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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).
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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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RoboRoach, with Bill Reith and Oliver Bendel
Ron Vanderkley
16 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Bill Reith, an engineer at Backyard Brains. The company develops RoboRoach, the world’s first commercially available “cyborg”, which was successfully ...
Livestream: BAL ROBOTOV Roboforum
Robohub Editors
15 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the first annual BAL ROBOTOV Roboforum in Moscow, running May 15-18. Speakers include creator of Hubo, Jun-Ho Oh, iCub's Giorgio Metta, creator of the Blind Robot Louis-Phi...
Ron Arkin and Noel Sharkey debate lethal autonomous weapons at UN
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2014
The Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) is currently underway at the United Nations in Geneva to discuss questions relating to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons syst...
Robot Launch 2014 Finals May 20 – Vote now for People’s Choice
Andra Keay
14 May 2014
Today we announce the six finalists from Robot Launch who will be presenting their pitches online live to a panel of expert judges on Tuesday May 20 at 10am PDT. Join us then to see who takes home the...
Livestream: Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo 2014
Robohub Editors
08 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the second sUSB-Expo in San Francisco. Speakers include Henri Seydoux of Parrot Drone, Wolfgang Juchmann of Velodyne LiDAR, Rory Paul of Volt Aerial Robotics, Chris Ande...
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice round three
Andra Keay
07 May 2014
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30 and during our live...
Aerial drone maps show Philippine typhoon devastation, aid in reconstruction
Adam Klaptocz
07 May 2014
A drone's eye view of the many coconut trees that were uprooted when Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines.
Photo Essay
Six months ago, Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippine’s South East coast....
Grasping unknown objects
Autonomous Robots Blog
06 May 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
To manipulate objects, robots are often required to estimate their position and orie...
Robot helps 94-year-old Italian grandmother live independently at home
the European Commission
05 May 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pTPrA9nH6E
EU invests in new technology to support silver generation
At 94, Grandma Lea could not live alone anymore, but she wanted to stay at home. She still doe...
Robohub Digest April 2014
Jana Witt
05 May 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.
Robotics grabbed mainstream headlines this April 201...
Recent robotics notices and awards
Frank Tobe
05 May 2014
Steadily the robotics movement gains traction. Contracts are being given, funding is arranged, companies are expanding, and all the while a stream of youths are inspired to enter STEM career paths. H...
Gzweb for mobile platforms
Open Source Robotics Foundation
05 May 2014
Gzweb Mobile from OSRF on Vimeo.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Louise Poubel made Gzweb work on mobile platforms by designing a mobile-friendly interface and imp...
Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy
Hallie Siegel
02 May 2014
The search and rescue team involved in the recent South Korean ferry tragedy has deployed a remotely-operated underwater robot to help in the investigation and hopeful search for possible survivors in...
