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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 ...
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 Analyticsâ„¢, 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 ...
