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Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M
Hallie Siegel
22 Sep 2014
This weekend we became the #1 Most Successful Technology Campaign on Indiegogo ever when we broke $2.2M! We are both elated and deeply grateful to all our supporters for helping JIBO set a new recor...
Colias: tiny, low-cost, autonomous swarming robots | Gizmag
John Payne
22 Sep 2014
“It may sound a touch like the plot of a horror movie, but tiny robotic swarms have been unleashed – albeit in the controlled environment of a scientific lab. The development comes courtes...
New RFID technology helps robots find household objects | Georgia Tech
Sabine Hauert
22 Sep 2014
Mobile robots could be much more useful in homes, if they could locate people, places and objects. Today’s robots usually see the world with cameras and lasers, which have difficulty reliably re...
Tiny humanoid robot learning to fly real airplanes | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
22 Sep 2014
Meet your new autopilotSource: spectrum.ieee.orgAnd now it's just getting crazy - does a robot flying a plane meet the FAA requirements? Really!See on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
Watch this crazy drone with arms fly and turn a wheel in mid-air | TIME
Andra Keay
22 Sep 2014
I, for one, welcome our new armed-drone overlordsSource: time.comSee on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
John Kaag: The moral hazard of drones | Berkman Center
John Payne
20 Sep 2014
“John Kaag -- Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and co-author of the recent "Drone Warfare" -- discusses how the American and international public think...
PrecisionHawk raises $10M
Hallie Siegel
18 Sep 2014
According to a press release from today:
PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAV and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today...
The case for a federal robotics commission | Ryan Calo via Brookings Institute
Andra Keay
16 Sep 2014
Ryan Calo explores whether advances in robotics also call for a standalone body within the federal government, tentatively concluding that the United States would benefit from an agency dedicated to t...
Stanford & UCBerkeley create ant-sized radios powered by ambient radio energy | Stanford
John Payne
16 Sep 2014
“A Stanford engineering team, in collaboration with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has built a radio the size of an ant, a device so energy efficient that it gathers al...
MINIX 3.3.0 includes ARM support | Slashdot
John Payne
16 Sep 2014
“MINIX 3 is a small POSIX-compliant operating system aimed at high reliability (embedded) applications. A major new version of MINIX 3 (3.3.0) is now available for download at www...
These Korean guys have unleashed a robot cheetah! | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
15 Sep 2014
Source: akihabaranews.com
Okay, what really matters is that these guys are very bright, and what they're doing is very cool. We've seen this robot before, but today's video is the first demonstrat...
Clearpath introduces Jackal, their new unmanned ground vehicle
Clearpath Robotics
15 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/Sw5lSGkaNAU
We’ve been keeping a huge secret and now we’re ready to share it… Earlier this year, Army Research Labs (ARL) contracted us to design an affordable, portable researc...
Google buys ‘smart’ spoon maker Lift Labs | PCworld
Ioannis K. Erripis
15 Sep 2014
Lift Labs makes a mechanical spoon for people with neurodegenerative diseases.Source: www.pcworld.comSee on Scoop.it - Robohub...
ROS to support Qualcomm Snapdragon Processors | OSRF
John Payne
13 Sep 2014
“September 12, 2014 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) today announced plans to extend the capabilities of ROS to Qualcomm ® Snapdragon™ 600 ...
Machine ethics: Programming ethical behavior | UConn Today
John Payne
13 Sep 2014
“The field of machine ethics combines artificial intelligence techniques with ethical theory, a branch of philosophy, to determine how to program machines to behave in an ethical manner. But the...
Augmented reality Hardhat 2.0 for industrial workers | Wallstreet Journal
Hallie Siegel
10 Sep 2014
Daqri says its Smart Helmet can aid workers in many industrial environments.
Many companies keep prices low to attract the mass market. Others, like Daqri, opt to court a select audience willing t...
Closing the high-tech gender gap | Sangeeta N. Bhatia via MIT Technology Review
Hallie Siegel
10 Sep 2014
I’ve actually been busy under here — running a bioengineering lab at MIT, starting companies, teaching, consulting, being a mom. But I’ve been so focused on keeping all the balls in the air th...
Boca Bearings 2014 Innovation Competition
Hallie Siegel
09 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/uvLAbUFXPwo
The Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $10,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2014 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winners will be chosen based on a video subm...
Your robot chauffeur has arrived | RobotsLab Blog
Hallie Siegel
09 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/oBHYwYlo1UE
The NAO + Car will be offered by RobotsLAB as part of our STEM-U program; a holistic and revolutionary curriculum for STEM subjects from pre-K to higher education that m...
Robotic raptors look and fly like the real thing | Gizmag
Hallie Siegel
08 Sep 2014
http://vimeo.com/94332100
Birds that stray into the paths of aircraft, eat crops, or spread disease from foraging in large numbers at landfills are, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, downright dange...
CUTE: Headless robot chasing a laser pointer
Reno Tibke
08 Sep 2014
The video featured here, ‘robot's sole was made small,’ which we sincerely wish was a pun, is actually an agility demo. In the demo, frostydesign’s robot uses a close-to-human-f...
Drones set to revolutionise surf lifesaving
Andra Keay
08 Sep 2014
The way Australia rescues stranded swimmers off beaches is about to change.Source: au.news.yahoo.comThe right combination of problem and answer - fast deployment of flotation devices in heavy swell co...
The robot revolution has already begun | World Economic Forum Blog
Hallie Siegel
08 Sep 2014
At Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, robots roam the corridors, carrying out simple tasks for Professor Manuela Veloso and her team. These CoBots, or collaborative robots, can escort gu...
What does the second machine age mean for our jobs? | Erik Brynjolfsson via World Economic Forum Blog
Hallie Siegel
08 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/7UmGl-FDJ3s
If the first industrial revolution was about creating more effective power systems, such as the steam engine, then this time around the focus is on mental tasks, says Prof...
Katsushi Ikeuchi: From shape-from-shading through e-Heritage | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
07 Sep 2014
“This talk overviews my research activities from the shape-from-shading through the current e-Heritage project, which digitizes tangible and in-tangible heritage, analyzes such data for archaeol...
UPCOMING EVENT: Japan Robot Week 2014
Reno Tibke
05 Sep 2014
Get ready for Japan Robot Week 2014, a biennial robotics tradeshow presented by the Nikkan Kogyo ShimbunSource: akihabaranews.comSee on Scoop.it - AI, NBI, Robotics & Cybernetics & Android Stu...
UAV Surveys Argyle Diamond Mine in Australian | Aibotix
Hallie Siegel
04 Sep 2014
According to a press release:
East Kimberly Region, Australia / Kassel, Germany, September 4, 2014 – CADS Survey, an Australian supplier of marine, pipeline, and civil surveying services, C.R.Ken...
Announcing the Winners of the IROS 2014 Baxter Contest! | Rethink Robotics
Hallie Siegel
04 Sep 2014
Luis F. C. Figueredo, from Automation and Robotics Lab. at the University of Brasilia (Currently working with the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group in the CSAIL Lab at MIT). Luis came up ...
Ollie Is Here! | Sphero
John Payne
04 Sep 2014
“As the leaders in connected play, we’re excited to launch Ollie – our next generation app-controlled robot. Initially introduced as Sphero 2B at CES in January, Ollie takes connecte...
Samsung answers Dyson’s announcement with their own | Gizmag
John Payne
04 Sep 2014
Samsung has unveiled a new robot vacuum cleaner cleaner called the Powerbot VR9000, that the company claims can deftly avoid obstacles and offer up to 60 t...Source: www.gizmag.comSee on Scoop.it - Cu...
DARPA issues RFI regarding robotic services for satellites | Network World
John Payne
04 Sep 2014
“In five years the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to launch a robotic servicing mission to inspect, fix, refuel or move satellites in geostationary Earth orbit. ... In o...
Galway to host World Robotic Sailing Championship | Silicon Republic
John Payne
04 Sep 2014
“Fully autonomous and unmanned sailing boats will be racing across Galway Harbour from 9-13 September, when Galway City hosts the seventh World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC).”Source:...
Building a robot with human touch | NYTimes
John Payne
04 Sep 2014
“Touch is a much more complicated sense than one might think. Humans have an array of organs that allow them to sense pressure, sheer forces, temperature and vibrations with remarkable precision...
Algorithm looking at art finds connections art historians had never noticed | Medium
Hallie Siegel
03 Sep 2014
Of course, Saleh and co do not claim that this kind of algorithm can take the place of an art historian. After all, the discovery of a link between paintings in this way is just the starting point for...
Transportation of medical equipment: Robots to replace couriers | Hospital Direct
Hallie Siegel
03 Sep 2014
DirectHopital.com describes how French Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes are using two robots, “Betty” and “Daisy”, to improve efficiency in delivering sterile endoscopes to the...
We should not be privileging the singularity hypothesis | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
Alan Winfield
03 Sep 2014
By worrying unnecessarily [about the Singularity hypothesis] I think we’re falling into a trap: the fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. And – perhaps worse – taking our eyes off other risks ...
