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Triathlete injured as drone falls during race | ABC AU
John Payne
07 Apr 2014
“Mr Abrams said an initial investigation had indicted that someone nearby "channel hopped" the device, taking control away from the operator. Channel hopping is a form of hacking which can ...
As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers | Ars Technica
CIS Blog
07 Apr 2014
Internet law defined the vanguard of cyberlaw issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but Ryan Calo argues that the next wave of legal showdowns will relate to robotics, which have an altogether dif...
The lean hardware startup: Investing in hardware startups | TechCrunch
John Payne
06 Apr 2014
“Nest and Oculus got acquired for billions, Jawbone and GoPro are going IPO, multiple projects are crossing the $1 million bar on Kickstarter. Something is happening in hardware. Yet many i...
Festo’s BionicKangaroo recycles energy | Gizmag
John Payne
06 Apr 2014
“Just like its animal cousin, the robo-marsupial developed by Festo’s Bionic Learning Network is able to store energy from the landing phase of a jump and reuse it efficiently on subsequen...
Self-organized criticality in the brain | Quanta
John Payne
06 Apr 2014
“Think of sand running from the top of an hourglass to the bottom. Grain by grain, the sand accumulates. Eventually, the growing pile reaches a point where it is so unstable that the next grain ...
DARPA’s Phoenix program: robotic orbital assembly of modular satellites | WIRED
John Payne
06 Apr 2014
Building satellites in the future could be as easy as sending robots packed with hardware into orbit, if a new project from Darpa takes off.John Payne's insight:Phoenix program on DARPA.milhttp://www....
MiP: a collaboration between Wowwee and UCSD | Gizmag
John Payne
05 Apr 2014
“MiP was designed in a collaboration between Wowwee and the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego. It balances just like the Segway, using the mobile inverted ...
CMU snake robot finds medical application | Gizmag
John Payne
05 Apr 2014
“When we last heard about the modular snake robot designed by Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Howie Choset, it had been used to explore an abandoned nuclear power plant. Now, ...
WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society | The Washington Post
CIS Blog
04 Apr 2014
Ryan Calo (a law professor at University of Washington, a member of the WeRobot2014 organizing committee and a major intellectual in the law and technology field) has a new paper at this conference, ...
Forests surrounding Chernobyl a fire waiting to happen: robotic chipper needed | Motherboard
John Payne
03 Apr 2014
“As if the Ukraine didn’t have enough to worry about these days with Russia invading Crimea, recent scientific research points to the very real threat of a nuclear forest fire. Great heavy...
Tiny lensless camera generates images algorithmically | Phys.org
John Payne
03 Apr 2014
“An extremely tiny lensless camera, developed by Rambus, has been slowly making waves over the past year. Researchers for the company, David Stork and Patrick Gill won a Best Paper award at last...
What to do if you find a lost drone | Forbes
CIS Blog
03 Apr 2014
“I think if you find a drone, you set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s meant to be,” said legal drone expert Ryan Calo kiddingly, before more seriously suggesting calling the manufacturer ...
Sheffield UAV 3D-printed in less than 24 hours | Gizmag
John Payne
03 Apr 2014
“Engineers at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC), however, have taken things a step farther. They've made a 3D-printed UAV airframe that's designed to mi...
Why it is not possible to regulate robots | The Guardian
CIS Blog
02 Apr 2014
Is there such a thing as a robot? An excellent paper by Ryan Calo proposes that there is such a thing as a robot, and that, moreover, many of the thorniest, most interesting legal problems on our hori...
The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2014
"Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars....
XPrize for unassisted AI TED Talk | Gizmag
John Payne
01 Apr 2014
“TED Talks are known for being delivered in a captivating, compelling fashion – that's why the events' organizers are fairly picky when it comes to selecting speakers. With that in mind, X...
Driven to gridlock: Driverless cars | CBS Los Angeles
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2014
Listen to the full radio interview at CBS Los Angeles.
There’s a lot of talk about autonomous control vehicles, or cars that drive themselves. Charles Feldman talked with Stanford L...
Apple files patent application for 5-axis robotic arm | Patently Apple
John Payne
30 Mar 2014
Last Thursday the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals that they're seeking protection for a newly advanced five axis robotic arm used in the manufac...
Drones to the rescue | Stuff
Andra Keay
30 Mar 2014
Drones could soon be used to help find people missing in remote parts of the country.See on www.stuff.co.nz...
A mighty contest | The Economist
Andra Keay
30 Mar 2014
“OUR ROBOTS PUT people to work,” says the rejected slogan still on the whiteboard in Rodney Brooks’s office. It was meant to convey the belief that led Mr...The Robot Launch Pad's in...
The invisible unarmed | The Economist
Andra Keay
30 Mar 2014
THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN November 2013 by Amazon’s boss, Jeff Bezos, that he wanted to use drones for deliveries was, to many in the industry, something of a stretch....The Robot Launch Pad's insight...
Up in the air | The Economist
Andra Keay
30 Mar 2014
AMERICA’S DECADE OF misbegotten war in the early 21st century will be remembered for many things, but when it comes to technology, the rise of the drone will stand...
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Good and ready | The Economist
Andra Keay
30 Mar 2014
ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Odense, a small city in southern Denmark, Enrico Krog Iversen shows off the building he has bought to serve as the new headquarters and assembly...
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Immigrants from the future | The Economist
Andra Keay
30 Mar 2014
SCHAFT, A BLUE-LIMBED robot, lifts its right foot to the seventh step of the ladder, its left foot to the eighth, and stops; it sways alarmingly in the strong...
The Robot Launch Pad's insi...
Facebook Will Use Drones and Lasers to ‘Beam’ Internet to the World – Mashable
Ioannis K. Erripis
27 Mar 2014
Facebook launched Connectivity Lab, scientists team that is designing new ways to bring Internet to the world, including drones, lasers, and satellites.See on mashable.com...
Facebook refuses to call a drone a drone
Andra Keay
27 Mar 2014
Facebook today announced its Connectivity Lab, a new division within the company meant to solve the problem of delivering Internet access to the two-thirds of the world's population&nbs...
FAA appeals drone decision | Ryan Calo, Concurring Opinions
Hallie Siegel
27 Mar 2014
How the appeal fares may depend on the way the appeals court characterizes the decision. In issuing rules, the FAA has to follow the strictures of the Administrative Procedure Act, including issuing...
SCHAFT staying in DRC | Automaton
Robohub Editors
27 Mar 2014
After the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials ended last December and Team SCHAFT emerged victorious, there was a rumor going around that Google, which had acquired SCHAFT just months earlier, wasn'...
CSAIL panel discussion at SXSW | YouTube
John Payne
25 Mar 2014
SXSW 2014 panel featuring CSAIL members Daniela Rus, Tim Berners-Lee, Andrew Lo, and Russ Tedrake.John Payne's insight:Daniela Rus acts as host, and opens the event. Tim Berners-Lee follows at 5...
Google & DARPA want divorce | The Verge
John Payne
22 Mar 2014
“Google’s new rock star robotics companies, Boston Dynamics and Schaft, still have obligations to DARPA — meaning Google and DARPA are entangled in a shotgun marriage, forced to shar...
Google’s Project Tango headed to International Space Station | PCWorld
Andra Keay
22 Mar 2014
The prototype smartphone will be used to help develop autonomous flying robotsThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:Project Tango may be providing small cheap localization and mapping solutions for robots ev...
Robotic milking winning friends
Andra Keay
22 Mar 2014
New Zealand dairy farmers are more open to using robotic milking than they were previously.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:One of the biggest growth areas for robotics at the moment and also more human...
Designing cars for autonomous operation | Gizmag
John Payne
20 Mar 2014
“So far, most autonomous cars are rough, experimental versions of current models, with all kinds of added sensor hardware. The recent Geneva Motor Show flipped the autonomous vehicle inside out,...
Edward Snowden appears on the @TED stage via robot. : davemorin
Andra Keay
18 Mar 2014
Edward Snowden appears on the @TED stage via robot. http://t.co/21tXJWFqo7 by davemorin 445967599357399040
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:
The tweet stream of this singularly remarkabl...
It’s here! The NAO Robot is finally out of the classroom! We took it to skydive! Take a look…
Andra Keay
17 Mar 2014
NAO price has dropped by half, and is now available to the general public!
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:
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