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Michigan latest state to ban direct Tesla sales | The Verge
Michigan has become the latest state to ban Tesla from selling its cars straight to consumers, with Governor Rick Snyder signing a law yesterday that prohibits direct sales. Michigan joins a growing n...
22 October 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Driven by care needs, will it be the booming senior population that spurs wider acceptance of robots?
Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Center of Robotics believes that [tweetquote]the medical industry could be at the forefront of changing the public per...
19 October 2014, by
Abate De Mey
RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics
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 ...
16 October 2014, by
Adriana Hamacher
RoboBusiness startup Pitchfire winners
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...
16 October 2014, by
Frank Tobe
PrecisionHawk raises $10M
According to a press release from today:
PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAV and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today...
18 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum
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...
18 September 2014, by
Shima Rayej
Housework 2.0: The battle of the robot vacuum cleaners begins!
The public may be expecting to see robot cyborgs battle it out in distant galaxies, but back here on earth the battle of the robots is taking on a distinctively quotidian reality. The double announcem...
05 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Dyson launches new robotic vacuum cleaner
James Dyson announced his new 360 Eye robotic vacuum cleaner, which goes on sale in Japan later this year for $1,250. It will then be available in the UK, Europe, China and Australia later in 2015....
04 September 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Google’s secret drone delivery program
The Atlantic revealed the inside story of Google's two-year secret X-labs drone-delivery project in a detailed story by Alexis Madrigal. Project Wing, as the drone-delivery venture is called, has alre...
29 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
The Orlando Sentinel reported that the [tweetquote]Walt Disney Company filed for three patents involving flying entertainment robots[/tweetquote], a growing segment in the emerging service robotics in...
28 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Inroads in perception
Google's recent acquisition of Emu Messenger is just one of many items in recent news about improvements in perception and artificial intelligence (AI)....
22 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
JIBO: A game changing social robot
JIBO, a 2013 Boston startup, launched an IndieGoGo campaign last week and is off to a rousing start, lots of favorable press, and, as of the time of this writing, has raised more than $700,000 over th...
20 July 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)
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...
15 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
Amazon requests FAA permission to test delivery drones
In April this year, Amazon.com issued a shareholder letter that stated: “The Prime Air team is already flight testing our 5th and 6th generation aerial vehicles…″ Fast forward three months to t...
14 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Amazon seeks FAA permission to test drones outdoors near Seattle
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is seeking permission from U.S. regulators to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a rapid expansion of a program that has sparked widespread deba...
13 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
Building Social Robots: The Journey of Pleo
Building a robot company is difficult, very difficult. It requires unwavering belief in yourself, in your idea, in your team and ultimately in your product. But it is also one of the most thrilling ex...
11 July 2014, by
Bob Christopher and Jibo
Drone startup: SR2
There are number of industries that could harness the potential of UAVs, but they lack the skills and/or resources to design and build a reliable and professional system that fits their needs. SR2 w...
10 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Startup Series #6: MIT Entreprise Forum VLAB
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...
09 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
The thriving drone community of South Africa
Source: Skylab Productions
A couple of years ago, while I was living in Cape Town, I met a group of people who were so into drones and aerial filming that they managed to initiate me into the world ...
30 June 2014, by
Dronologista
Global trends in robotics from patent analysis
120,000 robotics patents have been published in the last 10 years, tripling in rate from 2004 to 2013, according to the UK Intellectual Property Office Informatics Team. Unsurprisingly, there was a h...
15 June 2014, by
Andra Keay
Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent
"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," said Elon Musk. From any other businessman, such a statement would be a joke. But the billionaire, 42, who has poured the millions he made from the sal...
09 June 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper
The latest creation from Aldebaran Robotics - Pepper - is designed to live with humans. It doesn’t clean or cook but it talks, is mobile, can read emotions, and reacts aut...
06 June 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Is surveillance the new business model for consumer robotics?
A discussion with Ryan Calo on Google, your personal data, and the consumer robotics market
Can someone tell me: What's Google doing, making robots? Or at least: What is it doing, making such acqui...
06 May 2014, by
Mark Stephen Meadows
Recent robotics-related IPOs
Since late November, 2013 there have been three robotic companies that have gone public on U.S. and global stock exchanges: Medtech, Ekso Bionics and Cyberdyne....
26 April 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Au revoir, French entrepreneurs – except for a bastion of robotics innovators in Lyon
In a serious critique of French business practices, the International New York Times wrote about a brain drain from France - a migration of aspiring entrepreneurs feeling that they have to leave Fran...
25 March 2014, by
Frank Tobe
DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments
When Google bought Boston Dynamics last December, the news made headlines, but it was not the first time the Internet giant has invested in DARPA-funded robotics. As part of Robohub's Big Deals series...
19 March 2014, by
Gill Pratt and Robohub Editors
Big deals: What it means to have the giants investing in robotics
If the world outside the robotics community didn't know about Boston Dynamics, Kiva and Nest, they do now. Recent robotics acquisitions and investments by major-league players like Google, Apple a...
12 February 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Automation, not domination: How robots will take over our world
The first question people tend to ask when they find out you are a roboticist is, “When are robots going to take over the world and become our masters?” The answer to this question is a big “Ne...
DoD Unmanned Air, Sea & Ground Budget 2014-2018
Within the defense sector, demand for unmanned air, ground and sea systems continues unabated. Drivers include combat operations, reduced military budgets, a changing national security environment and...
03 February 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Agricultural robot market anticipated to reach $16.3 billion by 2020
In a new $7,800 report by Wintergreen Research, significant growth is anticipated over the remainder of this decade in every aspect of farming, milking, food production and animal control....
01 February 2014, by
Frank Tobe
