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To err is algorithm: Algorithm fallibility and economic organisation
Juan Mateos-Garcia
18 May 2017
Algorithmic fails
Dig below the surface of some of today’s biggest tech controversies and you are likely to find an algorithm misfiring:[1]
YouTube advertising controversy: The algorithm place...
iRobot, KUKA and other robotic stocks exceed earnings expectations
Frank Tobe
04 May 2017
iRobot (IRBT on the NASDAQ stock exchange) jumped from $70 to $80 per share on news that iRobot's quarterly earnings were so good that the company raised their forecast for 2017 to new highs. KUKA a...
As DJI dominates camera and commercial drone sales, drone funding falls
Frank Tobe
03 May 2017
According to AgFunder's 2016 AgTech Investing Report (supported by The Robot Report's own research), 2016 drone funding fell 64% from 2015 levels. Also, the type of companies getting funded were sens...
Envisioning the future of robotics
Víctor Mayoral Vilches
16 Mar 2017
Robotics is said to be the next technological revolution. Many seem to agree that robots will have a tremendous impact over the following years, and some are heavily betting on it. Companies are inves...
5 global problems that AI could help us solve
Alex Gray
10 Feb 2017
There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
How can swarm roboticists contribute to and benefit from the wisdom of other disciplines?
Chih-Chun Chen and Nathan Crilly
08 Nov 2016
What can swarm roboticists learn from policy makers, systems biologists and physicists, and vice versa? It is already widely recognised that Robotics is an inherently interdisciplinary field and that ...
Are agricultural robots ready? 27 companies profiled
Frank Tobe
12 Nov 2014
Agriculture is one of our most important industries. It provides food, feed and fuel necessary for our survival. With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, agricultural production...
Game of drones – extreme sports photography
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2014
“Yet another ‘follow me’ drone" says Chris Anderson – after three projects launched this weekend, including his own 3DRobotics’ open source ‘follow me’ feature for android. Extreme sport...
Global trends in robotics from patent analysis
Andra Keay
15 Jun 2014
120,000 robotics patents have been published in the last 10 years, tripling in rate from 2004 to 2013, according to the UK Intellectual Property Office Informatics Team. Unsurprisingly, there was a h...
The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think
Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Jun 2014
[Jaguar XF, ESC test by EuroNCAP - photo: EuroNCAP ]
Did you know that the majority of the cars we buy and drive today are able to act by themselves and maneuver themselves out of an accident? They...
How do self-driving cars work?
Shima Rayej
03 Jun 2014
Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...
Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car
Ioannis K. Erripis
28 May 2014
Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...
The fate of jobs in relation to robotics is confusing
Frank Tobe
10 Feb 2014
Will a robot take your job? Will a higher minimum wage cause job destruction? Or is it all media hype? What's the truth?...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”
Nathan Labhart
28 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
"It has increasingly been realized that some of the key characteristics underlying real-world complex dynamical systems (such as economical, financia...
From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact
Jeremy H. Brown
11 Nov 2013
The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer...
AUVSI conference brings robots to drone debate epicenter
David Pietrocola
23 Aug 2013
AUVSI returned to D.C. for 2013.
Amidst a climate of fiscal austerity and vibrant debates over the growing importance of unmanned vehicles in foreign policy and homeland security, the 2013 AUVSI Unma...
Visions of transformative research: Risk-reward, variation-selection, hot trends, exploration of the wild
Juan Rogers
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...
Food delivery drones. But is it a business?
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2013
Food drone delivery ideas are taking off all over the place. But is it a business or just an advertizing stunt? Tacocopter was one of the first although still more of a theory than a practice. Stanfo...
The uncanny valet (or, Notes on the design of robot psychology)
Mark Stephen Meadows
04 May 2013
This article outlines the problems of today's phone and online help systems and offers solutions to conversational systems of tomorrow. The article is about the design of hearts and minds for robots, ...
First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
Sabine Hauert
02 May 2013
Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...
Intuitive Surgical, a manufacturer with almost no tangible assets?
Robert Morris
01 May 2013
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) is a prime example of how robotics is similar to other IP intensive industries like software, biotech, and entertainment.
In December my colleagues and I produced a...
New funding sources for robotics
Andra Keay
19 Apr 2013
New funding sources for robotics seem to be popping up everywhere. Today’s launch of Genesis Angels, the new $100 million VC fund, which is based in Israel but operating globally, is hot on the heel...
The great equalizer: How robotics frees manufacturers from consolidating in low-wage nations
John Dulchinos
15 Apr 2013
These days it is hard to read an article about the future of robots that does not include a reference to jobs. As a pure roboticist I object to the constant connection between the two, but as a concer...
Do industrial robots really have a positive impact on employment?
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
Do industrial robots really have a positive impact on employment? Of course they do and there are over 50 years of data proving that to be the case....
Jobs for roboticists
Sabine Hauert
11 Apr 2013
During my Master studies in computer science, I had the opportunity to spend a year at Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. Most of my classes there were about robotics, I got to participate in Robo...
Robohub focus: Robots and warfare
Hallie Siegel
13 Mar 2013
For the rest of this week, Robohub will have a special focus on the use of robots in warfare.
All kinds of robots are being developed for strategic defence and military action (in space, in the...
The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)
Mark Stephen Meadows
06 Mar 2013
This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data. Since they ...
ExOne IPO Successful: Shareholders Contribute Random Passers-by
Robert Morris
21 Feb 2013
Before I start bashing bankers, I’d like to congratulate the ExOne Company on a successful initial public offering (IPO). I haven’t seen much about ExOne [NASDAQ:XONE] on the robotics sites, b...
Thoughts about RoboBusiness 2012
Frank Tobe
19 Feb 2013
I've read a wide range of reports and single-topic reviews about the presentations and about some of the exhibitors at last November's RoboBusiness Leadership Summit held in Pittsburgh. I didn't feel ...
CES gets robots all wrong
Andra Keay
15 Jan 2013
In my opinion, the International Consumer Electronics Show used robots gratuitously, out of context and without benefit to robotics companies. It’s a category problem more than anything else and is ...
Overview of robotics at CES 2013
Andra Keay
09 Jan 2013
Robotics is still the picture rather than the story at International CES, the largest innovation and consumer electronics display in the world. When CNET’s Next Big Thing panel discussed “What is ...
Robotics trending towards the consumer
Andra Keay
09 Nov 2012
Robotics is trending towards the consumer. We’re on a journey towards ‘appliances with attitude’ that started with the now ubiquitous GPS and smartphone technology. These are some of the underly...
