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European parliament calls for robot law, rejects robot tax | Reuters
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 Feb 2017
European lawmakers called on Thursday for EU-wide legislation to regulate the rise of robots, including an ethical framework for their development and deployment and the establishment of liability for...
NASA Is sending a Game of Thrones-inspired robot into space | Gizmodo
Alex Kirkpatrick
16 Feb 2017
Who would have guessed a little slice of Westeros would make its way to the final frontier? On Saturday, February 18th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry NASA’s “three-eyed” Raven technology m...
Monitoring birds by drone | Science Daily
Alex Kirkpatrick
16 Feb 2017
Forget delivering packages or taking aerial photographs -- drones can even count small birds. A new study tests this new approach to wildlife monitoring and concludes that despite some drawbacks, the ...
Dubai announces passenger drone plans | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 Feb 2017
A drone that can carry people will begin "regular operations" in Dubai from July, the head of the city's Roads and Transportation Agency has announced at the World Government Summit.
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New ‘Thubber’ a Stretchable Rubber with a Thermal Conductive Punch | Industrial Equipment News
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 Feb 2017
Thubber, not to be confused with Flubber, can be used for everything from heated garments to robot muscles...
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Drive.ai Self-Driving Car Handles Rainy Calif. Streets at Night | Robotics Trends
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 Feb 2017
Watch Drive.ai's self-driving car drive through the dark, rainy streets of Mountain View, California, flawlessly handling a busy four-way stop sign, a car that cuts it off, and a broken red light.
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José Alain Sahel, MD: Pathway Toward Vision Restoration, Artificial Vision, Artificial Retina, Optogenetics | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
11 Feb 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “Progress in ophthalmology over the past decade moved preclinical data to clinical proof-of-concept studies bringing innovative therapeutic strategies to the market...
ElliQ is a robot assistant for the elderly, with eerily human traits | Wareable
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 Feb 2017
An ageing population presents new opportunities for tech companies, and one of the latest to target the elderly is a robot personal assistant called ElliQ...
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Giant drone racing could be the next big thing | New Atlas
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 Feb 2017
When it comes to drone racing, the folks at Freedom Drone Sports apparently believe that the bigger the aircraft, the better. After all, imagine how much less exciting auto racing would be if all the ...
Science Museum’s robotic delights hold a mirror to human society | The Guardian
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Feb 2017
Robots exhibition at the Science Museum, London, is a striking display of 500 years of automata – and raises pressing questions about the future.
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Watch DARPA’s robot arm catch a drone in mid-air | Popular Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Feb 2017
The laws of physics dictate that aircraft carriers have to be giant targets. Fixed-wing planes, faster and more efficient than their helicopter brethren, need runways to take-off and land, and those r...
Super Bowl drones: Intel uses 300 ‘quadcopters’ for halftime light show with Lady Gaga | GeekWire
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Feb 2017
“Lady Gaga and the Super Bowl creative team wanted to pull off something that had never been done before and we were able to combine Intel drone innovation with her artistry to pull off a truly uniq...
Amazon’s supermarket of the future could operate with just 3 staff — and lots of robots | Business Insider
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Feb 2017
Amazon's high-tech supermarkets of the future could be operated by just three humans, according to The New York Post.
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Kris Hauser: Beyond Geometric Path Planning | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
06 Feb 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “The development of fast randomized algorithms for geometric path planning – computing collision-free paths for high dimensional systems – was a major achieveme...
FAA: Keep your drone far, far away from the Super Bowl | CNET
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 Feb 2017
The government doesn't just want to avoid an errant drone falling on the crowd at the football championship. It's grounding the aircraft for miles around...
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Bat Bot is the drone you probably want to, but can’t fly | SlashGear
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 Feb 2017
If you think that flying robots are still science fiction, that’s probably because you may have not realized that the popular quadcopter drones are, technically speaking, flying robots. If that does...
Facebook loses $500 million Oculus lawsuit | CNN
Alex Kirkpatrick
02 Feb 2017
A jury has awarded game development firm ZeniMax $500 million in its lawsuit against Facebook-owned Oculus...
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Closest Earth-size planet may get robot visitors – here’s how | National Geographic
Alex Kirkpatrick
02 Feb 2017
A proposed project would send soap-size spacecraft to orbit Proxima Centauri, offering enough time to study the star’s intriguing world...
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Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warn of artificial intelligence arms race | Newsweek
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Feb 2017
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have joined prominent artificial intelligence researchers in pledging support for principles to protect mankind from machines and a potential AI arms race...
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Vespa’s new robot will carry your groceries | CNN
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Feb 2017
The vision is that Gita will be able to do mundane chores for owners. Standing at about two feet tall and with the ability to carry 40 pounds of stuff, the robot has a lid that opens to reveal the car...
Robot baristas now serving in San Francisco cafe | SF Gate
Alex Kirkpatrick
31 Jan 2017
The idea came to Henry Hu while he waited in line at a cafe. Baristas do repetitive work and produce inconsistent results, he observed. So why not automate coffee service?
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Ocado trials fruit-picking robot | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
31 Jan 2017
Online grocer Ocado has shown off a soft robotic hand that can pick fruit and vegetables, without damaging them, in its warehouses...
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UK fledgling drone sector expands into new markets | Financial Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
30 Jan 2017
Away from the buzz of publicity, a new sector has been emerging around the UK... When Adam Bailey set up XYZ Kingfisher, a building and land surveying business, three years ago there were about 150 ac...
Robots could help solve social care crisis, say academics | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
30 Jan 2017
Humanoid robots, with cultural awareness and a good bedside manner, could help solve the crisis over care for the elderly, academics say. An international team is working on a £2m project to develop ...
Manuela Veloso: Autonomous Intelligent Service Robots | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
28 Jan 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “We research on autonomous mobile robots with a seamless integration of perception, cognition, and action. In this talk, I will first introduce our CoBot service ro...
Chatbot lawyer that overturned 170,000 parking tickets now helps fight homelessness | Technica UK
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jan 2017
The young British coder whose simple "robot lawyer" chatbot has overturned more than 170,000 unlawful parking tickets in the UK and America has set his sights on solving homelessness by providing peop...
Babies helping robots get a grip | Robotics Trends
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Jan 2017
The Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute thinks robots can learn a thing or two about manipulation from babies. Google has donated $1.5 million to the cause to test this concept on dozens of ...
This autonomous boat went from California to Hawaii and beyond | Make
Alex Kirkpatrick
26 Jan 2017
I struggle to descend the stairs leading to the sandy beach at Half Moon Bay, California, awkwardly hefting the 60-pound solar-powered SeaCharger atop my shoulder. Amid numerous “what-the-heck-is-th...
Mark Cuban doubles down: Trump should build robots, not roads | CNBC
Alex Kirkpatrick
26 Jan 2017
Mark Cuban took to Twitter to say that President Donald Trump's $1 trillion spending plan is going to take America backward rather than forward...
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Robot fabricator could change the way buildings are constructed | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
25 Jan 2017
A construction robot has to be powerful enough to handle heavy material, small enough to enter standard buildings, and flexible enough to navigate the terrain...
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How to make America’s robots great again | New York Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
25 Jan 2017
Here’s what you might call an alternative fact: American factories still make a lot of stuff. In 2016, the United States hit a manufacturing record, producing more goods than ever. But you don’t h...
Tiny, underwater robots offer unprecedented view of world’s oceans | Live Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 Jan 2017
Robots the size of grapefruits are set to change the way scientists study the Earth's oceans, according to a new study...
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These 5 finalists will race to the moon in Google’s Lunar XPrize competition | Popular Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 Jan 2017
The race to the moon is heating up. Soon the Google Lunar XPrize will hand out $30 million in prizes to privately-funded teams who can send a robot to the moon, move 500 meters across its surface, and...
Detection: the precursor to protection from drones | EE Times Europe
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 Jan 2017
Bill Schweber discusses the other side of the drone proliferation. How to detect them, either singly or in swarms, which is an essential precursor to their destruction, if that is what is required...
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‘How we built India’s biggest robot company’ | BBC News
Alex Kirkpatrick
24 Jan 2017
In 2008, engineering student Samay Kohli wanted to build a humanoid robot, but his professor told him it would not be possible.
Along with his fellow student Akash Gupta, not only did they achieve th...
Carrick Detweiler: Micro-UAS for Prescribed Fire Ignition | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
22 Jan 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: Unmanned Aerial System (UASs) are increasingly being used for everything from crop surveying to pipeline monitoring. They are significantly cheaper than the tradition...
