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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...
Quadcopters advertising new Star Trek movie
Frank Tobe
24 Mar 2013
A squadron of 30 LED-studded Ascending Technologies quadcopters hovered above Potters Fields Park near London’s Tower Bridge and, in conjunction with Earth Hour, formed a three-dimensional Star Trek...
Updated Robotics Roadmap presented to US congress
Frank Tobe
22 Mar 2013
Henrik Christensen, the KUKA Chair of Robotics at GA Tech and Chairman of the Roadmap project, Rodney Brooks, CEO of Rethink Robotics, Pete Wurman, CTO of Kiva Systems, and Russ Angold, CTO of Ekso Bi...
Capitol Hill event welcomes revised robotics roadmap
David Pietrocola
21 Mar 2013
The Congressional Robotics Caucus welcomed the release Wednesday of a follow-up revision to the highly influential 2009 report, A Roadmap for U.S. Robotics: From Internet to Robotics, which inspired...
Robots on Tour event draws larger-than-expected crowds
Nathan Labhart
20 Mar 2013
Surprise! Robots are much more popular than expected!
Robots on Tour started off on Friday 8 March 2013 with a scientific symposium at café/bar Sphères in Zurich, Switzerland. Big names from the...
Chris Anderson, Marc Raibert and Steven Cousins at Engadget Expand Event
Frank Tobe
19 Mar 2013
"Moore's Law has never moved faster than is moving inside the phone you've already got in your pocket. The pace of development and the price performance curve is moving faster in smartphones than it's...
Robotics infiltrates Engadget’s Expand
Andra Keay
19 Mar 2013
The first Engadget Expand expo at Fort Mason in San Francisco was a great weekend out with lots of robotics. In fact the striking thing was how much of the event was talking about or demonstrating rob...
Liquid robotics gets $45 million to continue double-digit growth
Frank Tobe
19 Mar 2013
Liquid Robotics today is a far cry from it's initial goal of recording whale songs. Today that function and those recordings are the domain of the Jupiter Foundation and Liquid is focusing on making w...
Liquid Robotics Gets $45 Million To Continue Double-Digit Growth
Frank Tobe
19 Mar 2013
... Liquid Robotics today is a far cry from it’s initial goal of recording whale songs. Today that function and those recordings are the domain of the Jupiter Foundation and Liquid is focusing o...
Romo on the move
Frank Tobe
16 Mar 2013
Romotiv, the maker of the Romo robot, is moving from Las Vegas to San Francisco. CEO Rinaudo wrote the reason behind the move, which will take place over the next three months, was the company’s des...
Active military robots around the world
Ioannis K. Erripis
15 Mar 2013
This is a brief presentation of some of the most widely used robots (or remotely controlled, semi-autonomous systems) from militaries around the world. There are numerous other projects that are curre...
Foxconn Foxbot update
Frank Tobe
08 Mar 2013
Ilian Bonev, a robotics prof at the ÉTS in Quebec, blogged “The truth about Foxconns Foxbot industrial robots,” and included a 2008 Foxbot brochure which shows the specs for their entire robotics...
Drone filibuster delays US Senate’s vote on new CIA director
Hallie Siegel
07 Mar 2013
A US Senate vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA director was delayed by a 13-hour talking filibuster by junior Republican Senator Rand Paul.
US President Barack Obama has faced criticism in hi...
Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd
Hallie Siegel
05 Mar 2013
Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...
Know your robot space torsos: Justin, Robonaut, SAR-400, & AILA
Reno Tibke
04 Mar 2013
Astronauts: awesome, but only human
It's cold out there beyond the blue. Full of radiation. Low on breathable air. Vacuous. It's hard to keep machines and organic creatures functioning and/or alive....
Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
Nathan Labhart
03 Mar 2013
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....
KUKA youBot HACKATHON 2013
Wolfgang Heller
27 Feb 2013
German KUKA youBot Store has announced a new initiative to promote education in mobile manipulation. Research groups and labs in universities and public research facilities are invited to organize an ...
Nuke plant decommissioning robots wanted
Wolfgang Heller
27 Feb 2013
The Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (MRI) invites the robotics community to upgrade and to develop a technical catalog of robotic technologies to move and investigate inside nuclear reactor buildi...
Robot choreographies
Sabine Hauert
27 Feb 2013
Today's TED talk features a troop of NAO robots performing an upbeat choreography....
2013 robotic gimmicks, gadgets and toys
Frank Tobe
26 Feb 2013
Toys often precede more serious inventions. So, putting judgement aside, and withholding laughs and other "tells", here are some new robotic toys and gadgets hitting the market this year....
iRobot buys back own shares up to $25M
Wolfgang Heller
25 Feb 2013
iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT), a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program. Under the program, iRobot...
Management shakeup at Adept Technology
Frank Tobe
25 Feb 2013
... Rob Cain replaces John Dulchinos as CEO of Adept Technology. Cain has worked with Adept for the past few months as an advisor and representative of Hale Capital Partners and crafted a restructurin...
Rapyuta: The RoboEarth Cloud Engine
Dominique Hunziker
25 Feb 2013
In recent years cloud computing has made an entrance into our lives. Naturally, this begs the question how cloud computing can be used in robotics applications. With Rapyuta, the RoboEarth Cloud Engin...
EURATHLON outdoor robotics competition
Wolfgang Heller
24 Feb 2013
EURATHLON is a new outdoor robotics competition, which will invite teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios....
Augmented realty interface for telepresence robots
Wolfgang Heller
22 Feb 2013
Telepresence robots are remote controlled cameras on wheels that are connected via Wi-Fi to a user's computer, mobile phone or tablet. The user can communicate via a "human-scale" robot with other peo...
Bioinspired robot STAR
Wolfgang Heller
21 Feb 2013
Researchers at the Biomimetic Millisystem Lab at UC Berkeley have developed a six legged, 12 cm long, bioinspired robot named STAR (Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot)....
Robot vision systems providers doing well
Frank Tobe
21 Feb 2013
... In a recent $4,650 research report by Market & Market, a TX-based research firm, they projected that machine vision systems and components will grow at an annual rate of 8%+ for 2013 to 2018....
Oshkosh and Lockheed capitalizing on demand for military AGVs
Frank Tobe
21 Feb 2013
... The Oshkosh TerraMax UGV (right) is capable of tele-operations, being a leader or follower, and fully autonomous operation. The Marine Corps are evaluating it as part of their Cargo UGV initiative...
Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
Markus Waibel
21 Feb 2013
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
Flying robot performs 2D/3D mapping in the alps
Sabine Hauert
20 Feb 2013
Sensefly just released a fun video of their latest product, eBee, autonomously flying over an alpine landscape near the Matterhorn while performing 2D and 3D mapping....
Grishin Fund invests in hardware incubator
Frank Tobe
20 Feb 2013
... Grishin Robotics continues it’s formulaic long-term investment strategy in robotics by partnering into the start-up mechanism. In this case its a new hardware incubator called Bolt located in Bo...
Bolt closes funding round and opens applications
Andra Keay
20 Feb 2013
Bolt, Ben Einstein's hardware and robotics accelerator in Boston, today announced the close of their first funding round and the opening of the first round of applications for 2013 hardware startups. ...
ROV market study shows dramatic growth for 2013-2023
Frank Tobe
19 Feb 2013
... In a new report analyzing the uses and needs for remotely operated underwater vehicles by the global oil and gas industry, Visiongain, a British research provider, has projected positive growth fo...
