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Robotics in the home
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
11 Sep 2022
In this special live recording for the UK Festival of Robotics, Claire chatted to Dr. Patrick Holthaus, Prof. Praminda Caleb-Solly and Dr Mike Aldred (Dyson) about how social and assistive robots can offer company and help around the home, which can be game-changing for people with limited mobility or dementia.
Why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workers
The Conversation
09 Sep 2022
With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety of domestic chores.
Robotics innovation infiltrates 2022 Consumer Electronics Show
Silicon Valley Robotics
08 Jan 2022
The 2022 CES Innovation Awards recognize a range of robotics technologies as Honorees, and feature three in the “Best of Innovation” category as well.
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Misty II: A Robotics Platform for Developers, with Ian Bernstein
Audrow Nash
07 Apr 2019
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Ian Bernstein, Founder and Head of Product at Misty Robotics, about a robotics platform designed for developers called Misty II. Bernstein discusses the moti...
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274
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IROS 2018 Exhibition (Part 1 of 3), with Gabriel Lopes and Bernt Børnich
Audrow Nash
27 Nov 2018
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Gabriel Lopes, Robot and Control Scientist at Robot Care Systems, and Bernt Børnich, CEO and Co-founder of Halodi Robotics....
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253
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eSIM in Wearable Technology, with Karl Weaver
Audrow Nash
05 Feb 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Karl Weaver (魏卡爾), formerly the Original Equipment Manufacturer Business Development Director for Oasis Smart SIM. Weaver discusses how wearable technolo...
iRobot on the defensive
Frank Tobe
20 Sep 2017
SharkNinja, a well-known marketer of home consumer products, has entered the American robotic vacuum market with a product that is priced to compete against iRobot’s Roomba line of floor cleaners. T...
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242
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CUJO – Smart Firewall for Cybersecurity, with Leon Kuperman
MeiXing Dong
04 Sep 2017
In this episode, MeiXing Dong talks with Leon Kuperman, CTO of CUJO, about cybersecurity threats and how to guard against them. They discuss how CUJO, a smart hardware firewall, helps protect the home...
China’s e-commerce dynamo JD makes deliveries via mobile robots
Frank Tobe
05 Jul 2017
China’s second-biggest e-commerce company, JD.com (Alibaba is first), is testing mobile robots to make deliveries to its customers, and imagining a future with fully unmanned logistics...
Three years on: An update from Leka, Robot Launch winner
Ladislas de Toldi
15 Mar 2017
Nearly three years ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for their robotic toy set on changing the way children with developmental disorders learn, play and progress. Leka...
Mayfield Robotics to introduce enhanced interactions with Kuri
Kuri
07 Mar 2017
It’s been about 8 weeks since we first introduced Kuri to the world at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and we’re incredibly, amazingly, stupendously happy to keep hearing from people ab...
Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
Philip English
23 Feb 2017
Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...
Understanding social robotics
Thosha Moodley
24 Jan 2017
Pepper, Jibo and Milo make up the first generation of social robots, leading what promises to be a cohort with diverse capabilities and future applications. But what are social robots and what should...
How artificial intelligence is changing our Christmas shop
Rikke Duus and Mike Cooray
21 Dec 2016
British consumers are expected to spend £280 each on gifts over the weeks leading up to Christmas. More than half of these purchases will take place online. Almost a third of people will rely on onli...
Care-O-bot 4 celebrates its premiere as a shopping assistant
Fraunhofer IPA
14 Nov 2016
In January 2015, Fraunhofer IPA presented a prototype of the “Care-O-bot 4” service robot. The charming helper is now proving its worth in the real world. “Paul” the robot has been greeting cu...
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Ori Systems: Robotic Furniture, with Hasier Larrea
Audrow Nash
12 Nov 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hasier Larrea, Founder and CEO of Ori Systems and MSc candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about robotics used to transform personal spaces. Larrea discusses how the...
Designing our home service robot from the ground up
Bernt Øivind Børnich and Phuong Nguyen
15 Aug 2016
Our robot, Eve, is built from the ground up using force-control, enabling human-like dexterity and efficiency. We'd like to discuss why we decided to build Eve this way, hopefully offering another app...
Robot companions are coming into our homes — how human should they be?
Adeline Chanseau
10 Aug 2016
What would your ideal robot be like? One that can change nappies and tell bedtime stories to your child? Perhaps you’d prefer a butler that can polish silver and mix the perfect cocktail? Or maybe y...
Global and iRobot floor cleaning market
Frank Tobe
25 Apr 2016
iRobot recently divested its defense division so that it could focus on consumer and mobility products. Red Mountain Capital, a hedge fund that owns ~6% of iRobot stock wants to place two pe...
Robots that may help you in your silver age
SPARC
07 Apr 2016
By 2020, a quarter of Europeans will be over 60. In their silver age, many would like to stay in their homes and will require care from family or social workers....
Teach your dog to code with robots!
Silicon Valley Robotics
01 Apr 2016
Spoiler alert. It’s April 1. But this is actually happening, just not quite the way SF educational robot startup Wonder Workshop describe it in this wonderful video about their new release – Wonde...
Telepresence has come a long way, where do we go from here?
Michael Savoie
03 Mar 2016
In our final post for this series, we'll talk about the future of telepresence. For most robots telepresence is just the beginning, a means to an end. Many of the robots in this series are meant ...
Personalizing telepresence in service robots
Michael Savoie
26 Jan 2016
In our previous post we looked at socially engaging robots and how they are helping to break down barriers to remote presence. Another area on the fringe of telepresence is service robots. These rob...
IBM, Intel describe experiential future for human-machine interaction
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2016
In keynote presentations at CES in Las Vegas last week, CEOs from IBM and Intel talked about disruptive changes in how consumers and businesses are transacting and interacting with their purchases....
2016 will be a pivotal year for social robots
Frank Tobe
14 Dec 2015
1,000 Pepper robots are selling each month from a big-dollar venture between SoftBank, Alibaba and Foxconn; Jibo just raised another $16 million as it prepares to deliver 7,500+ units in March and A...
Tabletop telepresence finding its niche
Michael Savoie
08 Dec 2015
Tabletop telepresence devices began to pop up on the market about two years ago. Though its a small slice of the telepresence market, it's differentiated enough from other categories to be mention...
Personal telepresence relatively affordable, but expect to pay extra for the tablet
Michael Savoie
03 Dec 2015
Personal telepresence robots have exploded onto the market thanks to the help of tablets, smartphones, and crowdfunding sites. Geared toward the economics of personal use, these robots typically cos...
More than 180,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2015
On Singles Day 2015, a holiday for the Chinese singles and youth market, Ecovacs Robotics sold $47 million worth of robotic products. Ecovacs only has three robotic products: a line of vacuum cleaners...
Nailbot: A ‘nail art’ robot that inspires creativity
Casey Schulz and Pree Walia
17 Nov 2015
Launched last week on Indiegogo, the Nailbot prints instant custom art onto your fingernails from your phone. Behind the concept is a new kind of company -- a movement to inspire confidence in girls a...
1,000 workers produce latest batch of 1,000 Pepper robots
Frank Tobe
12 Nov 2015
The latest batch of 1,000 Japanese-speaking Pepper robots sold out in one minute after they were made available online by Japanese telecom company SoftBank. This brings the total Pepper robots sold ...
Feeding the robot chef
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
09 Nov 2015
Could robot chefs really have arrived? Moley's approach, the robotic kitchen, is basically a flexible workcell, and in manufacturing that’s nothing new. But providing the essential ingredients - fee...
Delivery robots from Starship Technologies
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
04 Nov 2015
I’m pleased to announce today [Monday] the unveiling of a new self-driving vehicle company with which I am involved, not building self-driving cars, but instead small delivery robots which are going...
Dyson robotic vacuums go on sale in Japan
Frank Tobe
24 Oct 2015
After a six-month delay to hone the robot for Japanese homes, and a year after the original launch announcement, the Dyson 360 Eye robotic vacuum cleaner has finally gone on sale in stores all over Ja...
Dyson releases 360 Eye in Japan for ~$1200, files legal proceedings against Bosch for VW-like cheating
Hallie Siegel
22 Oct 2015
News Brief: Dyson released its 360-Eye in Japan today -- for about $1200 USD -- and has also filed legal proceedings against Bosch, alleging that their longstanding rival is cheating EU energy eff...
The state of telepresence
Michael Savoie
09 Oct 2015
Telepresence robots have been around since the early 2000s, with a research project called PEBBLES out of Ryerson University in Toronto. When I first started covering this area a little over three yea...
IFR predicts double digit growth for service robots through 2018
Frank Tobe
05 Oct 2015
The service robotics industry is relatively new, diverse and picking up steam daily. Service robotics covers every activity except those described as industrial. These are robots that perform useful t...
