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KUKA acquires Swisslog for $357 million
Frank Tobe
20 Oct 2014
Late last month KUKA made a public offer to Swisslog shareholders to purchase their shares at 8.9% above the market price. Swisslog’s Board of Directors have recommended that the offer be accepted....
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Engaging Girls in Robotics, with Hannah and Rachael Tipperman, Ross Mead and Elizabeth Croft
AJung Moon
17 Oct 2014
Earlier this year, the Robots Podcast team came across a story about two 17 year old twin sisters who started their own robotics outreach group. The story about the Tipperman sisters got us curious. W...
RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics
Adriana Hamacher
16 Oct 2014
Robots to install underfloor insulation in draughty homes, bots for edutainment, intelliTables and tiny robust drones flying with real bees wings - tantalising glimpses of a technology on the cusp of ...
RoboBusiness startup Pitchfire winners
Frank Tobe
16 Oct 2014
At RoboBusiness this week in Boston, Pitchfire - a Shark Tank-like pitch and question session - presented 14 start-up companies who pitched their wares to 5 judges. Two honorable mentions a...
Bipedal robot uses high-speed vision to run
Masatoshi Ishikawa
15 Oct 2014
We have developed a visually controlled bipedal running robot named ACHIRES: Actively Coordinated High-speed Image-processing Running Experiment System. [tweetquote]This robot has a leg length of 14cm...
4 reports predict steady growth for robotics
Frank Tobe
15 Oct 2014
Four recent research reports covering service robots, vision guided robotics, material handling robots, and robot component speed reducers, all predict steady growth, particularly in China....
RobotShop continues acquisition spree
Frank Tobe
14 Oct 2014
RobotShop, one of Canada's fastest growing small companies, continues to expand and acquire. Its most recent acquisition is FlyingEinstein, a Florida-based manufacturer that designs and...
UCSD investing in robotics
Frank Tobe
14 Oct 2014
At a one-day forum at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Chancellor Pradeep Khosla did two unusual things: he spent most of the day at the Contextual Robotics Technologies International F...
Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”
Robohub Editors
14 Oct 2014
October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...
Breakout Labs looking for robots that can change the world
Andra Keay
09 Oct 2014
I’m at Breakout Labs 3rd ‘unboxing’ today at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. Founded by the Thiel Foundation in 2011, Breakout Labs provides seed stage funding of up to $350,000 to early st...
Drone startups: Anura pocket drone
Dronologista
09 Oct 2014
Miniature drones are becoming very popular, and one of the first successful miniature drone designs was The Pocket Drone. A remarkable Kickstarter campaign for this project raised almost $1M, while ...
Registration now open for Cybathlon 2016
NCCR Robotics
09 Oct 2014
Full registration for the Cybathlon, a sporting event for disabled athletes using robotic assistive technologies is now open. The event will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 8th October 2016....
Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)
Dan Novischi
08 Oct 2014
Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR) is a small and powerful mobile robot platform that is designed to be used in a heterogeneous robotic swarm that is currently under development at the Laboratory of Artific...
Self-driving car test sites
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2014
Swarm communication and urban city driving are integral to the safe deployment of self-driving cars. Mercedes-Benz and a joint Michigan-based consortium are setting up secure test sites in California ...
CoCoRo CeBIT
Thomas Schmickl
08 Oct 2014
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 ...
Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson
ETH Zurich
07 Oct 2014
The future is in the hands of tiny robots, really tiny robots — and the expectation is that they will perform miraculous tasks, such as eye surgery and environmental cleanup.
Brad Nelson heads th...
Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5
Marta Palau Franco
07 Oct 2014
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition funded by the European Union with a focus on realistic cooperative mock emergency-response scenarios in three different domains: land, sea and air. On the ...
Robohub Digest September 2014: Robo-vacuums, regulation, IROS and more
Jana Witt and Hallie Siegel
06 Oct 2014
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news from the past month, our monthly digest is released on the first Monday of every month....
British National Oceanographic Centre launches major unmanned exploration mission
Dronologista
06 Oct 2014
Collecting oceanographic data is usually accomplished by a combination of satellites, buoys and research ships. All those methods have their limitations (e.g. buoys are only gathering info from a fixe...
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Quest for Computer Vision, with Peter Corke
Audrow Nash
03 Oct 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about computer vision - the subject of his plenary talk at IROS 2014 (link to slides below). He begins ...
3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals
Joel Gibbard
02 Oct 2014
Our [tweetquote] 3D-printed prosthetic hand project has made the global finals of Intel's Make it Wearable competition![/tweetquote] Open Bionics came out of the Open Hand Project, where we developed ...
ScratchDuino DIY magnetic robotics kit on Kickstarter
Andrey Smirnov
02 Oct 2014
ScratchDuino is a highly customizable, simple and interactive open source robots construction kit based on Arduino. Magnetic mounted parts make the ScratchDuino easy to assemble, and can be programmed...
Stepping motor with battery-free absolute sensor enables accurate positioning
DigInfo TV
02 Oct 2014
http://youtu.be/6jkMnv-otRA
Oriental Motor has developed the αSTEP AZ Series of closed-loop stepping motor & Driver packages, which contain its patented mechanical absolute sensor, the ABZO Se...
euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2
Marta Palau Franco
02 Oct 2014
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...
How is Robohub doing? Take our 2nd annual reader survey
Hallie Siegel
01 Oct 2014
We’ve been working hard all year to make Robohub great, but we’re missing out on your feedback. What do you like? What would you change? We’ve got some great robot swag including a copy of Robog...
SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge
Patrick Goebel
29 Sep 2014
A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...
Robots dance in synchronization while balancing on balls
DigInfo TV
29 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/Ebgrr4yLlCk
Murata Manufacturing recently unveiled a team of 10 robots, called the Murata Cheerleaders, which dance in formation while balancing on top of balls. The Murata Cheerlea...
IROS Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 3)
Robohub Editors
26 Sep 2014
More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS: soft untethered robots that jump, visual localization within LIDAR maps, time-delayed tele-operated surgical robotics, and grippers. See also Part ...
#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15
Sabine Hauert
26 Sep 2014
Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. This year we'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. The submission dead...
Snapshot of US UAV situation
Andra Keay
25 Sep 2014
The impact on businesses of the ongoing US ban on commercial UAV operation can be seen in a snapshot of this week’s drone news. Drones are very affordable these days, and there is nothing to stop an...
Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week
Marta Palau Franco
24 Sep 2014
Leaks of substances into the sea, damage to underwater structures, machine rooms flooded… these were real challenges that emergency services working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station ha...
Liquid Robotics continues its growth by partnering with Boeing
Frank Tobe
24 Sep 2014
Sunnyvale-based Liquid Robotics continues their growth-by-partnering formula by striking another collaboration, this time with Boeing....
Hot topic: Regulating robotics
Hallie Siegel
23 Sep 2014
Updated 24/09/14 Do robots need to be regulated? Several legal and policy experts think that robot regulations should be developed early and revised often. Others - especially those working on researc...
Attaining “embodiment” in brain-machine interface technologies: gTec’s Christoph Guger
Daniel Faggella
23 Sep 2014
Link to audio file (26:36), or listen on iTunes
In this interview TechEmergence talks to Dr. Christoph Guger, founder of gTec, a company that focuses on creating devices and parts for the field of...
HelloSpoon: A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities
Luis Garcia
22 Sep 2014
Shaped like a baby elephant, HelloSpoon is a robot intended to help children and elderly with upper limb difficulties and special needs to have a fun and happy mealtime. The assistive robot ...
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AirDog, with Edgars Rozentals
Audrow Nash
21 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edgars Rozentals, the CEO and Founder of Helico Aerospace Industries. They talk about Helico’s upcoming product ‘AirDog’, which is an autonomo...
