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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/19/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 19 Jan 2015

At the Center for the Study of the Drone As the drone industry grows and becomes more complex, it is both more important and more difficult than ever to keep track of the business of unmanned syste...

Detroit Auto Show and more robocar news

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 19 Jan 2015

Robocar news continues after CES with announcements from the Detroit Auto Show (and a tiny amount from the TRB meeting.) Google doesn’t talk a lot about their car, so the address by Chris Urmson at...

Transport Canada’s position on indoor and tethered drone operations

Diana Marina Cooper 19 Jan 2015

In November, Transport Canada issued Staff Instruction 623-001, which provides guidance on the review and processing of Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) applications. Among the issues addr...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore

Thomas Schmickl 18 Jan 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 �...

Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever

Talking Machines 15 Jan 2015

Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...

Vote for your favourite AI video – AAAI Video Competition People’s Choice Award

Sabine Hauert 15 Jan 2015

You get to decide the winner of the People's Choice Award for the AI Video Competition! Voting is simple, just give all your favourite videos a "thumbs up" on YouTube (thumbs appear when you play the ...

Teaching a robot to ‘cook’ by showing it YouTube videos of cooking shows

Yezhou Yang, Yi Li, Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos 14 Jan 2015

Most of us have at some point watched a video in order to learn how to do something. Our research shows that a robot can learn human actions by watching videos of humans performing those actions – i...

Despite hard landing, Falcon 9 recovery attempt bodes well for future of reusable spacecraft

Ioannis K. Erripis 14 Jan 2015

Several hours ago, ISS astronauts opened the cargo bay of the Dragon spacecraft that was recently berthed to the space station. It was both the 7th successful Dragon mission and the 5th successful I...

FAA issues waivers for real estate and agricultural UAVs

Frank Tobe 14 Jan 2015

The FAA granted two exemptions for commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems in U.S. airspace for real estate and agricultural crop scouting. But all is not as rosy as it appears....

JCC503 Robo, a high-efficiency washer in the form of CNC-controlled robotic arm

DigInfo TV 13 Jan 2015

http://youtu.be/yurn2xuKpc8 At JIMTOF 2014, Sugino Machine unveiled the JCC503 Robo, a CNC precision washer that positions parts with a numerically-controlled robotic arm and utilizes a high pressu...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/12/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 12 Jan 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Christoph Kohstall shows off the Nixi wearable drone at CES 2015. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty/AFP At the Center for the Study of the Drone The U.S. Customs and Borde...

Canada’s regulations for foreign commercial UAV operators

Diana Marina Cooper 12 Jan 2015

Canada’s relatively favorable framework for commercial UAV operations is attracting interest among foreign operators who are frustrated with restrictions in their home jurisdictions. The following p...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #02/52: Overview of largest swarm

Thomas Schmickl 11 Jan 2015

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RoboThespian, with Will Jackson

Ron Vanderkley 10 Jan 2015

Transcript below In today’s podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Will Jackson from Engineered Arts Limited about his team’s work making robot actors....

Spare Parts: Opens in theatres January 16th

John Payne 09 Jan 2015

http://youtu.be/myjar5KoqZA “SPARE PARTS is a true life story about four Hispanic high school students who form a robotics club under the leadership of their school’s newest teacher, Fredi (GEO...

Robocars at CES: BMW

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 09 Jan 2015

Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...

Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again

NCCR Robotics 08 Jan 2015

A team from EPFL and NCCR Robotics lead by Profs Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine and Silvestro Micera published an article in Science today describing their e-dura implant that could revo...

Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 08 Jan 2015

After a short day looking at robocars at CES, a more full day was full of the usual equipment — cameras, TVs, audio and the like and visits to several car booths....

Rethink Robotics gets $26.6 million Christmas gift

Frank Tobe 08 Jan 2015

UPDATED Jan 8: In an unannounced funding discovered by Boston Globe reporter Scott Kirsner, [tweetquote]Rethink Robotics sold equity and received $26.6 million a few days before Christmas[/tweetquote]...

40% annual growth forecast for Chinese robotics

Frank Tobe 07 Jan 2015

Song Xiaogang, president of CRIA, China’s Robotics Industry Association, said that the number of robots sold in China in 2014 would reach 50,000; up from 36,860 in 2013....

Walking assistive devices for the elderly

Jeremy Olivier and NCCR Robotics 07 Jan 2015

When thinking about robots that can be used to care for the elderly, most people imagine humanoid robots that are meant to help with cooking, cleaning and socializing. But what if robots could be u...

Robohub Digest Dec. 2014: Hawking AI warning, fish-tracking success, two new robotics MOOCs

Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel 05 Jan 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: 1/5/15

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 05 Jan 2015

News The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed in a statement that it had carried out an airstrike in Somalia,killing Abdishakur, the chief of intelligence for al-Shabab. The strike, which is though...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #01/52: Overview of the Jeff robot

Thomas Schmickl 04 Jan 2015

Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning

Talking Machines 01 Jan 2015

Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...

Robohub’s 10 most viewed articles from 2014

Robohub Editors 31 Dec 2014

We're taking a small glimpse back to 10 of our most viewed articles published on 2014. Take a look!...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29

Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 30 Dec 2014

A review of last week's drone related news by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College...

Food delivery drones planned for restaurant chain & airport lounge

Frank Tobe 29 Dec 2014

UPDATED 29.12.2014 Planned to be deployed at Singapore's Timbre Group 12-inch Pizza & Records restaurant in late 2015, these flying robotic waiters were recently presented to Singapore's Prime Min...

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