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ICRA 2013 robot photo essay: “Anthropomatics – Technologies for humans”
Hallie Siegel
10 May 2013
The theme at this year's ICRA conference in Karlsruhe, Germany is "Anthropomatics – Technologies for Humans". Coined by a Karlsruhe informatics professor about 10 years ago, anthropomatics is the sc...
Chris Hadfield launches Canada’s new five dollar bill … from outer space
Hallie Siegel
10 May 2013
Earlier this month CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield revealed the new Canadian $5 bank note in a live videostream from the International Space Station to the Bank of Canada's Ottawa head office. Why all t...
Live streaming of plenary talks at ICRA
Sabine Hauert
07 May 2013
View live stream here.
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is one of the most important conferences in robotics. This year's edition is taking place May 6-10 in Karl...
KUKA acquires US integrator and toolmaker
Frank Tobe
05 May 2013
... For an amount “in the low double digit million Euro range,” KUKA has acquired the engineering services, toolmaking and integration divisions of US-based Utica Enterprises. 300 people a...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...
First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
Sabine Hauert
02 May 2013
Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...
Online job postings for robotic positions up 10% compared to the same 90-day period in 2012
Frank Tobe
01 May 2013
... More than 14,000 jobs were advertised online requiring knowledge or use of robotics in the U.S., according to WANTED Analytics™, a source of real-time business intelligence....
17 robotic innovations among 2013 Edison Award winners
Hallie Siegel
01 May 2013
Last Thursday in Chicago at a ceremony attended by 400 international business leaders and innovators, the Edison Awards - which honours game-changing new products and services - announced its 2013 win...
SOINN artificial brain can now use the internet to learn new things
DigInfo TV
01 May 2013
A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how ...
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Let’s all stop them, shall we?
AJung Moon
27 Apr 2013
Killer robots.
Looking at the two words together is enough to conjure up images of chaos and destruction. They're an image far too familiar in science fiction settings such as Isaac Asimov or Ar...
Rethink Robotics and Aldebaran both launch robots for research, teaching and custom development
Frank Tobe
26 Apr 2013
Rethink Robotics just launched a version of their Baxter robot armed with a new SDK providing educators and researchers with almost limitless capabilities at an affordable cost. Using ROS and the new ...
Rethink Robotics introduces Baxter Research Robot
John Payne
26 Apr 2013
Rethink Robotics has announced the availability of a bundle, called the Baxter Research Robot, which includes their Baxter robot and a Software Development Kit, for US$22,000....
iRobot stock jumps 15% on Q1 earnings and 2013 projections
Frank Tobe
24 Apr 2013
iRobot’s stock (ISRG:NASDAQ) jumped 15% today on yesterday’s earnings report which exceeded analysts’ expectations for both the quarterly earnings and the annual projections....
Video interviews from Robot Block Party 2013
AJung Moon
24 Apr 2013
On April 10th, Robot Block Party 2013 took place right after We Robot conference.
Of course, I had an extra day to spend at Stanford University after the conference and couldn't miss out on the eve...
EPFL’s Festival Robotique draws a record 17,000 visitors
Robohub Editors
24 Apr 2013
The 6th Annual Festival Robotique in Lausanne, Switzerland drew a record number of visitors this past Saturday, making it one of the largest public science events in the country....
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 2): Interview with Hiroshi Ishiguro
Florian Röhrbein
22 Apr 2013
The second interview of this four-part series about collaboration between academia and industry was conducted at the CITEC Summer School 2012 at the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Techn...
Robots make the cover of Time Magazine
Frank Tobe
20 Apr 2013
... The cover of the April 22 issue of Time Magazine shows robots chiseling out the words “Made in the USA” and the story is “Manufacturing is back—but where are the jobs?̶...
New funding sources for robotics
Andra Keay
19 Apr 2013
New funding sources for robotics seem to be popping up everywhere. Today’s launch of Genesis Angels, the new $100 million VC fund, which is based in Israel but operating globally, is hot on the heel...
Ryan Calo on spyware for your brain
CIS Blog
18 Apr 2013
Ryan Calo discusses how researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a proof of concept for using commercially available brain-computer interfaces to discover private facts about today's g...
All eyes on Intuitive Surgical suit
Frank Tobe
17 Apr 2013
Updated April 17, 2013:
...In first day of trial in State of Washington, in their opening arguments, lawyers stated their cases:
[Plaintive] that Intuitive Surgical designed a watered down train...
Robot Block Party recap
Andra Keay
16 Apr 2013
It was another amazing Robot Block Party at the CARS facility in Stanford. More than 30 companies, startups, STEM groups and individuals demonstrated robots ranging from PR2s to tiny brain powered hel...
Jobs isn’t the issue for robotics
Andra Keay
12 Apr 2013
Well, not quite. According to Rodney Brooks, robotics has too much Steve Wozniak and not enough Steve Jobs. And perhaps that’s where the jobs part of a very full afternoon forum should have ended. X...
Xconomy Forum’s final word about robots and jobs
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
At the Xconomy Forum held in Palo Alto earlier this week, the focal topic was "Robots Remake the Workplace." It was expected that the jobs issue would permeate the event. Do robots take away jobs? Ins...
Stanford U hosts Robot Block Party as part of National Robotics Week
Frank Tobe
11 Apr 2013
... Instead of just seeing a Lidar spinning around on top of a car, at the block party you could walk around the back and see a sun-shaded monitor showing what the Lidar was seeing. And talk with an e...
Jobs by the numbers: Economic reports on the robotics and manufacturing industries
Robohub Editors
09 Apr 2013
All the economics reports from a variety of stakeholders in one place! Don't forget to bookmark this page - we will update it as new reports become available. ...
We Robot: Live coverage on robotics and the law
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2013
Updated April 9, 2013 | Check this post for our live coverage of the We Robot conference happening April 8-9 at Stanford Law School....
National Robotics Week in the US (and Mars)
Andra Keay
06 Apr 2013
Happy Robotics Week to everyone! Thanks to all the organizers, contributers and robot fans around the US. But why stop there? This year’s National Robotics Week has 177 events in all 50 states, ...
Blimp-in-a-box contract causes acquisition
Frank Tobe
06 Apr 2013
Global Telesat Corporation (think Globalstar, inmarsat and Iridium), and Lighter Than Air Systems, were awarded a DoD contract to provide the Army with two Blimp-in-a-box systems....
Video of Boston Dynamics’ PETMAN in action
Sabine Hauert
05 Apr 2013
Boston Dynamics just released a new video of their robot PETMAN. The robot was funded by the Department of Defense to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous environments. I...
Two new videos show progress with humanoid robots
Frank Tobe
05 Apr 2013
Boston Dynamics has clothed their Petman humanoid robot to test hazardous conditions and to be able to detect chemicals leaking through the suit. ...
Academic and industry collaboration (Part 1): Interview with Rodney Brooks
Florian Röhrbein
05 Apr 2013
This is the first in a four-part interview series about collaboration between academia and industry, conducted by a group of scientists from the ECHORD project at Technische Universität München. W...
DNA testing chip delivers results in one hour, paves way for personalized drug treatments
DigInfo TV
04 Apr 2013
Panasonic, together with the Belgium-based research institution IMEC, has developed a DNA testing chip that automates all stages of obtaining genetic information, including preprocessing.
This deve...
Attention C++ coders: NASA/TopCoder launch $10,000 Robonaut challenge
Robohub Editors
03 Apr 2013
NASA and and the community developer platform TopCoder are launching a series of coding competitions to help Robonaut 2 learn how to interact with the types of input devices used by human astronauts o...
Max Headroom gets a female counterpart: Zoe | Reuters
John Payne
01 Apr 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egqXaMVqh2k
Okay, the title is a bit of a stretch; a better analogy might be the virtual title character of the movie S1m0ne, starring Al Pacino. But Zoe isn't an AI...
Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft
Guido de Croon
26 Mar 2013
Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...
The future of drones in America: Law enforcement and privacy considerations
CIS Blog
25 Mar 2013
Last week the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard from witnesses Benjamin Miller, Amie Stepanovich, Michael Tosocano and Prof. Ryan Calo on “The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement...
