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Robotics then and now: Interview with Peter Corke
In this interview, Peter Corke gives us a retrospective on the differences between the field of robotics now and when he just started his career 30 years ago, pointing out what strikes him as the most...
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Nylon Fishing Line Actuator, with Geoff Spinks
Ron Vanderkley
31 Oct 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Geoffrey Spink from Wollogong University about his team’s work on artificial muscles....
First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)
Zoe Fragoulopoulou
30 Oct 2014
ALCOR Lab members describe their experience.
From September 23rd to October 2nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise (TJEx) took place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pi...
Antares orb-3 accident
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 Oct 2014
A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday. The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS explode...
GridBot robot takes just 5 hrs to remove wood log stuck in high-pressure powerplant pipe
Frank Tobe
29 Oct 2014
Gridbots Technologies, a start-up located in Ahmedabad, India, has focused their efforts on providing the power industry, particularly nuclear power companies, defense organizations and space agenci...
Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot
Andra Keay
28 Oct 2014
Fellow Robots, in partnership with Lowes Hardware, today launched the OSHbot as a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. Although the robot can only give informatio...
Opensource 3D printed “Poppy” humanoid enables experimentation in robot design
Hallie Siegel
28 Oct 2014
Funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Poppy is a 3D printed open source humanoid designed by the Inria's Flowers lab, a French research facility that creates computer and robotic models as t...
2013 IFR stats; RIA Q3 results for US set new records
Frank Tobe
27 Oct 2014
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) recently released their annual statistical recap and four-year forecast for the robotics industry. The IFR produces two research books: one that coversÂ...
Google adds to DeepMind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U
Frank Tobe
27 Oct 2014
In January, 2014, Google acquired London-based DeepMind Technologies for $643 million. Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies, ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford...
Seegrid files for Chapter 11 protection
Frank Tobe
24 Oct 2014
Seegrid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week. The bankruptcy judge authorized Seegrid to borrow from its lender and biggest shareholder, Giant Eagle, so that it could continu...
SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Oct 2014
Robocar R&D is moving fast in Singapore, and this week, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced they will be doing a live public demo of their autonomous golf carts over a course wi...
Medrobotics, Monsieur and Arago get funding
Frank Tobe
22 Oct 2014
Venture funding is continuing to flow. Three recent recipients: $20 million to Medrobotics, $2 million to Monsieur and $55 million to Arago AG....
Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
22 Oct 2014
Tesla is certainly an important company to watch. As the first successful start-up car company in the USA, they are showing they know how to do things differently, taking advantage of the fact that th...
Drones For Good Award announces semi-finalists
Dronologista
21 Oct 2014
The semi-finalists of the UAE Drones For Good award have been announced. Here is a highlight of the international contenders; you can find the full list of semi-finalists on the UAE Drones For Good...
ROSCon 2014 videos and slides available
Open Source Robotics Foundation
20 Oct 2014
We’re happy to announce that videos and speakers’ slides from ROSCon 2014 have been posted....
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 -Â 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 â€...
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 ...
