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Andra Keay
09 Jan 2013
More - http://har.ms/category/blog/soft-robots/ I gave a talk on the process I've been developing for getting better quality, cheaper, faster-to-design soft ...The Robot Launch Pad's insight:It may be...
Lego announces Mindstorms EV3, a more ‘hackable’ robotics kit | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
08 Jan 2013
Lego's latest Mindstorms kit has a new IR sensor, runs on Linux, and is compatible with Android and iOS appsThe Robot Launch Pad's insight:Move over kids! This kit is will keep adults entertained. Not...
Compressorhead Ace of Spades
John Payne
05 Jan 2013
WWW.COMPRESSORHEADBAND.COM A sneak preview of Compressorhead during band practise at the Robocross head quarters in Berlin WWW.ROBOCROSS.DE Coming soon at Th...See on www.youtube.com...
Walkbot – exoskeleton rehab therapy
John Payne
04 Jan 2013
A Korean exoskeleton robot designed specifically for gait training rehabilitation.
See on www.youtube.com
Gizmag has the story....
DARPA’s sub-hunting drone appears in concept video | Gizmag
John Payne
03 Jan 2013
SAIC has published a conceptual video that demonstrates how its DARPA-funded unmanned drone ship will hunt and track enemy submarines.See on www.gizmag.com...
Leap Motion gesture control technology on New Asus PCs | the Verge
Ioannis K. Erripis
03 Jan 2013
After unveiling its Kinect-like gesture control system for PCs in mid-2012, Leap Motion is a promising product that's not available to buy just yet, but that's set to change this year. At the...See on...
Robots: a 50 year journey (to music)
John Payne
02 Jan 2013
A History of RoboticsSee on www.youtube.com...
Happy New Year! | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
02 Jan 2013
“Welcome to 2013. This is the year when everything is going to happen. We can confidently predict that just about every single day (weekday, at least), we'll have something new and ama...
Tim Worstall (Forbes) responding to a blog post by Paul Krugman (NYTimes)
John Payne
30 Dec 2012
“If it really does become the robots that make the robots that repair the robots that dig the ore to make the steel to be made into cars by robots, then obviously cars are going to be pretty che...
Exoskeleton designed to assist agricultural workers and gardeners
John Payne
30 Dec 2012
“The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit designed specifically to help out with tough agricultural work like pulling radishes because about 40 ...
R2 Studios sold, Krikorian taking position with acquiring company
John Payne
30 Dec 2012
“So which big company did well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Krikorian sell his latest start-up to: Apple or Google? Or maybe Microsoft?”John Payne's insight:While R2 Studio...
Auto-gopher wireline drill demonstration and field test
John Payne
28 Dec 2012
The Auto-Gopher drill is a wire-line rotary-hammer drill designed for drilling on Mars, the Moon, or the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter. The depth of penetr...John Payne's insight:This type of drill ...
Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Project | PopMatters
John Payne
27 Dec 2012
"As Metheny stands on an oriental rug in this film, he’s surrounded by percussion instruments much more varied: pianos and marimbas, vibraphones and triangles, ride cymbals and gongs, tubes, wil...
Entrepreneur of 2012: Limor Fried
John Payne
21 Dec 2012
Adafruit's innovative DIY open-source electronic hardware kits make founder Limor Fried our Entrepreneur of 2012.
Given merely a quick glance at a photo of Limor working away under a desk...
The Sentinel mission: mapping the locations & trajectories of earth-crossing asteroids
John Payne
20 Dec 2012
“In this LASP Public Lecture from December 12, 2012, Dr. Harold Reitsema of the B612 Foundation discussed what we know about NEAs and presented the current status of the Sentinel project.”
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DARPA LS3 robot mule learns to follow | IEEE Spectrum
Ioannis K. Erripis
19 Dec 2012
We heard back in September that the LS3 quadruped robot had gotten some nifty upgrades and was undergoing field trials with the military, and we've just gotten an update ...
Hexapod Hexacopter
Ioannis K. Erripis
18 Dec 2012
Over at Mad Lab Industries, they had the idea of building a quadcopter that could walk and fly. By combining a hexapod with a hexacopter, they ended up with this creation.See on hackaday.com...
Swarm robotics at CU-Boulder
John Payne
17 Dec 2012
“Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a swarm of intelligent robots that can work together to perform tasks, like containing an oil spill or building a space station.”
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Universal Robots’ tablet-controlled factory robots work safely with humans | Gizmag
John Payne
17 Dec 2012
A new low-cost, user-friendly factory robot from Danish company Universal Robots is heading to the U.K. and U.S.John Payne's insight:First Baxter, now UR, is this the beginning of a trend? One c...
Robotics hacker erects open source ‘Lego for Adults’ | Wired Enterprise
Andra Keay
17 Dec 2012
Jason Wang once bought a home robotics kit. He had studied aircraft design in college and spent years at an electrics engineering outfit, but he still found the instructions completely incomprehensibl...
Homes built by robots | Robotics Business Review
Andra Keay
14 Dec 2012
Robots could dramatically reduce the time and money needed to build quality homes, including plumbing, electrical and HVAC conduits.See on www.roboticsbusinessreview.com...
Successful entrepreneurs on the definition of robot | Forbes
Sabine Hauert
13 Dec 2012
Jennifer Hicks from Forbes looks at numerous robotics companies and investigates if their products are indeed robots.See on www.forbes.com...
Slaloming robot minicopter learns from its mistakes | New Scientist TV
Andra Keay
12 Dec 2012
See on www.newscientist.com...
Air Force launches robot space plane, X-37B — but what’s it for?
Andra Keay
12 Dec 2012
At 1:03 pm today, the US Air Force launched a robotic space plane that can stay in orbit for over a year. That's good news for the nation's troubled spaceSee on defense.aol.com...
Ocean science robot revolution hits symbolic millionth milestone
Andra Keay
12 Dec 2012
(Phys.org)—An innovative global observing system based on drifting sensors cycling from the surface to the ocean mid-depths is being celebrated by scientists today after reaching a major milesto...
Japanese researchers build robot with most humanlike muscle-skeleton structure yet (w/ video)
Andra Keay
12 Dec 2012
(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of Tokyo have taken another step towards creating a robot with a faithfully recreated human skeleton and muscle structure.See on phys.org...
Cafe Neu Romance 2012: Engineered Arts Ltd.: RoboThespian reflects on Karel Capek & R.U.R
Andra Keay
11 Dec 2012
During the first edition of Cafe Neu Romance, the first robot performance festival in the World, which was hold in Prague, the European culture-historical ca...The Robot Launch Pad's insight:Fitting t...
“Future of Cloud Robotics” infographic from Grishin Robotics
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2012
The global personal and service robots population has grown tenfold in the past four years and will do so continuously, reaching more than 100 million service robots in only five years.See on cdn.then...
Spaun brain activity and decoding for sample tasks | Nengo.ca
John Payne
08 Dec 2012
The Spaun project has produced remarkably complex behavior from a mere 2.5 million neurons. (Found on Gizmag)
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Two overhead, rail-mounted robots tend four others | FANUC Robotics
John Payne
08 Dec 2012
I sometimes feel as though FANUC gets short shrift because their videos are pragmatic rather than flashy. This one is of particular interest to me because it demonstrates a rail-mounting system ...
Black Hawk operates autonomously in test flight | USARMYAMCOM
John Payne
07 Dec 2012
According to the Popular Science website “This newly-released video of a November 5 flight over the Diablo Range in California shows a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter autonomously navi...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries reveals nuclear plant inspection robot MHI-MEISTeR
John Payne
06 Dec 2012
“Over the past few weeks, Japan has unveiled robotic exoskeletons and quadrupeds designed to work in radioactive areas, and today Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has revealed its own inspectio...
Liquid Robotics’ robot vehicle journeys 9,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean
Andra Keay
06 Dec 2012
Robot vehicle makes history for the farthest journey by an autonomous vehicle.See on venturebeat.com...
Milli-moteins and wobble motors | Robots.net
John Payne
05 Dec 2012
Steve Rainwater of Robots.net has provided a more accessible, but still detailed account of the DARPA-sponsored work on programmable matter at MIT, with particular focus on the electropermanent wobble...
USA – Rise of the Machines | Journeyman Pictures
John Payne
04 Dec 2012
“Most people see drones as a controversial weapon prowling over foreign battlegrounds. But as America's military campaigns wind down, these machines are coming home and set to change civilian li...
