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Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
Dronologista
30 Jul 2014
Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
Home Depot starts selling 3-D printers in stores | Bloomberg
Hallie Siegel
14 Jul 2014
Home Depot Inc. (HD), the world’s largest home-improvement chain, will start selling 3-D printers today in stores for the first time, pushing deeper into a market that was once the domain of enginee...
FIRST 2014 photo essay: Girls of Steel back in St. Louis
Lynn Urbina
19 Jun 2014
The Girls of Steel are in the stands during the awards ceremonies at the Buckeye regional, and we’re waiting to see if our team will make it to the Championships. It has been a long build season; we...
ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”
Nathan Labhart
19 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-10
This presentation introduces Cyberbotics Ltd. with a little bit of history (where it came from), then it presents the Webots software that allows res...
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Russian robotics, with Roman Luchin and Andrew Gryaznov
Sabine Hauert
30 May 2014
In this episode, Sabine speaks with Andrew Gryaznov, co-founder of Cubic Robotics and Roman Luchin, CEO of CyberTech Labs, about robotics in Russia. They provide us with an inside view on robotics edu...
The People’s Bot: Robotic telepresence for the public good
Kate Darling
26 Apr 2014
Have you ever wanted to attend a conference that was too far away, expensive, or sold out? Whether you're a penniless researcher, interested youth, or a group of elderly people who want to live in oth...
ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”
Nathan Labhart
27 Mar 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
The lecture starts with a short introduction to the Interactive Robots and Media Lab and the United Arab Emirates. Then, it continues by exploring so...
ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session
Fabio Bonsignorio
18 Mar 2014
Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session
This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...
Robots in a box win LAUNCHedu at SxSW
Andra Keay
06 Mar 2014
Elad Inbar's RobotsLAB BOX was unanimously declared the winner of LAUNCHedu at SxSW. In it's third year, the LAUNCHedu conference is held in Austin TX ahead of SxSW. LAUNCHedu focusses on bringing t...
With 11,000 pre-orders, Play-i gets $8 million Series A
Frank Tobe
05 Mar 2014
It was just a few months ago that Play-i raised over $1.4 million on Kickstarter. With a heavy advertising buy during the holiday season they now have 11,000 pre-orders for their Bo and Yana...
ROS 101: Intro to the Robot Operating System
Clearpath Robotics
29 Jan 2014
Clearpath Robotics brings us a new tutorial series on ROS!
Since we practically live in the Robot Operating System (ROS), we thought it was time to share some tips on how to get started with ROS. W...
Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
Ioannis K. Erripis
17 Jan 2014
NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...
Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project
Ajay Arora
26 Dec 2013
Michael McMaster and his latest creation - a life-sized Wall-E.
If you’re a diehard Star Wars fan, or if you have a background in robotics, you might already know who Michael McMaster is. In the pa...
Mapping in the Cloud
Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah
23 Dec 2013
UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...
Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel
20 Dec 2013
2022 update: A new, one-wheeled version of the Cubli has been developed. The one-wheel Cubli is a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel, as it i...
Still looking for last-minute holiday gifts? 15 ideas for robot fans (2013)
Ioannis K. Erripis
19 Dec 2013
If you still have holiday shopping to do, these gift ideas from the Robohub team will be sure to please the robot fans in your life. From stocking stuffers to once-in-a-lifetime gifts, you can find so...
ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”
Nathan Labhart
28 Nov 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-11-12
"It has increasingly been realized that some of the key characteristics underlying real-world complex dynamical systems (such as economical, financia...
Pioneers kickstarts the start-up scene with a hands-on celebration of innovation
Hallie Siegel
17 Oct 2013
Andreas Tschas (far left) and Juergen Furian (far right) present a cheque to the 2012 Startup Challenge winner Poikos (centre). Photo credit: Heisenberg Media.
When founders Andreas Tschas and Juerge...
Robotics heavyweights keep it entertaining at 2013 Northeast Robotics Colloquium
Richard Moore and Kirstin Hagelskjær Petersen
09 Oct 2013
Prof. Conor Walsh (left) and Dr. Panagiotis Polygerinos (right) discuss a soft robotic glove designed for hand rehabilitation. Photo credit: Kirstin Hagelskjær Petersen.
The 2nd annual Northeast Ro...
Maker Faire European Edition kicks off in Rome
Robohub Editors
02 Oct 2013
Europe's first Maker Faire will be held in Rome's Palazzo dei Congressi from October 3-6. Billing itself as a "four-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness," Make...
Robohub turns one!
Hallie Siegel
01 Oct 2013
Anniversaries have a way of inspiring even the most cynical of us to ask ourselves big existential questions: "Why are we here?", "What do we stand for?" and "What's the meaning of all this anyway?" S...
Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry, improve safety for inspectors
Students take a research tour with Damen ship repairs in Rotterdam.
A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHdK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of cond...
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...
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...
ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”
Nathan Labhart
14 Aug 2013
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2010-12-16
Swarm intelligence of mobile robots is defined as a mobile robot network with only local interactions and finite sensing capabilities which however c...
When terrible engineers are good
Andra Keay
06 Aug 2013
A recent post "I need terrible female engineers" on Medium by Amy Nguyen describes her feelings as a female engineer; feeling that technical women are expected to be super humanly perfect - like Summe...
Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain
Ludovic Daler and Hallie Siegel
26 Jul 2013
The Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot (DALER) uses its own wings to crawl and roll over a variety of terrains. Using a self-adjusting structure to transform its wings into rotating arms, the robo...
More space robots as Grishin funds NanoSatisfi
Andra Keay
11 Jul 2013
NanoSatisfi, a Silicon Valley based cubesat startup, today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Ki...
The Swinging Blind Juggler
Markus Waibel
03 May 2013
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert L. Stephenson...
