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Falcon UAV provides Colorado flood damage mapping until FEMA freaks out | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
18 Sep 2013
“Early Saturday morning Falcon UAV was heading up to Lyons to complete a damage assessment mapping flight when we received a call from our Boulder EOC point of contact who notified us that FEMA ...
Fire-breathing robot dragon for “Drachenstich”
Andra Keay
18 Sep 2013
At 30 feet tall and 51 feet long, Tradinno is a gargantuan mechatronic beast you don't want to mess with. Read this article by Tim Hornyak on CNET.See on news.cnet.com...
Mitsubishi’s dexterous robots for factory automation: Global plastics industry news for India, Asia, Europe & US | Plastics Infomart
Reno Tibke
16 Sep 2013
Mitsubishi has released the latest in a series of vertical-axis robots that are designed to perform particularly dexterous and complex tasks formerly operated...
See on www.plasticsinfomart.com...
Shaping the future of MEMS | EE Times
John Payne
15 Sep 2013
“A new micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) conference debuted this week, Shaping the Future of MEMS and Sensors, on September 10 in Santa Clara, California, hosted by STMicroelectronics....
Mebotics’ Microfactory combines 3D printer and milling machine | Gizmag
John Payne
14 Sep 2013
Not content with the quality of parts made from 3D printers, and frustrated by the noise and mess created by milling machines, startup Mebotics has designed...See on www.gizmag.com...
Japanese robots: The week in Japanese robot videos (TripleBackFlip Bot, Denso, and Kirobo) | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
12 Sep 2013
Gymnast robot celebrates Tokyo’s successful 2020 Olympic bid with a triple backflip off the bar, and back onto the bar, industrial robots play with racecars, and a monolingual mini-humanoid speaks t...
Hoaloha Robotics developing socially assistive hardware platform | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
10 Sep 2013
Originally a software company, Hoaloha is now developing its own home care robotSee on spectrum.ieee.org...
1950s robot smashes auction estimate
Andra Keay
05 Sep 2013
An 8ft robot made in the 1950s has sold at auction for £17,500, far more than expected.See on www.bbc.co.uk...
Artificial muscles developed at NUS
John Payne
05 Sep 2013
“NUS Engineering team led by Dr Arian Koh has achieved a world record. They have designed an artificial muscle which could carry a weight 80 times its own while extending to five times its origi...
NASA to host workshop exploring ideas for protecting Earth from asteroids | NASA News Release
Robohub Editors
04 Sep 2013
NASA has chosen 96 ideas it regards as most promising from more than 400 submitted in response to its June request for information (RFI) about protecting Earth from asteroids and finding an asteroid h...
Is a career in STEM really for me? | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
04 Sep 2013
An 8th grader ponders the options, finds science and engineering far down on the listThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:Companion piece to Charette's "The STEM Crisis is a Myth" by daughter, Mau...
The STEM crisis is a myth | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
04 Sep 2013
Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematiciansThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:Takeaway points - declining STEM standards which should be ...
The Resident: Drone pilots are anti-drone
Reno Tibke
02 Sep 2013
A new report by Air Force Colonel Bradley Hoagland indicates that the US is having trouble recruiting volunteers for the drone pilot program. The report poin...
Reno J. Tibke's insight:
Drone ...
Zeus multifunction 3d printer plus | AIORobotics
Andra Keay
30 Aug 2013
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Robotics - 3D printing - it's kind of close. I think this new breed of digital tools is at least as robotic as the industrial robots of the 80s.See on www.aiorobotics.co...
Will robots make us sexist? | Salon
Andra Keay
28 Aug 2013
Highly advanced robots are coming -- and they're more likely to reinforce sexist norms than to change themThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:The issue becomes one of domain. Big questions are rarely answe...
Japanese Robots: Unboxing SCHAFT’s DRC Competition (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
28 Aug 2013
Ohhh boy, an unboxing video that’s not just filler, but 500% justifiable. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) trials are still 3.5 months away, but Japan’s SCHAFT, and every other Track A t...
Who gets a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel? | Marketplace
CIS Blog
28 Aug 2013
Bryant Walker Smith, fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, discusses the new legal issues presented by having cars with no drivers.
See more: Marketplace...
Open source coin sized autopilot for drones | Wired
Andra Keay
28 Aug 2013
The Lisa/S chip is 4 square centimeters -- about the same size as a Euro coin. But packed into this 1.9 gram chip is everything you need to autopilot an aerial drone.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Ope...
Uber, Google confirm $258 million mega-investment
Andra Keay
26 Aug 2013
The tech industry was abuzz Friday with news that Uber, the limousine marketplace thats branched into taxis and ride-sharing, had landed $258 million in a massive funding round from Google (GOOG)...
RoboSavvy Humanoid Design Challenge – GrabCAD
Andra Keay
26 Aug 2013
Design great product faster with secure 3D collaboration, free CAD models and access to the world's largest community of mechanical engineers.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:I look forward to seeing an...
Penguin C Unmanned Aircraft System video | Unmanned Systems Technology
Andra Keay
26 Aug 2013
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:UAV Factory have a video highlighting the features and capabilities of their new Penguin C UAS platform, with footage of catapult launch, parachute deployment and recove...
Remaining Willow Garage employees move to Suitable Technologies | IEEE Spectrum
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2013
... In a surprising move, Scott Hassan, CEO of Suitable Technologies, and previous CEO of Willow Garage, has hired most of the remaining employees of Willow Garage leaving only a support staff for the...
Japanese Robots: iREX 2013 Primer – Japan’s International Robot Exhibition
Reno Tibke
22 Aug 2013
The Japan Robot Association (JARA) and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun are gearing up to host the 20th bi-ennial iREX International Robot Exhibition here in Tokyo. This is Japan’s Big Show, and naturally, ...
Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft
CIS Blog
21 Aug 2013
A town called Deer Trail, located an hour east of Denver, Colo., is considering issuing a novel kind of hunting permit. If passed, the town would give residents licenses to "kill" drones ... by shooti...
Easton LaChappelle at TEDxMileHigh: 3D printed robotic arm with EEG control
John Payne
19 Aug 2013
“How is 3D printing changing the future of prosthetic and animatronic limbs? Tinkering with this new technology 17-year old inventor Easton LaChappelle is creating robotic limbs with strength an...
Spiri programmable quadrotor hits Kickstarter | Gizmag
John Payne
19 Aug 2013
“At the heart of Spiri is a 1 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 chip running Robot Operating System on top of an Ubuntu Linux installation. To make it as versatile yet user friendly as possible, Pleiades,...
Structures assembled from small interlocking composite components | MIT News Office
John Payne
19 Aug 2013
“MIT researchers have developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together much like the bricks of a child’s construction toy. The new material, the researchers say,...
Trolling Effects | TechDirt
John Payne
16 Aug 2013
While in the robotics industry patent litigation hasn't yet become the gigantic headache it is in consumer electronics, that potential exists. Perhaps early attention, with an eye to just how bad the ...
Japanese robots: Cyberdyne’s taking HAL to Europe!
Reno Tibke
15 Aug 2013
For nearly a decade, various iterations of Cyberdyne’s Inc.’s HAL suit have been paraded around as the next big thing in exoskeletal human force amplification and/or rehabilitation. S...
A robotics ETF may hit the market in the future | ETF Daily News
Andra Keay
14 Aug 2013
There are still plenty of interesting funds in the pipeline that could be solid picks for some niche focused investors. In particular, a recent filing from Exchange-Traded Concepts could be appealing,...
Six questions states need to ask about self-driving cars | Governing
CIS Blog
13 Aug 2013
A growing number of states are taking up legislation that addresses self-driving vehicles in an effort to make it easier for researchers to explore the technology.
But most of the legislation deals...
Robotic plant to grow roots | DNews
Andra Keay
12 Aug 2013
Scientists look to plants to make machines energy-efficient. Continue reading →The Robot Launch Pad's insight:PLANTOID from Italian Institute of Technology was unveiled at the recent Living Machi...
Commercial ag goes unmanned | Mission Critical, AUVSI
John Payne
12 Aug 2013
The focus of the August, 2013 issue of AUVSI's Mission Critical quarterly is robotics in agriculture.See on www.auvsi.org...
Wall-E built to scale & fully roboticized (complete with Disney eyes) | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
08 Aug 2013
Obsession with a fictional character can be a sign of psychosis, but, if you’re obsessed with an emergently self-aware and emotive post-apocalyptic cleanup robot from a Pixar film - enough to bu...
Arduino announces its first ready-to-roll robot | Gizmag
John Payne
07 Aug 2013
“Arduino is now offering a fully-assembled robot, designed as a base platform for electronics tinkerers' DIY robotics projects. Its hardware and software are...open-source and highly hackable.&r...
Delivered by drones: Are Tacocopters and Burrito Bombers the next Pony Express? | Slate
CIS Blog
06 Aug 2013
The drones are coming! The drones are coming! But this time they’re not armed with hellfire missiles. These drones are packing a new kind of heat: steaming pizzas, fresh tacos, and cold beer.
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