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euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Two recap

Marta Palau Franco 25 Sep 2013

Fraunhofer FKIE team's robot gets ready to enter the USAR scenario. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley. The second day of euRathlon competition started with the opening session of the euRathlon 2013 wor...

Call for posters/demos: Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC)

Robohub Editors 25 Sep 2013

2nd Annual Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC) Harvard University, Cambridge MA Sunday October 6, 2013 Submission/Registration Deadline: October 1, 2013 The Northeast Robotics Colloquium br...

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day One recap

Marta Palau Franco 24 Sep 2013

Robot Telemax of Telerob team, moving the canister full of hazardous material from the loading platform. Photo credit: Aaron Boardley. euRathlon is a new civilian outdoor robotics competition focused...

150 robotics-related exhibitors in Las Vegas for PackExpo

Frank Tobe 22 Sep 2013

... 26,000 attendees are expected for this year’s PackExpo being held in Las Vegas, September 23-25. ... Over 150 robotics-related companies are exhibiting including Rockwell Automation, Adept, ABB...

Call for papers: IROS workshop on science communication

Sabine Hauert 18 Sep 2013

Understanding Robotics and Public Opinion: Best Practices in Public Science Communication and Online Dissemination IROS Workshop 2013 in Tokyo, Japan November 7, 9am – 12:30pm Submission deadl...

14 teams qualify for euRathlon land competition

Marta Palau Franco 17 Sep 2013

Teams participating in ELROB land robotics competition tune up their robots. Photo credits: ELROB Buildings that are collapsed or on fire, tunnels flooded with smoke or water, unstructured areas subj...

Interest in industrial robots seen at Taipei Intl. Industrial Automation Exhibition and Robot Show

Frank Tobe 13 Sep 2013

... The trade show, held the last week of August in Taipei, had a record 550 exhibitors. “It is the age of intelligence and automation,” said Eric Chuo, chairman of TAIROA (Taiwan Automation Intel...

Geek immersion: Campus Party London packs a ton of tech fun into five days

Jana Witt 11 Sep 2013

Campus Party events pride themselves in bringing together bright and like-minded people from all over the world, offering them an opportunity to hear from some of the greats in the worlds of the gamin...

Photo essay: VEX’s Paul McKnight hosts robotics competition @ Campus Party EU

Jana Witt 10 Sep 2013

At a robotics workshop Friday September 6th at Campus Party EU in London, VEX Robotic's Paul McKnight elaborated how robotics platforms and toolkits could be used in schools and universities to enhanc...

RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions

RoCKIn Robotics Challenge 07 Sep 2013

RoCKIn is a three-year EU project that aims to use robot competitions in order to innovate smarter, more dependable robots, and to increase public awareness of robotics. Part of its focus is to look...

‘Design a Robot’ competitions

Andra Keay 06 Sep 2013

Didn’t get a robot entered in the DARPA grand robotics challenge (DRC)? Never mind, there are several robot design and business model competitions on at the moment, from social robots, to affordable...

EU Campus Party on now at the O2 Arena in London

Jana Witt 04 Sep 2013

LIVE UPDATES TODAY Campus Party is one of the biggest electronic entertainment events in the world, bringing together young and ambitious “Campuseros” united by the movement’s motto: “The Inte...

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...

SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference

Andra Keay 27 Jul 2013

SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...

euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach

Alan Winfield 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

Frank Tobe 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...

Research Days: Multi-UAV systems

Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz 17 Jul 2013

Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...

Campus Party Europe comes to the O2 in London September 2-7

Robohub Editors 12 Jul 2013

Up to 10,000 young geeks from across Europe will camp out in tents and sleeping bags for five days of intense 24/7 hacking, networking and elbow-rubbing with experts from some of the world's most infl...

Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival

Andra Keay 27 Jun 2013

While I love getting robots in the mail, crowdfunding sites are also good for supporting a whole range of robot related activities. The 3rd annual Robot Film Festival just launched a Kickstarter campa...

Robotics Summer of Learning at CMU

Cara Friez-LeWinter 06 Jun 2013

This summer, students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots, design games, animate stories, and earn a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes and scholarships! The Robotics Summer of Learn...

We Robot Conference: 4. Social robot demo

Kate Darling 21 May 2013

On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...

We Robot Conference: The Ethical Robot License for open robotics

AJung Moon 07 May 2013

Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery

Robohub Editors 06 May 2013

Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...