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The logic behind bailing out the auto industry
Frank Tobe
27 Feb 2012
Pres. Obama, speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, June 24, 2011
"Today, I'm calling for all of us to come together- private sector, industry, universities, and the government - to spark a re...
The logic behind bailing out the auto industry
Frank Tobe
27 Feb 2012
By Frank Tobe, editor/publisher, The Robot ReportPres. Obama, speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, June 24, 2011"Today, I'm calling for all of us to come together- private sector, industry, univers...
Did you know? 12,500 robot milking systems installed by Lely
Frank Tobe
26 Feb 2012
… Lely, the world’s first robotic milking system provider, reached the 12,500 sales event in December.
… AgriNews recently featured an Albany farmer that uses the Lely system and describes t...
Kiva Systems presents a glimpse of future pick n’ pack fulfillment
Frank Tobe
24 Feb 2012
... At the recent Modex 2012 in Atlanta, Kiva Systems’ booth featured a fully-functioning warehouse operation where attendees walked up and placed their orders on an iPad and then picked their o...
Japanese robotic farming experiment
Frank Tobe
23 Feb 2012
... Japan just launched a $130 million (10 billion yen) robotic farming project on a 600 acre plot of land, It is hoped the 6 year experiment will rejuvenate the Japanese agricultural industry. Fundin...
From concept to commercialization: one woman’s journey into robotics
Frank Tobe
20 Feb 2012
... After observing that children attentively played with her interactive animatronic robot, she decided that it had commercial value and began her journey.
... Interbots, a small 5-person Boston star...
Seema Patel, fusing robotics and games with Interbots
Frank Tobe
20 Feb 2012
Copied with permission from New Venturist.Written by Babs Carryer, serial entrepreneur and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at CMU.Seema never had any plans to go into business and never in a mil...
Seema Patel, fusing robotics and games with Interbots
Frank Tobe
20 Feb 2012
Copied with permission from New Venturist.Written by Babs Carryer, serial entrepreneur and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at CMU.Seema never had any plans to go into business and never in a mil...
Paraplegic patients walk during first session
Frank Tobe
16 Feb 2012
... Ekso Bionics delivers first commercial-version exoskeleton to Denver hospital and is beginning to ship additional units to hospital rehab centers across the US.
... The new 45# exoskeleton is read...
Adept begins to use Willow Garage’s ROS for their line of industrial robots
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2012
... Adept Technology appears to be bridging the gap between industrial robotics and the very real need for safer, more flexible, vision-enabled, mobile and easily trainable service robots. Today they ...
Robotics and smart technologies merge for material handling
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2012
... There were more buyers than in previous years and they appeared to be holistic in their approach to material handling in the factory and picking and packing in the warehouse. Their reasoning and u...
Modex 2012: Robotic and smart technologies for handling material in factories and warehouses
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2012
In the emerging world of service robotics, many markets are opening to robotics that were once only handled by industrial robot manufacturers. Safely unmanned, or working alongside human workers, in a...
Hiring demand for robotics jobs grows 44% and robot sales jumped 30%
Frank Tobe
14 Feb 2012
... According to WANTED Analytics, a real-time talent analytics site, there were over 2,100 U.S. job ads for robotics skills in January, 2012, a 44% year-over-year growth rate from 2011. The majority ...
iRobot shares plummet 33%; GM of government & industrial robots division to leave
Frank Tobe
09 Feb 2012
... Fourth quarter net income jumped 52 percent compared to the year before on strong demand for robots built for the consumer market. But CEO Colin Angle warned that robot sales to government agencie...
President Obama funds and encourages STEM education
Frank Tobe
07 Feb 2012
... Obama, at a White House Science Fair honoring winners of the nation’s top science competitions, announced (and partially funded) a goal of 1 million more math and science graduates in the ne...
Ubiquitous displays: Corning’s vision for the decade
Frank Tobe
04 Feb 2012
... In a wonderfully illustrative video, Corning shows how its glass and fiber, with companion technologies, will shape our world and shift our ways of communication in the near future.
... Teachers, ...
The future of Chinese-manufactured Apple products
Frank Tobe
30 Jan 2012
... Two NY Times articles expose details about the treatment of 400,000+ Chinese workers involved in the production of Apple products: (1) In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad and (2) How the ...
The future of Chinese-manufactured Apple products
Frank Tobe
30 Jan 2012
China's economic miracle has lifted countless millions of supremely poor people out of poverty. But this progress has come at a price. The Apple Corporation's experience in manufacturing its popular i...
The Future of Chinese-manufactured Apple Products
Frank Tobe
30 Jan 2012
China's economic miracle has lifted countless millions of supremely poor people out of poverty. But this progress has come at a price. The Apple Corporation's experience in manufacturing its popular i...
Divergent views on communicating with machines
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2012
... Most products at CES were demonstrating “smart” in that they are connected to the Internet, have sensors or AI that gather and process data and make decisions.
... The Apple iPad has a...
Divergent views on communicating with machines
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2012
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft and Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman, Mercedes Benz
Much of what I saw at CES 2012 was about products being upgraded to “smart” under the premise that smart connec...
Divergent Views on Communicating with Machines
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2012
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft and Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman, Mercedes BenzMuch of what I saw at CES 2012 was about products being upgraded to “smart” under the premise that smart connectivity e...
My kind of movie: Robot and Frank
Frank Tobe
18 Jan 2012
... Shown at Sundance and starring Frank Langella, Susan Saradon, James Marsden and Liv Tyler.
... Offbeat buddy movie about an ex-jewel thief whose grown kids install a robot as his caretaker....
Competition for Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Surgical System
Frank Tobe
17 Jan 2012
... Funded by a NSF grant, seven identical Raven II open source surgical robots using open source software (ROS), will be placed in seven universities. Four more universities are in line waiting to ge...
Consumer Robots at CES 2012
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2012
... 25+ robotic vendors; a few hits; some duds; and, except for Nathan’s hotdogs, bad food.
... CES is always a wonderful experience. This year the unadvertised theme was digital to smart to eve...
CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2012
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, appliances, entertainment, health, mobility, etc. More than 20,000 new products w...
CES 2012 and Consumer Robotics: Informative yet confusing… and bad food!
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2012
CES 2012 was a mammoth display of the trend toward smart, connected devices for every form of consumer activity: toys, appliances, entertainment, health, mobility, etc. More than 20,000 new products w...
Australian research organization’s description of agricultural robotics
John Payne
09 Jan 2012
On a web page describing their current efforts in agricultural robotics, CSIRO ICT Centre describes the focus area this way:
The application of field robotics to agriculture is an emerging area of ...
Is 2012 the year that robot applications take root?
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2012
... Three competing ideas on a theme of using the cloud to provide apps, updates and libraries of robotic data are reviewed in depth here.
- MyRobots, by Canadian RobotShop, will attempt to b...
Is 2012 the year that robot applications take root?
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2012
Tell us what apps you want.
In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. Over 1.2 billion apps were downloaded between Chris...
Study shows positive attitude toward healthcare telepresence robots
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2012
... In a study to assess how surgical intensive care patients and their families perceived robotic telepresence, 92% of respondents were comfortable with the robot and 84% believed that communication ...
ABC Nightline Interviews lifelike Hanson robot
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2012
... “It feels weird to be a robot sometimes,” the robot said in the interview. “You know, like I shouldn’t exist outside of a science fiction story. It makes me wonder if this ...
Lively international innovation summit about robotics
Frank Tobe
23 Dec 2011
Today’s devices are becoming smarter and connected. They sense their environment, process the data collected and act upon their decisions autonomously or semi-autonomously. The transformation is ...
Lively international innovation summit about robotics
Frank Tobe
23 Dec 2011
In Lyon, France, 14th to 16th March, 2012. Save the date!By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot Report (www.TheRobotReport.com)and Catherine Simon, General Secretary, French Federation of Rob...
Two newsworthy examples of healthcare robots
Frank Tobe
19 Dec 2011
... Children’s Hospital Boston sends Vgo telepresence robots home with post-op patients in a pilot program that includes the robots into its regular post-op care program. Doctors and nurses now ...
Google’s response to Apple’s Siri: Buy Cleversense
Frank Tobe
19 Dec 2011
... Cleversense, a learning AI with a natural language processing front-end - and the developer of the popular Alfred personal assistant app - has been sold to Google for an undisclosed amount.
... Fe...
