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Drone maker DJI and Toyota: setting up R&D centers in Silicon Valley
Frank Tobe
09 Nov 2015
No wonder rents are so high in Silicon Valley. Companies from around the world are setting up research facilities and grabbing talent from the area. The most recent announcements are that Chinese dr...
Delivery robots from Starship Technologies
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
04 Nov 2015
I’m pleased to announce today [Monday] the unveiling of a new self-driving vehicle company with which I am involved, not building self-driving cars, but instead small delivery robots which are going...
Four influential technologies with roots in robotics
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
29 Oct 2015
Robotics research has such strong links with several other research fields that, without it, the modern world might not have some of its most promising consumer technologies....
Why Tesla’s Autopilot and Google’s car are entirely different animals
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
28 Oct 2015
In the buzz over the Tesla autopilot update, a lot of commentary has appeared comparing this Autopilot with Google’s car effort and other efforts and what I would call a “real” robocar — one t...
Dyson robotic vacuums go on sale in Japan
Frank Tobe
24 Oct 2015
After a six-month delay to hone the robot for Japanese homes, and a year after the original launch announcement, the Dyson 360 Eye robotic vacuum cleaner has finally gone on sale in stores all over Ja...
Governments greasing wheels in robotics
Frank Tobe
21 Oct 2015
The South Korean government funded Samsung $14.8M to develop and manufacture industrial robots; the US FDA just gave approval to Corindus Vascular Robotics for a new medical device; and the US FAA s...
The state of telepresence: Business enterprise class
Michael Savoie
21 Oct 2015
Business class telepresence is where high tech meets high price. Typically starting at $3,000 USD, often with a monthly service fee, these robots are a lot more than just tablets on a stick....
Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
16 Oct 2015
Though it's been anticipated for a few months now, Tesla announced yesterday the release of their highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year....
Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell
MIT News
15 Oct 2015
by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a de...
Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin
Robohub Editors
15 Oct 2015
AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...
25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2015
Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer, and heralded symbolic logic by demonstrating future applications for the universal computing machine that Charles Babbage proposed. She was e...
The state of telepresence
Michael Savoie
09 Oct 2015
Telepresence robots have been around since the early 2000s, with a research project called PEBBLES out of Ryerson University in Toronto. When I first started covering this area a little over three yea...
Work, play and STEM: How robotics will bridge the gap
Ricky Ye
08 Oct 2015
As advancements to how we approach STEM education and initiatives are on the rise around science, engineering and mathematics, we’re seeing a greater impact on how we recognize children’s developm...
Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Oct 2015
In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....
Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
07 Oct 2015
Yesterday I attended the “Silicon Valley reinvents the wheel” conference by the Western Automotive Journalists, which had a variety of talks and demonstrations of new car technology. Now that rob...
IFR predicts double digit growth for service robots through 2018
Frank Tobe
05 Oct 2015
The service robotics industry is relatively new, diverse and picking up steam daily. Service robotics covers every activity except those described as industrial. These are robots that perform useful t...
What does the VW scandal mean for robocars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Oct 2015
Most of you will have heard about the revelations that Volkswagen put software in their cars to deliberately cheat on emissions tests in the USA and possibly other places. It’s very bad for VW, but ...
Key take-aways from the DroneApps Forum
Markus Waibel
02 Oct 2015
The first DroneApps Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, recently assembled 150 drone professionals from Europe, the US, Japan, and Australia for a two-day exchange of ideas. What set the event apart was ...
Robohub turns three!
Sabine Hauert
01 Oct 2015
Robohub turns three today, and what a year it's been! Just last month we got our 7000th twitter follower, saw a viral post garner over 18K page views, and launched two new video series (here and here...
How is Robohub doing? Take our annual reader survey
Hallie Siegel
01 Oct 2015
It's time to get your feedback about how we are doing at Robohub. What do you like? What would you change? [tweetquote]Take Robohub's annual reader survey to get your voice heard and earn a chance t...
IEEE driverless car roundtable
CIS Blog
30 Sep 2015
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Hear about the current state of the driverless vehicle industry from experts including IEEE Member Jeffrey Miller, IEEE Fellow Wei-Bin Zhang, Bernard Soriano, and Bryant Walker Smith. In ...
Shopping via telepresence makes for good PR; how long before it’s mainstream?
Michael Savoie
29 Sep 2015
Robots are great for doing dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs, and few jobs are more dangerous and downright dull (at times) than waiting in line to buy the latest tech gadget. Last week in Palo Alto,...
10 more robotics companies acquired. Why?
Frank Tobe
28 Sep 2015
At last week's RoboBusiness Conference and Expo in San Jose, there was much gossip, discussion and head scratching regarding the two most recent acquisitions of robot companies: Adept Technologies b...
Rethink Robotics finally get their mojo with Sawyer
Frank Tobe
28 Sep 2015
Rethink Robotics displayed their new single-armed Sawyer robot at the RoboBusiness Conference and Expo in San Jose on Wednesday. It was Sawyer's first public outing and the crowd of over 1,600 was pay...
Why we need journalism about machine learning
Talking Machines
25 Sep 2015
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Talking Machines is in the process of raising funds to defray the cost of producing our first season and to help us start production on our second season. On the show we’ve talked about h...
Let’s hope that #IStandWithAhmed will help improve diversity in robotics
Hallie Siegel
22 Sep 2015
If you've been following the twittersphere you've heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested after the digital clock he built to impress his highschool teachers was mistak...
Virtual assistants are the testbeds for tomorrow’s personal robots
Mark Stephen Meadows
22 Sep 2015
Virtual assistants are setting the bar for the kind of user experience people will expect from the social robots of tomorrow....
1,407 FAA exemptions for UAS
Frank Tobe
21 Sep 2015
In May 2014, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began accepting petitions for exemptions to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) commercially in civilian airspace. As of 1 September 2015,...
Interview with Danica Kragic
In this wide ranging interview, Danica Kragic, professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and General Chair of ICRA 2016, discusses the nature of collaborative research, shares her...
SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help
Satyandra Gupta
15 Sep 2015
Socrates famously said that “the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Yet while we often equate human intelligence with the ability to recognize when help is needed and where to see...
Tricking LIDAR and robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Sep 2015
Security researcher Jonathan Petit claims to be able to hack the multi-thousand-dollar laser ranging - LIDAR - systems that self-driving cars rely on. How does he do it and is it as dangerous as it so...
Big bucks and big audiences for drones
Frank Tobe
14 Sep 2015
Intel Capital invested $60m in Chinese drone startup Yuneec last month. At last week's InterDrone conference and expo, one can readily see why: lots of interest, lots of people, and products that are ...
Corporations and governments stimulating robotics and AI development
Frank Tobe
07 Sep 2015
In two simultaneous launches last week, Toyota Motor and the UK RAS Group backed their previous statements regarding the imperative for robotics and AI development with money, roadmaps and strategic a...
Price wars: Counting the cost of drones, planes and satellites
Edd Gent
03 Sep 2015
One of the main advantages of drone-based imaging touted by both manufacturers and service providers is its low cost compared to competing technologies like airplanes and satellites. But a simple Inte...
California drone bill misses the mark
Diana Marina Cooper
01 Sep 2015
Last week, the California state Assembly approved Senate Bill 142 which, if adopted, would restrict drone operators from flying below 350 feet above ground level (AGL) over real property unless they o...
As robotics industry grows, so too do the research reports
Frank Tobe
28 Aug 2015
The number of research reports covering the robotics industry has quadrupled in the last three years. We've previewed 38 thus far in 2015. The latest batch of 15 new ones cover a wide range of segmen...
