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Japanese Robots: Celebrating the Life of Dr. Kanako Miura
Andra Keay
19 May 2014
Japanese Robots: Celebrating the Life of Dr. Kanako MiuraThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:One year after her tragic death in a cycling accident, Reno Tibke looks at the contributions to robotics, partic...
Google buys Quest Visual, the maker of Word Lens | Ars Technica
John Payne
18 May 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“Google has just snapped up one of the most futuristic apps to come along in some time. Quest Visual, the maker of the incredible Word Lens app, posted on ...
Asimov’s First Law: Exploring the implications | FUTURESTATES.tv via The Verge
John Payne
18 May 2014
“Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics states, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." However, injury mostly corresponds to physical har...
Only 5 of 87 countries represented support preemptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons | The Verge
John Payne
18 May 2014
“The prospect of robots that can kill presents a number of ethical challenges for human rights laws. What standards of precision must a robot be held to before it can be deployed? If a...
Meet Arduino ZERO | Arduino Blog
John Payne
17 May 2014
“Arduino and Atmel unveil the Arduino Zero, a simple and powerful 32-bit extension of the platform established by Arduino UNO. It aims to provide creative individuals with the potential to ...
US Navy wants smart robots with morals, ethics | Slashdot
John Payne
17 May 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“The U.S. Office of Naval Research this week offered a $7.5m grant to university researchers to develop robots with autonomous moral reasoning ability...
Information systems for banana farming | ACFR
John Payne
17 May 2014
“This video shows some of the data acquired on a recent trip to the tropical north of Australia. The University of Sydney ACFR robot 'Shrimp' drove up and down rows of a banana plantation, acqui...
Touch Bionics updates i-limb prosthetic hand | Gizmag
John Payne
16 May 2014
“Touch Bionics has unveiled the latest enhancements to its i-limb Ultra Revolution at OTWorld 2014 International Congress. Users can now set and assign different grips for different objects and ...
Fast robot arm catches flying objects | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
15 May 2014
At the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at EPFL, they're leveraging fast vision, fast computers, fast controllers, fast motors, programming by demonstration, and object modeling to be able ...
Autodesk introduces own 3D printer: Uses open hardware model | BBC News
John Payne
15 May 2014
“Autodesk - the leading 3D modelling software-maker - is going into hardware with its own 3D printer. Chief executive Carl Bass revealed the news ahead of an appearance at the MakerCon conf...
Killer robots have uncertain future: World debates ethics | SlashGear
John Payne
14 May 2014
“DARPA robots are perhaps the most notable robotic machines in present times, hinting at a future where humans use mechanical creations to accomplish all sorts of tasks -- including killing. Let...
Fujitsu selling lettuce grown in clean room | The Verge
John Payne
14 May 2014
“Being obsessive about food just got that little bit more interesting thanks to Fujitsu. Last year, the Japanese semiconductor company repurposed one of its factories to the ...
Flower Power review: Can technology give you a green thumb? | Engadget
John Payne
14 May 2014
“The Flower Power measures roughly eight inches long, with most of the hardware taking the form of a thin, spiked sensor that lives underground. The top section looks a bit like a sprout with tw...
Technology to help adults age in place just a few years away | The Star
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2014
“There still is a stigma with seniors and this idea of them being averse to technology,” says Rosalie Wang, a post doctorate fellow who works in robotics at Toronto Rehab. “The truth is that, li...
Canadian farmers invest in robots to work ‘smarter, not harder’ | CBC
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2014
Thousands of farms around the world now use robotic technology. In Canada, the automatic milkers are more recent – and the numbers of early adopters can be counted in the dozens.
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Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm” prosthesis receives FDA approval | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
13 May 2014
“The "Luke Arm," whose official name is DEKA Arm System, is one of the most advanced robotic prostheses ever built. According to the FDA, this is the first prosthetic arm approved by the ag...
EPFL researchers teach robotic arm to catch | Gizmag
John Payne
13 May 2014
“Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a robotic [system] capable of processing and catching moving objects in jus...
Scientists try to teach robots morality | Gizmag
John Payne
13 May 2014
“A group of researchers from Tufts University, Brown University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with the US Navy in a multi-year effort to explore how they might creat...
Parrot introduces Bebop and new controller | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
12 May 2014
“With Bebop, Parrot is focusing very heavily on incredibly awesome, feature-rich video, as evidenced by the gigantic, 14-megapixel camera with fish-eye lens attached to the front part of the dro...
‘Killer robots’ to be debated at UN
John Payne
12 May 2014
“Killer robots will be debated during an informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. Two robotics experts, Prof Ronald Arkin and Prof Noel Sharkey, will debate the efficacy and ...
Marco Tempest: TED Talk with a robotic assistant
John Payne
11 May 2014
“Marco Tempest uses charming stagecraft to demo EDI, the multi-purpose robot designed to work very closely with humans. Less a magic trick than an intricately choreographed performance,”Se...
3D map maintenance in dynamic environments | ASL, ETHZurich
John Payne
11 May 2014
“This video support the ICRA 2014 publication "Long-term 3D map maintenance in dynamic environments" and presents the results of dynamic elements filtering.”See on www.youtube.com...
Stephen Hawking on the risks of AI | The Independent
John Payne
11 May 2014
With the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence playing in cinemas, with Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman showcasing clashing visions for the future of humanity, it's tempting to dismiss the notion of high...
Disney & ETHZurich create Pixelbots | WIRED
John Payne
09 May 2014
“Walt Disney pioneered the art of animation and pushed the boundaries of robotics with his audio-animatronic presidents, but now the research lab that bears his name, along with ETH Zurich, have...
Drone inspectors: UK airline easyJet looks to tech to cut costs
Andra Keay
08 May 2014
Virgin's the kind of brand we're not shocked to see playing with the latest tech -- after all, Richard Branson's got a space plane. Experiments withSee on www.engadget.com...
Autonomous vehicles: the ethics of programming emergency decisions | WIRED
John Payne
08 May 2014
Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility vehicle (SUV), or it could swerve to the ri...
Researchers want to build swarm of 1,000 Droplet robots | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
07 May 2014
“The Droplets project is looking for at least US $10,000 to construct what looks like 100 robots. This isn't to suggest that each robot actually costs $100: a full 50 percent of that $10k goes strai...
Mirobot: DIY WiFi robot for children | Kickstarter
John Payne
07 May 2014
“Mirobot is a completely open robotics platform - all of the code and designs are open-source so you can modify them to make it do exactly what you want. One of the big benefits of this is that ...
AT Black Knight Transformer’s first flight | Gizmag
John Payne
06 May 2014
“Advanced Tactics Inc. has now received permission from the US government to release video footage showing the first test flight of its Black Knight Transformer prototype demonstrator....
Rex Bionics set for takeoff
Andra Keay
06 May 2014
An NZ firm which makes robotic "exoskeletons" for the disabled will float on Britain's junior AIM sharemarket.See on www.stuff.co.nz...
Snake-like robot to help automate aircraft wing construction | Gizmag
John Payne
06 May 2014
“Although modern jet airliners may be at the cutting edge of technology, assembling them is, in many ways, still as much of a craft as 18th century shipbuilding, requiring loads of skill and man...
SCiO spectrometer: a handheld physical search engine | SlashGear
John Payne
05 May 2014
Point SCiO at a leaf and your smartphone will tell you what tree it belongs to. Point SCiO at an unidentified pill on your desk and you’ll see that it’s Ibuprophen. SCiO is a device that&r...
Boomer: the baby dinosaur robot | OhGizmo!
John Payne
04 May 2014
Meet Boomer, the baby dinosaur. He’s the brainchild of Never Ben and his team at SpinMaster, a company that already has a toy robot under their belt called Zoomer. BoomerJohn Payne's insight:Rat...
Robots down on the farm | Cali Lewis
John Payne
04 May 2014
John Payne's insight:This video was published in Oct. 2012, and somehow slipped past me unnoticed. At just over four minutes, it's a brief but decent overview of the history of agricultural robotics a...
Lab seeks funds for large-scale swarm | CU Boulder
John Payne
03 May 2014
“Swarming is ubiquitous in nature. You can observe it in termites, slime mold, and ants, but if you think about it, everything is a swarm. Atoms as old as the universe interact with ea...
How to teach manners to a robot | Motherboard
Hallie Siegel
02 May 2014
Some, including AJung Moon, a University of British Columbia researcher and member of the Open Roboethics Initiative, believe there are even more practical, subtle issues that need to be tackled fi...
