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NASA’s Valkyrie Humanoid Busting Fresh Moves Courtesy of IHMC (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
15 Feb 2015
Next to Team SCHAFT's new Google overlords withdrawing them from further competition, the poor showing of NASA's Valkyrie robot might have seemed the DRC Trials's biggest disappointment, but it's nowh...
DOT and FAA propose new rules for small unmanned aircraft systems
John Payne
15 Feb 2015
“The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) ...
Michael Tarr : CMU’s new BrainHub | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
14 Feb 2015
“Michael J. Tarr is the Head of the Department of Psychology in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Chair of Carnegie Mellon's BrainHub Steering...
Is AI dangerous? That depends… | SciAm Blogs
John Payne
14 Feb 2015
“Somewhere in the long list of topics that are relevant to astrobiology is the question of ‘intelligence’. Is human-like, technological intelligence likely to be common across the un...
Americans okay with police drones, worried about private UAVs | Sputnik
CIS Blog
11 Feb 2015
A new poll shows surprising opinions about the domestic use of small drones. Who should be allowd to fly them, where, and for what purpose? According to the results, Americans may be more trusting of ...
V-One conductive ink printer aims to short-circuit electronic prototyping | Gizmag
John Payne
10 Feb 2015
“Many hours of design and development need to be expended on prototype layouts along with masking, etching, and populating those boards with components. Even after all of this, just one simple l...
Linaro launches 96Boards.org for open hardware ARM SBCs | LinuxGizmos
John Payne
10 Feb 2015
“Linaro, the ARM-backed not-for-profit engineering organization that has aimed to standardize open source Linux and Android software for Cortex-A processors, is now trying to do the same thing f...
UAE announces Robotics & AI Award for Good competition
John Payne
10 Feb 2015
“The UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good encourages innovation that benefits humanity. It focuses on three areas: education, healthcare and social services. Any solution can win;...
Robots to serve guests in Japanese hotel | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
09 Feb 2015
Guests checking into a new hotel close to the Japanese city of Nagasaki this summer may find themselves complaining that the service is just a little .... robotic.
With due cause. In a paradigm-s...
Dean Kamen, Raffaello D’Andrea RIA to receive 2015 Engelberger Robotics Awards | RIA
Hallie Siegel
09 Feb 2015
The robotics industry’s highest honor, the Engelberger Robotics Award, will be presented to Dean Kamen and Raffaello D’Andrea at a special ceremony on Monday, March 23, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois...
Robotics Perception Group celebrates 3 year anniversary
NCCR Robotics
09 Feb 2015
This week, Prof. Davide Scaramuzza's lab (RPG, UZH) turns three and, in typical robotics style, they've released a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi_YZlPva8&feature=youtu.be
Congratu...
Fetch Robotics: Unbounded core team developing new robots for logistics | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
09 Feb 2015
A new robotics startup is building a mobile manipulator to tackle logistics and fulfillmentSource: spectrum.ieee.orgRobotics is blurring the line between light industrial and logistics. See on Sc...
PAL Robotics introduces Tiago mobile manipulator | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
09 Feb 2015
Want to pick stuff up and move it around in a research environment? This could be the robot for youSource: spectrum.ieee.orgI predict a few more announcements like this in 2015.See on Scoop.it - The R...
Flyability wins UAE Drones For Good Award
John Payne
09 Feb 2015
“Flyability SA is proud to announce that it has won the UAE Drones for Good Award, an international competition with a $1M prize money to reward uses of drones which have a positive impact on humani...
AI-driven laboratory robot to speed drug discovery | University of Cambridge
John Payne
08 Feb 2015
Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstra...
Jan Peters : Motor skill learning, from simple skills to table tennis and manipulation | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
07 Feb 2015
“Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have been a long standing vision of robotics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences. A first step towards this goa...
Will nanotechnology soon allow you to ‘swallow the doctor’? | CNN
Hallie Siegel
05 Feb 2015
At ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, mechanical engineer Brad Nelson and his team have worked on nanobots for a decade, and are now ready to think big: "We're making microscopic r...
Robotics-law expert Ryan Calo weighs in on drone regulations — and ‘drunk droning’ | LA Times
CIS Blog
05 Feb 2015
Thanks a lot, one person, for sending us in the wrong direction. We're now talking about locking down platforms and extra regulation just because of one guy.
On Twitter, some of us had this hashtag...
A responsible approach to artificial intelligence | Marketplace Tech
CIS Blog
05 Feb 2015
Calo recently signed an open letter that detailed his and others’ concerns over AI’s rapid progress. The letter was published by the Future of Life Institute, a research organization studying the ...
Should we fear artificial intelligence? | BBC
CIS Blog
05 Feb 2015
Billions of dollars are pouring into the latest investor craze: artificial intelligence. But serious scientists like Stephen Hawking have warned that full AI could spell the end of the human race. How...
KMel Robotics acquired by Qualcomm Technologies | Philadelphia Business Journal
Hallie Siegel
04 Feb 2015
KMel Robotics has been acquired by Qualcomm Technologies, a global tech company based in San Diego. KMel's founders, two University of Pennsylvania graduates, announced the news on their company's we...
Uber Chases Google in self-driving cars with Carnegie Mellon deal | WSJ
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
What might have been a budding partnership suddenly appeared to boil over into a pitched rivalry on Monday. Besides Uber’s disclosure that it will work on its own self-driving car technology, a Bloo...
No, Google and Uber aren’t going to war over self-driving cars | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
This week, Uber has announced a self-driving research initiative in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, while Google is rumored to be investigating ride-sharing using its own self-driving cars. At a gla...
Google is developing its own Uber competitor | Bloomberg Business
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
Google Ventures, the search giant's venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures' largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber...
ONR tests robot surrogates for training marines | Gizmag
John Payne
03 Feb 2015
“Robots and other mechanical beings are cropping up in the most unexpected places. Case in point: Pay a visit to the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida (U...
Raspberry Pi 2: 900MHz quad-core | The Register
John Payne
02 Feb 2015
“The Raspberry Pi Foundation is likely to provoke a global geekgasm today with the surprise release of the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: a turbocharged version of the B+ boasting a new Broad...
Autonomous quadcopter has smartphone brain | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
31 Jan 2015
“This is a fantastic example of just how far smartphones have come: they’re certainly powerful computers, but it’s the integrated sensing that comes standard in almost all of th...
The FAA’s drone ban at the Super Bowl is absurd | Gizmodo
Andra Keay
31 Jan 2015
You may have heard about the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) quietly declaring that this year's Super Bowl will be a "no drone zone." You may not have heard just how big that no drone zone will ...
A new regulatory agency for autonomous technology is needed first | Ryan Calo via New York Times
CIS Blog
29 Jan 2015
When Congress asked the Department of Transportation to determine whether a software glitch caused Toyotas to suddenly accelerate, the agency had to ask NASA. Just imagine: the nation’s top scientis...
HV-100 robots pay for themselves in less than one year | Harvest Automation
John Payne
28 Jan 2015
Source: www.harvestai.comSee on Scoop.it - Cultibotics...
NASA developing robotic helicopter scout for Mars rovers | Gizmag
John Payne
27 Jan 2015
“The next big discovery is always beyond the next hill, but what if you can't see over it? That's the problem facing NASA with its Mars rovers, so the space agency is looking into how robotic he...
Government employee flies small drone over White House Fence | NY Times
Hallie Siegel
26 Jan 2015
The small drone that crashed into a tree on the South Lawn of the White House early Monday morning was operated by a government employee who has told the Secret Service that he did not mean to fly it ...
Drone crash at White House comes as FAA develops rules | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
26 Jan 2015
The crash of a quad-copter drone on White House grounds early Monday comes as the Federal Aviation Administration is developing long-awaited rules for commercial unmanned aircraft.
Congress ordered...
Drone that crashed at White House was a quadrocopter | TIME
Hallie Siegel
26 Jan 2015
A drone that crashed on the White House grounds Monday, causing a brief lockdown, was a two-foot wide remote-controlled quadcopter that is sold in stores, officials said.
According to a Secret Servic...
Secret Service: ‘Quadcopter’ drone crashed onto White House grounds | Fox News
Hallie Siegel
26 Jan 2015
A two-foot-long "quadcopter" drone crashed onto the White House grounds overnight, the Secret Service said Monday -- though the White House says the device posed no threat.
Brian Leary, a Secret Se...
FRE2015 to be held in Slovenia | University of Maribor
John Payne
26 Jan 2015
Field Robot Event 2015Source: fre2015.um.siThe 2015 running of Field Robot Event will be held June 16th through 18th, hosted by the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences of the University...
