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The best projects at the IIT Bombay Tech Fest 2015 | DNA India

  07 Jan 2015
dna had a walk through the IIT Bombay Tech Fest 2015 and got a chance to be wowed by the projects on display. Here's some of the best we picked out for your reading pleasure. Read more on dna...

Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept

There is reasonable volume of robocar related stuff to see here at CES. I just had a few hours today, and went to see the much touted Mercedes F105 “Luxury in Motion.” This is a concept, and no...

Island Forum 2014: Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence

and   06 Jan 2015
The Singapore Ministry of Defence convened the sixth edition of the Island Forum in November 2014 to explore the emerging future of artificial intelligence and robotics, developments that could have e...

RoCKIn2014, live stream and live scores

  28 Nov 2014
The RoCKIn2014 competition event is taking place right now, you can watch the live stream, broadcasting directly from Cité de l'espace science museum and you can also view the live scores from RoCKIn...

EU Robotics Week is on!

  25 Nov 2014
The fourth annual EU Robotics Week is on across Europe, with more than 300 activities happening this week in 25 EU countries. Industry, research institutes and universities all over Europe will be...

MecklerMedia launches RoboUniverse

  24 Nov 2014
MecklerMedia, a trade show organizer, is launching a new three-day, two-track workshop, seminar and exhibition on most verticals in robotics (other than heavy industry, military and space) to be held ...

Minesweepers 2014: Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining

  21 Nov 2014
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an outdoor robotic competition initiated by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – Egypt Chapter that aims to raise public awareness of the seriousne...

Amazon Picking Challenge

  05 Nov 2014
In September 2014 Amazon announced the Amazon Picking Challenge, a new robot manipulation contest as part of the ICRA robot challenges. The idea was to take a difficult problem from the warehouse orde...

It’s all about fun: Robot startups at Pioneers Festival 2014

  05 Nov 2014
The Pionners Festival took place again this year at the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria, bringing together startups and investors from all over the world to talk about entrepreneurship and future t...

First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)

  30 Oct 2014
ALCOR Lab members describe their experience. From September 23rd to October 2nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise (TJEx) took place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pi...

Drones For Good Award announces semi-finalists

  21 Oct 2014
The semi-finalists of the UAE Drones For Good award have been announced. Here is a highlight of the international contenders; you can find the full list of semi-finalists on the UAE Drones For Good...

RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics

  16 Oct 2014
Robots to install underfloor insulation in draughty homes, bots for edutainment, intelliTables and tiny robust drones flying with real bees wings - tantalising glimpses of a technology on the cusp of ...

RoboBusiness startup Pitchfire winners

  16 Oct 2014
  At RoboBusiness this week in Boston, Pitchfire - a Shark Tank-like pitch and question session - presented 14 start-up companies who pitched their wares to 5 judges. Two honorable mentions a...

NEXTAGE robot makes coffee! | Kawada Robotics Blog

  15 Oct 2014
Visitors to Japan Robot Week 2014 at Tokyo Big Sight can order their coffee from a robot. http://youtu.be/PHxmGPA10ck Robot Launch Pad's insight: Japan is putting a lot of focus on robotics in ...

UCSD investing in robotics

  14 Oct 2014
At a one-day forum at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Chancellor Pradeep Khosla did two unusual things: he spent most of the day at the Contextual Robotics Technologies International F...

Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”

  14 Oct 2014
October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...

Registration now open for Cybathlon 2016

  09 Oct 2014
Full registration for the Cybathlon, a sporting event for disabled athletes using robotic assistive technologies is now open. The event will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 8th October 2016....

Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5

  07 Oct 2014
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition funded by the European Union with a focus on realistic cooperative mock emergency-response scenarios in three different domains: land, sea and air. On the ...

Safety concerns for collaborative robots

  03 Oct 2014
At a daylong workshop on Collaborative Robots by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), two main themes were expressed: worker safety and almost universal expectation for rapid deployment of colla...

euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2

  02 Oct 2014
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...

#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15

  26 Sep 2014
Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. This year we'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. The submission dead...

Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week

  24 Sep 2014
Leaks of substances into the sea, damage to underwater structures, machine rooms flooded… these were real challenges that emergency services working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station ha...

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)

  20 Sep 2014
More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS. See also Part 1....

10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum

  18 Sep 2014
How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)

  17 Sep 2014
The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) is on in Chicago, and members of the robotics research community have descended on the Windy City. This year th...

Boca Bearings 2014 Innovation Competition

  09 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/uvLAbUFXPwo The Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $10,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2014 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winners will be chosen based on a video subm...

In praise of robot football

  09 Sep 2014
Republished here is a short piece for The Conversation reflecting on robot football: 4-4-2 becomes 0101: inside the competitive world of robot football, published 4 August 2014. This summer the ...

Video: The future of robotics, as seen by roboticists

  22 Aug 2014
At Automatica 2014 in Munich this year, the ECHORD++ project asked roboticists like Vijay Kumar, Uwe Haass, Pere Homs, and Christian Schlegel one simple question: “What do you think is the future of...

Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition

  01 Aug 2014
A large crowd of experts in artificial intelligence gathered around the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony before catching their flights, or enjoying one last night in Québec City. The competition...

Flying Donkey Challenge on hold as Kenyan authorities cope with Westgate Mall fallout

  18 Jul 2014
Today organizers announced that the first edition of the Flying Donkey Challenge in Kenya, which had preliminary sub-challenges slated to begin this November, is on hold indefinitely due to delays in ...

China International Robot Show (CIROS) a BIG hit

  16 Jul 2014
CIROS, the China International Robot Show held last week in Shanghai had record crowds, record numbers of exhibitors, 168,000 sq ft of exhibition space, and exuded confidence in a thriving up-and-comi...

Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)

  15 Jul 2014
The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference (RSS14) is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16, and we are picking up where we left off yesterday on our coverage of t...

Science and startups at RSS2014 in Berkeley (Part 1)

  14 Jul 2014
The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16. From a small start, the conference now has over 800 attendees, with 28 differe...

Grizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN

  09 Jul 2014
by Ryan Gariepy I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and t...

Startup Series #6: MIT Entreprise Forum VLAB

  09 Jul 2014
The VLAB Collaborative Robots forum on Thursday May 29 was a masterclass for robot startups. For 90 minutes at the Knight Management Center at Stanford, we heard all about the business of robotics fro...

The next big things in robotics

  08 Jul 2014
Last week I attended the launch event for a new NESTA publication called Our work here is done: Visions of a Robot Economy....







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