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Ball rolling robots
Wolfgang Heller
25 Oct 2012
San Francisco based Bossa Nova Robotics develops personal robots for the home based on the ballbot technology under license from CMU. Founded by robotics entrepreneur Sarjoun Skaff as a spin-off out o...
Robot Companions: Flagship funding proposal for 1 billion euro submitted
Markus Waibel
25 Oct 2012
The Coordination Action Robot Companions for Citizens has submitted its proposal for the European Commission's FET Flagship Initiative....
NAO, WALL-E, PackBot and BigDog inducted into Robot Hall of Fame
Frank Tobe
24 Oct 2012
Aldebaran Robotics’ NAO humanoid robot won in the Education & Consumer category.
... WALL-E, the star of the 2008 Disney/Pixar movie of the same name, won in the Entertainment category.
... iR...
Panasonic develops a prototype dry head spa robot
DigInfo TV
24 Oct 2012
Panasonic has developed a prototype dry head spa robot, which in the future could be attached to a desk or bath. It uses robot hand technology previously developed for use in their hair washing robot....
Robobusiness getting lean
Andra Keay
23 Oct 2012
Bossa Nova Robotics launched the lean version of Rosie, the robot maid from the Jetsons, today at Robobusiness. CEO Martin Hitch explained how Bossa Nova have taken their experience in the brutal and ...
Making an iCub robot “clever”
Mike Hamer
23 Oct 2012
As part of the IM-CLeVeR project, the IDSIA robotics laboratory recently released a video-overview of their work on the technologies, architectures and algorithms required to give an iCub robot mo...
RoboBusiness Summit: Workshops feature experts in manufacturing, assistive robotics
David Pietrocola
23 Oct 2012
Robots In DC made the trip from Washington and we’re ready to kick off our coverage of the unique and exciting RoboBusiness event, which is bringing together leaders from robotics businesses, resea...
Disaster response robot will inspect the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor building
DigInfo TV
23 Oct 2012
This compact explorer robot, called Sakura, being developed by the Future Robotics Technology Center (fuRo) at the Chiba Institute of Technology, is the latest in their line of disaster response robot...
Ultra high-speed robot based on 1 kHz vision system
John Payne
22 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/UdlSvtUInu0
The Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, at the University of Tokyo, has been at the forefront of developing high-speed vision systems to enable robotic movement that pushes the limit...
CHARLI busting some moves
John Payne
22 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/kmeJvkN4ntI
The CHARLI series humanoid robot is developed as a research platform to study bipedal walking and autonomous behaviors for humanoid robots. It is designed to be ultra li...
World’s first all rubber speaker made from artificial muscles is thin, soft and bassy
DigInfo TV
18 Oct 2012
Tokai Rubber Industries has developed the world's first all-rubber speaker. This speaker utilizes Smart Rubber, which conducts electricity and can freely expand or contract, to generate sound.
Prev...
Drone on YOMYOMF
John Payne
17 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/u8PzkGM60Lc
YOMYOMF is one of a long, and growing, list of YouTube funded channels. Drone is a four-part series of short-format videos, telling the story of a humanoid com...
Futuristic vehicle interface with a predictive direct and gesture based input system from Alps Electric
DigInfo TV
17 Oct 2012
Alps Electric has developed a next-generation vehicle interface, created using its own sensors and input devices. The interface consists of a Multi-Modal Commander, allowing for direct and gesture bas...
Yamaha JWX-2 wheelchair power assist unit can be attached to almost any wheelchair
DigInfo TV
16 Oct 2012
Yamaha Motor has developed an electrical assist unit for wheelchairs, called the JWX-2.
The JWX-2 applies PAS technology from assisted bicycles to wheelchairs. The electric assist works in line wit...
First sighting of FoxBots in China
Frank Tobe
15 Oct 2012
... Foxconn said they would be deploying 1 million robots in their factories in China. The first photographs of one of those appeared in Chinese news last week.
... 10,000 turquoise FoxBots have been...
FoxBots being deployed in China
Frank Tobe
15 Oct 2012
Foxconn-built robot FoxBot. Source: TechWeb.com.cn
Foxconn, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision (2317:TW), has begun deploying their own brand of industrial robots to ...
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...
