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Miniature quadruped robot is blazingly fast | IEEE Spectrum
Hallie Siegel
05 Jun 2013
This robot, which still doesn't have a name, is very compact (which measures just 6.5 x 5.5 x 1 centimeter), and according to its creators it is quite possibly "the fastest legged robot of its size."
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The race to build the first 3D-printed building | WIRED UK
Hallie Siegel
04 Jun 2013
Would you live in a house that came out of a printer? Would you prefer concrete, or plastic? Biodegradable, or weather resistant? Canal house or futuristic spider's nest? These are the questions faci...
Roadmap for driverless cars: Five highlights | The Wall Street Journal
CIS Blog
04 Jun 2013
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday came out with a road map for navigating the future of self-driving cars. Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who st...
Dmitry Itskov, avatars and Hanson Robotics
Andra Keay
04 Jun 2013
The Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov wants us all to live forever, our minds inside avatars. And he is spending a bundle to try to make his colossal dream happen.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:W...
ACRA – Annual Cocktail Robotic Awards
Andra Keay
03 Jun 2013
Serving Cocktails: Your robot must be capable of delivering a pre-prepared mixed drink to a patron.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:This is a competition I'd enjoy being at :)See on roboexotica.org...
Insect eye-inspired camera captures wide view with no distortion | University of Colorado Boulder
John Payne
03 Jun 2013
“Imitating the functionality of an insect eye — which is really a collection of many tinier eyes, known as ommatidia — in a camera has been a long sought-after goal for engineers. No...
Waseda University building better humanoid walking robots | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
31 May 2013
Japanese roboticists have set out to reinvent the wheel, er, the leg
See on spectrum.ieee.org...
Breakout Labs: Thiel Foundation funding science entrepreneurs
Andra Keay
30 May 2013
Breakout Labs - A project of the Thiel FoundationThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:Thiel Foundation's latest endeavour is a revolving funding model for the next generation of audacious scientific explora...
Drones close in on farms, the next step in precision agriculture
Andra Keay
30 May 2013
Drones continue their steady approach into the different aspects of our lives.See on singularityhub.com...
Driverless Vehicles | Freakonomics / marketplace
Ioannis K. Erripis
30 May 2013
34,000 traffic deaths a year in the U.S.; more than 1 million worldwide. Can the driverless car reduce that number?See on www.freakonomics.com...
UN mulls ethics of ‘killer robots’ | BBC
Filipe Neves Dos Santos
30 May 2013
The ethics surrounding so-called killer robots will come under scrutiny as a report is presented to the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva.See on www.bbc.co.uk...
Farming smarter with AgBots | Queensland University of Technology
John Payne
27 May 2013
“A golf cart sized robot that can autonomously navigate its way through a field will soon take the work out of weeding for Queensland farmers. The AgBot, a light-weight, driverless buggy, can na...
Banana patch robots within ten years | FreshPlaza
John Payne
27 May 2013
“Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Sydney, Salah Sukkarieh, is a keynote speaker at the Banana Industry Congress and will tell growers there is significant untap...
Swords to plowshares: Experts see farming as next big use for drones | Cronkite News
John Payne
27 May 2013
WASHINGTON – Drones numbering in the tens of thousands will be in the skies by 2030, the Federal Aviation Administration predicts. But where some may fear precision weapons or flying spy cameras...
French scholar completes seven months research at Harper Adams | Harper Adams University
John Payne
27 May 2013
A postgraduate student, Marc-Alexandre Favier, from Bourg-en-Bresse, in eastern France, has completed seven months research at Harper Adams University developing an unmanned aircraft for use in a...
Australia eyes high-tech farm help to grow food | Reuters
John Payne
27 May 2013
SYDNEY (Reuters) - “Moving carefully along a row of appletrees, two of Australia's newest agricultural workers check if the fruit is ripe or the soil needs water or fertilizer. Meet "M...
B go beyond : Combination quadcopter & wheeled vehicle | Kickstarter
John Payne
27 May 2013
“B is a revolutionary new remote controlled hybrid car-helicopter with a patent pending design. It is capable of driving across difficult terrain using its large rear drive wheels and when the obsta...
Post-doc position in plant perception and manipulation | Correll Lab, CU Boulder
John Payne
25 May 2013
“We are looking for a post-doc to support our NASA "Autonomous FoodProduction" project at CU Boulder. The long-term goal of this projectis fully autonomous production of salad and strawberries i...
US Navy’s Triton UAV maiden flight | Gizmag
John Payne
25 May 2013
“…the US Navy’s latest unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System, has taken to the skies. This Wednesday, the ...
Warrior Web prototype takes its first steps | DARPA
John Payne
25 May 2013
“A Soldier carries a 61-pound load while walking in a prototype DARPA Warrior Web system during an independent evaluation by the U.S. Army. Warrior Web seeks to create a soft, lightweight under-...
Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
24 May 2013
“[Earlier this week], Microsoft held an event to announce its brand new Kinect sensor, and … Uh … something else that we can't remember offhand, so it must not be that important. If you've h...
Dancing robots synchronization (MIT with NAO)
John Payne
24 May 2013
“Synchronization of a group of NAO's using a quorum sensing mechanism, a collaboration between MIT's Nonlinear Systems Laboratory and Aldebaran Robotics. See http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.2952....
CU-Boulder seeks drone test site in Colorado | Denver Post
John Payne
24 May 2013
A state application organized by the University of Colorado Boulder has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of six unmanned aircraft systems test sites sla...
MIT Cheetah runs at 22 km/h, gait transition from trot to gallop | MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab
John Payne
22 May 2013
No IMU, No Force Sensor, No Mechanical Spring, No Mechanical Damper Stand-alone system except for 4 22.2V Li-Po Batteries but replaced by 3kg dummy mass at 2...John Payne's insight:While not yet as fa...
Grishin Robotics Invests in Swivl | Swivl
Andra Keay
22 May 2013
Swivl is the first and only iPhone accessory that lets you capture hands free video, following your every move and with a wireless microphone, your every word.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:A robotic ...
Portuguese intelligent wheelchair receives award |INESC TEC
Filipe Neves Dos Santos
21 May 2013
A Portuguese robotics project whose purpose is to develop an intelligent wheelchair – which has already been tested with patients with cerebral palsy – has now received its fifth award: a Best Pap...
X-47B makes first touch-and-go landings on carrier | Gizmag
John Payne
21 May 2013
“On Friday May 17, the US Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator took another historic step as it conducted its first touch-and-go landings on the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Geor...
‘Robo Raven’ is major breakthrough for micro air vehicles | U Maryland
Andra Keay
17 May 2013
"How hard could it be to make a robot bird whose wings can flap independently of each other?" Institute for Systems Research, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
See on robotics.umd....
New robotics accelerator Gear | AlphaLab
Andra Keay
16 May 2013
Pittsburgh's Startup Accelerator. AlphaLab provides funding, mentorship, educational sessions and office space to accelerate the growth of innovative internet startups.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:A...
It’s time to talk about the burgeoning robot middle class | MIT Technology Review
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2013
The elephant in the room is how robotics will play out for human employment in the long term. New robots will take on advanced manufacturing, tutoring, scheduling, and customer relations. They operate...
Difference Engine: The caring robot | The Economist
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2013
With many of his friends and family getting on in years, Babbage has had perforce the chance to compare how the elderly are cared for professionally in America, Britain and Japan. In all three, the pr...
In the long run, we are telepathic androids | The Economist
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2013
Kevin Drum looks to have set the topic for the day with his article in Mother Jones on the economics of our robotic future. The argument is a good recap of several points that have also turned up i...
Google’s driverless future: Will self-piloting vehicles rob us of our privacy and autonomy? | Reason.com
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2013
“Our cars have sensors with which they magically can see everything around them,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun exclaimed in a 2011 TED talk. And yet no one ran out of the room screaming. That...
RHex update: Jumping, swimming, climbing robot will blow you away | Mashable
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2013
The little guy has six legs, a compact body and can really get around. It can handle all kinds of terrain, as well as inclines of up to 60%, while its battery life lasts up to six hours.
Read more: M...
ISS using Linux for key functions, humanoid space robot | WIRED UK
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2013
The International Space Station is switching from Windows to Linux for functions which require increased in-house control, including the control of the R2 humanoid robot.
Designed to take over so...
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please don’t fire us? | Mother Jones
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2013
Smart machines probably won't kill us all—but they'll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.
Read more: Mother Jones...
