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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....
Transience – Dynamic color changing calligraphy harmonizes tradition with technology
DigInfo TV
28 Nov 2012
Transience is an artwork by the Wakita Lab at Keio University. It is intended to represent a harmony between calligraphy and computers, by dynamically altering the color of calligraphy on paper.
"At ...
Swimming robots
Andra Keay
27 Nov 2012
Why should flying robots have all the headlines! This year has been full of robots that swim, so here is a small collection, from swarms to explorers, from nanobots to humanoids. ...
IEEE Spectrum Robots app
Wolfgang Heller
27 Nov 2012
Technology magazine IEEE Spectrum has launched its first iPad App "Robots" featuring 126 robots from 19 countries. The app includes technical data, interactive images, a robotic timeline and glossary....
Vision sensor capable of detecting moving spots 0.05mm in size across from distance of 2m
DigInfo TV
26 Nov 2012
Technos has introduced the Super5000K 7K Model neuro-visual sensor. This is the world's highest precision visual inspection system, and can detect spots 0.05mm in size at a distance of 2m, with a 1.4m...
Robots in the factory of the future
Wolfgang Heller
25 Nov 2012
The "Factories of the Future" is one of the three Public-Private Partnership included in the European Commission's recovery package launched in December 2008 to address the economic crisis. It consi...
Recent funding for robotics companies
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2012
MAKO Surgical gets $43 million from the sale of common stock. MAKO produces a robotic orthopedic surgical platform for implant placement. MAKO’s stock (NASDAQ:MAKO) has had a dramatic downward ride ...
Furby’s are back – this time with an iPhone app and translator
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2012
Hasbro has enhanced their successful Furby toy from years past with a combination of interactive programming and robotic engineering. The updated Furby includes a free Furby app to virtually feed Furb...
Iceland’s Össur wins PopSci “Best of What’s New” award for Symbionic Leg
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2012
Iceland’s Össur, a company which develops, manufactures and sells non-invasive orthopaedic and bionic prosthetics, received a Popular Science Magazine’s 2012 “Best of What’s New” award for ...
VGo gets funding to scale up for healthcare
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2012
VGo Communications received $900,000 debt financing to help the company scale up and focus on providing remote presence for the healthcare industry....
Quirky short film starring robot “Gumdrop”
Andra Keay
21 Nov 2012
In this short film from feature director Kerry Conran, Gumdrop is a 27 year old Bulgarian robot auditioning for a role in a feature film. Along the way some clever CGI allows Gumdrop to show her skil...
