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Robosub Static Judging
John Payne
06 Aug 2013
John Payne's insight:Robosub is a competition among teams representing schools, primarily universities, but also including high schools and even a middle school. These teams develop underwater r...
Suppliers are snapping up smaller robots to boost productivity
Andra Keay
05 Aug 2013
North American suppliers are on a pace to boost robot purchases 22 percent to a record 7,872 units this year.See on www.autonews.com...
Shark scientists pit robot against human | DNews
Hallie Siegel
05 Aug 2013
Autonomous underwater robots have the ability to track tagged sharks at a smart distance and measure all kinds of crucial data using sophisticated sensors. But how does it compare to a human in a boat...
Swimming robot tested for billion-mile trip to Saturn moon | National Geographic
Hallie Siegel
05 Aug 2013
The glacier-fed Laguna Negra (map) in the Chilean Andes, where NASA and SETI Institute scientists have been testing a floating robot whose successors may eventually parachute into a sea on Titan, Satu...
The Farmery installs a mini-farmery at Burt’s Bees | The Volt Report
John Payne
04 Aug 2013
The Farmery hopes to provide an urban farmers market experience for the city and recently locked a Burt's Bees sponsorship! Now a Mini-Farmery is open for biz!John Payne's insight:Always looking for w...
Meet the teams: DARPA Robotics Challenge Track A robots
John Payne
02 Aug 2013
Say hello to the robots that will be competing in the December 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials at the Homestead-Miami Speedway! Which is your favorite? ...John Payne's insight:The linked video sh...
News from the Living Machines conference London | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
02 Aug 2013
Researchers at a conference on biologically inspired robots at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London, have showcased new machines that could see robots becoming far more common in ou...
Modular Robotics’ production of Cubelets ramps up
John Payne
02 Aug 2013
“We've made a lot of changes to our production line recently and each machine automates a task that we used to do by hand. Now we get vastly quicker and better results and can make thousands mor...
Despite Segway and Fisker, Kleiner Perkins keeps making hardware bets
Andra Keay
01 Aug 2013
Hardware startups are traditionally viewed as risker investments than software companies. They're harder to monetize quickly, and they don't tend to generate the steep viral growth that many softwa......
Japanese Robots: Toyota’s 5 Year-Old “Winglet” Begins Practical Testing (and it’s SO not a robot)
Reno Tibke
01 Aug 2013
Introduced way back in 2008, seven years after the Segway, Toyota's Winglet finally got to come out and play last week; practical trials are underway. Like the Segway (pretty much exactly), it’s...
Giant six-legged robot crab goes swimming | IEEE Spectrum
Hallie Siegel
31 Jul 2013
Next time you're basking on the beach, watch out for giant crab robots. The Crabster CR200, a huge six-legged underwater robot, took the plunge earlier this month for the first time. Developed at the ...
The robot will take your coffee order now | Washington Post
Hallie Siegel
31 Jul 2013
Today, the Austin-based Briggo Coffee introduced one more inanimate object to satisfy our cravings: the “intelligent” Coffee Haus on the campus of the University of Texas. The fully automated kios...
Oculus Rift + UAVs = Oculus FPV | Gizmag
John Payne
31 Jul 2013
“Oculus Rift FPV is a project from Intuitive Aerial (a Swedish company specializing in airborne camera rigs) to build a UAV system that can be controlled entirely while wearing a virtual reality...
The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | WIRED
CIS Blog
30 Jul 2013
If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The car want...
Astronaut in space remote-controls robot in California | Wired Science
Andra Keay
30 Jul 2013
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:
See also Terry Fong's recent Robohub contribution.
See on www.wired.com...
The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | Wired
CIS Blog
30 Jul 2013
If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The ...
MVP robots don’t need to be robots | Steve Blank
Andra Keay
29 Jul 2013
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons of time, money and grief. Drones over the Heartland I ran......
States develop legislation for driverless cars | USA Today
CIS Blog
29 Jul 2013
In California, Nevada, Florida and the District of Columbia, the future of transportation is now: All four jurisdictions are setting ground rules for self-driving cars on the roads.
Read more...
Tune your engine: Driverless car technology | Radio New Zealand
CIS Blog
29 Jul 2013
Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Centers for Automotive Research and Internet and Society, looks at developments in driverless car technology.
Originally aired on: Radio New Ze...
Veebot: Robotic phlebotomist | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
27 Jul 2013
http://youtu.be/s30FPobi9iA
“Currently, Veebot’s machine can correctly identify the best vein to target about 83 percent of the time, says Harris, which is about as good as a human. Har...
AeroVironment receives first US FAA certificate for restricted commercial use | sUAS News
Andra Keay
26 Jul 2013
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Due to previous military certification, AeroVironment will be able to conduct commercial environmental monitoring in the Arctic Circle, assisting emergency response team...
SUSB Expo day two – afternoon
Andra Keay
26 Jul 2013
See on Scoop.it - The Robot Times SUSBExpo - Day 2, part 2See on www.youtube.com...
SUSB Expo day one – afternoon
Andra Keay
26 Jul 2013
sUSB Expo San Francisco afternoon one live stream. We have recorded each speaker and will make that available afterwards on this channel. It will take us a s...See on www.youtube.com...
SUSB Expo 2013 day one – morning
Andra Keay
26 Jul 2013
sUSB Expo San Francisco morning one live stream. We have recorded each speaker and will make that available afterwards on this channel. It will take us a sho...See on www.youtube.com...
Japanese Robots: The Seemingly Least Cool Robotics Story of July is a Must-Read! | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
25 Jul 2013
Cleaning robots don’t grab headlines – what with the DARPA Robotics Challenge, NASA’s nuclear powered dunebuggy on Mars, exoskeleton intrigue, ASIMO’s new training, etc. What those fancy r...
Robot cares for lab mice | DigInfo
John Payne
24 Jul 2013
This robot does the repititious, dirty, and potentiallly dangerous work of freshening mouse/rat cages, up to 30,000 of them.See on www.youtube.com...
To create a robot with common sense, mimic a toddler – opinion – 22 July 2013 – New Scientist
Andra Keay
24 Jul 2013
Artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel wants to create robots far more intelligent than humansThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:And as Goertzel says "no toilet training involved". Crea...
Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution | MIT Technology Review
Andra Keay
23 Jul 2013
Computing pioneer Doug Engelbart’s inventions transformed computing, but he intended them to transform humans.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Howard Rheingold provides a neat summary of Douglas E...
Under pressure, Google may slow rollout of driverless car technology
CIS Blog
22 Jul 2013
Google is under pressure from people inside and outside the company to crimp some features until society gets more used to automated cars.
Read more: Steve Rosenbush, Wall Street...
Japanese robots: Did Sagawa Electronics’ Power Jacket MK3 rip off Team Skeletonics? | Akihabara News
Reno Tibke
18 Jul 2013
Sagawa Electronics’ new human exoskeleton, the much publicized Power Jacket MK3, just might have gone too far with that whole sincerest form of flattery thing. The imitative compliment they&rsqu...
Disruptions: How driverless cars could reshape cities | New York Times
CIS Blog
17 Jul 2013
By now, seeing one of Google’s experimental, driverless cars zipping down Silicon Valley’s Highway 101, or parking itself on a San Francisco street, is not all that unusual. Indeed, as automakers...
What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry | Australian Broadcasting Company
CIS Blog
16 Jul 2013
The former vice-president of research and development for General Motors is a champion of the ‘driverless car’. He sees a time when traffic in our cities will swarm like insects, with cars communi...
DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
Jim Haas
12 Jul 2013
DARPA unveiled their new humanoid robot Atlas that will be used as part of their robotics challenge. It can tackle rough terrain and carry human tools.
See on DARPA website....
Badminton robot a study in energy efficiency
John Payne
08 Jul 2013
June 23 - Belgian scientists are developing a badminton-playing robot to demonstrate how new software can optimise energy efficiency in production machines. ...See on www.youtube.com...
Horticulture looks to robots and youth | Stock & Land
John Payne
05 Jul 2013
“ROBOTICS offers the Australian horticulture industry the chance to regain its competitive edge in the global market place, according to University of Sydney Professor Salah Sukkarieh.”See...
