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Quadrocopters learn from prior experience to improve slalom flying
Mike Hamer
11 Jun 2013
A new video released today by researchers from the Flying Machine Arena shows how a quadrocopter is able to learn from prior experience to improve future performance.
This new research is an extens...
SparkFun AVC 2013
John Payne
09 Jun 2013
Most robotics hobbyists will be familiar with the name SparkFun, associating it with an electronics and robotics parts and kits supply house, located in Boulder, Colorado, and perhaps also with the in...
Video of human controlling a quadrotor via non-invasive brain/computer interface
Robohub Editors
04 Jun 2013
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a non-invasive brain/computer interface that allows humans to remotely control a robot (in this case, a quadrotor) using only their thought...
Multi-viewpoint robotic camera system creates real ‘bullet time’ slow motion replays
DigInfo TV
04 Jun 2013
This multi-viewpoint robotic camera system, under development by NHK, links the motion of eight sub-cameras to that of an individual camera, so that all the cameras film the same moving object.
"Usin...
Feel the edges and contours of virtual objects with this haptic system from NHK
DigInfo TV
03 Jun 2013
With the aim of implementing a television service which allows viewers to touch virtual objects, NHK is developing a tactile system which applies stimuli to five points on one finger, making objects f...
Field Robot Event 2013, Prague, June 27-29
John Payne
03 Jun 2013
According to the preface of the Proceedings of the 7th Field Robot Event 2009:
It was in September 2002 when the story started: in a train back home from Budapest, where Wageningen Agrotechnology stu...
CoCoRo Impressions 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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€...
CoCoRo Target Detection 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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€...
CoCoRo swarm size awareness 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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€...
CoCoRo Swarm Control 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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€...
CoCoRo shoaling 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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€...
Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU
Kate Darling
22 May 2013
Call for Proposals (closes May 27)
Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference
October 11-13, 2013
NYU School of Law...
New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3D curves instead of 2D layers
Hallie Siegel
21 May 2013
Mataerial is a new 3D printing method that uses extrusion technology and a two-component thermosetting polymer to build up objects on any working surface that the polymer can adhere to, including flo...
Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications
Sabine Hauert
20 May 2013
Flies have small brains that would not be able to process high-resolution images such as those that we see with our own eyes. Instead, they've perfected the use of compound eyes, composed of a dense m...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 3): Interview with Minoru Asada
Florian Röhrbein
17 May 2013
Established experts in the field of robotics were recently interviewed by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. Motivated by the fact that indust...
SLAM on a multi-degree of freedom biomimetic whiskered robot
John Payne
17 May 2013
http://youtu.be/EfZKYQeFyfg
This video depicts the map created by a whiskered robot as it moves about a confined space. It relates to research done by students and faculty of the University of Bris...
Measure your pulse in real-time with Fujitsu’s facial imaging technology
DigInfo TV
16 May 2013
Fujitsu has developed technology which can measure a person's pulse in real time by analyzing video of their face.
"As blood circulates through the body, the amount of light absorbed by the face vari...
Robotic bartender assembles personalized drinks, monitors alcohol consumption, and takes social mixing to a whole new level
Hallie Siegel
16 May 2013
You're at a busy bar. You order your personalized cocktail through a smart phone app; a drink dispenser measures out the beverage according to your instructions and a Kuka robotic arm give it a shake ...
Gecko adhesives allow flying robot to perch on walls
Sabine Hauert
15 May 2013
The Airburr, a light-weight flying robot from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (my PhD lab) at EPFL, was designed to fly in cluttered environments. Unlike most flying robot, which avoid contact a...
A flurry of bad publicity for Intuitive Surgical
Frank Tobe
14 May 2013
UPDATED 5-14-2013: Scroll to bottom of article to see updates.
One of robotics' biggest stars, Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), and their da Vinci robotic surgical systems, is receiving a lot of...
Low-cost robots like Baxter, UR5 and UR10 successfully entering small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Frank Tobe
14 May 2013
Much has been said about the need to augment the skills and increase the productivity of small factory workers by using robotic assistants called co-robots. Europe funded an SME (Small and Medium-size...
ROS Industrial celebrates one-year anniversary
Frank Tobe
13 May 2013
ROS-I is developing and promoting a manufacturer-independent open-source library of drivers and the transfer of established components from research to industry - not just h/w interfaces and MS, IOS a...
ICRA 2013 robot photo essay: “Anthropomatics – Technologies for humans”
Hallie Siegel
10 May 2013
The theme at this year's ICRA conference in Karlsruhe, Germany is "Anthropomatics – Technologies for Humans". Coined by a Karlsruhe informatics professor about 10 years ago, anthropomatics is the sc...
Chris Hadfield launches Canada’s new five dollar bill … from outer space
Hallie Siegel
10 May 2013
Earlier this month CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield revealed the new Canadian $5 bank note in a live videostream from the International Space Station to the Bank of Canada's Ottawa head office. Why all t...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...
17 robotic innovations among 2013 Edison Award winners
Hallie Siegel
01 May 2013
Last Thursday in Chicago at a ceremony attended by 400 international business leaders and innovators, the Edison Awards - which honours game-changing new products and services - announced its 2013 win...
SOINN artificial brain can now use the internet to learn new things
DigInfo TV
01 May 2013
A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how ...
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Let’s all stop them, shall we?
AJung Moon
27 Apr 2013
Killer robots.
Looking at the two words together is enough to conjure up images of chaos and destruction. They're an image far too familiar in science fiction settings such as Isaac Asimov or Ar...
Rethink Robotics and Aldebaran both launch robots for research, teaching and custom development
Frank Tobe
26 Apr 2013
Rethink Robotics just launched a version of their Baxter robot armed with a new SDK providing educators and researchers with almost limitless capabilities at an affordable cost. Using ROS and the new ...
Rethink Robotics introduces Baxter Research Robot
John Payne
26 Apr 2013
Rethink Robotics has announced the availability of a bundle, called the Baxter Research Robot, which includes their Baxter robot and a Software Development Kit, for US$22,000....
iRobot stock jumps 15% on Q1 earnings and 2013 projections
Frank Tobe
24 Apr 2013
iRobot’s stock (ISRG:NASDAQ) jumped 15% today on yesterday’s earnings report which exceeded analysts’ expectations for both the quarterly earnings and the annual projections....
Video interviews from Robot Block Party 2013
AJung Moon
24 Apr 2013
On April 10th, Robot Block Party 2013 took place right after We Robot conference.
Of course, I had an extra day to spend at Stanford University after the conference and couldn't miss out on the eve...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro
Florian Röhrbein
22 Apr 2013
The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Techn...
Nate the Robot RH.4: Who wants those jobs?
Jim Haas
15 Apr 2013
This post is part of Robohub's Jobs Focus.
"People hate me because they say robots steal jobs."
"What jobs?"
"Low paid, extremely dangerous, repetitive, physically demanding..."
*boggle*
"I kno...
Xconomy Forum’s final word about robots and jobs
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
At the Xconomy Forum held in Palo Alto earlier this week, the focal topic was "Robots Remake the Workplace." It was expected that the jobs issue would permeate the event. Do robots take away jobs? Ins...
Blimp-in-a-box contract causes acquisition
Frank Tobe
06 Apr 2013
Global Telesat Corporation (think Globalstar, inmarsat and Iridium), and Lighter Than Air Systems, were awarded a DoD contract to provide the Army with two Blimp-in-a-box systems....
