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Former Android Boss Andy Rubin is Leaving Google | the Next Web
Ioannis K. Erripis
30 Oct 2014
Today, Google executive Andy Rubin told his team that he was leaving the company according to the Wall Street Journal. Rubin joined Google when the company bought Android in 2005.... Keep reading &rar...
How a bunch of startups are trying to make a business case for robotics in India | TechCircle
Hallie Siegel
29 Oct 2014
Robotics startups have been mushrooming over the last two years. Why? One may ask and be tempted to think that certain natural and man-made calamities forced the entrepreneurs behind these startups to...
Skyward announces first commercial drone network demonstration | SUAS News
Hallie Siegel
28 Oct 2014
http://vimeo.com/109968038
SkyWard, a leading software platform for the aerial robotics ecosystem, today announced the Urban SkyWays Project, the first end-to-end demonstration of a commercial dron...
Luxembourg & China launch private mission to the Moon | The Daily Beast
John Payne
27 Oct 2014
“Since it carries no significant research payload, the value of 4M is symbolic rather than scientific: it is the first privately-funded spacecraft to travel around the Moon. But it likely won&rs...
Elon Musk interviewed at MIT AeroAstro Centennial event | Mashable
John Payne
27 Oct 2014
“In an hour-long interview for MIT, which held its Centennial Symposium last week, Musk opened himself up to the audience for questions. Most of the questions were about space travel, ...
IBM reinvents itself by establishing a frontier homestead for cognitive computing | Forbes
Hallie Siegel
27 Oct 2014
At the forefront of IBM’s reinvention journey is a $1 billion investment in Jeopardy-winning Watson, which it hopes will usher in a new era of “cognitive computing.” Earlier this month, Rometty ...
A horse of a different color: Ryan Calo on What robotics can learn from cyberlaw | Slate
CIS Blog
27 Oct 2014
In the early days of dot-com, the law found the Internet unsettling. That a buyer in one location could access the website of a seller in any other forced courts to revisit basic questions of jurisdic...
Monkeybar project using aerial drones to get on top of malaria | Gizmag
John Payne
26 Oct 2014
“Over the last ten years, a new type of malaria has been on the rise in the forests of Southeast Asia, and experts are turning to new technologies to try and figure out why. By using drones to o...
RobotX competition | AUVSI Foundation
John Payne
26 Oct 2014
Source: www.youtube.comThe video linked here describes the vessel used by all teams in the competition, which has a raised platform connected to dual floats via an articulated suspension. A seco...
Drones: How UAV’s have taken over our airspace | Journeyman Pictures
John Payne
25 Oct 2014
“Drones are already a key feature in the military arsenal, but they could be entering the civilian domain sooner than we think. Fast-developing technology could very soon enable unmanned aircraf...
CyPhy Works’ new tethered mini-drone flies for 2 hours | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
25 Oct 2014
“It fits in your pocket and weights a mere 80 grams. It’ll fly continuously for two hours or more, sending back high quality HD video the entire time. What’s the catch? The...
Xenex updates protocols for germ-zapping robots in response to Ebola threat | Gizmag
John Payne
24 Oct 2014
“Texas-based Xenex has created protocols that conform to those of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its a line of robots that use UV lamps that to decontaminate hospita...
NRL takes delivery of SA-400 Jackal | Scion UAS
John Payne
24 Oct 2014
“Scion UAS completed a series of capability demonstrations of the SA-400 Jackal, an optionally piloted helicopter system. The demonstration successfully concluded the flight test program for the...
Scientists consider repurposing robots for Ebola | NYT
Sabine Hauert
23 Oct 2014
A problem is that mobile robots now lack the human levels of dexterity required in medicine and health care.Source: www.nytimes.com...
This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company
CIS Blog
23 Oct 2014
Cars are already close to driving themselves down the highway. How far are we then from military weapons systems that decide on their own when and where to fire?
"You want the scary answer?" asks C...
Michigan latest state to ban direct Tesla sales | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
22 Oct 2014
Michigan has become the latest state to ban Tesla from selling its cars straight to consumers, with Governor Rick Snyder signing a law yesterday that prohibits direct sales. Michigan joins a growing n...
Wasp’s 3D printers produce low-cost houses made from mud | Gizmag
John Payne
22 Oct 2014
“A need to address a lack of housing for the globe's growing population has turned up some eye-catching efforts, blending creative architecture with new, sustainable technologies....
Algorithm enables robots to discern between humans and rubble | Gizmag
John Payne
22 Oct 2014
“Researchers from Mexico's University of Guadalajara (UDG) have developed an algorithm that could come in handy in such situations by allowing robots to differentiate between people and debris.&...
Bionic Bird: A smartphone-controlled flapping-wing device | Indiegogo
John Payne
22 Oct 2014
“Bionic Bird is the fruit of more than 40 years of R&D. In the 1960s, the Van Ruymbeke family created the first successful mechanic bird. Edwin Van Ruymbeke, an aeronautic engineer, has dedi...
Robots That Are Ready to Work, in Pictures | Xconomy
Andra Keay
22 Oct 2014
Even roboticists still debate exactly what a robot is. Is it a computer that moves, or a machine that can operate autonomously in reaction to its environmeSource: www.xconomy.comSee on Scoop.it - The ...
RoboBusiness: Workhorse Robots, Starter Kits, and Internet of Bots | Xconomy
Andra Keay
22 Oct 2014
Entrepreneurs and investors are focusing on practical applications of robots and borrowing software technologies from other fields.Source: www.xconomy.comDoing the startup competition was a lot of fun...
When women stopped coding | NPR
John Payne
22 Oct 2014
“A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster t...
UAE starts process of building Arab region’s first Mars probe | Gulf Business
Hallie Siegel
21 Oct 2014
The UAE has taken the “first practical steps” towards its mission of sending the Arab world’s first unmanned probe to Mars, the UAE’s VP and PM and Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid A...
Disaster relief this year’s theme at University of Maryland | The Diamondback
Robohub Editors
20 Oct 2014
Because of the prevalence of environmental and man-made disasters from Ebola, earthquakes, oil spills and Wednesday’s tornado warning, the engineering college [at the University of Maryland] decided...
Gladiator robots coming soon? | Business Insider
John Payne
19 Oct 2014
“This is MegaBot [artist's concept], the first of its kind. Its creators are three engineers on a mission to usher in the next generation of major sports leagues: Robot SmackDowns. Co-...
How one boy with autism became B.F.F.’s with Apple’s Siri | NYT
Sabine Hauert
19 Oct 2014
How one 13-year-old boy with autism became B.F.F.'s with Apple's SiriSource: www.nytimes.com...
Tim Barfoot: Long-term visual route following | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
18 Oct 2014
Tim Barfoot Associate Professor, University of Toronto October 17, 2014 Long-Term Visual Route Following for Mobile Robots Abstract In this talk I will descr...Source: www.youtube.comSee on Scoop.it -...
Air traffic control system for drones | MIT Technology Review
John Payne
18 Oct 2014
“A startup called Airware is working with NASA on a project exploring how to manage the swarms of commercial drones expected to start appearing in U.S. skies. The four-year program will create a...
Fotokite: A quad on a tether | In The Making
John Payne
17 Oct 2014
“Dr. North headed to Zurich to meet Fotokite founder Sergei Lupashin to see a flying UAV with a tether. The one-of-a-kind leash not only provides a direct connection to the flying robot, but als...
Friday Q&A: Law Professor Ryan Calo | Roll Call
CIS Blog
17 Oct 2014
Ryan Calo is an assistant law professor at the University of Washington School of Law whose academic work looks at the legal and policy aspects of robotics. Technocrat talked to him about what he anti...
Robots use UV to help prevent spread of infections in hospitals, may help contain ebola | DNews
John Payne
16 Oct 2014
“An autonomous machine from San Antonio-based Xenex Disinfection is currently doing battle against viruses and bacteria in 250 hospitals across the country, including the hospital in Dallas wher...
NEXTAGE robot makes coffee! | Kawada Robotics Blog
Andra Keay
15 Oct 2014
Visitors to Japan Robot Week 2014 at Tokyo Big Sight can order their coffee from a robot.
http://youtu.be/PHxmGPA10ck
Robot Launch Pad's insight: Japan is putting a lot of focus on robotics in ...
Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator
Andra Keay
15 Oct 2014
The Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars, is helping robotics startups take their ideas to the next level and transform the world.Source: qualcommaccelerator.comSee on Scoop.it - The Ro...
Qualcomm launches robotics accelerator | ZDNet
Andra Keay
15 Oct 2014
The company said that it is looking for 10 companies to participate in a robotics accelerator. The win for Qualcomm: Open up a new market for its Snapdragon chip.Source: www.zdnet.comSee on Scoop.it -...
iRobot unveils tablet-based universal control system | Gizmag
John Payne
15 Oct 2014
“Having a 21st century robot doesn't help if the control is like something designed to handle a model plane circa 1965. So iRobot has come up with something that is not only up to date, but also...
Robots are not here to take your jobs | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
15 Oct 2014
Robots are not here to steal our jobs, nor are we at risk of any other en masse robotic movement reliant upon self-determined mechanized cognizance.
In fact, nearly 100% of contemporary robotic tec...
