 2015

A flurry of robotic research analyses and reports are being sold by a variety of vendors. Most show steady growth rates — and a few project spectacular growth....

The Year of CoCoRo Video #06/52: Jeff swarm size measurement

Thomas Schmickl 08 Feb 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 �...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #05/52: Lily swarm size awareness

Thomas Schmickl 08 Feb 2015

Programming safety into self-driving cars

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 06 Feb 2015

For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...

Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship

The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech 06 Feb 2015

In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...

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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis

Audrow Nash 06 Feb 2015

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...

Human insights inspire solutions for household robots

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 05 Feb 2015

People typically consider doing the laundry to be a boring chore. But laundry is far from boring for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers like Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Techn...

Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics

NCCR Robotics 04 Feb 2015

Much has been made of the numerous advances in robotic prosthetics and orthotics (P/O) over recent years, and the question of how to control these devices so that they work in accordance with the inte...

Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 03 Feb 2015

Uber announced a strategic partnership with CMU yesterday, including a robocar lab in Pittsburg, and rumours reported in TechCrunch suggest Uber could be hiring up to 50 CMU folks to staff it....

Liability concerns for drone co’s imposing technical measures to enforce no fly zones

Diana Marina Cooper 03 Feb 2015

Shortly after a Phantom crash-landed on the grounds of the White House, its maker, DJI, announced that it would release a mandatory firmware update that would restrict flights within 15.5 miles of dow...

Robohub Digest Jan. 2015: AI intrigue, SpaceX crash landing success, spinal cord implant

Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel 02 Feb 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: 2/2/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 02 Feb 2015

At the Center for the Study of the Drone This week, we introduced the Portals, comprehensive collections of the best multimedia resources on a variety of issues on drones. Portals are now available...

Pick a place and learn about robotics

Frank Tobe 02 Feb 2015

24 robotics-related events dot the global map and offer you a range of interesting robotic conferences and trade shows. Pick a place and learn....

January fundings are off to a great start!

Frank Tobe 02 Feb 2015

Rethink Robotics, Xenix, Rapyuta, Perceptron, Skydio, Sarcos and JIBO have all announced substantial fundings for a wide range of robotic ventures. Plus there are some new funders joining the fray....

AAAI Video Competition winners

Sabine Hauert 29 Jan 2015

A large crowd of AAAI-15 goers, one of the main conferences in Artificial Intelligence, gathered at the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony today in Austin, Texas. The competition aims to spread the...

Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy

Talking Machines 29 Jan 2015

On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...

2 agricultural robotics projects funded under latest Horizon 2020

John Payne 27 Jan 2015

On January 13 the EU announced its list of robotics projects funded under Horizon 2020, the EU funding program for research and innovation. Agriculture is one of four “priority domains” for robot...

What’s next for the commercial drone industry?

Ben Fisher 27 Jan 2015

With the commercial use of drones to increase in the coming years, we wanted to take a look at where we are today and take a quick look at what is just around the corner....

Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley talent

Frank Tobe 26 Jan 2015

Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Bay area have such an abundant talent pool that global companies and startups alike are setting up research labs and offices there to secure engineering and ...

Japanese Robots: ActiveRobo SAM wants your seat, not your job

Reno Tibke 26 Jan 2015

If it can be simply installed and removed, if the controls are easy for both veteran and new operators, if together this creates a near-human surrogate, the ActiveRobo SAM could upend the entire R/C c...

‘Quadcopter’ crashes onto White House grounds, poses security threat

Ben Fisher 26 Jan 2015

The White House was put on high alert today as a drone was flown at low altitude onto the south-east side of the complex. A secret service spokesperson said "An investigation is under way to determine...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/26/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 26 Jan 2015

The Drone Center is pleased to mark the 100th edition of our Weekly Roundup of drone news, commentary and analysis, art, and technology. We sent out the first Roundup almost two years ago to a group ...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour

Thomas Schmickl 25 Jan 2015

euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research

Marta Palau Franco 23 Jan 2015

euRathlon is an EU-funded project that aims to set the standard for research through robotics competitions. It not only provides opportunities to test advanced emergency response robots in very chall...

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