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Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik
Abate De Mey
10 Oct 2022
Areeb, the co-founder of Glacier, gives some insight into the opaque recycling industry, and why it is unable to handle the volume of recyclable good Americans through out each year.
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346
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Autonomously Transporting Crops, with Suma Reddy
Kate Zhou
21 Feb 2022
Suma Reddy discusses crop transportation with autonomous mobile robots made by Future Acres.
Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes
Imperial College London
06 Nov 2020
By Caroline Brogan
Imperial researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests....
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321
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Empowering Farmers Through Root AI, with Josh Lessing
Abate De Mey
19 Oct 2020
Robohub Podcast · Empowering Farmers Through Root AI
In this episode, Abate interviews Josh Lessing, co-founder and CEO of Root AI. At Root AI they are developing a system that tracks data on the ...
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317
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Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista
Lauren Klein
25 Aug 2020
Robohub Podcast · Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot
In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Gennaro Notimista, a robotics PhD student in the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems Labo...
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249
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ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest conference an...
Thought leadership in social sector robotics
Patrick Meier
20 Jun 2017
WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...
UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
SPH Engineering
09 Mar 2017
UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
5 global problems that AI could help us solve
Alex Gray
10 Feb 2017
There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
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RoboUniverse 2016: Agricultural Robotics, with Dan Harburg and Matthew Borzage
Abate De Mey
04 Feb 2017
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews two speakers from the Agricultural track of the RoboUniverse 2016 conference in San Diego: Dan Harburg of Soft Robotics Inc. and Matthew Borzage of BioTac. Bo...
Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Dec 2016
In this roundtable edition, we watched the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” and asked our Robohub team members: with many institutions focused on developing aerial drone technology, and ...
Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js
Dirk Gorissen
27 Apr 2016
You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. Where, how, and why do you start looking?...
Blue River Technology, Jibo and others get holiday funding
Frank Tobe
18 Dec 2015
Jibo got $16 million from Asian VCs to enable Jibo to speak and sell in Japan and China, while Blue River Technology got $17 million from a group of agricultural VCs to expand product development to n...
Blueberry picking robot could win $250,000 prize
Silicon Valley Robotics
29 Oct 2015
Here’s an interesting robotics challenge – a coalition of blueberry farmers are offering a $250,000 prize for automation solutions that improve blueberry picking. The deadline for entries in the c...
Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
Thomas Schmickl
15 Oct 2015
Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...
Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
Robohub Editors
24 Jun 2015
FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV
Clearpath Robotics
14 May 2015
By Rachel Gould
The 2016 agBOT Robotic Seeding Challenge challenges participants to build unmanned robotic equipment to plant, measure and track multiple crop seeds to improve farming efficiency...
Media is more excited about farm robots than exhibitors at World Ag Expo
Frank Tobe
17 Feb 2015
The 48th annual World Ag Expo, with over 1,400 exhibitors, finished up in Tulare, California last week with little exposure to robotic game changers. Their Top 10 New Products included just one robot...
PrecisionHawk raises $10M
Hallie Siegel
18 Sep 2014
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...
Drones against illegal fishing
Dronologista
24 Jul 2014
Image source: Flickr
With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...
Canadian farmers invest in robots to work ‘smarter, not harder’ | CBC
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2014
Thousands of farms around the world now use robotic technology. In Canada, the automatic milkers are more recent – and the numbers of early adopters can be counted in the dozens.
Read more by David...
Lockheed and AeroVironment to jointly develop UAS
Frank Tobe
16 Feb 2014
AeroVironment (of Raven, Puma and Wasp fame) has a high-altitude long-endurance UAV named Global Observer. It flies at 65,000’ for a week or more at a time, has up to a 600-mile diameter fo...
International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up
John Payne
23 Dec 2013
Materials used to produce International Robot Olympiad competition events.
The 2013 (15th annual) International Robot Olympiad competition has come to a close. Next year it will take place in Beiji...
International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture
John Payne
18 Dec 2013
Let me admit up front that I'm not the best person to be covering a robotics competition. In fact this is only the second one I've attended; the first, Sparkfun's AVC, is a tough act to follow and set...
Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture
Robert Morris
24 Oct 2013
‘Drones in agriculture’ has been a topic hot lately, but is it a real business?
As a former Army UAV platoon leader and a current founder of an aerial data collection start-up, I believe so, bu...
Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics
Hallie Siegel
18 Oct 2013
With an ever-increasing need to feed the world's hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector's widespread acceptance and use of automation tec...
Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US
Frank Tobe
27 Jul 2013
Insitu's Scan Eagle x200.
Two small drones, Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA, have become the first federally certified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for civilian use in the US. O...
