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Rodney Brooks speaking at the CMU Robotics Institute
John Payne
15 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/RDvgNB2OZxI
Speaking at CMU Robotics Institute as part of their RI Seminar Series, Rodney Brooks, Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Rethink Robotics (originally Heartland Robo...
Robotic wheelchair from Chiba Tech turns wheels into legs and climbs over steps
DigInfo TV
15 Oct 2012
At the Chiba Institute of Technology, a group led by Shuro Nakajima has developed a robot wheelchair that can climb over steps.
This robot can make a variety of movements, using its four-wheel driv...
Exoskeletons: New and old
Andra Keay
12 Oct 2012
With NASA's X1 Robotic Exoskeleton in the news today, it's timely to look at the increasing range of exoskeletons in development or use today.
X1 (NASA, IHMC)
Built in conjunction with...
Calligraphy robot uses a Motion Copy System to reproduce detailed brushwork
DigInfo TV
11 Oct 2012
A research group at Keio University, led by Seiichiro Katsura, has developed the Motion Copy System. This system can identify and store detailed brush strokes, based on information about movement in c...
Robot video roundup: music+
Andra Keay
10 Oct 2012
This robotic installation actually plays the whole song 40°42’48.46 N 73°58’18.38 by German rock/electronic artist Bonaparte. Filmed by French team Jul & Mat, the installation is the brain ...
AR app from docomo translates menus and signs in real time
DigInfo TV
10 Oct 2012
On October 11, NTT Docomo will start the Utsushite Honyaku service, which instantly translates foreign-language restaurant menus when you point a smartphone's camera at them.
Utsushite Honyaku is a...
eBee first product from Parrot/senseFly investment
Frank Tobe
10 Oct 2012
In July, the Parrot Group partnered with senseFly, a Swiss start-up and spin-off from the Swiss EPFL, and invested $5.3 million to help senseFly grow. Their initial plan was to develop a hig...
Chinese companies cited by US congress as IP threats
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2012
... “I would find another vendor if you care about your intellectual property, if you care about your consumer’s privacy and you care about the national security of the United States of Am...
TEDxHelvetia features soft robots
Sabine Hauert
08 Oct 2012
TEDxHelvetia, which took place at the Rolex Learning Center in Switzerland, featured two EPFL professors in the rising fields of soft robotics and stretchable electronics....
Nissan NSC-2015 drives and parks automatically in a shopping mall car park
DigInfo TV
05 Oct 2012
This autonomous driving system, developed by Nissan, can automatically drive and park your car in a shopping center parking lot.
The EV used in this demo, the NSC-2015, contains technology for reco...
Toyota Partner Robot provides everyday assistance for people with disabilities
DigInfo TV
04 Oct 2012
Toyota has developed the Partner Robot, to provide everyday assistance for people with disabilities. This robot has a compact, cylindrical body, so it can turn round in small spaces, as well as foldi...
Robot video roundup: Gangnam style
Andra Keay
03 Oct 2012
What's better than a selection of fun robot videos to brighten up the week? This week's videos range from the sublime of "How to engineer a dog" and "Flying copters shooting hoops" to the ridiculously...
‘Green Brain’ aims to build robot bees
Andra Keay
02 Oct 2012
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Sussex are trying to build an artificial honey bee brain. Called 'Green Brain', this project aims to simulate insect sensory systems, primarily seeing an...
World Maker Faire New York
John Payne
30 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/_jc2UdIqDMA
Hot on the heels of the Open Hardware Summit, comes the World Maker Faire New York. In progress as I write, it is being held at the New York Hall of Science, Q...
Open Hardware Summit and MakerBot
John Payne
30 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/FU08-_-A17Y
The attached video, posted by Make Magazine, addresses what was apparently a subject of much discussion at the 2012 Open Hardware Summit, this past Thursday, w...
Robotics and the mountain of things we throw away
Frank Tobe
30 Sep 2012
“Cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash - surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-ca...
UC Davis Receives $1.25M from NSF
John Payne
28 Sep 2012
This video shows the type of work that is being supported by two grants, totaling $1.25 Million, awarded earlier this week to UC Davis by the National Science Foundation. Both of the projects receivin...
Video: Watch flying robots cooperate, throw and catch balls
Markus Waibel
27 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGJBV1xnJI
My colleagues at the ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have just released a new video. Here is what Robin Ritz, Lead Researcher on the project, has ...
3 reasons to crowdfund a robot
Andra Keay
26 Sep 2012
Kickstarter’s recent decision making it very difficult for hardware projects to use the platform just highlights two very useful things to know about crowdfunding. Firstly, not all crowdfunding plat...
Robots or immigrants in shrinking Japan
Wolfgang Heller
25 Sep 2012
Who will take over future jobs and welfare services in a shrinking Japan, immigrants or robots? According to a projection of the overall size and the age breakdown of the future population in Japan ...
Grishin’s first investment: Double Robotics
Andra Keay
21 Sep 2012
It was announced today that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 into Y Combinator startup Double Robotics. Double Robotics have already sold out their first order of affordable telepresence rob...
Thymio II toolset complete
John Payne
11 Sep 2012
http://youtu.be/RTi7DjqlGO8
Thymio II was introduced at the 2011 EPFL Robotic Festival. Now, with the introduction of Aseba, the creative toolset associated with it is complete. Aseba allows even yo...
Walking paper robot
Markus Waibel
09 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7nS7_Kf7E
This is insane - and really cool: This biped robot is made out of paper, folded with origami precision, and driven by an elastic band.
Here's...
2011 industrial and service robotics statistics
Frank Tobe
07 Sep 2012
The International Federation of Robotics has released their 2012 books reflecting 2011 results, and projections for 2012-2015....
Credit Suisse picks 7 automation/robotics stocks
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2012
Max Nisen of Business Insider wrote recently of a list of seven stock picks discovered in a Credit Suisse report on long term trends. One of those trends was increasing global automation (particularly...
A #botiful evening at Robotics Meetup
Andra Keay
22 Aug 2012
Claire Delauney’s Botiful Kickstarter campaign is in its last hours and as she crosses the funded line, Claire shares with us some of her strategies and insights into running a successful Kickstarte...
New wave of deft robots is changing global industry | NY Times
Markus Waibel
21 Aug 2012
An article in today's edition of the NY Times gives a comprehensive overview of robotic's influence on assembly lines and warehouses in the manufacturing and distribution industries.
Two quotes to ...
ETH summer school on soft robotics
Markus Waibel
17 Aug 2012
ETH Zurich's summer school on Soft Robotics is over. But as of today, you can have a look at the lecture videos and lecture material online!
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Chameleon robot changes color depending on surroundings
Markus Waibel
17 Aug 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1WFU4G-WU
A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by researchers at Harvard University. It was in...
Kickstarter and robots – not always #botiful
Andra Keay
14 Aug 2012
SF Bay Area Robotics meetup – August 21 7pm – 8.30pm at Lemnos Labs – is a kickstarter edition. Claire Delauney will share her experience with Botiful, as she reaches the final 12 hours of her K...
Cardboard robots are coming
Andra Keay
09 Aug 2012
Ken Ihara’s creation “The Cardboard Robot” has just been funded on Kickstarter. The Cardboard Robot is a giant industrial sized robot arm with a reach just shy of 6 feet. Attach the smart pho...
Curiosity lands safely and In working order
John Payne
06 Aug 2012
Depending on which time zone you're in, either yesterday evening or early this morning, a rocket-powered sky crane lowered the Curiosity rover gently to the surface of Mars, just in time for Curiosity...
Parrot invests in SenseFly and Pix4D
John Payne
01 Aug 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVxOleKf8s
Last week, SenseFly and Pix4D announced deals with drone maker Parrot, in which Parrot will invest in both companies, 5 million Swiss francs in SenseFly and...
The beginning of something important: InTouch Health and iRobot’s RP-VITA
Frank Tobe
01 Aug 2012
Last week I attended the 7th Annual Remote Presence Clinical Innovations Forum hosted by InTouch Health in Santa Barbara, CA, a two-day users conference disseminating the latest information regarding ...
Quote from Clay Johnson, author of “The Information Diet”
John Payne
30 Jul 2012
We industrialized our agricultural firms, consolidating them into multinational, billion dollar publicly traded corporations. As a result, they no longer have nutritional responsibility, they have fid...
QNA’s tactical robot controller
John Payne
28 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/qQqp03-PUBE
Many robots, one controller, or at least that's the idea. The Tactical Robot Controller (or TRC) is the latest innovation out of QinetiQ North America's Unmanned Systems G...
