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Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real? | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
02 Dec 2013
Once you get past the wow factor [of Amazon's drone delivery announcement] and start thinking critically about what it would take to make something like this work in practice, it starts to look a lot...
Amazon Reveals It Wants To Deploy Delivery Drones | Huff Post
Andra Keay
02 Dec 2013
Amazon offering delivery on Sunday was only the beginning.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:It's no surprise that Amazon wants drone delivery to solve the last mile problem. And probably an underwhelming...
More about MOSS | Gizmag
John Payne
30 Nov 2013
“Colorado-based Modular Robotics has taken its Cubelets robotic building blocks to the next level with MOSS, a modular robot construction system that requires no coding or wiring skill...
Is it OK to torture or murder a robot? | BBC
Andra Keay
29 Nov 2013
We form such strong emotional bonds with machines that people can’t be cruel to them even though they know they are not alive. So should robots have rights?The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Kate Da...
Baxter the Soft Industrial Robot Gets Japanese Distribution
Reno Tibke
27 Nov 2013
Rethink Robotics, maker of the Baxter industrial & manufacturing robot, has signed an exclusive deal with Nihon Binary to distribute the machine here in Japan. For now it’s just the research...
Collective pitch thrust vectoring | Hack a Day
John Payne
27 Nov 2013
“The RC plane shown above is hovering in that position. And that’s about the least impressive thing it can do. … So what exactly is Collective Pitch Thrust Vectoring anywa...
Highlights From the International Robot Exhibition 2013 – IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
26 Nov 2013
Check out some of the coolest things we saw at IREX 2013The Robot Launch Pad's insight:And the massive Fanuc arm is amazing to see in perspective. But there is so much to enjoy at IREX - including mus...
Hardware Hits from Haxlr8r Include A Robotic Guitar Tuner | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
26 Nov 2013
Haxlr8’s latest class of startups returns from Shenzhen, China, where they engineered products to be ready for mass manufactureSee on spectrum.ieee.org...
Which drone future will Americans choose?
John Payne
24 Nov 2013
The US government now faces the same dilemma over drones as it did over nuclear weapons in the late 1940s. It’s at a fork in the road. Intoxicated with short-term advantage. Blind to long-term d...
NASA: growing plants on the Moon | Forbes
John Payne
23 Nov 2013
A small team at NASA's Ames Research Center has set out to "boldly grow where no man has grown before" – and they’re doing it with the help of thousands of children, a robot, and a few spe...
iDiots: Japanese Toy Robots Animated to Make Fun of Us
Reno Tibke
23 Nov 2013
Big Lazy Robot's newest video, in really the nicest way, animates some Japanese robots to make fun of our smartphone technolust.#JAPAN #ROBOTS #BIGLAZYROBOT See on akihabaranews.com...
The evolution of NSK’s guide robot for the visually-impaired | Gizmag
John Payne
21 Nov 2013
“NSK is one of those companies that makes products that you use every day, but that are are buried somewhere within another company’s product, and you’ll never know the century-old J...
Only 1 in 10 engineers are women | Let’s change toys
Andra Keay
19 Nov 2013
Tired of ads playing to the worst stereotypes of girls? Have I got the three little geniuses for you.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:It's an empowering and very funny video. But it also shows how much ...
Robot servant commits suicide | BoingBoing
Andra Keay
18 Nov 2013
A Roomba housecleaning robot committed suicide in Austria. Apparently the iRobot Roomba 760's owner had put the machine on the counter to clean up spilled cereal.
The Robot Launch Pad's ins...
Thermal spraying with Praxair TAFA | ABB Robotics
John Payne
16 Nov 2013
"As robot prices started to come down we realized we could use them much more cost effectively than any other solution for accuracy and high quality," says Richard Thorpe, TAFA brand equipment manager...
Japanese Robots: iREX Multimedia (VIDEOS & GALLERY)
Reno Tibke
15 Nov 2013
Japan’s premier robot expo is over, and all that remains of iREX 2013 are the things we learned, contacts we made, and the videos, photos, and desperate attempts to effectively communicate the b...
VIDEO Flying robots perform amazing acrobatics | CNN
Hallie Siegel
12 Nov 2013
Professor Raffaello d'Andrea has created a series of complex algorithms allowing airborne robots to perform acrobatics.
Watch the video on CNN...
Robotics CEO: 12-Year-Old Whiz As Smart As Ph.Ds
Andra Keay
12 Nov 2013
When Ted Larson, the CEO of a Silicon Valley robotics firm, hired Rohan Agrawal as his summer intern this year he was skeptical that Rowan could keep up with his team’s pace. Rohan, after all, i...
How drones will change your life | CNN
CIS Blog
11 Nov 2013
While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to co...
Legal issues with robots | Communications of the ACM
CIS Blog
11 Nov 2013
There is no question that robotic technology is making life easier, safer, or more convenient for human beings. Despite these benefits, concerns remain about what happens when robotic technology fails...
EMP: An industrial robotics success story | FANUC America Corporation
John Payne
09 Nov 2013
“This video showcases Engineered Machined Products (EMP), an Escanaba, Michigan-based manufacturer that is competing globally with the help of high-tech robotic automation. … With industr...
Japanese Robots: Industrial Robotics Sampler from iREX 2013 (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
07 Nov 2013
A brief compilation of six industrial robots getting their demo on yesterday at iREX. They're all amazing, but the precision and power of the big ones - when you're stanging right next to them - it's ...
AgriRover brings Mars rover technology to the farm | Gizmag
John Payne
07 Nov 2013
“We tend to think of livestock farmers as "one man and his dog," but if AgResearch of New Zealand has anything to say, that pair may have to move over to include a robot. A team led by Dr. Andre...
MOSS – The Dynamic Robot Construction Kit | Modular Robotics
John Payne
07 Nov 2013
Build your own robots with MOSS! Simple, fun, magnetic robot construction kits. No coding, no wires, oodles of configurations!John Payne's insight:
MOSS, currently in its Kickstarter phase, is the ...
REMINDER: iREX International Robot Exhibition Starts Tomorrow!
Reno Tibke
05 Nov 2013
The Japan Robot Association (JARA) and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun will open the 20th bi-ennial iREX International Robot Exhibition here in Tokyo tomorrow morning. This is Japan’s, perhaps the entire p...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: How to Ride Your Giant Exoskeleton, by Team Skeletonics (at Maker Faire: Tokyo 2013)
Reno Tibke
05 Nov 2013
Getting in/on, Demoing, and Getting out of a Team Skeletonics Exoskeletal Suit(in a pretty small room)Over the weekend we visited a conceptual capital, a Mecca of sorts, of super-powered, executive-le...
Occipital’s Structure Sensor 3D scanner for mobile devices | Gizmag
John Payne
03 Nov 2013
“When Occipital launched its Kickstarter campaign for a portable 3D sensor for mobile devices, it saw the project fully funded within a few hours. Knowing we had to see this gadget in action, Gi...
Elaboration of “keeping dust off optics” (2009Mar01) | Cultibotics Blog
John Payne
03 Nov 2013
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“By mounting such a wafer in such a way that air passing out through the groves around the outer edge is forced to turn and flow in an inward spiral across the face ...
Autonomous tracked dump-truck finalist for Dyson Award | Gizmag
John Payne
03 Nov 2013
“James Dyson will announce the winner of the international student design award that carries his name in a little over a week, so it's an opportune time to take a closer look at the finalists. T...
The unmanned wingman | Foreign Policy
John Payne
01 Nov 2013
(Free registration required.) “What was once the stuff of science fiction is now only years away from reality. And the increasing capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles are undeniably awe...
Robot city: How the machines are driving Pittsburgh’s future | The Verge
John Payne
31 Oct 2013
After more than a century, steel production in Pittsburgh is all but over, leaving in its wake industries based on higher education, health care, academic research, and robots. Lots of...See on www.th...
Harvest Automation raises $11.75M Series C financing
John Payne
31 Oct 2013
See on Scoop.it - CultiboticsSee on www.harvestai.com...
Government agencies invest $38 million in human-friendly robots
Reno Tibke
28 Oct 2013
Robots that learn from the cloud, aid parkinson’s patients and contribute to science will benefit from the funding.See on gigaom.com...
Japanese Exoskeleton Update: Does Team Skeletonics have New Gear? (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
25 Oct 2013
We’ve been in love with Team Skeletonics’ human-powered exoskeleton for years, and all throughout, it's pretty much been the same mechanical and aesthetic configuration. But it now looks l...
Japanese Robots: Gymnast-Bot Nails Kovacs to Triple Backflip
Reno Tibke
24 Oct 2013
There’s no shortage of attention for the horizontal bar gymnastics robot videos from YouTube user "hinamitetu," and yesterday, a new milestone: once again, in what looks like mom’s clutter...
32 robot photos you haven’t seen before | Atlantic Monthly
Frank Tobe
23 Oct 2013
... The Atlantic’s online magazine has a photo piece called Robots at Work and Play. It has 32 pictures of robots in space, healthcare, public safety, entertainment, defense and more.
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