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Minimally-invasive eye surgery on the horizon as magnetically-guided microbots approach clinical trials
Simone Schürle
26 Jun 2013
Unlike larger robots, microrobots for applications in the body are too small to carry batteries and motors. To address this challenge, we power and control robots made of magnetic materials using exte...
Dreaming of Robot Avatars
David Peins
23 Jun 2013
I attended the conference, “Global Futures 2045" at Alice Tully Hall in NYC on Saturday June 15th. I confess that I was a little skeptical about a conference about immortality and I voiced my skep...
Big week for robotic mergers and acquisitions
Frank Tobe
21 Jun 2013
... MakerBot sells out to Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) for $403 million plus another $200 million if it meets certain targets. Stratasys adds a low-priced product to it’s line of 3D printing pro...
Tofu handling robot picks up soft, delicate food with ease
DigInfo TV
20 Jun 2013
Lands Work, a manufacturer of tofu-making machinery, has developed a robot that can pick up very soft foods such as tofu.
"First, the robot checks which way the tofu is facing, and how big it is, usi...
AFRON 2013 Robot Design Challenge
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2013
Today, AFRON announced the 2013 Design Challenge, with a goal of augmenting the robots from the first $10 robot design challenge. In 2012, the AFRON launched with a Design Challenge to build a $10 rob...
Dynamic target tracking camera system keeps its eye on the ball
DigInfo TV
18 Jun 2013
This camera system can track very fast moving objects, keeping them in the center of the screen at all times. Currently under development by the Ishikawa Oku Lab. at the University of Tokyo, this late...
LIDAR finds a lost city in Cambodia
Frank Tobe
17 Jun 2013
... Using LIDAR technology to create terrain maps, archaeologists have uncovered a whole city in Cambodia by discovering unexplained “bumps”....
Use of da Vinci surgical robots discussed on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams
Frank Tobe
16 Jun 2013
... NBC’s Rock Center focused on the case of a da Vinci surgical robot used to do a hysterectomy where dangerous complications ensued. A suit is in progress....
First responder and military ground robots to grow at close to 20%
Frank Tobe
14 Jun 2013
... New $3,800 report by Wintergreen Research says that first responder and military ground robot marketplace will expand at close to 20% annually for the rest of the decade....
The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight
Raymond Oung
12 Jun 2013
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take ...
$201 million in venture funding in 2012; up from $194 in 2011
Frank Tobe
12 Jun 2013
... Roboticist and entrepreneur Travis Deyle keeps tract of venture funding during the year and has provided not just a list, but a profile of the companies receiving the money....
New robot cars and AI app shown at Apple Developer’s Conference
Frank Tobe
12 Jun 2013
... First thing shown at Apple Developer’s Conference was Anki’s new AnkiDrive app and cars....
TED Global 2013 speaker Lian Pin Koh on “Conservation Drones”
Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich
11 Jun 2013
Lian Pin Koh (left) and Serge Wich (right) in Zurich with an early prototype of Conservation Drone.
TED Global speaker/drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh and fellow researcher Serge Wich share how drones a...
Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans
Robohub Editors
11 Jun 2013
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
Update with the full video below
Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...
Behind the scenes at TED Global: Raffaello D’Andrea and team demo amazing quadrotor “athletes”
Markus Waibel and Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
With reporting and photos by Dario Brescianini and Mark Mueller and timelapse video by James Duncan Davidson.
Raffaello D'Andrea juggles quadrotors at TED Global 2013.
A quadrocopter swoops th...
Boston is actually living up to the hype this year!
Robert Morris
11 Jun 2013
The definitive list of private funding in robotics--or at least the most widely cited is the Hizook VC Funding for Robotics list. The list for 2012 is out. Please help make it complete by adding...
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...
iRobot unveils new AVA 500 mobile robot for professionals
Frank Tobe
11 Jun 2013
New iRobot AVA 500, planned for 2014 delivery, navigates autonomously and can be sent from point A to B using an iPad....
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...
AWE2013: Hardware for an augmented world
Andra Keay
06 Jun 2013
Day One of AWE2013, the Augmented World Expo, finished with Sphero, the robot ball, taking out the first ‘Auggie Award’ for hardware. Sphero, by Orbotix, won the Auggie for their augmented reality...
AWE2013: What is the augmented world?
Andra Keay
05 Jun 2013
Augmented reality and virtual reality have been overhyped and underdelivering for years but there are many indications that things are changing. It’s not just that Google Glass has been on the stree...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
