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A drone’s eye view of the latest oil train explosion | Motherboard
Hallie Siegel
01 May 2014
Drones used for journalism and disaster response have been hovering in a grey area, as the FAA argues that organized operations can't use them. The footage above helps emphasize the usefulness of dron...
Google’s self-driving car masters city streets | Evan Ackerman on Discovery News
Hallie Siegel
30 Apr 2014
The cars have surpassed 700,000 autonomous accident-free miles (around 1.13 million kilometers), and they're learning how to safely navigate through the complex urban jungle of city streets. Soon enou...
Proliferation of weaponized drones: Saudi Arabia joins the club | The Verge
John Payne
28 Apr 2014
“Last week, Saudi Arabia bought its first drone fleet, according to a dispatch from Tactical Reports. Saudi Crown Prince Salman met with Chinese General Wang Guanzhong to sign a contract fo...
SparkFun 2014 AVC course preview
John Payne
27 Apr 2014
“SparkFun's 2014 Autonomous Vehicle Competition will be help at the Boulder reservior on June 21st! In this video, master of ceremonies Rob goes over the differences for this year's competition!...
CMU RI Seminar: Sebastian Scherer on autonomous rotorcraft
John Payne
27 Apr 2014
“Autonomy holds a great promise by improving the applications, safety, and efficiency of flight. If little operator input is necessary, unmanned rotorcraft have a wide range of applications rang...
Industrial human-robot collaboration becoming more common | MIT Technology Review
John Payne
27 Apr 2014
“Industrial robots often sit behind metal fences, their mechanical arms a blur of terrific speed and precision; to prevent serious injury to humans (or worse), these robots are normally shut dow...
WeRobot 2014 conference videos
John Payne
27 Apr 2014
“If you missed WeRobot 2014 or want to enjoy it again, videos of all the speaker sessions are now available for viewing online. We’ve also included links to all the papers below. See ...
Lettuce orbit earth: gardening in zero gravity | NASA
John Payne
26 Apr 2014
“A new life form is taking root on the International Space Station, and its name is "Outregeous." The space-faring lettuce was delivered to the space station by a SpaceX Dragon capsule on April ...
The 2014 Oregon Precision Farming Expo: a sign of things to come
John Payne
26 Apr 2014
“Robots, Drones, and Data driven agronomy are changing the landscape of agriculture around the world. The Oregon Precision Farming Expo will definitely change the way you think about the future ...
Arcturus Jump VTOL add-on for fixed wing UAVs | Gizmag
John Payne
25 Apr 2014
California-based Arcturus UAV has unveiled its Jump VTOL system. Using self-contained electric lift motors, this add-on system is designed to provide tactic...See on www.gizmag.com...
DARPA program to develop prosthetics with lifelike sensory feedback | Gizmag
John Payne
25 Apr 2014
DARPA's recently announced Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program aims to develop more lifelike prosthetic limbs that bring some sense of...See on www.gizmag.com...
Field Robot Event 2014: June 17 – 19
John Payne
24 Apr 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...
With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time
Andra Keay
23 Apr 2014
Farms in upstate New York and elsewhere are using automatic milkers that scan and map the underbellies of cows, extract the milk, and monitor its quality, without the use of human hands.The Robot Laun...
The robotics revolution: Looking forward from 1982 | Steve Roberts in Mechanix Illustrated
John Payne
23 Apr 2014
“IF YOU EVER want to get a spirited conversation going, just wander into an employee lunchroom somewhere in Detroit and start singing the praises of industrial robots. After you pick yourself up...
Robotic milking | Farming Today | BBC Radio 4
John Payne
22 Apr 2014
“Caz Graham explores the robotic revolution on dairy farms. Sally Wilson farms 300 Holsteins in the Scottish Borders and shows Caz how she milks them using three robots.” (Segment begins a...
Automaton’s Video Friday returns with a bang! | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
20 Apr 2014
“We know. We skipped Video Friday last week. We're sorry. But cool stuff happened that we wanted to bring you right away. We're going to make up for it this week, though, with an ...
Why robots, revisited | Cultibotics
John Payne
20 Apr 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“The list of problems is uncomfortably long, and all too familiar. … Most of these problems are addressable by means of better practices. … T...
Robots with a soft touch | The Verge
John Payne
17 Apr 2014
“Soft robots solve two huge problems with current robots, however. They don’t have to calculate their movements as precisely as hard robots, which rely on springs and joints, making them b...
DIY universal gripper | Make
John Payne
17 Apr 2014
Read the full post at: http://makezine.com/projects/universal-robot-gripper/ In this project we show you how to make a universal robot gripper using an ordin...See on www.youtube.com...
Bad Boy Mowers: growing with robots | ABB
John Payne
17 Apr 2014
A resurgence in home-grown manufacturing is now taking root in the United States, largely driven by advanced technology. Through a combination of determinati...John Payne's insight:Bad Boy Mowers reac...
NASA signs agreement with SpaceX for use of historic launch pad
Ioannis K. Erripis
16 Apr 2014
NASA Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A, the site from which numerous Apollo and space shuttle missions began, is beginning a new mission as a commercial launch site.
Ioannis K. E...
DARPA Wi-Fi drones: Just what Facebook needs | Gizmag
John Payne
15 Apr 2014
“The Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to extend connectivity for forward military units with the use of small Wi-Fi-hosting drones. The aim of the Mobile Hotspots project i...
TinkerBots set to blow through $100K fundraising goal | Indiegogo
John Payne
15 Apr 2014
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“TinkerBots is a toy building set with easy-to-add robotics that make it possible for children and adults to create an endless number of toy robots simply by snappin...
3D laser lithography yields strong, light microstructure | Gizmag
John Payne
15 Apr 2014
“Researchers in Germany have developed a lightweight, high-strength material inspired by the framework structure of bones and wood and the shell structure of bees' honeycombs. Created using 3D l...
Toyota replaces some robots with human workers | Bloomberg
John Payne
15 Apr 2014
Inside Toyota Motor Corp.’s oldest plant, there’s a corner where humans have taken over from robots in thwacking glowing lumps of metal into crankshafts. This is Mitsuru Kawai’s visi...
Google Acquires Solar-Powered Drone Maker Titan Aerospace | the next web
Ioannis K. Erripis
14 Apr 2014
Google today announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace, the creator of high-altitude drones that could bring Internet access to remote locations.See on thenextweb.com...
Symphony of the Soil trailer
John Payne
14 Apr 2014
"Symphony of the Soil is a 104-minute documentary feature film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world's most esteemed s...
KUKA omniMove Universal Transport Vehicle | YouTube
John Payne
14 Apr 2014
John Payne's insight:I don't usually consider marketing videos newsworthy, but this one clearly qualifies as an exception.See on www.youtube.com...
Taxes pay for robots, but robots don’t pay taxes | The Globe and Mail
Hallie Siegel
14 Apr 2014
It used to be that governments could justify auto industry handouts on the basis of the steady stream of tax revenues they would pocket from all those workers hired to assemble cars. But labour is a s...
Google Ventures invests in Savioke | BBC News
John Payne
14 Apr 2014
“Savioke's work may be under wraps, but it has announced plans to begin customer trials of a service industry-targeted machine this year. … Savioke has disclosed a total $2...
Call for immediate limited commercial UAS use | Precision Ag
John Payne
12 Apr 2014
“The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) joined 31 other organizations today to send a letter to the Federal Aviat...
Drone crashes could cause headaches and lawsuits | NBC
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
A drone fell from the sky during a triathlon in western Australia, resulting in an injury to a runner and raising questions about who is legally responsible when an unmanned aerial vehicle comes crash...
Oldest known cardiovascular system already brain-focused | ScienceMag
John Payne
09 Apr 2014
“The brain was well supplied with looping blood vessels, which extended branches into the arthropod’s alienlike eyestalks and antennae and rivaled the complexity of today’s crustacea...
Robot: stop global warming | IRO 2014
John Payne
09 Apr 2014
The theme of the 16th International Robot Olympiad has been released. It will be "Robot: Stop Global Warming". This event is to be held November 5th-9th, in the Shijingshan District, ...
How productive are robots? | Economist Labour Market Blog
Hallie Siegel
08 Apr 2014
Economist David Autor has noted that Nissan relies heavily on robots when producing cars in Japan but much less so when making similar models in India, the difference being the huge gap in labour co...
RMIT & DSTO improve UAV endurance using updrafts | Gizmag
John Payne
07 Apr 2014
“Soaring birds are catching a ride on rising air currents to save energy, and now researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, are aiming to develop bio-inspired UAVs capable of doing...
