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Old and new at Automate 2013
Frank Tobe
29 Jan 2013
Industrial Robots; Robot Arms; Cameras, Scanners and Vision Systems; Collaborative Cage-free Robots; Mobile Robots; Robot Operating Systems; Warehousing and Materials Handling; New Technologies, and J...
UK funding of novel robotics concepts
Wolfgang Heller
28 Jan 2013
The Technology Strategy Board (UK) is to invest up to £1m in feasibility studies to accelerate the development of novel Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) concepts towards demonstration and explo...
O’Reilly spins off Maker Media
John Payne
28 Jan 2013
I case you missed the news late last week, O’Reilly Media made an important announcement: Maker Media, Inc. has been spun off as its own company. All parties involved are thrilled by this evolution ...
John Markoff distills views regarding robots causing unemployment
John Payne
27 Jan 2013
John Markoff, senior writer for The New York Times, questioned a number of attendees at Automate 2013, regarding the recent 60 Minutes segment and the general concern over an increase in the use of ro...
Record order for KUKA Robotics
Wolfgang Heller
25 Jan 2013
Europe’s largest robot and equipment manufacturer German KUKA Roboter has won two record orders from German carmakers in November 2012.
The first order of 6,000 industrial robots came from Volk...
Innovative cooperation between workers and robots at Mercedes-Benz
Wolfgang Heller
25 Jan 2013
German automotive company Daimler has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with German KUKA AG, a leading systems integrator and robotics manufacturing company. The partnership focuses on huma...
EU-project: Walking like humans
Wolfgang Heller
25 Jan 2013
A consortium coordinated by by the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, will develop and demonstrate human-like gait and posture in a controlled compliant biped robot as a result of a combi...
Stäuble pick and place robot at Automate
John Payne
24 Jan 2013
http://youtu.be/JLFKxyxmN9M
“A Stäuble pick and place robot moves at blinding speeds, even when filmed at 240 fps and a Apps engineer, Mark from Adept is one of the few who, with practice, can b...
First autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance
Wolfgang Heller
24 Jan 2013
Based on the following press release, iRobot, a leader in delivering robotic solutions, announced that the RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis...
Patent Watch: Robotic fabricator
Wolfgang Heller
24 Jan 2013
iRobot Corporation and Rayheon BBN Technologies Corp. have filed a US patent entitled "Robotic Fabricator", a completely autonomous all-in-one product fabrication robot that handles manufacturing (inc...
Intuitive Surgical’s stock jumps 9% in one day
Frank Tobe
23 Jan 2013
... 4th quarter earnings were 23% higher than last year’s Q4 and income rose 16%. That’s 15 straight quarters beating analysts expectations. 2012 revenue was $2.178 billion.
... Intuitive...
Roadmap for creating Singooglarity?
Wolfgang Heller
23 Jan 2013
Ray Kurzweil, one of the world's leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, announced in December 2012 that he will be joining Google as Director of Engineering to work on new projects involving mach...
Print your own InMoov animatronic robot | Gizmag
John Payne
23 Jan 2013
“Now that 3D printing technology is taking off, some truly unique projects are beginning to emerge from all sorts of talented people. Take Gael Langevin, a French sculptor and model marker who has s...
SparkFun’s headlong, patent-free approach to product design | Wired Design
John Payne
23 Jan 2013
“Electronics supplier SparkFun designs dozens of products a year and they haven't patented a single one. It's worked out pretty well so far.”
See full article on wired.com...
New report shows that robots CREATE jobs
Frank Tobe
23 Jan 2013
... At an International Federation of Robotics (IFR) CEO Round Table held at Automate 2013, in Chicago, IFR executives presented a recap of a new research report on the positive impact of industrial r...
Quadrocopter Drones from China
Wolfgang Heller
22 Jan 2013
The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world´s first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R/C model t...
Day 1 at Automate 2013
Frank Tobe
22 Jan 2013
... In keynote, Dr. Henrik Christensen, Director of Robotics, GA Tech, described the technologies, advancements and myriad evidences of dramatic movement in robotics....
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...
