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Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke
Ron Vanderkley
02 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...
Robot Launch 2014: Robohub People’s Choice Round Two
Andra Keay
30 Apr 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 liv...
What should a robot do? Designing robots that know right from wrong
AJung Moon and Footnote
29 Apr 2014
A large robot comes out of an office mailroom carrying a package marked “Urgent” to deliver to the boss upstairs. After navigating down the hall at maximum speed, it discovers someone is already w...
EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner
Bruno Siciliano
28 Apr 2014
The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present t...
Minesweepers: Towards a landmine-free world
Alaa Khamis
28 Apr 2014
Minesweepers International Outdoor Robotic Competition on Humanitarian Demining
Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is, at present, a serious problem of political, economical, environm...
Show us your AI – AAAI Video Competition
Sabine Hauert
27 Apr 2014
Update The submission deadline has been extended to May 4. Submit your AI and robotics videos for a chance to be featured on Robohub and win a Shakey Award at the AAAI Video Competition....
Recent robotics-related IPOs
Frank Tobe
26 Apr 2014
Since late November, 2013 there have been three robotic companies that have gone public on U.S. and global stock exchanges: Medtech, Ekso Bionics and Cyberdyne....
The People’s Bot: Robotic telepresence for the public good
Kate Darling
26 Apr 2014
Have you ever wanted to attend a conference that was too far away, expensive, or sold out? Whether you're a penniless researcher, interested youth, or a group of elderly people who want to live in oth...
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice Round One
Andra Keay
23 Apr 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 ...
Launching RoboJobs: The new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community
Hallie Siegel
22 Apr 2014
RoboJobs is a new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community that connects both seasoned robotics experts and recent top graduates with entrepreneurs and established businesses seeking the...
Schunk Manipulators, with Henrik A. Schunk
Per Sjöborg
20 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (27:49)In this episode Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company’s work in gripping technology, modular robotics and dexterous manipulation. They then look at se...
It’s official – you can now buy a UBR-1
Andra Keay
17 Apr 2014
It's no ordinary robot, it's an UBR-1. From Unbounded Robotics, the UBR-1 is one of the most sophisticated yet affordable robots available in the world. From today, you can preorder the pro ...
ROBOTS: From imagination to market
Sabine Hauert
17 Apr 2014
UPDATE Video and live tweets! Join us for a full day seminar and networking event at MIT on April 17 called "ROBOTS: From Imagination to Market". Starting with an introduction to robots in science fic...
Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites
Andra Keay
16 Apr 2014
We had a some amazing entries in Robot Launch 2014 across a wide range of fields, and not all of our favorites made it through to the Top 30. So we’d like to share some highlights of the First Round...
Robot Launch 2014: Announcing the top 30
Andra Keay
09 Apr 2014
Are you ready to find out who the semifinalists are in our first Robot Launch global startup competition for robotics? With 76 applications from 19 different countries, and entries covering industrial...
Robohub Digest March 2014
Jana Witt
07 Apr 2014
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news from the past month, our new monthly digest will be released on the first Monday of every month.
March 2014 was a contentious month for the ...
1.1M£ robotic “Porton Man” to test protective clothing for UK’s armed forces
Ioannis K. Erripis
07 Apr 2014
UK’s Ministry of Defense invested 1.1M GBP in a new robotic mannequin that will test protective suits and equipment for the UK’s armed forces. The project is named “Porton Man” and is able to ...
Intuitive Surgical upgrades da Vinci surgical system and recalls tools used by them
Frank Tobe
06 Apr 2014
Intuitive Surgical announced FDA clearance and US introduction of their new da Vinci Xi Surgical System which has a movable overhead architecture rather than the fixed floor-mounted existing systems.
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Termite-Inspired Construction, with Justin Werfel
Podcast team
04 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (28:48)In this episode, we talk to Justin Werfel from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University about their latest paper published in Science o...
Consumer AI devices entering the marketplace
Frank Tobe
04 Apr 2014
Talking mobile personal robots in our homes such as the robot seen in the movie “Robot and Frank” may be in our future but they don’t presently exist except in research l...
€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry
Hallie Siegel
02 Apr 2014
The call for Europe's newest robotics competition opened yesterday when a consortium of leading robotics and research institutions from across the EU announced the launch of the European Robotics Chal...
The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
01 Apr 2014
Dan Bacher has always been fascinated by two things: electrical engineering and neuroscience. While these interests may seem divergent, the synthesis of them led him to Brown University’s BrainGate ...
The latest in ultra-affordable robots: AFRON competition announces winners
Hallie Siegel
28 Mar 2014
MIT's printable robot wins first place in Hardware category.
In 2012, the African Robotics Network (AFRON) challenged the robotics community to design a $10 educational robot that could inspire kids ...
No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
28 Mar 2014
What's with all the quadrotors in auto advertising these days? And what do quadrotor swarms have to do with cars? Probably not much at all, but apparently associating your auto brand with high-perfor...
Last days to enter Robot Launch 2014
Andra Keay
26 Mar 2014
Robot Launch 2014 is the first global online startup competition for robotics, and as the deadline for first round entrants approaches (11pm PDT on March 30) we're excited to see just where in the w...
Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
25 Mar 2014
When it comes to complex tasks like building a house, many people with different skills work together to accomplish a single, larger goal. Instead of trying to create a perfect robot capable of buildi...
Introducing the Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
24 Mar 2014
As we have been enjoying amazing scenes from Sochi, Russia where disabled athletes have been completing in the winter Paralympics, researchers in Switzerland have been considering a new route for athl...
PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem
Andra Keay
24 Mar 2014
Ever since Apple bought Prime Sense, roboticists have been asking what’s going to fill the gap. Robots need to know where they are and what’s around them. The Carmine, and the unveiled but undeliv...
ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017
Frank Tobe
24 Mar 2014
Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years....
EU Robotics Week, with Fiorella Operto, Douwe Dresscher and Roko Tschakarow
Podcast team
22 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (41:00)The European Robotics Week 2013 featured 334 robotics related events in 24 countries and attracted more than 55’000 participants spanning all ages. To give us a snapsho...
Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
19 Mar 2014
What looks like a fish, swims like a fish but isn’t a fish? The latest in soft-bodied robots created by team of engineers of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at th...
Robotics in reach: Your smartphone could be a robot brain
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
18 Mar 2014
António Câmara is a man with a vision.
Despite the widespread adoption of computers and digital technology over the last few decades, how we interact with that technology, and use technology to i...
Flying Donkey Challenge announces 33 entrants for first subchallenge
Andra Keay
17 Mar 2014
The Flying Donkey Challenge asks teams to create a UAV solution that can eventually circle Mount Kenya collecting and delivering 20 kilo payloads. The first subchallenge in this escalating task will t...
Embodied communication: Looking for systems that mean what they say
Gregor Schöner
14 Mar 2014
The lay notion of how human communication works is, basically, that we exchange packages of information that are encoded and then decoded in our heads using language. But it just takes a little observ...
ROS goes to space!
Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2014
As part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station, ROS will board a SpaceX Rocket on March 16 and, barring inclement weather, will launch into space. According to a blogpost by Brian Ge...
NAO Next Gen now available for a wider audience
AJung Moon
13 Mar 2014
As of yesterday, you can get the adorable and versatile humanoid robot NAO from Aldebaran Robotics for yourself, even if you are not an academic or a hardcore developer. According to Génération R...
