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Robohub Editors
25 Jun 2014
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Keeping Robohub plugged in
Robohub Editors
25 Jun 2014
It's not even July, and 2014 has already been a tremendous year for Robohub. In addition to doubling our readership to over 50,000 unique monthly visitors, we successfully organized the first global r...
UK Robotics Mission on Silicon Valley tour
Andra Keay
24 Jun 2014
The UK Robotics Mission landed in the USA this week. Backed by the Techonology Strategy Board and UK Trade & Investment, the tour covers more than 20 events in San Diego, Silicon Valley and San ...
Noonee: The chairless Chair
NCCR Robotics
20 Jun 2014
Noonee® is a new Start Up company coming out of research in robotics in Switzerland. Aimed at solving healthcare problems within the manufacturing industry, noonee adopts a Chairless Chair® approac...
FIRST 2014 photo essay: Girls of Steel back in St. Louis
Lynn Urbina
19 Jun 2014
The Girls of Steel are in the stands during the awards ceremonies at the Buckeye regional, and we’re waiting to see if our team will make it to the Championships. It has been a long build season; we...
Grasping objects in a way that is suitable for manipulation
Autonomous Robots Blog
19 Jun 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Robots are expected to manipulate a large variety of objects from our everyday lives...
Global trends in robotics from patent analysis
Andra Keay
15 Jun 2014
120,000 robotics patents have been published in the last 10 years, tripling in rate from 2004 to 2013, according to the UK Intellectual Property Office Informatics Team. Unsurprisingly, there was a h...
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A Code of Ethics for HRI Practitioners, with Laurel Riek
AJung Moon
14 Jun 2014
Human-robot interaction is a fascinating field of research in robotics. It also happens to be the field that is closely related to many of the ethical concerns raised with regards to interactive robot...
Quadrotor allegedly seen spying on French team’s closed practice at World Cup
Dronologista
13 Jun 2014
UAVs, or drones, have been making their presence known in sports for some time now, mostly for aerial filming of open air games and races. But they are starting to show up for other uses in sports now...
While the cat’s away, the mice play: What the drone delivery biz is doing while FAA ruling is under appeal
Robert Corday
13 Jun 2014
The Federal Aviation Administration’s rules on civilian use are currently on hold by a federal court, and in the interim, companies are scrambling to take advantage of using drones to deliver produc...
Exoskeleton with haptic sensors helps paralysed man to kick off World Cup
NCCR Robotics
12 Jun 2014
VIDEO UPDATE 06/13 It’s June 2014 and all eyes are on Brazil. If you’re a football fan then June 12th is the day you’ve been waiting for, but eagle-eyed technophiles are likely to have noticed o...
HorseFly unmanned aerial parcel delivery system uses truck as base
Dronologista
11 Jun 2014
Parcel delivery UAVs are a simple idea that requires a complex technology and great deal of vision. Matternet, Amazon.com and DHL (with their Paketkopter) are actively developing their drone delivery ...
The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think
Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Jun 2014
[Jaguar XF, ESC test by EuroNCAP - photo: EuroNCAP ]
Did you know that the majority of the cars we buy and drive today are able to act by themselves and maneuver themselves out of an accident? They...
Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award
NCCR Robotics
10 Jun 2014
The team collect their award at the Automatica fair in Munich, June 2014.
Four researchers from Davide Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, have won ...
Recent funding announcements
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2014
Several robotics funding announcements have been made recently, the biggest of which was announced at AUTOMATICA 2014. The Partnership for Robotics in Europe launched SPARC - a €2.8 billion public-p...
SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper
Frank Tobe
06 Jun 2014
The latest creation from Aldebaran Robotics - Pepper - is designed to live with humans. It doesn’t clean or cook but it talks, is mobile, can read emotions, and reacts aut...
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper knows how you’re feeling | ComputerWorld
Hallie Siegel
05 Jun 2014
Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC.
Its...
IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales
Frank Tobe
04 Jun 2014
At a press conference this morning at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, International Federation of Robotics (IFR) President Arturo Baroncelli announced that 179,000 industrial robots were sold in 2013, a 12...
How do self-driving cars work?
Shima Rayej
03 Jun 2014
Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...
EU launches world’s largest civilian robotics programme – 240,000 new jobs expected
the European Commission
03 Jun 2014
The European Commission and 180 companies and research organisations (under the umbrella of euRobotics) have launched the world’s largest civilian research and innovation programme in robotics....
New robot hand, with OSRF electronics and ROS support
Open Source Robotics Foundation
03 Jun 2014
The RightHand Robotics ReFlex hand.
This week at ICRA in Hong Kong, RightHand Robotics is announcing their new ReFlex hand. Built on over a decade of research in the Harvard Biorobotics Lab and the Y...
Multimodal interaction at AWE2014 with HIT Lab NZ
Andra Keay
02 Jun 2014
The Augmented World Expo (AWE) was on at Santa Clara Convention Center from May 27-29. The conference, organized by Ori Inbar and Tish Shute, has grown rapidly in recent years as augmented reality tec...
Droplets: A low-cost swarm robotics platform for teaching and experimentation
Nikolaus Correll
02 Jun 2014
We have developed a new swarm robotic platform that falls in size, cost and capability between Harvard’s kilobot and the e-Puck. The Droplet is almost spherical, can self-right after being poured ou...
Robohub Digest May 2014
Jana Witt
02 Jun 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.
The risks and regulation of autonomous robots featur...
17% compound annual growth rate forecast for home cleaning, remote presence and home entertainment robots
Frank Tobe
02 Jun 2014
A recent Business Insider article, Beyond Factory Robots: Market Forecast and Growth Trends for Consumer and Office Robots, concludes that for the period from now until 2019, ...
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Russian robotics, with Roman Luchin and Andrew Gryaznov
Sabine Hauert
30 May 2014
In this episode, Sabine speaks with Andrew Gryaznov, co-founder of Cubic Robotics and Roman Luchin, CEO of CyberTech Labs, about robotics in Russia. They provide us with an inside view on robotics edu...
SpaceX unveils its next generation Dragon V2
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 May 2014
Tonight at 7PM PT SpaceX will reveal Dragon V2 -their next generation spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to space.
UPDATE: read our de-briefing of the presentation below...
Bay Area Maker Faire biggest yet
Frank Tobe
29 May 2014
Aerial shot of the Bay Area Maker Faire 2014 from 3D Robotics using their IRIS autonomous aerial vehicle.
Maker Faire, held at the San Mateo Event Center May 17-18, was the biggest Maker Faire Bay A...
SOLID: A robot recap
Andra Keay
28 May 2014
O’Reilly’s recent SOLID conference, May 21-22 at Fort Mason SF, was all about the intersection of hardware and software, but it also extended and challenged our ideas about what was hardware in a ...
Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car
Ioannis K. Erripis
28 May 2014
Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...
Meet the winners of Robot Launch 2014
Robohub Editors
27 May 2014
In February 2014, Robohub and Silicon Valley Robotics launched the first global startup competition for robotics. More than 75 startups from 19 countries entered the competition, with robotics inn...
Advanced nanometer-scale manufacturing technologies
DigInfo TV
27 May 2014
From astronomical telescopes to household-use cameras, from aircraft to cellphones, from semiconductor devices to medical instruments … All kinds of optical, mechanical, and electronic products ar...
Meet your (ROS-based) cleaning team from Avidbots
Open Source Robotics Foundation
26 May 2014
The folks at Avidbots — who won an honourable mention in the Robot Launch 2014 competition — are developing ROS-based commercial cleaning robots....
There’s no business like show business
Frank Tobe
26 May 2014
Robotic Arts, a Las Vegas designer and integrator of robots used in novel ways for entertainment purposes, and Royal Caribbean International, are working together to provide a unique hi-tech robotic e...
Signal processing technology to extract required information from image, sound, and biometric signals
DigInfo TV
26 May 2014
At Keio University, the Mitsukura Laboratory, in the Department of System Design Engineering, researches how to extract required information from biometric, image, audio signal data. To achieve this, ...
Transforming robots to transform your room
NCCR Robotics
24 May 2014
In the future, Roombots could replace furniture (Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL).
The word “robot” conjures up many different things to many people, but how many of them immediately think of furnit...
