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eSIM in Wearable Technology, with Karl Weaver
Audrow Nash
05 Feb 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Karl Weaver (魏卡爾), formerly the Original Equipment Manufacturer Business Development Director for Oasis Smart SIM. Weaver discusses how wearable technolo...
Indoor drone shows are here
Markus Waibel
09 Jan 2018
2017 was the year where indoor drone shows came into their own. Verity Studios' Lucie drones alone completed more than 20,000 autonomous flights. A Synthetic Swarm of 99 Lucie micro drones started t...
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Disney Robotics, with Katsu Yamane
Audrow Nash
17 Sep 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Katsu Yamane, Senior Research Scientist at Disney, about robotics in Disney. Yamane discusses Disney’s history with robots, how Disney currently uses Robots, ...
Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of intelligent technology
Alan Winfield
14 Jul 2017
Here are the slides I gave recently as member of panel Sci-Fi Dreams: How visions of the future are shaping the development of intelligent technology, at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence 201...
World Book Day 2017: 20 robot related books to inspire kids and teens
Alex Kirkpatrick
23 Apr 2017
Happy International World Book and Copyright Day! It's a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading, held annually on 23 April---a symbolic date coinciding with the anniversary of the ...
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bots_alive, with Bradley Knox
Audrow Nash
18 Mar 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Bradley Knox, founder of bots_alive. Knox speaks about an add-on to a Hexbug, a six-legged robotic toy, that makes the bot behave more like a character. They di...
Building character AI through machine learning
Brad Knox
01 Feb 2017
Modern character AI could be better.
I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...
Robot Life Survey
What might the first western explorer have thought upon encountering whales, flamingos and iguanas? What would have they thought of these strange near-fantastical creatures?
What is it like for 21s...
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 ...
When robots become art: Interview with Yi-Wei Keng
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
29 Nov 2016
How can robotics help to enhance the development of the modern arts? Japan’s famous playwright, stage director Oriza Hirata and leading roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro launched the “Robot Theater Proj...
The new Westworld: Humanizing the un-human, or dehumanizing humankind?
Michael Szollosy
18 Oct 2016
HBO’s latest offering (on SkyAtlantic here in the UK) is an update of Michael Crichton‘s 1973 film Westworld; this time brought to us as a ten-part television series by sci-fi re-booter extraordin...
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Robohub Editors
22 Feb 2016
Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
The making of sci-fi adventure Robot Overlords
Graham Edwards and Cinefex
03 Jul 2015
In the low-budget British sci-fi adventure, Robot Overlords, alien automatons rule the streets and ordinary citizens are locked under curfew in their homes. Just by stepping outside, you risk being v...
Thymio goes wireless!
Robohub Editors
04 Jun 2015
Thymio is a playful robot designed to help children discover programming, motors, light and motion sensors, and ultimately, logical and inventive thinking - right out of the box. Earlier versions...
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Looney the Robot, with Hunter Lloyd
Audrow Nash
23 Jan 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Hunter Lloyd, who is a Professor of Robotics at Montana State University and a comedian. Hunter performs a comedy act for all ages with partner Looney, a NAO ...
Tweet to drive a robot!
Clearpath Robotics
13 Jun 2014
Happy Birthday!! Clearpath is officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s like ...
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...
No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
28 Mar 2014
What's with all the quadrotors in auto advertising these days? And what do quadrotor swarms have to do with cars? Probably not much at all, but apparently associating your auto brand with high-perfor...
NAO Next Gen now available for a wider audience
AJung Moon
13 Mar 2014
As of yesterday, you can get the adorable and versatile humanoid robot NAO from Aldebaran Robotics for yourself, even if you are not an academic or a hardcore developer. According to Génération R...
If you could enhance yourself with some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?
RBI Editors
15 Jan 2014
cy·borg - ˈsīˌbôrg/ - noun
a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the bod...
Orbotix introduces Sphero 2.0
John Payne
15 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/5Bg88VkWGOQ
There's not much more about Sphero 2.0 on the Orbotix website other than this two-minute video, but Evan Ackerman of Automaton has a little more information. The followi...
SparkFun Redbot
John Payne
09 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/AGVsV4abajo
The ready-made platform (kit) options just keep getting better. Here SparkFun shows off its new Redbot kit, which includes everything you need to put together a basic mo...
Making a WALL-E robot
John Payne
07 Aug 2013
http://youtu.be/7oVSaUWeKt0
We take you now to sunny, southern California, where a small group of enthusiasts has constructed a very realistic, Arduino-based replica of Pixar's WALL-E, entirely fro...
We Robot Conference 5: Bender’s Law
Kate Darling
23 May 2013
On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...
Nate the Robot RH.4: Who wants those jobs?
Jim Haas
15 Apr 2013
This post is part of Robohub's Jobs Focus.
"People hate me because they say robots steal jobs."
"What jobs?"
"Low paid, extremely dangerous, repetitive, physically demanding..."
*boggle*
"I kno...
Nate the Robot RH.3 – The Expendables
Jim Haas
22 Mar 2013
So if you really think about it, today's comic brings up several interesting issues regarding robots and war. One that comes to mind that is certainly not anywhere near a reality, is what if robots ...
Robots on Tour event draws larger-than-expected crowds
Nathan Labhart
20 Mar 2013
Surprise! Robots are much more popular than expected!
Robots on Tour started off on Friday 8 March 2013 with a scientific symposium at café/bar Sphères in Zurich, Switzerland. Big names from the...
Romo on the move
Frank Tobe
16 Mar 2013
Romotiv, the maker of the Romo robot, is moving from Las Vegas to San Francisco. CEO Rinaudo wrote the reason behind the move, which will take place over the next three months, was the company’s des...
Nate the Robot RH.2 – There’s Nothing Silly About War!
Jim Haas
15 Mar 2013
Call of Duty : Robot Ops, sounds like a fun game, eh?...
Nate the Robot RH.1 – I’m on Robohub!
Jim Haas
14 Mar 2013
Hey everyone, I meant to get this strip drawn earlier, but I’m happy to start having Robohub as a second source to read my Nate the Robot comic strip! I hope it can add a bit of humor to your day an...
Robots on Tour: 8-9 March 2013 in Zurich
Nathan Labhart
03 Mar 2013
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, organizer of the ShanghAI Lectures, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a big robot festival on 8 and 9 March 2013 in Zurich....
