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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...

Titan Medical secures $34.8 million from public offering

Frank Tobe 23 May 2014

Titan Medical, a publicly-traded Canadian start-up company developing a robotic surgical system for minimally-invasive surgeries, announced the completion of two rounds of public offering totally $34....

New video shows range and versatility of professional service robots

Robohub Editors 23 May 2014

A new video promoting this year's AUTOMATICA event in Munich offers an excellent primer in the state of professional service robotics in Europe. Check out the video here:...

30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk

Nathan Labhart 21 May 2014

Source: University of Zurich Mediadesk Watch Rolf Pfeifer’s farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC). ...

The autonomous driving r/evolution: Call to contribute to Robohub Focus

Hallie Siegel 21 May 2014

While a city full of autonomous taxis may seem part of a distant future, sophisticated driver-assistance systems such as ABS, cruise-control, lane-keeping and self-parking are already a reality in t...

ROS in the cockpit

Open Source Robotics Foundation 21 May 2014

There's a new DARPA-funded effort to develop software and hardware to assist pilots in various kinds of aircraft. The program is called ALIAS, for Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (apparentl...

Robot Launch Finals

Andra Keay and Robohub Editors 20 May 2014

Watch the live stream from the 2014 Robot Launch Finals, starting today May 20 at 10AM Pacific. From over 60 entries from all around the world, our judges have narrowed it down to six finalists: DoBo...

Extreme-environment robotics under development at Keio University

DigInfo TV 20 May 2014

At Keio University in Japan, the Ishigami Laboratory, in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, is investigating robotic mobility systems. The main mission of thi...

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