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The 400lb CHIMP in the room: CMU’s Tartan Rescue Team prepares for the DRC
Shima Rayej
17 Dec 2013
Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Rescue Team has completed assembly of its 400 pound 5-foot-2 inch tall simian-like robot that will compete in the first annual DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in H...
Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)
Andra Keay
03 Dec 2013
The first real world trial in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will be held on December 20-21 2013 at Homestead Freeway in Florida. Yes, it's open to the public. Anyone can come along and watch huma...
Selected start-ups from Demo Fall 2013, Silicon Valley
Frank Tobe
19 Oct 2013
DEMO describes itself as the launchpad for emerging technology and trends. The DEMO Fall 2013 Conference was produced by IDG, the publishing giant of Computerworld, PC World, MacWorld, etc. I went to ...
Call for participation: RoCKIn Camp 2014
Robohub Editors
16 Oct 2013
RoCKIn Camp 2014
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Ariosto 25, Rome, Italy
January 26th-30th, 2014
Deadline for intention to participate: October 20th, 2013
Application deadline: November20th, 2...
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...
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...
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...
FIRST 2013 photo essay: Girls of Steel in the trenches at the FRC championship finals
Lynn Urbina
05 Jul 2013
It’s the end of the competition, and we’ve worked hard to get here: the long nights in the machine shop, drawing 3D models, writing essays for awards and fixing our robot whenever it breaks down. ...
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2013
There have been many headlines about "killer robots" and invasion of privacy. They protest that robots will soon choose targets and then bomb or shoot those targets under their own direction and will ...
SparkFun AVC 2013
John Payne
09 Jun 2013
Most robotics hobbyists will be familiar with the name SparkFun, associating it with an electronics and robotics parts and kits supply house, located in Boulder, Colorado, and perhaps also with the in...
KUKA youBot HACKATHON 2013
Wolfgang Heller
27 Feb 2013
German KUKA youBot Store has announced a new initiative to promote education in mobile manipulation. Research groups and labs in universities and public research facilities are invited to organize an ...
Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA
Ioannis K. Erripis
27 Feb 2013
ESA is organizing the first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station (ISS). The competition is open for young people from ESA member states who can compete in three age grou...
Nicola Tomatis on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Nicola Tomatis
15 Feb 2013
I would like to start from the other side: "Why is robotics great in creating new technologies and poor in creating new businesses?". Well, someone may disagree, but I really think that robotics is gr...
Frank Tobe on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2013
Funding new robotic projects in America is mostly done two different ways:
(1) strategic funding from NASA, DARPA, DoD, NSF and other government organizations to do the pure science involved in sol...
What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?
RBI Editors
15 Feb 2013
Welcome to Robotics by Invitation! This month we've asked our experts to weigh in on the best way to create tomorrow's robotics industry. Here's what they have to say:
Raffaello D'Andrea on “Wh...
Raffaello D’Andrea on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Raffaello D'Andrea
15 Feb 2013
The best way to commercialize robotics research is to make better connections between academics and entrepreneurs. Academics venturing out into the business world tend to have a "hammer looking for ...
The Wambots Team, with Thomas Bräunl
Podcast team
30 Nov 2012
Link to audio file (27:40)In today’s episode, we speak with Thomas Bräunl from the University of Western Australia about the MAGIC 2010 Challenge, the Wambot team and work done at the Robotics ...
Syfy about to unleash the Robot Combat League | EW.com
John Payne
26 Nov 2012
“Ready for the next generation of robot combat? Syfy has greenlit and shot the first season of a new show where eight-foot-tall state-of-the-art humanoid robots will rock ‘em and sock &lsq...
Robot competitions, challenges and awards
Andra Keay
06 Nov 2012
Robotdalen is accepting submissions for their International Innovation Award 2013, aimed at innovators with commercially viable robotics solutions. The Innovation Award replaced the previous Robotdale...
International Robotdalen Innovation Award
Andra Keay
06 Nov 2012
The award is aimed towards researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs with commercially valid robotics solutions.See on www.roboticstrends.com...
Robot Launchpad Grand Challenge 2012
Andra Keay
04 Jun 2012
It’s our turn for a Grand Challenge! The prize will be a successful million dollar business. The catch is you build it yourself. The rules? Well, you don’t need to be a robot scientist to do it. Y...
Win $25,000 for healthcare robotics invention
Frank Tobe
03 Sep 2011
... Carnegie Melon University (CMU), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC) and the Innovation Accelerator (IA) are all working together to organize and host a...
