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    The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo

    Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...
    16 December 2020, by

    More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
    Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...
    23 June 2017, by

    Xponential 2017 in images
    The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...
    25 May 2017, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17
    Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...
    16 May 2017, by

    Technical challenges in machine ethics
    Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...
    08 February 2017, by

    Robotics in harsh environments
    In the field of hostile conditions, outer space is often considered the epitome of harsh environments. However, it’s not necessary to travel so far in order to locate situations with extreme condi...
    04 November 2016, by



    In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
    Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
    07 October 2016, by
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    Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone, with Fredrik Gustafsson

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Fredrik Gustafsson, Professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering in Linköping University, about an initiative to reduce poaching in ...
    06 August 2016, by

    Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war
    Landmines are one of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare. In the military, they are considered the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses. The simplicity and cost-effect...
    28 April 2016, by

    The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/22/16
    2/15/16 – 2/21/16 At the Center for the Study of the Drone In October, the White House announced that it will deploy a Predator drone unit to Cameroon. We have obtained the first photographic ...
    22 February 2016, by

    ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10
    Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...
    01 December 2015, by

    Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW
    On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties....
    17 November 2015, by

    Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin
    AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...
    15 October 2015, by

    Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
    Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...
    21 September 2015, by

    #eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios
    On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...
    16 September 2015, by

    Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
    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...
    24 June 2015, by

    DRC is not just about building robots; it’s about building community
    Something remarkable is happening in Building 9 here at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. Imagine a long, giant warehouse-like building divided into 24 bays, within which people from around the world are...
    03 June 2015, by and

    DARPA’s Robotics Challenge: A pocket-sized guide to the finals
    DARPA's latest Challenge reaches its climax on 6 June 2015, when 25 finalists compete for $3.5m of prize money in what’s possibly the most anticipated robotic contest ever. Since its inception in 20...
    03 June 2015, by

    Live tweets from UN #CCWUN debate on lethal autonomous weapons
    Experts from all over the world are gathered at the United Nations in Geneva today to debate questions surrounding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) for the Convention on Certain Conventiona...
    13 April 2015, by

    Should robots make life/death decisions? UN to discuss lethal autonomous weapons next week
    Should robots be allowed to make life and death decisions? This will be the topic of heated debate at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva next week (April 13-17th, 2015). As part of...
    10 April 2015, by

    FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
    Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...
    17 March 2015, by

    Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open
    euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...
    13 February 2015, by

    Virginia Tech students demo firefighting humanoid robot on US Navy ship
    In fall 2014 in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Virginia Tech engineering students made history during a five-minute demo that placed an adult-sized humanoid robot with a hose in front of a live fire aboard a U...
    06 February 2015, by

    euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research
    euRathlon is an EU-funded project that aims to set the standard for research through robotics competitions. It not only provides opportunities to test advanced emergency response robots in very chall...
    23 January 2015, by

    Island Forum 2014: Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence
    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...
    06 January 2015, by and

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8
    At the Center for the Study of the Drone In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its power. In an in-...
    09 December 2014, by

    Robo-Wars: The regulation of robotic weapons
    Robotic weapons, whether autonomous or remote controlled, have generated widespread controversy in recent years. Alex Leveringhaus, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed ...
    05 December 2014, by and

    Minesweepers 2014: Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining
    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...
    21 November 2014, by

    First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)
    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...
    30 October 2014, by

    This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company
    Cars are already close to driving themselves down the highway. How far are we then from military weapons systems that decide on their own when and where to fire? "You want the scary answer?" asks C...
    23 October 2014, by

     
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