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ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”
Nathan Labhart
27 Feb 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-02
Collective systems play very important role on Earth, and we encounter them in all sizes, scales and forms; in biological and technological areas; in...
Using geometry to help robots map their environment
Autonomous Robots Blog
26 Feb 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
To get around unknown environments, most robots will need to build maps. To help the...
Wise birds enter Robot Launch 2014 early
Andra Keay
26 Feb 2014
We were really excited to see so many entries in the first days of Robot Launch 2014. What most people don’t realize is that you can enter the startup competition immediately but still keep updatin...
New book on disaster robotics
Robohub Editors
25 Feb 2014
A new book by MIT's Robin Murphy documents the use and performance of tactical ground, aerial, or marine robots at 34 incidents between 2001 and 2013....
150th Episode Special, with Dario Floreano
Podcast team
21 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (26:55)
Did you know that Robohub started right here, with the podcast? This is our 150th podcast episode, and to celebrate we brought together the original team to reenact our ver...
168,000 robots were sold in 2013; 5% more than in 2012
Frank Tobe
21 Feb 2014
Based on the results of the IFR Quarterly Statistics, the IFR estimates that in 2013 about 168,000 industrial robots were sold, 5% more than in 2012....
Robot Launch 2014: The first global startup competition for robotics is here!
Andra Keay
19 Feb 2014
Ready, set, launch! Is your prototype the next breakthrough in home robotics? Or are you developing a smart device, sensor, component or software that will help build the robots of the tomorrow? Roboh...
Packbot: Serving the Military and World Cup Football
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
19 Feb 2014
PackBots will be deployed in Brazil during the 2014 World Cup Soccer season to bring a high-tech approach to security. The nation’s government has secured a $7.2 million deal with PackBot’s crea...
Hexagon acquires Aibotix
Frank Tobe
18 Feb 2014
Hexagon, a Swedish provider of R&D and design, measurement and visualization products, with 14,000 employees in over 40 countries, and which serves a broad range of industr...
What do teachers mean when they say ‘do it like me’?
Autonomous Robots Blog
17 Feb 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Teaching robots to do tasks is useful, and teaching them in an easy and non time-i...
Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award
Andra Keay
11 Feb 2014
The Drone Social Innovation Award is a new initiative of the rapidly growing Drone User Group Network (DUGN). With over 3000 members across North America, Australia and Europe, DUGN is the largest com...
Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino
Per Sjöborg
07 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (33:13)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...
Microsoft pays 5M CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures
Robohub Editors
07 Feb 2014
ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research. Over five years, Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT re...
SAE defines six levels of driving automation
Bryant Walker Smith
07 Feb 2014
Photo: Osvaldo Gago
SAE International's On-Road Automated Vehicle Standards Committee, on which I serve along with experts from industry and government, has released an information report defini...
Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes
Bryant Walker Smith
07 Feb 2014
Source: Wonderlane.
Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...
Flying Donkey Challenge
Andra Keay
05 Feb 2014
Sadly, the Flying Donkey Challenge was put on hold indefinitely. See details here.
Will we see flying donkeys racing around Mount Kenya with 20 kilo payloads in 2020? The dream of lifting Africa w...
GuardBot: From protecting territory to playing with dolphins
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
30 Jan 2014
What has the capability to strengthen homeland security, produce a ball’s-eye view of a soccer match and swim underwater with dolphins? GuardBot: the latest development in unmanned amphibious vehicl...
Startup Funding, with Jan Westerhues
Per Sjöborg
24 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (25:51)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Jan Westerhues, Investment Partner with Robert Bosch Venture Capital, about how they fund robotics companies. As a stepping st...
How biotech might pool the power of the human brain – with Proteo.me CEO Ivo Georgiev
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
22 Jan 2014
Artificial intelligence has it’s advantages. Systematically, over decades of research and development, AI has come to dominate human intelligence in a number of specific and often limited tasks. Yet...
Robot tourism coming soon to Korea: Masan Robot Land project finally breaks ground
Jong-Oh Park
20 Jan 2014
With permission finally given to occupy lands that include an existing road and stream, the Masan Robot Land Project that went adrift for almost two years was officially launched on December 7, 2013 w...
Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries
Frank Tobe
17 Jan 2014
Harvest Automation, a Massachusetts-based start-up, has begun shipping their robots. After five years and an A, B and C round of equity funding, plus some debt, totalling almost $25 million, their HV-...
Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
Ioannis K. Erripis
17 Jan 2014
NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...
Ekso Bionics goes public for $20.6 million
Andra Keay
15 Jan 2014
Rehabilitative robotics company Ekso Bionics announced today that it has completed a public offering which will provide $20.6 million in a 'reverse merger'. Funds raised will go primarily to expanding...
Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition
Andra Keay
13 Jan 2014
Is Google getting a robot company? Or just another source of roboticists with the Nest acquisition that was announced today? Alongside Google’s recent acquisition of eight robotics companies, there ...
Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years
Hallie Siegel
13 Jan 2014
Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication i...
Interdisciplinary Teams, with Giulio Sandini
Per Sjöborg
10 Jan 2014
Link to audio file (41:58)
In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Giulio Sandini, director of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)...
Eureka! There are academic startups at CES 2014
Andra Keay
09 Jan 2014
Eureka Park at International CES 2014 is the zone for innovation, for startups and for spinoffs from university and grant funded research. Eureka Park is sponsored by Indiegogo and by the National Sci...
CES 2014 – Robotics on the Runway
Andra Keay
08 Jan 2014
Robotics has a starring role at International CES 2014, the world's largest gadget expo, starting with a VIP Robotics on the Runway event organized by the producers of the Digital Health Summit, Livin...
Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda
Hallie Siegel
07 Jan 2014
An international leader in the field of robotics and automation, Toshio Fukuda is best known for his pioneering work on micro robotics systems — including microsensors and micro actuators — a...
Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant
TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella
05 Jan 2014
Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the ...
Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project
Ajay Arora
26 Dec 2013
Michael McMaster and his latest creation - a life-sized Wall-E.
If you’re a diehard Star Wars fan, or if you have a background in robotics, you might already know who Michael McMaster is. In the pa...
Robot Holiday Videos 2013
Robohub Editors
25 Dec 2013
Our robot holiday videos for 2012 were such a hit that we decided to do it again this year. Here is the list of robot holiday videos 2013. Thank you for spreading the holiday spirit!...
Robot Holiday Video 2013: Aldebaran Robotics
Sabine Hauert
24 Dec 2013
Awesome interactive video from Aldebaran Robotics:
Happy New Year 2014!...
Robot Holiday Video 2013: Michael McMaster
Robohub Editors
24 Dec 2013
From Michael McMaster:
Merry Christmas from our droids, to yours!...
Mapping in the Cloud
Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah
23 Dec 2013
UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...
