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#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Daily life activities
Robohub Editors
10 May 2016
The robotics community have created a series of video tributes that showcase some of the contributions to ICRA, the largest conference in the field of robotics and automation. Episode two features ro...
#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Flying machines
Robohub Editors
09 May 2016
The robotics community have created a series of video tributes that showcase some of the contributions to ICRA, the largest conference in the field of robotics and automation. Episode one features fly...
Live streaming with #CHI2016
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
09 May 2016
ACM CHI the premier Human-Computer Interaction conference is being held at San Jose ‘in the heart of Silicon Valley’ May 7 - 12. There are panels and papers on robotics, and about the next gen...
Two upcoming robotics events you should consider attending
Frank Tobe
06 May 2016
May and June offer two important trade shows and conferences for professional and personal service robotics: Innorobo, held in Paris May 24-26 and AUTOMATICA, held June 21-24 in Munich....
#ICRA16 duckies and robots: a poetic tribute
Robohub Editors
04 May 2016
ICRA is the largest conference on Robotics and Automation. This year, the robotics community reflected on the strong and natural relationship between robots and rubber duckies. This is the result:
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Call for euRathlon/TRADR Summer School 2016 on heterogeneity in robotic systems
Marta Palau Franco
04 May 2016
The University of Oulu will host a summer school on heterogeneity in Robotic Systems this August in Oulu, Finland, where the latest advances and developments in the field of European research within t...
White House launches public workshops on AI issues
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
04 May 2016
The White House today announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial i...
FIRST hosts 20,000 students in world’s largest robotics competition
Frank Tobe
03 May 2016
More than 20,000 students from around the globe traveled to St. Louis to compete in the annual FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship. The 4-day event ended...
IdeaHub, ABB recruiting innovators for 2nd round robotics accelerator programme
Simon Blair and IdeaHub / Venturebright
02 May 2016
Innovation platform, The IdeaHub, is once again recruiting robotics and software innovators worldwide to take on the challenge of improving the way we work and interact with the next generation of ind...
Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war
Alaa Khamis
28 Apr 2016
Landmines are one of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare. In the military, they are considered the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses. The simplicity and cost-effect...
Celebrating robot makers and enthusiasts at the 7th Annual Silicon Valley Robot Block Party
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Apr 2016
On April 6th, Jabil Blue Sky Innovation Center hosted the 7th Annual Silicon Valley Robot Block Party. The free event was ‘sold out,’ with more than 2000 RSVPs and 40 companies in attendance. Th...
Considering the future of law and robotics: We Robot 2016 video recap
Robohub Editors
11 Apr 2016
The fifth annual We Robot conference at University of Miami School of Law celebrated its most international and interdisciplinary group of participants yet, with people across the globe attending...
National Robotics Week 2016
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2016
Happy National Robotics Week! This week robot-related activities, events, and talks are happening all across the US. Are you attending any events near you? ...
Celebrating National Robotics Week at Robot Garden
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
06 Apr 2016
For a small group, Robot Garden has the most National Robotics Week activities in the whole US. But that’s hardly surprising, as Robot Garden is a maker space in Livermore, California with a focus...
#ERF2016 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches
Robohub Editors
01 Apr 2016
Robohub was at the European Robotics Forum in Lubljana, Slovenia last week. We captured pitches from some of the European projects presented at the conference and funded under the last Horizon2020 cal...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 2
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Mar 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Focus on innovation, skills, and regulation at #ERF2016 panel discussion
Kassie Perlongo
22 Mar 2016
The opportunities for building “digital” environments where robots are integral parts, such as in manufacturing and processing industries, transport, health and environment, smart cities and regi...
Live coverage of #ERF2016
Robohub Editors
18 Mar 2016
The next edition of the European Robotics Forum is kicking off in Ljubljana.
This 3-day event, from March 21-23, is a meeting point for at least 600 scientists, companies and robotics officials fr...
Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2016
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Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...
Google DeepMind challenge match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo
Robohub Editors
14 Mar 2016
Update: The final match was played on Tuesday, 15 March, with AlphaGo winning over Lee Sedol 4-1! Watch all the livestream matches below....
Tickets for Cybathlon now on sale
NCCR Robotics
11 Mar 2016
On Saturday, 8 October 2016 ETH Zurich is organising the very first Cybathlon at the SWISS Arena in Kloten, Switzerland. Individuals with physical disabilities will compete side by side in six deman...
WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson
Robohub Editors
04 Mar 2016
UPDATED 4 Mar: We're sad to report that Professor Tony Dyson, who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has died. We’re reposting this excellent video of his keynote at WeRobot to highlight his...
AAAI Video Competition winners
Sabine Hauert
16 Feb 2016
The AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony took place yesterday at AAAI-16 in Phoenix, Arizona. The competition aims to spread the word about research and applications in AI through exciting educationa...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 1
Open Source Robotics Foundation
13 Feb 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Fourth Industrial Revolution main theme at #WEF16 World Economic Forum
Kassie Perlongo
26 Jan 2016
Another year gone as the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos draws to a close. Experts weighed in about upcoming global changes for robotics, AI, internet of things, and the rise of digital transf...
#CES2016: Noise, hype, hustle … and business as usual
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2016
CES is truly a global technology event: 3,800 exhibitors (of which 500 were startups); 2.47 million sq feet of exhibit space; 170,000 industry professionals (of which 50,000 were from more than 160 co...
Robocar news from CES 2016
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Jan 2016
I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...
Soft spot for soft robots? Register for the 2016 Soft Robotics Competition
Harvard SEAS
11 Jan 2016
By Adam Zewe | SEAS
If you have a soft spot for robotics, this competition is right up your alley. With separate tracks for academic researchers, college students, and high school students, the...
Registration now open for #ICRA16’s Airbus Shopfloor Challenge
Airbus Group
23 Dec 2015
The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge invites robotics teams from around the world to create innovative robotic solutions for a real-life manufacturing challenge, and compete live at the IEEE 2016 Internatio...
New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration
XPRIZE
17 Dec 2015
At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...
Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge
Rethink Robotics
16 Dec 2015
As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...
CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”
MIT News
15 Dec 2015
By Adam Conner-Simmons | CSAIL
Last Friday, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hosted 150 local high school students for its second annual “Hour of Code” ev...
European Robotics Week #ERW2015 recap and videos
euRobotics AISBL
14 Dec 2015
With over 750 events across Europe, this year’s edition of the European Robotics Week broke all records. Throughout the week, Europeans were invited to visit laboratories, join debates, build and pr...
New collaborative robots — and product lines — at iREX 2015
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
07 Dec 2015
We visited iREX 2015 last week at the Tokyo Big Sight. It was great to be in robotland and to be immersed in Japan's point of view on robotics. Some well-known collaborative robot manufacturers are ...
#iREX2015 collaborative robots video roundup
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
04 Dec 2015
Several new collaborative robots were shown at the IREX show in Japan. Check out the video....
A helping hand for high-tech firms
Horizon Magazine
03 Dec 2015
by Jon Cartwright
Joel Gibbard started out designing prosthetic hands in his bedroom out of sheet metal, but found himself drawn to 3D printing because of its universality and low cost. Now his co...
