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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...
IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)
Robohub Editors
20 Sep 2014
More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS. See also Part 1....
10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum
Shima Rayej
18 Sep 2014
How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...
IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)
Robohub Editors
17 Sep 2014
The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) is on in Chicago, and members of the robotics research community have descended on the Windy City. This year th...
Women in engineering at IROS 2014
Andra Keay
16 Sep 2014
[tweetquote]Shame that the missing engineering hero on the cover of IEEE Spectrum's July issue looks like superMAN[/tweetquote], because the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) lunch at IROS 2014 was a su...
Who goes where? Simulated robot boats self-organize to defend against attacks
Autonomous Robots Blog
16 Sep 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Individual robots have accomplished many impressive feats. However, certain tasks are ...
Robots reborn: Upcycled illuminated robot sculptures by +Brauer
Robohub Editors
15 Sep 2014
Bruno Lefevre-Brauer (known as +Brauer), is a graphic designer living in Paris. Over the past 20 years he has designed numerous album covers for French and international artists and pursued his person...
Drone Social Innovation Award Winners
Andra Keay
15 Sep 2014
The first winners of the inaugural "Drone Social Innovation Award" are a landmine detection project and a project providing aid to disaster victims in the Philippines. The two drone projects were sele...
ReWalk IPO gets $36 million; Corindus private placement gets $26.6
Frank Tobe
15 Sep 2014
ReWalk, the Israeli developer of exoskeletons, joins Ekso and Cyberdyne as publicly-traded companies on international stock exchanges. Their IPO Friday sold 3 million shares at $12 per share. The stoc...
Open Brain-Computer Interface: An Interview with Conor Russomanno
Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence
08 Sep 2014
Brain-computer interfacing (BCI) is a rapidly growing field that offers huge potential for many applications, such as medical grade BCIs to help people with sensory-motor disabilities. Currently, a nu...
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M-Blocks, with John Romanishin
Audrow Nash
05 Sep 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews John Romanishin from MIT, about his modular robotics project ‘M-Blocks’. M-Blocks are small cubes (5 cm on a side) that have no external actuators, yet the...
