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SPHERES remote control demonstration | Gizmag
John Payne
14 Mar 2014
“In the recent tests, Astronaut Karen Nyberg on the ISS and [Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC)] engineer Humberto Ormeno back on Earth carried out coordinated control of the SPHER...
Robot moon monkeys at CeBIT | Wall Street Journal
John Payne
11 Mar 2014
“Meet iStruct Demonstrator, also known as Charlie, the space robot monkey built by the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen, and exhibited this week at the CeBIT exhibit...
Colin Angle interviewed | International Business Times
John Payne
09 Mar 2014
"The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve, rather than trying to find solutions t...
The Teletank: A remotely operated tank deployed in 1939-40 | Popular Science
John Payne
08 Mar 2014
“Seventy-four years ago, Russia accomplished what no country had before, or has since—it sent armed ground robots into battle. These remote-controlled Teletanks took the field during ...
10 inspirational women engineers and scientists
Andra Keay
07 Mar 2014
Here are 10 women whose work is inspirational or who take steps to inspire in engineering or related fields.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:International Women's Day is March 8 - get your girl geek on!...
Judge rules commercial drones are legal, undoing six-year ban | The Verge
Andra Keay
07 Mar 2014
An administrative judge on the National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that the commercial use of small drones is in fact legal, despite six years of Federal Aviation Administration...
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SwitchScience – RAPIRO – Adorable humanoid robot to assemble
Reno Tibke
05 Mar 2014
SwitchScience - RAPIRO - Adorable humanoid robot to assembleReno J. Tibke's insight:RAPIRO consists of 30 plastic parts, 12 servo motors (2 per leg, 3 per arm, 1 for the waist, and 1 for the neck). Fu...
Patent pending for 43 years | Slashdot
John Payne
04 Mar 2014
The 76-year-old inventor has been waiting over forty years for a ruling on whether his electronic signal to control machinery should be granted a patent. 'It's totally unconscionable,' said ...
Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace | TechCrunch
Ioannis K. Erripis
03 Mar 2014
Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who..See on techcrunch.com
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Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft
Ioannis K. Erripis
03 Mar 2014
There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation about unmanned aircraft system (UAS) regulations. Here are some common myths and the corresponding facts.See on www.faa.gov...
Robots in the Japanese garden | I Programmer
John Payne
02 Mar 2014
“We propose here a garden that takes care of itself, that somehow understands and re-interprets the rules of harmony and equilibrium, and reconfigures itself depending on the season, the presenc...
Aleph Objects 3D printer factory
John Payne
01 Mar 2014
“Aleph Objects, maker of the LulzBot line of 3D printers, recently made the switch to a new facility in Colorado, big enough to meet its expanding production needs and designed to add more injec...
Tracking great white sharks with drones right from an iPhone
Andra Keay
28 Feb 2014
Imagine floating on the empty blue Pacific Ocean, nothing but water in every direction, sunrise to sunset. Yet under the surface swim thousands of great white sharks. That's no...See on blog.sfgate.co...
ISS SPHERES to see upgrade | Gizmag
John Payne
28 Feb 2014
“NASA [has announced] that the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) robots currently on the station will later this year get a new smartphone. The incr...
Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375 Billion Industry: Freight
Andra Keay
26 Feb 2014
In an age of aerial drones and driver-less cars, Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is designing unmanned cargo ships.See on www.bloomberg.com...
NASA’s Buckminster Fuller-inspired Super Ball Bot
Andra Keay
26 Feb 2014
Buckminster Fuller would be proud of NASA's new experimental robot design. It's based on the structural principle that Fuller called tensegrity (tensional integrity) where the structure comes from com...
Artificial muscles from fishing line and sewing thread | Science
Sabine Hauert
25 Feb 2014
In designing materials for artificial muscles, the goals are to find those that will combine high strokes, high efficiency, long cycle life, low hysteresis, and low cost. In the latest issue of Scienc...
Journalist sues police who questioned drone use | ABC News
Hallie Siegel
25 Feb 2014
A journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Hartford police officers violated his free-speech rights by questioning his use of a remote-controlled aircraft to record images of a car wreck. Pedr...
Drone journalism: Is Canada ready? | CBC’s The Current
Hallie Siegel
25 Feb 2014
Drones are going from making the news for deadly aerial bombings to gathering the news - aerial vehicles equipped with cameras have flown over disasters - in the pursuit of a story. Today, we hear fro...
Google introduces project tango, a smartphone that creates 3D environments | designboom
Ioannis K. Erripis
25 Feb 2014
project tango features a 5 inch display containing customized hardware and software designed to create a map of a users' environment.See on www.designboom.com
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Preliminary 2012 Ag Census numbers tell a complex story | Civil Eats
John Payne
24 Feb 2014
“American agriculture made a lot of money in 2012. According to the census, U.S. farms sold nearly $395 billion in farm products that year, or 33 percent more than they sold in 2007. This won&rs...
3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralyzed skier walk again
Andra Keay
21 Feb 2014
The robotic suit, created by 3D Systems and EksoBionics, allows Amanda Boxtel, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident, to walk for the first time since 1992. Read this article by Daniel Terdiman on CN...
Stretchable optical circuits could find use in robot skin | Gizmag
John Payne
20 Feb 2014
“Made from a clear rubbery substance known as PDMS (poly-dimethylsiloxane), the interconnections feature a transparent core through which the light travels, that's surrounded by an outer layer o...
Becoming better cyborgs | O’Reilly Radar
John Payne
20 Feb 2014
“As Kelsey Breseman, engineer at Technical Machine, points out, we don’t need to fret about becoming cyborgs. We’re already cyborgs: biological mat...
Massage Robot – YouTube
John Payne
20 Feb 2014
“"Design and Control of Anthropomorphic BIT Soft Arms for TCM Remedial Massage," by Yuancan Huang, Jian Li, Qiang Huang, and Changxin Liu, from CNRS/LAAS, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Be...
Teen Crafts 3D-Printed ‘Robohand’ for Fingerless Boy
Andra Keay
18 Feb 2014
Using a 3D printer at the local library, a Kansas high schooler built a working prosthetic hand for his nine-year-old family friend who was born without fingers on his right hand.See on www.pcmag.com...
Why drones are the future of sports photography | The Atlantic
Hallie Siegel
18 Feb 2014
They're already at the Olympics. Soon, they'll be at the football stadium.
Drones are being used to film ski and snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, as you may have noti...
New laser 25X more powerful in mid-infrared | Gizmag
John Payne
18 Feb 2014
“The erbium-doped zirconium-fluoride-based glass fiber laser operates in the mid-infrared frequency range, which is the range where many hydrocarbon gases absorb light. The laser can produce 25 ...
Runaway Drones Map Land, Film ‘Wolf,’ Knock Down People, as FAA Gives Chase
Andra Keay
15 Feb 2014
It came from the sky.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Yes indeed, the genie is out of the bottle.See on www.bloomberg.com...
Strange robot band Z-machines and Squarepusher
Andra Keay
14 Feb 2014
This is what we call "future music."See on motherboard.vice.com...
Study of ant necks could help develop stronger robots | Gizmag
John Payne
14 Feb 2014
“Research conducted by a team from Ohio State University suggests an ant can lift 5,000 times its own body weight, with its neck bearing most of the load, providing a potential blueprint for the...
KUKA Robot vs. Timo Boll: The Duel
Ioannis K. Erripis
14 Feb 2014
KUKA Robotics is celebrating the Grand Opening of its new factory in Shanghai China with an action-packed event. Table tennis legend and World Champion Timo Boll will face off against a KUKA Agilus bo...
Brain powered quadcopter | Science Nation
Andra Keay
11 Feb 2014
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:More great drone news today! Hopefully, this project will enter the Drone Social Innovation Award!See on www.nsf.gov...
The Beginning of a Drone Revolution
Andra Keay
11 Feb 2014
We are on the cusp of a personal robotics age – can you hack it? Take to the air with my Node.js drone control setup and Leap Motion interaction, and hear more about how small flying machines wi...
UAE offers $1m prize to drive drones programme
Andra Keay
11 Feb 2014
International competition announced to support plan to launch unmanned aerial vehiclesSee on www.arabianbusiness.com...
Remote Controlled Robots To Roam Tate Britain Gallery After Hours | TechCrunch
Andra Keay
10 Feb 2014
Who doesn't want to hang out in the museum after hours? London's Tate Britain art gallery houses a treasure trove of great works from Hogarth, Gainsborough..See on techcrunch.com...
