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ChewBots – Happy Pets Happy Owners
John Payne
13 Mar 2013
Check out ChewBots, a brand new startup making robotic dog toys!John Payne's insight:See ChewBots in motion in this Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Finalists video: http://youtu.be/JxRsdsNVtmwSee on...
CHIMP, Carnegie Mellon University’s entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge | Ares blog
Ioannis K. Erripis
13 Mar 2013
It moves like a tank over rough terrain, but has four limbs with which to stand and use human tools. It is CHIMP, Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) simian-inspired entry in the DARPA Robotics Ch...
NASA rover finds conditions once suited for ancient life on mars | NASA JPL
Sabine Hauert
12 Mar 2013
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.See on www.jpl.nasa.gov...
Who’s liable when a driverless car crashes? | NPR
CIS Blog
12 Mar 2013
It's absolutely the case that after the first accident involving an automated vehicle, there will be an automated ambulance chaser following.
- Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Informati...
Swarm behaviour may not require intelligence | NewScientist
Hallie Siegel
11 Mar 2013
In a series of videos that depict groups of ultra-simple vibrating robots as they buzz around an arena, Luca Giomi, an applied mathematician at Harvard University, demonstrates how apparently intelli...
A visual history of robotic Mars probes | Wired UK
Hallie Siegel
11 Mar 2013
Check out Paul Butt's beautifully illustrated infographic on the history of Mars exploration by robotic probes, and the many successes and failures along the way.
See on Wired UK.
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Nine companies to watch in Silicon Valley | SRI International
Andra Keay
08 Mar 2013
SRI International's Rich Mahoney lists nine emerging robotics companies to watch.
See on www.sri.com...
Crashing into walls: Airburr takes a counter-intuitive approach to navigation | IEEE Spectrum
Hallie Siegel
06 Mar 2013
While other UAVs use sophisticated sensors and algorithms to navigate, EPFL's tough little Airburr uses a random-direction algorithm and a bare minimum of sensors to make its way around places other b...
Bad laws would hurt good drones | CNN
Sabine Hauert
05 Mar 2013
Ryan Calo says drones have a bad reputation, but laws to inhibit their use could hurt development of their creative possibilities.See on edition.cnn.com...
robots on tour | Zurich March 9
Andra Keay
04 Mar 2013
World Congress and Exhibition of Robots, Humanoids, Cyborgs and moreThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:I'm jealous. This is an amazing tour of extraordinary robots. And it's in Zurich. When is it coming t...
The rise of robotics in medicine | MedCityNews
Sabine Hauert
02 Mar 2013
Robots represent a vision of the future, a vision that inspires two parts amazement and one part fear of being replaced by superior machines. In manufacturing, robots have been deployed since the 1960...
BigDog’s heavy lifting manipulator | IEEE Spectrum
Sabine Hauert
01 Mar 2013
I don't know why BigDog needs a fifth limb to throw cinder blocks, but it's incredibly awesomeSee on spectrum.ieee.org...
Campaign to stop killer robots | The Guardian
Sabine Hauert
28 Feb 2013
A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban "killer robots" before they reach the production stage is to be launched in the UK by a group of academics, pressure groups and Nobel peace prize laure...
Cesar Harada & Protei | Building ROVS on a boat
Andra Keay
28 Feb 2013
It's been six weeks since the traveling treps of Unreasonable at Sea set sail. We check in with one young entrepreneur about his progress so far.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Cesar Harada is building...
Robotics Innovation Challenge 2013 | Robotdalen
Andra Keay
28 Feb 2013
Robotdalen is a Swedish robotics initiative with the mission to enable commercial success of new ideas and research within robotics & automation.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Entrepreneurs, resea...
Upverter helps hardware startup revolution | TechCrunch
Andra Keay
22 Feb 2013
"Toronto's Upverter is a startup that's poised to effect change that could reshape the landscape of entrepreneurship. ..hoping to build a cloud-based hardware engineering platform that can match and o...
Nissan opens Silicon Valley center for self-driving car research | Bloomberg
Andra Keay
22 Feb 2013
Nissan Motor Co. opened a research center in California’s Silicon Valley that the Japanese carmaker plans to make its hub for research on self-driving vehicles and Internet-connected auto technology...
The (rumored) specs for the next generation Kinect sensor | IEEE Spectrum Automaton
Ioannis K. Erripis
21 Feb 2013
Kinect changed the game for robotics, will the Kinect 2 change it again?
See on spectrum.ieee.org...
Oxford introduces ‘affordable’ RobotCar | IEEE Spectrum
Sabine Hauert
20 Feb 2013
Oxford's robot car uses cameras and lasers instead of expensive 3D sensors and GPS.See on spectrum.ieee.org...
Robotic asteroid miners | Diamandis on Singularity Hub
Andra Keay
19 Feb 2013
Once Planetary Resources has figured out how to get to an asteroid and how to mine it—what will they mine? Near-Earth asteroids contain abundant iron, nickel, platinum group metals, and water.Th...
How will our future cities look?
Andra Keay
18 Feb 2013
Cities have inspired movie-makers, artists, architects and engineers for centuries, but what will they look like in the future?The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Contribute your vision of the future to th...
Veebot’s Robot to automate blood draws
Andra Keay
18 Feb 2013
Taking blood is a fine art. Even the most experienced practioner may require more than one stab to find a vein—seems only natural to wonder, might a robot do the job better? Mountain View’...
IDEX: P.1HH ‘HammerHead’ UAS by Piaggio Aero & Selex ES | Arabian Aerospace
Ioannis K. Erripis
18 Feb 2013
"Piaggio Aero Industries, together with Selex ES, today presented the Piaggio Aero P.1HH 'HammerHead' - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) at IDEX 2013."
See on www.arabianaerospace.aero...
Robots with lift | Harvard Gazette
Sabine Hauert
17 Feb 2013
Using small explosions produced by a mix of methane and oxygen, researchers at Harvard have designed a soft robot that can leap as much as a foot in the air.
See on Harvard Gazette
http://yout...
ROBOY, the crowdfunded Android project, is 5 weeks from completion
Reno Tibke
31 Jan 2013
Reno J. Tibke's insight:The University of Zuerich's crowdfunded, tendon-actuated, and from design to construction, very rapidly realized robot boy has 5 weeks to come to life.See on www.roboy.org...
RASSOR space excavator robot by NASA | gizmag
Ioannis K. Erripis
30 Jan 2013
NASA reveals an excavation robot that may one day be sent to the Moon or Mars.
See on www.gizmag.com...
Mars Rover enters 10th year exploring | Automaton
Andra Keay
29 Jan 2013
Listen, NASA. We love you, but you're setting an impossible precedent here. Opportunity, one of a pair of rovers sent to Mars in 2003, landed at Meridiani Planum nine years ago last week. Nine years a...
Robonaut prepping for bipedal locomotion!
Ioannis K. Erripis
24 Jan 2013
Hundreds of robot & technology outlets (including this one) were scooped by a world-traveling random French guy who dropped by NASA Johnson earlier this month.
Ioannis K. Erripis's insight:
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Dutch architect to build “endless” house with 3D printer | 3D printer & 3D printing news
John Payne
20 Jan 2013
Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars (39) from Universe Architecture in Amsterdam designed a one-piece building which will be built on a 3D printer.See on www.3ders.org...
What’s a robot? | January 2013 | Communications of the ACM
Andra Keay
18 Jan 2013
I believe it would be a contribution to our society to encourage deeper thinking about what we in the computing world produce, the tools we use to produce them, the resilience and reliability that the...
Australian schoolgirl a science sensation
Andra Keay
18 Jan 2013
An Australian teenager's simple idea that would allow a complete quadriplegic to control a wheelchair by voice has earned her international recognition and a top science award for school students, han...
$190 million drone coming to Australia
Andra Keay
18 Jan 2013
An unmanned British stealth drone that can fly faster than the speed of sound and go undetected by radar will soon have its first test flight in Australia.The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Good article w...
Robot rover is first Russian lunar mission in decades
Andra Keay
16 Jan 2013
Moscow - Russia will launch the Luna-Globe-1 spacecraft from its new space center Vostochny in the Amur region in 2015, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told reporters on Tuesday.See on www.kyivpost.c...
Farming Today 14/01/2013: interview with Simon Blackmore | BBC Radio 4
John Payne
14 Jan 2013
“Farming Today takes a glimpse into a future which could have tractors driving themselves and robots pulling weeds. Anna Hill talks to a leading authority on precision farming, Professor Simon B...
Colin Angle of iRobot interviewed by Paul Miller of The Verge
John Payne
14 Jan 2013
Paul Miller talks with iRobot CEO Colin Angle about future of robotics.See on www.youtube.com...
Cali Lewis demonstrating Paro’s therapeutic baby seal robot | GeekBeatTV
John Payne
13 Jan 2013
Paro, the therapeutic robot, provides companionship for kids and Alzheimer's patients.See on www.youtube.com...
