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Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”

  14 Oct 2014
October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...

Nursing Grandma with a robot

  13 Oct 2014
[tweetquote]All this talk about being replaced by robots is getting old.[/tweetquote]...

Reader poll: How much control should a bathing robot have?

http://youtu.be/0ac2qwStrdo A few years ago, researchers at the University of British Columbia (AJung Moon, Peter Danielson and Mike Van der Loos) studied the public acceptance of a number of diff...

Commercial drone regulations: Canada vs. US

  29 Sep 2014
When Canadians attempt to characterize aspects of Canadian culture, it’s not uncommon to draw comparisons with the US. I recently noticed that as I respond to questions about the Canadian regulation...

Snapshot of US UAV situation

  25 Sep 2014
The impact on businesses of the ongoing US ban on commercial UAV operation can be seen in a snapshot of this week’s drone news. Drones are very affordable these days, and there is nothing to stop an...

Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?

One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...

CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders | MIT News

  28 Aug 2014
http://youtu.be/GJ0Pmk_UDY4   New research coming out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggests that letting robots have control over human tasks in manufac...

Does the Small UAV industry need its own coalition?

  22 Aug 2014
Last week USA Today reported that Amazon, 3D Robotics, Parrot and DJI had banded together to form a "Small UAV Coalition", hiring DC-based lobbying firm Akin Gump to represent their interests...

Video: The future of robotics, as seen by roboticists

  22 Aug 2014
At Automatica 2014 in Munich this year, the ECHORD++ project asked roboticists like Vijay Kumar, Uwe Haass, Pere Homs, and Christian Schlegel one simple question: “What do you think is the future of...

The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars

I’ve been musing more on the future of the city under the robocar, and many visions suggest we’ll have more sprawl. Earlier I have written visions of Robocar Oriented Development and outlined all ...

If courts are going to treat corporations like humans, they should do the same for robots | Slate

  04 Aug 2014
The idea of “legal personhood” existed in America originally to promote the work of the country’s first corporations: banks, insurance companies, water companies, and transportation companies. ...

The two cultures of robocars

I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...

Drones against illegal fishing

  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...

Could Jibo developer Cynthia Breazeal be the Steve Wozniak of robots? | Ryan Calo

  23 Jul 2014
VideoBill Gates once predicted we would have a robot in every home to go with our personal computer. James Temple of is calling Jibo—a new personal robot to be sold commercially in 2015—&l...

Flying Donkey Challenge on hold as Kenyan authorities cope with Westgate Mall fallout

  18 Jul 2014
Today organizers announced that the first edition of the Flying Donkey Challenge in Kenya, which had preliminary sub-challenges slated to begin this November, is on hold indefinitely due to delays in ...

Deploying automated vehicles

  16 Jul 2014
In 2012, the Nevada DMV issued the first license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US. The red license plates are only for autonomous test vehicles and are meant to make the cars easi...

Amazon requests FAA permission to test delivery drones

  14 Jul 2014
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...

Amazon seeks FAA permission to test drones outdoors near Seattle

  13 Jul 2014
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...

Building Social Robots: The Journey of Pleo

and   11 Jul 2014
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...

FAA Will Miss UAS/NAS Integration Deadline | UAS Vision

  03 Jul 2014
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in danger of missing a Congressionally mandated deadline for expanding the use of non military UAS in the US, according to a report that was conducted by t...

How important is the FAA’s first commercial licence approval?

  16 Jun 2014
On June 10th, the FAA issued a press release announcing their approval of the first commercial UAS flight over land. According to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, this represented an "important ...

Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo recap

  29 May 2014
"sUSB Expo 2014 showed signs of a maturing drone industry," said Antoine Martin of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Consulting. The sold-out 2nd annual sUSB Expo 2014, held in San Francisco earlier this ...

Make it smart; make it here!

  28 Apr 2014
Make it smart and make it here! These are the rallying words heard around the world regarding keeping jobs in-country and manufacturing smarter, more efficiently, and less costly....

The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities

  01 Apr 2014
"Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars....

The robots behind your Internet shopping addiction: How your wallet is driving retail automation

  25 Feb 2014
When you're shopping for the best online deals you're probably not thinking much about the massive distribution network required to bring that pair of shoes to your doorstep. Is your quest for the bes...

Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes

  07 Feb 2014
  Source: Wonderlane. Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...

Robots, soldiers and cyborgs: The future of warfare

and   05 Feb 2014
Boston Dynamics' BigDog. When we imagine the future of warfare, we often envision a battlefield where humanoid robots and other machines fight alongside or in the place of human soldiers. From the dr...

A discussion on deploying drones for international development

  16 Jan 2014
Last month, Deutsche Post DHL transported six kilograms of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn, across the Rhine River, to its headquarters. This wouldn't have made international news, except that DHL a...

Mission to Mars

  03 Jan 2014
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break!  As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....

Amazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME

  02 Dec 2013
Assuming Amazon Prime Air eventually launches … there are a handful of predictions about the system itself and delivery-by-drone systems in general… Read more by Doug Aamoth on TIME.com...

Frank Tobe on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

  13 Nov 2013
Two images remain in my mind from IROS 2013 last week in Tokyo. The respect for Professor Emeritus Mori and his charting of the uncanny valley in relation to robotics, and the need for a Watson-type s...

Andra Keay on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

  13 Nov 2013
For me, the highlight of IROS was the Uncanny Valley special session, although the sheer size of the IROS conference and the parallel iRex industrial and service robot expo also gave much food for tho...

DARC talks about the elephants in the room – freight planes and fighters

  23 Oct 2013
It was fitting that Missy Cummings had the last word at the DARC drones and aerial robotics conference in NY. As an ex-TopGun navy pilot who saw drones taking over her job, she was the one to talk abo...

Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics

  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...

25 women in robotics you need to know about (2013)

In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, we've compiled a short list of some women in robotics that everyone should know about. There are so many many more that we're already looking forward to featuring t...

Robohub turns one!

  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...







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