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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...
Israel is top global exporter of UAS
Frank Tobe
03 Jun 2013
... Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting firm, reported that Israel’s UAS export revenue totaled $4.6 billion from 2005 to 2012. In terms of the number of systems sold, Israel is the ...
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...
Growing Robogals
Andra Keay
29 May 2013
In 2012, Marita Cheng was named Young Australian of the Year for her efforts to create a girl friendly robotics culture. Marita founded Robogals, an international student run organization that helps y...
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€...
Coming soon, to protect texters (like you?)
Frank Tobe
28 May 2013
CrashAlert is an app under development by Pourang Irani and Juan David Hincapié-Ramos at the University of Manitoba. They wanted to find a realistic solution to the ongoing dangers posed by walking a...
3D printing: Is the law ready for the future?
CIS Blog
28 May 2013
Three dimensional printing turns bits into atoms. The technology is simply amazing. These machines draw on programming, art and engineering to enable people to design and build intricate, beautiful, f...
Tibion Bionic Leg Wins IERA Award
Frank Tobe
25 May 2013
... The Tibion Bionic Leg won the 2013 IERA (Invention and Entrepreneurship Award in Robotics and Automation) Prize at the recent ICRA Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany....
Jury finds Intuitive Surgical’s training practices NOT at fault
Frank Tobe
24 May 2013
... Jurors reached a 10-2 verdict after a 5-week trial. Intuitive Surgical owes no damages based on claims by the family that Intuitive had inadequately trained the doctor who performed the operation....
SWIVL finds it’s niche
Frank Tobe
23 May 2013
... IndieGoGo-funded swiveling personal camera and follow-me device has sold 10,000 units thus far; 1,250 to schools and universities....
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...
Maker Faire overview
Andra Keay
22 May 2013
http://youtu.be/5APvyZHf1Dk
It’s impossible to see everything at Maker Faire but I tried. I was exhibiting with my hackerspace Robot Garden and had the pleasure of being both a participant and ...
Kinect completely redone. Windfall for robotics.
Frank Tobe
22 May 2013
... The new Kinect, released a few days ago, uses an infrared light to illuminate whatever is in front of the sensor, and the pixels of an infrared camera watch for each pulse to reflect back. Just li...
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...
Is the commercialization of UASs passing the US by?
Frank Tobe
20 May 2013
Forget the debate about the military use of drones (but if you must know, here’s a comprehensive FAQ on the issue)....
Are accelerators the new incubators and angel investors?
Frank Tobe
19 May 2013
... Tech startups can lead to big business. Last year Y Combinator reported their top 21 projects were worth $4.7 billion! Just last week Airware, a Y Combinator startup, received the biggest round of...
Accelerators and opportunities for robotics startups
Andra Keay
19 May 2013
New accelerators are opening and existing programs are expanding. It’s an exciting time to be a robotics or hardware startup. In my next post I’ll talk about some of the sorts of startups that inv...
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...
Countdown to Maker Faire
Andra Keay
17 May 2013
I’m setting up at Maker Faire with Robot Garden (a new robotics hackerspace and accelerator) and hope you’ll all come see Robot Garden @ iGate in Booth #2675 in Expo Hall. We might not be able ...
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...
Airware gets $10.7M from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures to build autopilot systems for UASs
Frank Tobe
15 May 2013
Airware, a Newport Beach, CA start-up offering autopilots for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) enabling UAS manufacturers to rapidly develop diverse and price competitive solutions while maintaining thei...
This week’s military news
Frank Tobe
15 May 2013
... The Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned aircraft made its first aircraft carrier launch this week. Landings come later.
... The US Navy’s Naval Research Lab (NRL) flew a UAV for 48 hours, break...
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...
Othermill: a new high quality CNC circuit board fabricator
Frank Tobe
13 May 2013
Otherfab, a spin-off from San Francisco-based Otherlab, an engineering, energy, education, math, computation and design research facility, surpassed their Kickstarter goal and is well on their way to ...
