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Mazor Robotics’ Renaissance okayed for brain surgery
John Payne
27 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/HiHpiwBW5z0
Mazor Robotics announced on July 16th that its Renaissance robotic platform, already in wide use for spinal surgery, has received U.S. FDA clearance for use in brain surge...
InTouch Health & iRobot announce RP-VITA
John Payne
27 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/hoAPTpwkFtw
In a joint press release, US companies InTouch Health and iRobot have announced a new telepresence robot for hospitals. The robot called "RP-VITA" builds on iRobot's AVA p...
Robot Launchpad on Robots Podcast
Andra Keay
26 Jul 2012
Robots Podcast is the place to hear the latest well informed news and views on robotics. I’m honored to have been interviewed about Robot Launchpad for the July 13 2012 podcast. Robots is a non...
2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival
John Payne
24 Jul 2012
The 2012 (2nd annual) Robot Film Festival screening took place nine days ago, in the 3LD Art & Technology Center (New York City). Selected entries appear on the Robot Film Festival website, and Au...
Headlights that see through rain; A robotic seamstress
Frank Tobe
20 Jul 2012
Normally I don't write about scientific breakthroughs that may or may not turn into commercial products. But these two are sure winners and I wanted to share them with you....
Explosive motions
Sabine Hauert
16 Jul 2012
Throwing, hitting, jumping or kicking are often referred to as explosive movements since they require the sudden release of large amounts of energy to be successful. Instead of using large and powerfu...
Toddler robot with realistic facial expressions
John Payne
16 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/Quai3SpKD08
On which side of the 'uncanny valley' would you place the robotic child in the above video? Researchers at Osaka University are developing a robot in the form of a 1-to-2 ...
Artificial cerebellum
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
Researchers in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, and in the Department of Computer Architecture and Electronics, University of Almería, have developed a b...
Aeroponics (using mist in place of full submersion)
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
LED lights are far more efficient than incandescents, but enough light to drive photosynthesis will still require significant power, so one still might ask where the power is going to come from....
Aldebaran’s Shape the World recruiting video
John Payne
15 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/-KvEyV8X5II
Having noticed a recent trend towards robotics companies releasing videos with high production values, this one caught my eye. Aldebaran Robotics is hiring, and produced a...
Hizook on video ethics in robotics research
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
Last Monday (July 2nd), Hizook posted a thoughtful piece, Being Honest in Robot Videos: Motion Capture, Speedup Rates, and Teleoperation, which covers even more ground than its title suggests. The art...
3D printing blood vessels and metal
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/9VHFlwJQIkE
Above, researchers at UPenn and MIT print blood vessels, using sugar. Once the sugar hardens, cells suspended in gel are added. Once the gel solidifies, the su...
Curiosity update with Scott Maxwell
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/AVqsV4rQ4bE
Would you like to watch Curiosity pile up sand behind its wheels as it struggles up a slope, this video is about as close as you're likely to get, at least until Curiosity...
Mahoro performs dangerous lab work
John Payne
08 Jul 2012
http://youtu.be/-Stz0pATsXc
A two-armed robot, called Mahoro, jointly developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST) and Yaskawa Electric Corporation, and marketed ...
The Robot Report startup map
Andra Keay
07 Jul 2012
Frank Tobe’s ‘The Robot Report’ has just launched a great map of global robot startups and he’d like your robot startup information…
Please add to our list of global robotic start-up compan...
2012 Boca Bearing innovation contest
John Payne
06 Jul 2012
Direct from their website...To celebrate their 25th year in business the Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $20,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2012 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winn...
TE+ND Rover in Boca Bearings competition
John Payne
05 Jul 2012
In case you've forgotten, this video provides a clear explanation of the concept behind and the mechanical workings of the TE+ND Rover.
For more, check out their page on the com...
Field Robot Event 2012 in video
John Payne
05 Jul 2012
The first video in this playlist is a presentation given last year at the announcement of the event. The rest were taken at the event itself, and show the nature of the competition as well a...
SoftWear Automation awarded $1.25 million DARPA contract
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
SoftWear Automation, the latest in a string of ventures founded by Steve Dickerson - a retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology - and nurtu...
Tovbot’s Shimi at Google I/O
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/s6bs1rrOwxo
Tovbot's Shimi made its first public appearance two days ago at Google I/O, where not just one but three Shimis performed in perfect coordination. Tovbot was formed earlie...
10th annual Field Robot Event underway
John Payne
28 Jun 2012
This year's Field Robot Event (FRE 2012) began today and runs through Saturday. I will bring together what reports I am able to find once the dust settles, but meanwhile you can view videos from past ...
Quadrotor light show
John Payne
27 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/cseTX_rW3uM
This video is a performance piece incorporating a troupe of 16 quadrotors. It's a very nice way to spend a few minutes....
USC researchers make SynTouch BioTac perform
John Payne
21 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/ksTlfklav-k
Researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering have succeeded in making an artificial fingertip outperform humans in identifying a ra...
Nikolaus Correll at TEDx Front Range 2012
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
University of Colorado Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll, speaking at TEDx Front Range earlier this year, outlined his vision for transforming agriculture through robotic cultivation.
...
2012 Field Robot Event, June 28th – 30th
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
This will be the 10th edition of the Field Robot Event. Organized by Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Wageningen UR (University & Research), it will be held in Venlo, The Nether...
EPFL aerial crash recovery
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/GgdI0oiPY0s
Researchers at EPFL, in Switzerland, have developed an aerial system which absorbs the energy of low-speed collisions, rights itself, and resumes flying....
Three-fingered hand with one actuator
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/3IY8dz5EaAY
Japanese company DOUBLE Research and Development has developed a three-fingered robotic hand using a single pressure sensor and a single actuator. The linkage through whi...
Joggobot will keep you moving
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/4x4d8IX_0kI
Researchers at the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have created a robot to support you while exercising. Joggobot is a modified version of th...
Robotic zebrafish influences real fish
John Payne
14 Jun 2012
Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in the U.S. and the Instituto Superiore di Sanitá in Italy have created a robotic zebrafish that can mix with real zebrafish and influe...
Robot Launchpad Grand Challenge 2012
Andra Keay
04 Jun 2012
It’s our turn for a Grand Challenge! The prize will be a successful million dollar business. The catch is you build it yourself. The rules? Well, you don’t need to be a robot scientist to do it. Y...
Robert J. Wood interview
John Payne
03 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/WGR3SqPrOYs
Robert J. Wood (see also), Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and a Core Member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Universit...
Floating Sensor Network: putting water online
John Payne
01 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/2Qq4mGAMdOw
The above video was posted one day prior to a major, much-publicized experiment, tracing water movement in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta, which is prone ...
MIT’s Cheetah acquires new gates
John Payne
31 May 2012
http://youtu.be/U5_OUfCPZd0
In early March, Boston Dynamics posted a video (shown below) showing the Cheetah robot they are developing for DARPA running at 18 miles per hour (a new record for a robot...
Juggling two balls with one hand & fast vision
John Payne
31 May 2012
http://youtu.be/vnDwvsVk_nc
Also presented recently at ICRA, Takahiro Kizaki and Akio Namiki from the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in Japan demonstrated a system comprised of a ...
Aggressive flight using laser scanner, IMU, & 3D map
John Payne
30 May 2012
http://youtu.be/VUeKKvKEvYI
Evan Ackerman, writing for IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog, saysResearchers at MIT CSAIL have decided that slow and obstacle-free flight is boring, so they’ve come up wit...
Catching up with robots
John Payne
28 May 2012
http://youtu.be/UpyKt6mClVA
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform fo...
