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3D Robotics’ CEO Chris Anderson: Farm drones
John Payne
04 Jul 2013
Chris Anderson founder of DIY Drones and CEO of 3D Robotics, speaking at Maker Faire, explaining why agriculture is the prime merket for civilian UAVs.See on fora.tv...
Ziphius, the Portuguese aquatic drone | Raspberry Pi
Filipe Neves Dos Santos
01 Jul 2013
See on www.raspberrypi.org...
Robots in Agriculture 2 (rev 1)
John Payne
01 Jul 2013
John Payne's insight:This video is a nice compilation of a range of projects applying robotics to some aspect of agriculture. Thanks to Sam Zimmer for going to the trouble of putting it together!See o...
Field Robot Event 2013 ended today
John Payne
30 Jun 2013
A test run of the robot Bullseye from Wageningen University as preparation for the Field Robot Event 2013. Totally autonomous.John Payne's insight:This was the final day of FRE2013. Results are ...
SparkFun AVC 2013 recap
John Payne
29 Jun 2013
“The SparkFun Autonomous vehicle competition is an annual race between home-made autonomous vehicles. This year SparkFun held its annual Autonomous Vehicle Competition at the Boulder Reservoir. ...
Tracking: Drones At Home
Andra Keay
29 Jun 2013
Drones are coming to American airspace. Whether used in agribusiness to monitor farms by landscape architects to design properties by law enforcement...The Robot Launch Pad's insight:A powerful collec...
Robots hallucinate humans to aid in object recognition | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
25 Jun 2013
“Almost exactly a year ago, we posted about how Ashutosh Saxena's lab at Cornell was teaching robots to use their "imaginations" to try to picture how a human would want a room organiz...
‘Dionysus’ robot to help winegrowers | Harper Adams University
John Payne
25 Jun 2013
“Farmers around the world will be able to improve their irrigation efficiency thanks to an autonomous vineyard robot developed at Harper Adams University. ‘Dionysus’ has been created...
The Anthropocene: Humankind as a turning point for Earth | Astrobiology Magazine
John Payne
25 Jun 2013
Astrobiology Magazine The Anthropocene: Humankind as a Turning Point for Earth Astrobiology Magazine Now it's true that humans were altering the Earth before this time, as several scientists have poin...
The 5 craziest spherical robots
John Payne
25 Jun 2013
“Spherical robots are currently in use for research, fun and even surveillance purposes. Without legs they are inherently stable and capable of traveling great distances in short periods of time...
Let’s play robotics with mOwayduino
Andra Keay
25 Jun 2013
Open source platform, based on Arduino technology. Ready-to-go programmable robot, from zero to expert.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Scratch compatibility is what I really like about this little robo...
Robotic mule vendors seek opportunities outside military | National Defense Magazine
John Payne
24 Jun 2013
“The idea to employ robots to carry gear for overburdened troops has been around for more than a decade. Mechanized mules are at an advanced technology readiness level, and some have been u...
Sky’s the limit in farm technology | New Zealand Herald
John Payne
24 Jun 2013
Sky's the limit in farm technology New Zealand Herald An aerial robot armed with live-feed cameras that can monitor farms while the owner is at home enjoying a cup of tea is being tipped as a gadget t...
Agricultural drone investing | Energy and Capital
John Payne
24 Jun 2013
“Although farms used to be small enough in size for human and ground-based surveillance, consolidation has led to massive fields that cannot be traversed by land in a timely manner. Instead, far...
ROSPHERE: A spherical robot for rough terrain
John Payne
23 Jun 2013
“The Robotics and Cybernetics Research Group from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has special interest in developing robots able to live in environments where the motion can be a di...
Turkey drone journalist: “I have been witnessing very bad things” | sUAS News
Andra Keay
20 Jun 2013
See on www.suasnews.com...
3D Printing Company MakerBot Acquired In $604 Million Deal | Forbes
Ioannis K. Erripis
20 Jun 2013
MakerBot, the leader in desktop 3D printing, has just been acquired by Stratasys Ltd., the leader in 3D printing and additive manufacturing in a $604 million deal.See on www.forbes.com...
Beer-Delivering Drone Designed For Music Festivals [Video] – PSFK
Andra Keay
17 Jun 2013
Attendees of the Oppikoppi event in South Africa will be served by aerial robots.See on www.psfk.com...
Pizza delivery by drone | T + Biscuits
Andra Keay
17 Jun 2013
See on Scoop.it - The Robot Times The DomiCopter is a project we worked on with Domino's Pizza and AeroSight, a UK based drone specialist.See on tandbiscuits.co.uk...
A robot that runs like a cat | EPFL
Sabine Hauert
17 Jun 2013
Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its e...
Meet the man behind the push to ban killer robots | Motherboard
CIS Blog
14 Jun 2013
To bring clearer into focus the backdrop of killer robots and the threat they pose, I talked to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. The author of the UN rep...
Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robots | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
12 Jun 2013
Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot time-lapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the c...
Space droids calling
Andra Keay
11 Jun 2013
Secondary-school students can play the ultimate robot game: the annual Zero Robotics tournament turns the International Space Station into a playing field for European students to control minisatellit...
How about we *not* make killer robots: Daniel Suarez at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
Technology thriller author, most recently of the book Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez has been thinking about drones for some time. But as he says, as he stands onstage at TEDGlobal 2013, he’s not h...
Athletic machines: Raffaello D’Andrea at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
“Athletic” is a term we use to describe human beings. But could it also be used to describe a machine?
In a demo recorded yesterday in his robot lab at TEDGlobal 2013, systems engineer Raffaell...
Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fix...
Conservation drones in the field: Lian Pin Koh at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
At TEDGlobal 2013 environmental systems researcher Lian Pin Koh presents a new and unexpectedly benign use for drones: nature conservation. Nepal has natural landscapes that are beautiful — and i...
From the Founders of Anki
Andra Keay
10 Jun 2013
Anki brings artificial intelligence and robotics into everyday life. We are excited about taking technology previously restricted to science labs and researc...The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Anki is a...
Apple announces Anki Drive | Endgadget
Andra Keay
10 Jun 2013
Apple is just starting its WWDC keynote this morning, but it's already announcing something quite interesting: a new company called Anki and its
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:
It's an...
Startups leading the robotic revolution | Entrepreneur
Andra Keay
10 Jun 2013
With commercial applications that can improve business performance and enhance lifestyles, intelligent machines are making waves in an array of industry...
See on www.entrepreneur.com...
The RK-1 is an Arduino-based mobile robot you control with smartphone swipes | TechCrunch
Andra Keay
07 Jun 2013
London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a remote controlled robot called the RK-1 that com...
Airbus reveals iPhone-enabled ‘smart bag’ prototype with RFID, GPS tracking | Australian Business Traveller
Hallie Siegel
07 Jun 2013
Airbus is best known for aircraft like its A380 superjumbo and the next-generation A350 jetliner, but the company has cooked up something else to delight the traveller: a prototype 'smart' bag complet...
DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge: OSRF gets simulator ready | IEEE Spectrum
Hallie Siegel
06 Jun 2013
For the last month, teams from around the world have been submitting entries to the Virtual Robotics Challenge qualification event, in order to earn a place in the VRC itself, and the latest results a...
Robot scout finds fires with 3D thermal imaging | IEEE Spectrum
Hallie Siegel
06 Jun 2013
[This] robot is called FFR for "firefighting robot," although FLR for "firelocating robot" might be more technically correct. The robot uses a stereo camera and a thermal camera to generate 3D pointc...
Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home | UW Today
Andra Keay
06 Jun 2013
The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Interesting possiblities for robotics - particularly in the connected home or health settings.See on www.washington.edu...
CIA invests in robot writers | Mashable
Hallie Siegel
05 Jun 2013
The CIA's venture capital wing, In-Q-Tel, has invested an unknown amount in a company called Narrative Science, which codes software capable of turning massive data sets into easy-to-read written pros...
