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Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
07 Oct 2013
Boston Dynamics has just updated its YouTube channel with some new videos. One of them is an update on Atlas. Another is an update on LS3. And the third is this: WildCat, a totally new quadruped rob...
Japanese Robots: Unboxing SCHAFT’s DRC Competition (VIDEO)
Reno Tibke
28 Aug 2013
Ohhh boy, an unboxing video that’s not just filler, but 500% justifiable. The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) trials are still 3.5 months away, but Japan’s SCHAFT, and every other Track A t...
Guiding technology through uncertain valleys: SRI’s Rich Mahoney on risks, rewards, and the future of robotics
Rich Mahoney and Hallie Siegel
18 Jul 2013
As part of our series on ‘High-Risk / High-Reward’ robotics, I interviewed SRI International's Director of Robotics, Rich Mahoney, who's role there is to help identify important emerging robot...
DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2013
The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge: OSRF gets simulator ready | IEEE Spectrum
Hallie Siegel
06 Jun 2013
For the last month, teams from around the world have been submitting entries to the Virtual Robotics Challenge qualification event, in order to earn a place in the VRC itself, and the latest results a...
RHex update: Jumping, swimming, climbing robot will blow you away | Mashable
Hallie Siegel
13 May 2013
The little guy has six legs, a compact body and can really get around. It can handle all kinds of terrain, as well as inclines of up to 60%, while its battery life lasts up to six hours.
Read more: M...
DARPA shows off cheap, adaptable, resilient robot hand | ExtremeTech
Hallie Siegel
01 May 2013
After more than three years of development, it seems DARPA’s ARM program is finally coming to fruition. The ARM (Autonomous Robotic Manipulation) program was created in 2010 with the purpose of crea...
Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
David Pietrocola
26 Dec 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...
Milli-moteins and wobble motors | Robots.net
John Payne
05 Dec 2012
Steve Rainwater of Robots.net has provided a more accessible, but still detailed account of the DARPA-sponsored work on programmable matter at MIT, with particular focus on the electropermanent wobble...
The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife | MIT News Office
John Payne
03 Dec 2012
“The little device is called a milli-motein — a name melding its millimeter-sized components and a motorized design inspired by proteins, which naturally fold themselves into incredibly co...
Losing Humanity: The case against killer robots
Mike Hamer
20 Nov 2012
Released yesterday by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, the report Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots (herein: the report) and associated press release and video (below), w...
Robot competitions, challenges and awards
Andra Keay
06 Nov 2012
Robotdalen is accepting submissions for their International Innovation Award 2013, aimed at innovators with commercially viable robotics solutions. The Innovation Award replaced the previous Robotdale...
DARPA Robotics Challenge: the competition begins | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
25 Oct 2012
Today, October 24, is opening day for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, or DRC. The press release sums it up nicely: "over the next two years, teams will compete to develop and put to the test hardware an...
DARPA Robotics Challenge update | IEEE Spectrum
Mike Hamer
16 Oct 2012
Dr. Gill Pratt gave a keynote address at IROS and talked about the DARPA Robotics Challenge, including a new video of the Boston Dynamics ATLAS...
http://youtu.be/AQXvM6Am6BQ
See on spectrum.iee...
SoftWear Automation awarded $1.25 million DARPA contract
John Payne
29 Jun 2012
SoftWear Automation, the latest in a string of ventures founded by Steve Dickerson - a retired Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology - and nurtu...
MIT’s Cheetah acquires new gates
John Payne
31 May 2012
http://youtu.be/U5_OUfCPZd0
In early March, Boston Dynamics posted a video (shown below) showing the Cheetah robot they are developing for DARPA running at 18 miles per hour (a new record for a robot...
Catching up with robots
John Payne
28 May 2012
http://youtu.be/UpyKt6mClVA
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform fo...
Open source robotics foundation announced
John Payne
17 May 2012
Announced via the Willow Garage website, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) is an independent non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Its mission is ...
Largest robotics program in DARPA’s history
Frank Tobe
09 May 2012
... DARPA has created it’s largest robotics program to date: the DARPA Robotics $2 Million Challenge (DRC), to help the world’s resiliency to disasters through the use of robotics.
... Som...
DARPA-led consortium casts a wide net
John Payne
31 Oct 2010
A consortium of U.S. government agencies, lead by DARPA, has jointly issued a solicitation for small business proposals: Joint-Agency SBIR Funding Opportunity Announcement.
The participating ...
