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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...
Liquid Robotics set records in PacX
Andra Keay
06 Dec 2012
It's been more than one year and 9,000 nautical miles since Liquid Robotics launched 4 Wave Gliders in San Francisco on November 17, 2011. On November 20, 2012 "Papa Mau" reached the east coast of Aus...
The nEUROn maiden flight
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
On December 1st, the nEUROn, Europe’s unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) stealth technology demonstrator, successfully completed its maiden flight from the Dassault Aviation company’s flight test ...
AeroVironment invests $3 million in Swedish CybAero
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
Credit. CybAero
AeroVironment Inc.(NASDAQ: AVAV) the clear leader in the man-portable, hand-launched UAS market, has announced a strategic partnership with Sweden-based CybAero (NASDAQOMXS: ...
SwRI and ROS-Industrial making progress on 5th anniversary of ROS
Frank Tobe
04 Dec 2012
... In 2011, Motoman USA partnered with SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) to enable ROS software to be available to Motoman users. “The next step for industrial robotics is to be more sensor a...
Researching robotics is getting easier
Frank Tobe
03 Dec 2012
Complementing Robohub is new app “IEEE Spectrum ROBOTS,” which provides some news but has an extensive detailed section for current-day robots of all types: from exoskeletons to remote presence; f...
KIBO robot project
Wolfgang Heller
02 Dec 2012
A Japanese humanoid communication robot being developed by the KIBO Robot project, a joint research project by Dentsu Inc., the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of...
Eating robots improve quality of life and save resources
Wolfgang Heller
01 Dec 2012
60% of EU citizens are saying that robots should be banned when it comes to the care of children, elderly people and people with disabilities, according to the Special Eurobarometer survey "Public at...
Draw precise freehand circles and copy paste drawings with the dePENd table
DigInfo TV
29 Nov 2012
This table helps you to draw precise freehand circles and lines. It is under development by a group in the Yasuaki Kakehi Lab at Keio University.
By using a computer to control the XY position of a...
TED talk with Davide Scaramuzza on visual control of MAVs
Sabine Hauert
29 Nov 2012
Davide Scaramuzza leads the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and is Adjunct Faculty at ETH Zurich....
