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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...
Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1
Mike Hamer
23 Dec 2013
Aisoy, a spanish robotics startup, is motivated by the goal of building intelligent, personal, "social" robots, which make our lives easier and funnier. Their robot, the Aisoy1, is their first step to...
International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up
John Payne
23 Dec 2013
Materials used to produce International Robot Olympiad competition events.
The 2013 (15th annual) International Robot Olympiad competition has come to a close. Next year it will take place in Beiji...
DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast
Ioannis K. Erripis
20 Dec 2013
The time has come for the robots competing on the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) to make their first public appearance. The trials for the final 2014 event will take place on December 20-21, 2013 and ...
China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg
Frank Tobe
20 Dec 2013
Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”), China's rover-like robot was soft-landed on the moon earlier this month. China's plans to become a global leader in robotics and space exploration are just beginning to be s...
KUKA buys 51% of Reis Robotics with option to buy remainder
Frank Tobe
20 Dec 2013
In a surprise move, KUKA, one of the global big four robot manufacturers, signed a letter of intent to acquire 51% of the shares of Reis Robotics, a 57-year old family-owned Germany-based robotics ...
Robot Holiday Video 2013: LASA, EPFL
Robohub Editors
20 Dec 2013
From the LASA Lab at EPFL:
The LASA robots secretly team up with Santa to organize the Christmas gifts! Happy Holidays from the Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab!...
Robotic hand changer enables high-precision docking through dual surface resting
DigInfo TV
19 Dec 2013
KOSMEK has developed a robotic hand changer that can switch between robot tools automatically - and with high precision.
"Our aim is to enable a single robot to be used for many purposes. With this h...
Robot Holiday Video 2013: Ascending Technologies
Robohub Editors
18 Dec 2013
From the Ascending Technologies team:
Can you imagine drones delivering X-mas presents? We can – with a smile....
Robot Holiday Video 2013: Networked and Embedded Systems Lab, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Torsten Andre
18 Dec 2013
From the Networked and Embedded Systems Lab:
What Christmas is all about: fun, family, and robots! ;-) ...
International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture
John Payne
18 Dec 2013
Let me admit up front that I'm not the best person to be covering a robotics competition. In fact this is only the second one I've attended; the first, Sparkfun's AVC, is a tough act to follow and set...
The 400lb CHIMP in the room: CMU’s Tartan Rescue Team prepares for the DRC
Shima Rayej
17 Dec 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Rescue Team has completed assembly of its 400 pound 5-foot-2 inch tall simian-like robot that will compete in the first annual DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in H...
Robot Holiday Video 2013: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich
Robohub Editors
17 Dec 2013
The Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich proudly presents this year’s Robotics Christmas Video:
Movement at night and a stolen tree, who the heck let the robots free? They gather and cheer, ...
Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotics research at CMU
Frank Tobe
16 Dec 2013
Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai Precision will fund $10 million for robotics and advanced manufacturing research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. No further details about the 2-year str...
Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
Guido de Croon
16 Dec 2013
The DelFly Explorer, a flapping wing MAV equipped with a 4-gram stereo vision system that can fly completely by itself in unknown, cluttered environments. © Delft University of Technology.
The DelFl...
KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders
Frank Tobe
15 Dec 2013
... KUKA cut the ribbon at their new factory outside of Shanghai. The factory will begin employing 350 and produce the QUANTEC line of robots and controllers and will be able to produce 3,000 robots a...
Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% laid off
Frank Tobe
13 Dec 2013
... The Boston Globe reported that Rethink Robotics, maker of the $22,000 Baxter 2-armed robot, has cut 21 jobs from their staff of approximately 90.
... CEO Scott Eckert said, “The layoffs are the...
Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2013
Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna.
It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vien...
Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots
Frank Tobe
10 Dec 2013
... Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots. DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places, eg, medicines to...
iRobot, 3D Systems and Makerbot recognized at Economist’s 2013 Innovation Awards
Hallie Siegel
09 Dec 2013
Earlier this week, the Economist held its Innovation Awards in London. In the "No Boundaries" category — created for technology-based products or services that don't fit neatly into the usual catego...
Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
Hallie Siegel
07 Dec 2013
Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...
