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HRI takes to the road in the form of hitchBOT
John Payne
18 Jun 2014
“Wearing jaunty red boots and yellow garden gloves (with one in a permanent "thumbing a ride" gesture), HitchBOT is going to try to use his good looks and power of speech to convince people to p...
Field Robot Event 2014 begins Tuesday
John Payne
15 Jun 2014
“In 2014 the FRE will be arranged by the University Hohenheim together with the DLG. We will join the well known DLG-Feldtage taking place from Tue 17th – Thu 19th June 2014 at the Interna...
Aldebaran CEO Bruno Maisonniers’s speech at Pepper introduction event
John Payne
14 Jun 2014
“The latest creation from Aldebaran, Pepper is the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans. At the risk of disappointing you, he doesn't clean, doesn't cook and doesn't have super powe...
Asratec Releases ‘V-Sido OS’ for Humanoid Robots
Reno Tibke
13 Jun 2014
Asratec - V-Sido OS for humanoid robotReno J. Tibke's insight:Asratec, a subsidiary of ソフトバンク（SoftBank）(remember Pepper from last week), has introduced an operating system, 'V-Sid...
See, sense, think, react: the robots are coming
Andra Keay
13 Jun 2014
Epson's new machine can operate a normal power-drill, pick up screws as small as those in tiny watches and even check the quality of its work with its own eyes.See on www.smh.com.au...
Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science
Hallie Siegel
12 Jun 2014
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic young person wearing a brain-controlle...
NASA astronauts set to harvest first space vegetable
John Payne
11 Jun 2014
NASA is set to harvest its first space lettuce that will also set in history the first ever successful production of space-grown vegetables.The space agency recently commissioned International.....See...
Skybox Imaging acquired by Google for $500 million
Ioannis K. Erripis
10 Jun 2014
Press releases from Skybox Imaging:
http://www.skyboximaging.com/blog/skybox-imaging-google
and Google:
http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0609.html...
Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent
Hallie Siegel
09 Jun 2014
"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," said Elon Musk. From any other businessman, such a statement would be a joke. But the billionaire, 42, who has poured the millions he made from the sal...
Inside the USAF’s drone pilot training | The Atlantic
John Payne
09 Jun 2014
“Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect. There are hundreds of pages of text to digest, continual testing...
Computer passes Turing Test for first time by convincing judges it is a 13-year-old boy
Andra Keay
08 Jun 2014
Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy — at least, that's what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. Goostman says that he likes hamburgers......
MOSS videos | Modular Robotics
John Payne
08 Jun 2014
Modular Robotics has recently released a flurry of videos featuring their MOSS product line.John Payne's insight:See their YouTube Channel...https://www.youtube.com/user/modroboticsSee on www.youtube....
Augmentation: The other side of the robotics coin | Computerworld
John Payne
08 Jun 2014
"The line between robots and people will be blurred with smart prosthetics and implanted components," said Russ Tedrake, an associate professor in electrical engineering and computer science at M...
Robots are evil: The sci-fi myth of killer machines | Popular Science
John Payne
07 Jun 2014
This is “the third in a series of posts about the major myths of robotics, and the role of science fiction role in creating and spreading them. Previous topics: Robots are strong, the myth of ro...
Edyn smart garden monitoring system | Gizmag
John Payne
06 Jun 2014
“Edyn was developed to help users monitor and track environmental conditions in their garden, provide guidance on how conditions can be improved and water the plants automatically as required. T...
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper knows how you’re feeling | ComputerWorld
Hallie Siegel
05 Jun 2014
Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC.
Its...
Apple’s operating systems build in primitives needed for realistic mechanical animation
John Payne
03 Jun 2014
“Now you can use field forces that vary with distance to create springs, magnets, and gravity wells. And the interaction between sprites can be calculated on a per-pixel basis to accurately port...
Sporobot: Malaria vaccine harvesting robot | Indiegogo
John Payne
02 Jun 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“Sanaria developed a malaria vaccine that protected 100% of subjects in a clinical group. Currently we do a key step of the vaccine manufacturing process by hand. To...
Intel’s 3-D printed robot will hit the market later this year | CNN
Hallie Siegel
29 May 2014
Intel plans to bring its fully customizable, 3-D printable robot kit to market by the end of the year, with a consumer version starting around $1,600.
The hardware designs will be freely available...
Can killer robots learn to follow the rules of war? | The Smithsonian
Hallie Siegel
29 May 2014
Using robots is potentially more efficient, more precise and less expensive than relying solely on humans in warfare. And it would also, of course, mean fewer human casualties.
But this transforma...
The answer to mis-selling? Let a robot pick your investments | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
29 May 2014
Chris Williams, a director on the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), said: "Technology is the key to bridging the advice gap. Clients are already engaging with technology in their everyday lives a...
The Singularity: Sci-fi’s faith-based initiative | Popular Science
John Payne
29 May 2014
“From the human point of view this change will be a throwing away of all the previous rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye, an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control. Developments that ...
Low-latency event-based visual odometry | ETHZ via Phys.org
John Payne
29 May 2014
One of the reasons we don't yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under pressure. A system that can flawlessl...
RWE Deutschland receives innovation prize for multirotor application | Aibotix International
John Payne
29 May 2014
“Kassel, Germany, 28 May 2014 – The German Institute of Management awarded the DeutschenIdeenPreis (the German Prize for ideas) to RWE Deutschland AG for the application of the hexcopter A...
Amazon will be using 10,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of the year | CNN
Hallie Siegel
28 May 2014
CEO Jeff Bezos told investors at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that he expects to significantly increase the number of robots used to fulfill customer orders. There are currently about 1,000 robot w...
Rumor: Apple may announce smart home platform next week | AppleInsider
John Payne
26 May 2014
Apple is reportedly on the verge of announcing a new iOS-based platform that will integrate with users' "smart home" systems, a move that could finally tie together a sea of individual devices -- and ...
Carl Bass of Autodesk: Keynote at MakerCon 2014
John Payne
24 May 2014
“MakerCon 2014: Carl Bass, the president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, announced their first venture into digital fabrication hardware, the yet-to-be-named Autodesk 3D Printer'. In ad...
Thin silicon lenses dramatically reduce cost of thermal imaging | Gizmag
John Payne
24 May 2014
“Silicon normally doesn't work for such lenses, as the material tends to absorb too much light, allowing little to get through to the camera's image sensor. A team of French researchers, however...
Roombots: Modular robots that self-assemble into furniture | Gizmag
John Payne
23 May 2014
“Envision small robotic modules, lifting the lid of a storage box, spilling out, rearranging themselves to be the box's legs and transporting it to where you might be seated. That's exactly what Swi...
Robotics evangelist: ‘Personal robots’ should be invisible beings | The Register
Hallie Siegel
22 May 2014
Personal robots are fast approaching reality, says one robotics evangelist – but not as the humanoid servants so often portrayed in futuristic fantasies.
"Robots are the new black," said Andra K...
Crabster robot deployed in South Korean ferry disaster | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
22 May 2014
“When Bong-Huan Jun first saw news of South Korea's Sewol ferry sinking with hundreds of high school students trapped on board, he had stopped by a highway service area on his way to w...
GRASP: Intelligent, swarming nanobots | Motherboard
John Payne
22 May 2014
“Micro-robotic technology is a rapidly growing area of exploration, and one in which the Defense Department is eager to delve into. The government is pouring money into researching and developin...
The sci-fi myth of robotic competence | Popular Science
John Payne
21 May 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“The myth of robotic competence is based on a hunch. And it’s a hunch that, for the most part, has been proven dead wrong by real-life robots. Actual robo...
Lil’Bot Kickstarter campaign: Arduino-compatible balancing robot
John Payne
20 May 2014
A low-cost, open-source, Arduino-compatible balancing robot for learning, hacking and delight. FeaturesArduino Uno compatible, programmable through the USBCan be programmed using Linux, OS X, and...
The Trick That Makes Google’s Self-Driving Cars Work
Andra Keay
19 May 2014
Google is engaging in unprecedented, massive, ongoing data collection to transform intractable problems into solvable chores.See on www.nextgov.com...
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Have Never Gotten a Ticket
Andra Keay
19 May 2014
But if they do, Google hopes the fine gets handed to their corporate person, not the human in the driver seat.See on www.theatlantic.com...
