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Ingredients for autonomous construction
Sabine Hauert
28 May 2012
Most research in robotics focuses on a specific problem: building better hardware, implementing new algorithms, or demonstrating a new task. Combining all these state-of-the-art ingredients into a sin...
TE+ND Rover Indiegogo campaign
John Payne
27 May 2012
http://youtu.be/UskGhoF8Udc
TE+ND (Terrestrial Exploration + Nurture Designed) Rovers are an interactive art project that explore migratory ecology in an era of climate change. The designers are sol...
Hexy the Hexapod on Kickstarter
John Payne
24 May 2012
Hexy the Hexapod is a Kickstarter project to fund production of an affordable hexapod design by Arcbotics. The $13000 minimum goal has already been met, but there are higher goals for the addition of ...
ROSCon 2012: Keynote cont. (part 2 of 2)
John Payne
24 May 2012
http://youtu.be/3wnab6AjAwc
This is the continuation/conclusion of Morgan Quigley's keynote address at ROSCon 2012. Part 2 of 2.
(Duration 42:05)...
ROSCon 2012: Keynote (part 1 of 2)
John Payne
24 May 2012
http://youtu.be/-E1O98qrfBY
ROSCon 2012 Keynote, by Morgan Quigley, with introduction by Brian Gerkey, Part 1 of 2.
(Duration 23:46) Post revised 08Aug2012....
Cali Lewis in robot heaven
John Payne
23 May 2012
http://youtu.be/yTHVR4Zh6yg
If you enjoy Cali Lewis's refreshing style, and you like robots, then Cali going gaga over robots during the first few hours of her recent trip to Japan is sure to be a fu...
PolyPlus: the future of batteries
John Payne
23 May 2012
http://youtu.be/sutiW1Dclhc
Founded in 1990, PolyPlus began operations in 1991, based on work previously done at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on lithium/organosulfur (Li-S) batteries. The Li...
TurtleBot 2 at ROSCon
John Payne
21 May 2012
http://youtu.be/P27Vj7E2FoU
This video introduces TurtleBot 2, which was shown this past weekend at ROSCon 2012. TurtleBot 2, built around an iClebo Kobuki from Korean firm Yujin Robot, improves upon...
Exhibits at ICRA 2012
John Payne
21 May 2012
http://youtu.be/q6MZV88AvXo
The above video, posted to IEEE Spectrum's YouTube channel, shows a sampling of the exhibits that were there to be seen at ICRA 2012 (May 14-18), with a few scenes taken f...
Open source robotics foundation announced
John Payne
17 May 2012
Announced via the Willow Garage website, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) is an independent non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Its mission is ...
Paralyzed woman finishes London Marathon
John Payne
17 May 2012
http://youtu.be/hUbtyeAeBB0
While it took her 16 days to do it, Claire Lomas, who lost use of her legs in a 2007 accident, finished the London Marathon with the aid of a ReWalk powered exoskeleton fr...
Coming soon to a salon near you
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/IROoXFz5dj0
While Panasonic's legal department may be cringing at the prospect, this shampoo-bot appears to be headed straight for market, where it can relieve busy stylists from the ...
MIT Mediated Matter Group: CNSILK
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/JgeFLGfvrEM
The Mediated Matter Group within the MIT Media Lab, is dedicated to the development and application of novel processes that enable and support the design of physical matte...
Festo ExoHand at Hannover Messe
John Payne
03 May 2012
http://youtu.be/EcTL7Hig8h4
Hannover Messe, the world's biggest industrial fair, took place April 23rd through 27th. Among the many exhibits there were Festo's ExoHand, which connects a glove, with a...
Catching up with robots
John Payne
30 Apr 2012
http://youtu.be/Qh6tCkAGjQA
The video above shows the action of a gear-and-lever assembly designed to operate the legs of the TE+ND Rover, a gardening robot which will be on display at the Bay Area M...
Robots are good but roboticists are better!
Andra Keay
20 Apr 2012
MEGA Startup Weekend proved that you can mix startups and robots together and build new robot businesses. Now we need to work out how to repeat the success. It’s clear now that having real robot pla...
Learning acrobatic maneuvers for quadrocopters
Sabine Hauert
17 Apr 2012
Have you ever seen those videos of quadrocopters performing acrobatic maneuvers?
The latest paper on the Autonomous Robots website presents a simple method to make your robot achieve adaptive fast ...
Mega Startup Weekend with robots
Andra Keay
28 Mar 2012
For the 1st time in startup weekend history, teams are asked to build robot startups in a 54hr challenge. Using just a mockup OR an existing robot platform OR all the robot resources you possess, can ...
Why are we doing this?
Andra Keay
20 Mar 2012
You might think we’re crazy, organizing robot startup events and doing it all as volunteers. But if you know us, then you know that we are passionate about creating new robot businesses, growing new...
Winners of Cloud Robotics Hackathon
Andra Keay
13 Mar 2012
….. straight from Robotics Hackathon HQ…..
(Our CONGRATULATIONS to ALL especially Silicon Valley team OLogic !)
We are very happy to announce the results of the Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2012...
Cloud Robotics Hackathon update
Andra Keay
05 Mar 2012
Lots of hackathon stuff posted on our new Google+ page for Robot LaunchPad so check out all the videos/demos/pix.
More than 60 people showed up to the Hackathon, making us the largest event next t...
Robot Retreat: Rethinking robot startups
Andra Keay
29 Feb 2012
The Robot Retreat hosted by the RobotLaunchPad will be held at blackbox mansions April 28-29. A small group of movers and thinkers in the space of robotics, startups, design and culture come together ...
Cloud Robotics Hackathon
Andra Keay
24 Feb 2012
A good team has a balance of skills including people & design skills, learners and experts. The technical challenge is only one part of building a great robot demo.
1. Build robot
2. Connect...
Modex 2012: Robotic and smart technologies for handling material in factories and warehouses
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2012
In the emerging world of service robotics, many markets are opening to robotics that were once only handled by industrial robot manufacturers. Safely unmanned, or working alongside human workers, in a...
Robotics Hackathon launch party
Andra Keay
13 Feb 2012
Are you a Bay Area robotics hackathon team or just interested in robot startups?
Join us at the Citrix Startup Accelerator for the launch of the Robotics Hackathon. The Robotics Hackathon is spon...
Divergent views on communicating with machines
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2012
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft and Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman, Mercedes Benz
Much of what I saw at CES 2012 was about products being upgraded to “smart” under the premise that smart connec...
Turning robots into products, with Erin Rapacki
Andra Keay
17 Jan 2012
For up to date information about the business of robotics you can’t go past the Robots Podcast from EPFL Switzerland. Every 2 weeks, Robots will take you for a ride through the world’s research la...
iCub drums and crawls using bio-inspired control
Sabine Hauert
17 Jan 2012
Ever see a lizard effortlessly run up a wall?
Like most vertebrates, lizards are able to quickly adapt to new environments in a robust way thanks to a special type of movement generator. The idea is ...
CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2012
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, appliances, entertainment, health, mobility, etc. More than 20,000 new products w...
Thoughts on winning startup competitions
Andra Keay
07 Jan 2012
There is a great post at VentureBeat about Ahmed Siddiqui’s extensive experience of startup competitions; winning, not winning, and running them.
How to win a tech conference startup competition...
Cooperative modular satellites
Sabine Hauert
02 Jan 2012
In Modular Space Robotics, modules self-assemble while in orbit to create larger satellites for specific missions. Modular satellites have the potential to reduce mission costs (small satellites are c...
Lean startup methodology for robotics
Andra Keay
07 Dec 2011
The NY Times recently connected lean startup methodology with robotics in a great article by Steve Lohr, Dec 5 2011. One example was Stanford engineering graduate Lee Redden’s Blue River Technology,...
Teaching motion primitives
Sabine Hauert
01 Dec 2011
Finding ways to easily teach service robots new motions will be key to their integration in our everyday environments. Ideally, teaching a robot should be no different than teaching a human.
For examp...
Robotic musicianship
Sabine Hauert
30 Nov 2011
Shimon is an interactive robotic marimba player that can improvise both music and choreography in real-time to the melody of a human pianist.
Playing an instrument does not make you a musician. To bec...
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity, Mars mission
Ioannis K. Erripis
26 Nov 2011
One of the biggest steps in space exploration, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) named Curiosity was launched today with an Atlas V 541 vehicle and it is now on its way to Mars. The Curiosity rover is...
The new Honda ASIMO
Ioannis K. Erripis
20 Nov 2011
The most famous humanoid robot, Honda’s ASIMO has a new version. A few days ago Honda presented a more advanced model and performed a small display of its new capabilities. Meanwhile the robotics se...
