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Vitirover, solar-powered mower for vineyards
John Payne
21 Jan 2013
Powered by sunlight alone, and working at 500 meters per hour, VITIROVER can cover about a hectare per hundred hours of operation. If your vineyard is larger than that you'll want more than one. VIT...
Analysis: Robot learning in the cloud
Markus Waibel
21 Jan 2013
Cloud robotics, a shorthand for the idea of leveraging the Internet for robots, offers unprecedented opportunities for robot learning. Apart from using the World Wide Web for faster communication or f...
“Space Jellyfish” created with traditional handicraft and high tech
DigInfo TV
20 Jan 2013
Professor Yoichiro Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies is building a robot of a swimming jellyfish based on the theme of "space jellyfish." To artistica...
CBS News 60 Minutes provides new definition of robots
Frank Tobe
14 Jan 2013
CBS News Reporter Steve Kroft interviews Rodney Brooks at ReThink Robotics.
Click on the image to see the segment.
On Sunday, January 13, CBS News 60 Minutes reported on robots. Their focal po...
Robot startup series #4: Chris Anderson at CES 2013
Andra Keay
11 Jan 2013
Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics, former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and author of The Long Tail, Free and the newly published Makers, speaks about the new industrial revolution, how easy it is these d...
Empowered by UAVs
Wolfgang Heller
10 Jan 2013
The U.S. military UAV market is projected to grow at an 12% CAGR reaching $18.7 billion in 2018 according to a new report of Market Research Media Ltd. The report finds that the U.S. military UAV mark...
Swedish UAV ready for lift-off
Wolfgang Heller
10 Jan 2013
In December 2012, Swedish CybAero AB, a company developing and manufacturing autonomous unmanned helicopters, signed a strategic partnership agreement with the world's leading UAV company, Aer...
Overview of robotics at CES 2013
Andra Keay
09 Jan 2013
Robotics is still the picture rather than the story at International CES, the largest innovation and consumer electronics display in the world. When CNET’s Next Big Thing panel discussed “What is ...
A conversation with NASA’s Dave Lavery
Eric Wind
09 Jan 2013
On Monday, I had the opportunity and pleasure to have a discussion with NASA's Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, Dave Lavery. During the course of the conversation, Dave answered my ques...
Multilateral manipulation by human-robot collaborative systems
Wolfgang Heller
09 Jan 2013
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas. A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to design the optimum workplace ...
Multilateral manipulation by human-robot collaborative systems
Wolfgang Heller
09 Jan 2013
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas. A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to design the optimum workplace ...
Power Loader power amplification exoskeleton robot
DigInfo TV
08 Jan 2013
This power amplification robot, called Power Loader, is currently under development by Activelink, a Panasonic subsidiary venture.
The aim is to achieve a robot that can freely utilize power beyond...
$100 million P-P-P suggestion for healthcare robotics
Frank Tobe
08 Jan 2013
... Op-ed piece suggesting $100 million be invested in developing eldercare robot similar to the robot in the movie “Robot & Frank.”...
Leap Motion gets $30 million for new Kinect-like device
Frank Tobe
08 Jan 2013
... Hot new Leap Motion Kinect-like product gets another $30 million (bringing the total to $44 million).
... Leap Motion controller senses individual hand and finger movements so you can interact di...
Robotic kit for kids
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of ...
CES Robotics 2013
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The annual CES - Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, is always a great opportunity for trendspotting and innovation hunting in consumer electronics including consumer robotics. CES 2013 ...
Father of the drone still leading the way
John Payne
01 Jan 2013
Recently profiled in The Economist, in an article titled "The dronefather", Abe Karem, founder of Leading Systems, which eventually became the division of General Atomics which builds the Predator, an...
Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
David Pietrocola
26 Dec 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...
Robot holiday season videos 2012 (continued)
Sabine Hauert
24 Dec 2012
Our colleagues at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL just sent us a fun video of Santa riding a fixed-wing robot and loosing a present. Luckily, the present can autonomously find its way to...
Six rotors, six legs, one gripper
John Payne
23 Dec 2012
http://youtu.be/0sOvP9PhDQU
Those crazy guys at Mad Lab Industries have put together a multimodal contraption that flies like a hexrotor (because it is one) and walks like a hexapod (because it is al...
Robot holiday season videos 2012 (continued)
Sabine Hauert
22 Dec 2012
More videos for the holiday season featuring robots have started to appear.
This time, General Motors and Kiva Systems feature high-tech robots pretending to be "Santa's little helpers"....
More $$ for surgical snake
Frank Tobe
21 Dec 2012
Medrobotics, previously CardioRobotics, just completed a $32 million series D round of financing to help finalize commercializing the first surgical snake robot, co-invented by Howie Choset, a CMU pro...
Lots of robots at CES, January 10-13 in Las Vegas
Frank Tobe
20 Dec 2012
Many new vendors selling robotic consumer products at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 10-13....
IBM predicts sensory technology for next 5 years
John Payne
19 Dec 2012
http://youtu.be/wXkfrBJqVcQ
In what has become an annual rite, IBM predicts the progress of 5 technologies over the next 5 years. This year the 5 they have chosen are the familiar 5 senses: touch,...
InformationWeek’s Top 10 robots that could change healthcare
Frank Tobe
19 Dec 2012
The top 10 robots that could change healthcare, as selected by InformationWeek included the following:...
Robot holiday season videos 2012
Markus Waibel
18 Dec 2012
My colleagues at the Autonomous Systems Christmas Lab at ETH Zurich have created an awesome Christmas video featuring some of their cool robots:...
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2012)
Sabine Hauert
16 Dec 2012
My colleague Nils Napp from Radhika Nagpal's lab at Harvard attended the DARS symposium this year and agreed to share some highlights with us....
Unmanned Vehicle University accredited to grant Doctorate and Masters degrees
Frank Tobe
13 Dec 2012
Unmanned Vehicle University just received an Arizona state license to grant Graduate Doctorate and Masters Degrees in Unmanned (Air/Ground/Sea/Space) Systems Engineering.
The Arizona school also offe...
Robot startup series #3: Elad Inbar & RobotAppStore
Andra Keay
11 Dec 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE942o42Ra8
I interviewed Elad Inbar, CEO of the RobotAppStore, just before the announcement that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 in this cloud robotics mark...
The patent grip loosens
Frank Tobe
10 Dec 2012
VGo Communications wins infringement lawsuit brought on by InTouch Health and also initiates a patent reexamination of four other InTouch patents....
Grishin Robotics invests in RobotAppStore
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2012
For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds.
Grishin Robotics are investing $250,000 into RobotAppStore, an online marketplace for robotics applications. It seems that Grishin is betting on t...
Grishin Robotics invest in RobotAppStore
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2012
For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds....
See and feel virtual water with this immersive crossmodal perception system from Solidray
DigInfo TV
07 Dec 2012
Solidray, which is involved in virtual reality production, has released an immersive crossmodal system incorporating visual and tactile feedback, enabling the user to see and feel flowing water in a v...
Dancing with robots
Andra Keay
06 Dec 2012
Robots parodying the latest video hits are cute but some choreographers, artists and human-robot interaction specialists have pushed the boundary of how humans and robots move in fascinating ways. Tho...
The patent grip loosens
Frank Tobe
06 Dec 2012
VGo Communications wins infringement lawsuit brought on by InTouch Health and also initiates a patent reexamination of four other InTouch patents.
InTouch Health, a company that has b...
Danish hospital first in Europe with TUG logistics robot
Wolfgang Heller
06 Dec 2012
The Danish hospital Sygehus Sønderjylland is first in Europe to use logistics robot TUG, developed by the American company Aethon. TUG specially constructed for intern logistics is already used in mo...
