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World’s 1st Robotics ETF Goes Live Tues
Andra Keay
22 Oct 2013
The world of niche-y ETFs is alive and well, as tomorrow’s launch of a robotics fund makes clear.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:ROBO is the first ETF of its kind to focus so tightly on robotics ...
UBR-1 robot from Unbounded Robotics revolutionizes affordable mobile manipulation | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
21 Oct 2013
Why Affordable Mobile Manipulation Matters
Why could UBR-1 be so revolutionary for robotics right now? Really, it's the general area of mobile manipulation that has a huge amount of potential for t...
Tiny, cheap water-sensing chip outperforms larger, pricier sensors | Gizmag
John Payne
21 Oct 2013
“…a team from Cornell University has created a water-sensing silicon chip that's not only tiny, but is also reportedly 'a hundred times more sensitive than current devices.' What's more, ...
Mechs & Robots: if “Keloid” were a movie, Japan would buy tickets. Hint. Hint. (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
20 Oct 2013
With robots and mechs Japanese designers would love, and hints of a good story, Keloid is a cruel tease of a trailer. British newscasters, robots speaking Russian, all made by a Spanish effe...
Car of the Future Competition
Andra Keay
19 Oct 2013
Car of the Future Technologies Competition WebpageThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:Open to everyone - imagine the car for your future - from UTS Magic LabSee on carofthefuture.uts.edu.au...
The agriculture business is “a sleeping giant” for companies building the internet of things
John Payne
18 Oct 2013
As everything becomes connected, there’s a huge opportunity for farmers to apply more data to their growing strategies with smart sensors, according to OnFarm Systems.See on gigaom.com...
Japanese Robots: ASIMO’s nemesis grows stronger; will Honda respond? (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
16 Oct 2013
Honda bills ASIMO as the world's most advanced humanoid robot, and taken as a whole, it’s probably accurate to say. But an American robot is catching up, and unless Honda’s got some new tr...
Demo of military robots includes live-fire | Computerworld
John Payne
15 Oct 2013
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“Four robotics companies -- Northrop Grumman, HDT Robotics, iRobot Corp. and QinetiQ -- demonstrated their robots' abilities to fire machine guns and take out pop-up...
How to feed the world | NYTimes
John Payne
15 Oct 2013
“The question “How will we feed the world?” implies that we have no choice but to intensify industrial agriculture, with more high-tech seeds, chemicals and collateral damage. Yet th...
Zookal starts “world first” delivery-by-drone service in Sydney
Andra Keay
14 Oct 2013
Sick of relying on slow trucks and traditional delivery systems to get his company Zookal’s textbooks to people, Ahmed Haider decided on a fresh approach. Now, his Sydney, Australia-based compan...
Japanese Robots: Honda’s UNI-CUB with a Civilian, a Smartphone, an Escape, and a Lesson (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
11 Oct 2013
In its 18 public months, Honda’s semi-robotic UNI-CUB personal mobility device hasn’t seen a lot of the spotlight, but that might be changing; last week, here in Tokyo, we managed to captu...
Robots: Their rights and legal status | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
CIS Blog
08 Oct 2013
It might seem far-fetched at this stage, but robot ethics and the law is a growing field of study. It’s about their rights, it’s about our ethics and it’s also about liability.
Listen to the fu...
Why tech’s hottest companies want to hire more female engineers | TechCrunch
Andra Keay
08 Oct 2013
Judging by the job fair section at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing held this past week in Minneapolis, it was very clear that all the hottest companies in tech are working as...
Nike fund SRI spinoff Grabit | Silicon Valley Robotics
Andra Keay
08 Oct 2013
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:NIKE has joined Formation 8 and ABB Technology Ventures in funding Grabit's $3 million Series A round. Grabit is an industrial automation and material handling solutions...
Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
07 Oct 2013
Boston Dynamics has just updated its YouTube channel with some new videos. One of them is an update on Atlas. Another is an update on LS3. And the third is this: WildCat, a totally new quadruped rob...
MIT deploys swarm of self-assembling robot cubes | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
07 Oct 2013
MIT research scientist John Romanishin has been working on (or at least thinking about) M-Blocks for the past several years, but from the sound of things, everyone thought he was nuts until he manag...
Arduino announces two new boards: Galileo and TRE | Make
John Payne
06 Oct 2013
“Just before the launch of Maker Faire Rome, the Arduino team made a big splash by announcing two new Linux boards. The first is Galileo, which is made in collaboration with Intel...The sec...
VIDEO: NoodleBot at CEATEC 2013 – Robots & Noodles are Natural Together, Right?
Reno Tibke
06 Oct 2013
Instant noodles, Top Ramen in particular, are perhaps best known as a symbol of the struggling college student, the underemployed and/or lazy bachelor, or simply the food of last resort - but not in J...
Honda Motor Europe – ASIMO was promoting science in Slovakia
Reno Tibke
04 Oct 2013
ASIMO is back again. He has traveled to Bratislava, Slovakia to attend European Researchers' Night to help give inspiration to the country's next generation of scientists and engineers.See on ak...
Open Hand Project: Who Wants a Robotic, 3D Printed, Open-Source, Sub-$1000 Prosthetic Hand?
Reno Tibke
03 Oct 2013
Silly question. Even if you’ve got two fleshy ones that work, who doesn’t want a robotic, 3D printed, open-source, crowd-funded, sub-$1000 prosthetic hand? British roboticist Joel Gibbard&...
FRE2013 video playlist
John Payne
02 Oct 2013
All videos in this playlist were uploaded by http://www.youtube.com/user/timozei. I have merely assembled them into a playlist and imposed a bit of order.See on www.youtube.com...
APU-Module sowing
John Payne
02 Oct 2013
“APU-Module (A Finnish Autonomous Tractor) sowing with Tume KL-2500 combined seed and fertilizer drill. This was one of the very first field tests with the drill, August 31, 2012. The tractor is...
Intricate Gizmos That Do Nothing but Hold Themselves Up | Wired.com
Andra Keay
02 Oct 2013
Grayber is a master of tension--both physical force and the emotional state.See on www.wired.com...
Box – this video’s going viral
Andra Keay
01 Oct 2013
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely…The Robot Launch Pad's insig...
Rutgers receives innovation award for bridge inspection robot
John Payne
01 Oct 2013
Thanks to Rutgers, bridge maintenance is taking a large step in damage prevention — through the creation of automated data-gathering robots.The American Society of Civil Engineers awarded Rutger...
Robots compete in mock disaster-response scenarios at Eurathlon | Gizmag
John Payne
29 Sep 2013
“Roboticists are competing in Europe this week to prove their superiority at bomb disposal and other dangerous tasks, but the teams are not comprised of military or emergency response personnel....
Japan robot can pick strawberry fields forever for farmer | Phys.org
John Payne
28 Sep 2013
A robot that picks ripe strawberries as the farmer sleeps was unveiled in Japan on Wednesday, with its developer saying it could cut workloads by two-thirds.See on phys.org...
Human & robot team up for high-tech harvest | Precision Pays
John Payne
27 Sep 2013
When apples are in clusters or obscured by leaves and branches, a robot requires complex algorithms and long computational time to identify them. Humans, on the other hand, can very quickly identify f...
Japanese robots: Argo’s ReWalk exoskeleton gets a pile of Yaskawa robot money | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
27 Sep 2013
“Yes hello, this is Yaskawa again - Konnichiwa! Yeah so, our assistive robotics stuff already got coverage this month, but we also just sealed a deal to finance, further develop, and distribute life...
Robots make friends on simulated Mars mission | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
27 Sep 2013
Can robots be good companions on long space missions? Simon Engler spent four lonely months finding outSee on spectrum.ieee.org...
QF-16 flies with an empty cockpit | Boeing
John Payne
26 Sep 2013
As a pilotless F-16 roared into the sky last week at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., members of Boeing’s QF-16 team and the U.S. Air Force celebrated.See on www.boeing.com...
MHI and CIT Sign Technical Cooperation Agreement on Robots | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Andra Keay
25 Sep 2013
Tokyo, September 25, 2013 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Mitsubishi and Chiba Institute of Technology to build 'Sakura no 2' specifically for nuclear power pla...
A new worker’s revolution is rising in China and it doesn’t involve humans
Andra Keay
25 Sep 2013
A new worker's revolution is rising in China and it doesn't involve humans. With soaring wages and an aging population, electronics factory managers say the day is approaching when robotic workers wil...
Contest winner uses ocean robots for groundbreaking research into ‘dead zones’
Andra Keay
25 Sep 2013
The contest shows the scientific value of collecting big data from the ocean via autonomous robots.See on venturebeat.com...
US moving full speed ahead on killer robots | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
John Payne
22 Sep 2013
See on Scoop.it - Cultibotics“In November 2012, United States Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter signed directive 3000.09, establishing policy for the “design, development, acquis...
Japanese robots: Yaskawa Electric, traditionally industrial, goes consumer assistive | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
20 Sep 2013
What with the card dealing, cooking, and golfing, Yaskawa Electric’s heavily YouTubed Motoman industrial robots have plenty of name, and now, with a pair of robo-rehab machines, the company’s taki...
