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New details about Robonaut2
Frank Tobe
30 Mar 2011
... In a presentation at Automate 2011 in Chicago, the NASA and GM Team Leaders provided new details about Robonaut2 (R2).
... General Motors will soon work with a robotics manufacturer to enhance R2 ...
South Korea moving ahead with R-Learning program
Frank Tobe
30 Mar 2011
... Sang-Rok Oh, KIST professor and adviser to the South Korean government for r-learning, spoke at InnoRobo, the Innovation Robotics Summit in Lyon, France and clarified the full extent of the r-lear...
Job creation with robotics
Frank Tobe
27 Mar 2011
... Tom Atwood, Editor-in-Chief of Robot Magazine said, “There is much discussion of job creation and producing the next generation of American innovators. India, Korea and China are producing f...
Some things can’t be done without robots
John Payne
26 Mar 2011
I had pretentions of being a back-to-the-land hippy before I ever became seriously interested in robotics, but my brother successfully popped that bubble with a simple, unarguable observation, that mo...
WSJ 2010 winner of Robotics Innovation Technology Award gets $18 million venture money
Frank Tobe
22 Mar 2011
UPDATE 3/21/11: Story in BusinessWeek Magazine about Liquid Robotic’s founder Roger Hine. Corrects venture capital investment upwards to $23.1 million. The article also told of the sale of 60 wa...
Stats and predictions about service robotics
Frank Tobe
13 Mar 2011
... Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Service Robots: Rise of the Machines (Again),” said that the U.S. was ahead in the the race to provide non-manufacturing robots because “the servi...
2011 venture fundings & acquisitions
Frank Tobe
10 Mar 2011
... Tibion Bionic Technologies, a medical device company, secured $10.17 million.
... Mazor Robotics, an Israeli medical surgical devices company, secured $6.3 million
... iWalk, another bionic prosth...
The New Cool – a look inside the FIRST Robotics Program
Frank Tobe
05 Mar 2011
... P.W. Singer said of this book: “If America is ever going to fix its broken education system and re-energize the economy, we’re going to need more schools, teachers, and kids like those in ...
Allosphere and STEM
Frank Tobe
01 Mar 2011
... Open house at UC Santa Barbara’s Allosphere Research Facility was like an adult 3D experience. An amazing (trippy) way of visualizing and exploring multi-dimensional input on a massive IMAX-...
Telepresence going mainstream
Frank Tobe
26 Feb 2011
... Feature article in BusinessWeek Magazine entitled “I’ll have my robots talk to your robots.” Article compares Vgo’s $6,000 telepresence robots to Cisco’s $300,000 tel...
IBM’s Watson easily wins Jeopardy!
Frank Tobe
17 Feb 2011
... Day 3 results: Watson wins handily over Jeopardy!‘s two most successful champions - Ken Jennins and Brad Rutter.
... The real test will be applying - commercializing - Watson’s underly...
2011 Engelberger Robotics Award announced
Frank Tobe
11 Feb 2011
... Dr. Henrik Christensen won for Education. Currently the KUKA Chair of Robotics at Georgia Tech, Christensen also is the driving force behind America’s Roadmap for US Robotics.
... Åke Lindq...
Agricultural automation progressing… slowly
Frank Tobe
10 Feb 2011
... World Ag Expo, held February 8-10 in Tulare, California, was massive in size but low key for new technologies. Cost is the driver and also the criteria. Seed, sprays and labor costs are increasing...
Harvest automation
John Payne
06 Feb 2011
And so it begins! The January 14th episode of Robots Podcast features an interview with Joe Jones, CTO of Harvest Automation (previously with iRobot).
Harvest Automation didn't start out ...
My Keepon bot to be available for Xmas 2011 at $40
Frank Tobe
05 Feb 2011
... Beatbots and Wow! Stuff are partnering to convert Beatbot’s Keepon robot into a robotic toy that sells for $40 and will be available for the 2011 Christmas gift season.
... “A percent...
President Obama excludes robotics in State of the Union speech
Frank Tobe
30 Jan 2011
... Pres. Obama didn’t use the word “robotics” or make reference to the robotics industry in his State of the Union speech. Many think the omission dealt a death blow to an American ...
Alabama robot center opens
Frank Tobe
30 Jan 2011
... Alabama’s recently opened Robotics Technology Park is a serious $73 million three-pronged endeavor to provide (1) an industry training program where technicians will be trained to work on ro...
10 billion downloads from Apple App Store
Frank Tobe
24 Jan 2011
... Apple App Store phenomena continues beyond iPhones, iPads and iPods with apps for all Apple products.
... App Store concept being introduced to robotics - because it’s the right way to cust...
Kinect boon to Robotics
Frank Tobe
24 Jan 2011
... Viable $100 replacement using cameras and depth-perception software for $5,000 laser range finders presently used to guide robots.
... iRobot’s AVA concept robot using Kinect-like software a...
There’s a robot in your future
Frank Tobe
19 Jan 2011
... 2011 will offer exciting developments of manufacturing robots but also point out the weaknesses apparent in U.S. robotics. Read “Manufacturing with Robots: prospects and Problems Ahead”...
Robots and smart devices at CES 2011
Frank Tobe
18 Jan 2011
... Speed, 3D, 4G, TV everywhere - oh and robots too.
... What Can You Do With AVA (iRobot’s New Concept Robot)?.
... New media - with all it’s rough edges - clearly seen at CES....
The ascendency of Arduino
John Payne
16 Jan 2011
http://vimeo.com/18539129
This video consists of the earliest participants in the Arduino project talking about how it got started.
Checking Vimeo, there are over 4,000 video...
Japan to invest $3 billion to deep-sea mine for gold, silver and rare metals
Frank Tobe
14 Jan 2011
... Japanese government to develop a mining system, using the world’s first deep-sea mining robot to do the excavation, to mine gold, silver and rare metals in Japanese territorial waters, which...
$5 Billion UAV/Drones industry in the news and setting new records
Frank Tobe
29 Dec 2010
... UPDATE 12/30/10: The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has confirmed that QinetiQ’s solar-powered Zephyr UAV, which charges during the day and operates from batteries, has been ratif...
Robot news bites
Frank Tobe
16 Dec 2010
... Teledyne Technologies acquires Canadian vision systems provider DALSA for $335 million.
... First four commercially sold Willow Garage PR2 robots were delivered (after previously giving away 11). ...
Workerbots begin production in Europe
Frank Tobe
15 Dec 2010
... The workerbot is a flexible inspection and assembly robot system from pi4_robotics, a German optical inspection and image processing industrial robot manufacturer.
... Funded by the EU and develop...
ReWalk exoskeleton in FDA Trials and on ‘Glee’
Frank Tobe
11 Dec 2010
... Artie (a wheel-chair bound character on Glee, the TV musical) walked using Argo Medical Technologies’ ReWalk exoskeleton on the Christmas episode of Glee.
... FDA trials are underway for the...
Funding for robotic businesses
Frank Tobe
09 Dec 2010
... Heartland Robotics gets $20 million additional funding ($32 million total thus far). Brooks said the company’s new manufacturing robots “will be intuitive to use, intelligent and highl...
March, 2011: Two international robot shows on the same day
Frank Tobe
04 Dec 2010
... Hard choice: Expo and conference on vision, motion and automation with an expected crowd of 35,000 or Lyon, France (!), half the size expo and conference, but a focus on service and future robotic...
Army’s Robotics Rodeo tests newest gear
Frank Tobe
03 Dec 2010
... The machines, viewed at a recent ‘Robotics Rodeo’ at an Army training school, protect soldiers, don’t panic under fire, are never distracted, and use an unblinking digital eye th...
Festo’s robotic elephant arm wins German Future Prize
Frank Tobe
03 Dec 2010
... It is described as a bionic handing assistant which allows humans and machines to work together safely and efficiently as a team. Possible areas of use include industry, agriculture, care faciliti...
Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2010
... Seven are robotic: Google’s driverless car, eLegs’ Exoskeleton for paraplegics, Georgia Tech’s Deceitful Robot, Korea’s English-teaching robot, EMILY, the life-saving robot...
President Obama experiences Japanese robots
Frank Tobe
15 Nov 2010
... On his recent Asian trip, at APEC in Yokohama, President Obama petted a Paro robot, met HRP-4C, the fashion/space/talking fembot, and tried out Japan’s new 30 km/hr personal mobility device....
Three major robotic events end, all were in Asia
Frank Tobe
05 Nov 2010
... The World Expo 2010 held in Shanghai May 1 to October 31 and seen by 60 million visitors, showcased robots in many forms: guides to factory assistants, rescue bots to underwater research. Themed t...
DARPA-led consortium casts a wide net
John Payne
31 Oct 2010
A consortium of U.S. government agencies, lead by DARPA, has jointly issued a solicitation for small business proposals: Joint-Agency SBIR Funding Opportunity Announcement.
The participating ...
Google’ self-driving cars have racked up 140,000 driverless miles on California roads
Frank Tobe
31 Oct 2010
... The only accident was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light.
... The cars used LIDAR, a video camera, four standard automotive radar sensors and a position estimatin...
