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What is the best way to get a robotics education today? What do you look for when hiring?

  15 Sep 2013
After a (relatively) quiet August, Rohobub is gearing up again this September as everyone in the robotics community heads back to work and school. This month, as part of our soon-to-launch focus se...

Jonathan Roberts on “What do you look for when hiring a roboticist?”

  15 Sep 2013
We are looking for researchers who are highly motivated, and who are passionate about seeing the results of their research come to fruition and be used by industry or the public. They should have a de...

Nicola Tomatis on “What do you look for when hiring a roboticist?”

  15 Sep 2013
When hiring at BlueBotics, we first assess the personal profile, soft competencies, and team compatibility. After that, we go into a deep technical assessment. Today, the product sales with the ...

Little-known uses for robots

  14 Sep 2013
Five little known uses for robots: (1) explosives handling by explosives manufacturers and also by armed forces that must dispose or handle them; (2) using lasers on robotic arms to strip paint from a...

Adept Technologies: Ready to be acquired?

  11 Sep 2013
Adept Technologies (NASDAQ:ADEP) has been in the financial news for months. First because of poor financial showings; then because of a management shakeup; and recently because the "turnaround plan" ...

FounderDating hardware edition

  28 Aug 2013
First crowdfunding, now startup services – hardware is eating the software world. FounderDating launched a hardware vertical on Wednesday, after seeing increasing demand from hardware entrepreneurs ...

Memories of Skyrim

  26 Aug 2013
From time to time I like to visit Skyrim. I've been going there for about 2 years - completed the main quest a year or so ago, and since then go back to undertake a side quest or, more often that not,...

Interesting conclusions from Israeli study on robot adoption

  24 Aug 2013
In a joint research study by Israel-based RoboLogics Ltd. and the Israeli Manufacturers Association, 72% of respondents considered that their processes were suitable for robotics automation. However, ...

Russian robotics companies

  23 Aug 2013
Co-written with Susan McFarlane, robotguide, the guide to personal robots Most Russian robotics companies are clustered in north-western Russia, i.e., in St. Petersburg and Moscow, which correspond...

The scourge of the RoboTroll is already upon us

  22 Aug 2013
When a robot ethics working group met nearly three years ago one of the things we fretted about was privacy. We were concerned especially about personal companion robots. Whatever their purpose, be it...

The truth is no stranger than fiction when it comes to robots

  21 Aug 2013
Killer robots, a problem as old as voodoo. Source: x-ray delta one. By Kathleen Richardson, University College London Robots represent the cutting edge in science. For decades we have been promis...

The right way to regulate drone privacy

  19 Aug 2013
On August 6th, I had the honor of testifying in front of the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee on regulation of drones, by the state of California.  The committee is considering seve...

Do robots need heads?

  15 Aug 2013
Robots are machines and most people agree that they primarily serve a utilitarian purpose. So why do so many of them have heads? Here are some thoughts by AJung Moon, Mark Stephen Meadows, Travis Deyl...

David Robert on “Do robots need heads?”

  15 Aug 2013
As a robot animator I can attest to the fact that robots don't "need" heads to be treated as social entities. Research has shown that people will befriend a stick as long as it moves properly [1]. ...

AJung Moon on “Do robots need heads?”

  15 Aug 2013
Are you curious about what your future robotic assistants will look like? My bet is that by the time you buy your very first robotic butler, it will have a friendly head on it that moves. In fact, ...

Mark Stephen Meadows on “Do robots need heads?”

  15 Aug 2013
I don't know about you, but if something has a head I assume it has thoughts. When watching a movie I stare at the character's face because I want to know what they feel. So for me a head's a pretty i...

Travis Deyle on “Do robots need heads?”

  15 Aug 2013
The obvious answer to this question is "No: there are lots of robots without heads." It's not even clear that social robots necessarily require a head, as even mundane robots like the Roomba are anthr...

In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)

  07 Aug 2013
This article discusses how body language is a part of natural language, personality, and NLP design. The article covers various methods for approaching this problem and makes recommendations for the r...

When terrible engineers are good

  06 Aug 2013
A recent post "I need terrible female engineers" on Medium by Amy Nguyen describes her feelings as a female engineer; feeling that technical women are expected to be super humanly perfect - like Summe...

When robots start telling each other stories…

  31 Jul 2013
About 6 years ago the late amazing Richard Gregory said to me, with a twinkle in his eye, "when your robots start telling each other stories, then you'll really be onto something". It was a remark wit...

DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids

  24 Jul 2013
  Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...

Robotics has a new kind of Cartesian Dualism, and it’s just as unhelpful

  22 Jul 2013
I believe robotics has re-invented mind-body dualism. At the excellent European Robotics Forum earlier this year, I attended a workshop called AI meets Robotics....

euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach

  22 Jul 2013
  A week ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge unveiled the ATLAS humanoid robot, which will be used by seven competing teams. Developed by Boston Dynamics, ATLAS is an imposing 1.8m 150Kg bipedal humano...

Paradigm shift

  20 Jul 2013
Global Future 2045, held June 15-16 in New York City, had a big impact on me. The double-message promotion of GF2045 was intriguing and I thought it would be similarly interesting to my readers. PR...

Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics

and   18 Jul 2013
  As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...

China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation

  17 Jul 2013
  With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...

Long view required to keep economic policy in step with developments in robotics

  16 Jul 2013
Policy is really about long-term thinking — a process we should do but don't do for various reasons. Though China is a notable exception, very few governments make long-term planning a priority. ...

What do policy-makers need to do to keep pace with economic development in robotics?

  15 Jul 2013
Economic policy may not jump to mind as a hot topic for roboticists, but it is a fundamental and influential driver behind the failure or success of the robotics community as a whole. After all, econo...

Rich Mahoney on “What do policy-makers need to do to keep pace with economic development?”

  15 Jul 2013
I am not sure how to describe the specifics of what policy makers should do, but I think there are two gaps that policy makers should think about that are associated with the economic development impa...

Frank Tobe on “What do policy-makers need to do to keep pace with economic development?”

and   15 Jul 2013
[RBI Editors] As an active robotics investor, a leading authority on the business of robotics, and the author of The Robot Report and Everything Robotic, you are at the pulse of the field's econ...

Robotics and the disruptive transformation of agriculture

  15 Jul 2013
Over the last few years, there has been increasing talk about the potential of agriculture as a market for robotics. Speaking about future markets for unmanned aerial systems in a recent presentation ...

China now largest market for robots

  12 Jul 2013
The China International Robot Show CIROS was held July 2-5 in Shanghai. 30,000 people were expected to attend and 56 companies exhibited. Although most of the exhibitors were Taiwanese, Japanese, Kore...

Why fostering high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship matters to the economy, and what universities can do about it

and   11 Jul 2013
For many people, the term “innovation” implies having a great idea, and hoping that somehow it will take off. According to H. Chesbrough, this is clearly insufficient, and in his definition, he is...

A dilemma of high-risk / high-reward

  09 Jul 2013
Often funding sources - the groups taking the risk - are not the beneficiaries of the rewards of the venture. Intuitive Surgical is an example. NSF, DARPA and NASA funded a project to solve a very ...

Visions of transformative research: Risk-reward, variation-selection, hot trends, exploration of the wild

  08 Jul 2013
Over the last 20 years or so, a sense that science has become conservative or incrementalist has developed, and calls for change in the approaches to public funding of research have been heard from va...

FIRST 2013 photo essay: Girls of Steel in the trenches at the FRC championship finals

  05 Jul 2013
It’s the end of the competition, and we’ve worked hard to get here: the long nights in the machine shop, drawing 3D models, writing essays for awards and fixing our robot whenever it breaks down. ...







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