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#ICRA15 videos of plenaries and keynotes
Robohub Editors
29 May 2015
[updated] Have a look below for the videos of plenary talks and keynotes at ICRA 2015. You can also use this youtube playlist. We'll be uploading new videos as they arrive....
Live stream #ICRA15 – Plenary video and tweets from Seattle
Robohub Editors
26 May 2015
ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's flagship conference and a premier international forum for robotics researchers to present their work. The 2015 conference is taking place 26-30 May, ...
Breakout Labs looking for robots that can change the world
Andra Keay
09 Oct 2014
I’m at Breakout Labs 3rd ‘unboxing’ today at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. Founded by the Thiel Foundation in 2011, Breakout Labs provides seed stage funding of up to $350,000 to early st...
UK Robotics Mission on Silicon Valley tour
Andra Keay
24 Jun 2014
The UK Robotics Mission landed in the USA this week. Backed by the Techonology Strategy Board and UK Trade & Investment, the tour covers more than 20 events in San Diego, Silicon Valley and San ...
Multimodal interaction at AWE2014 with HIT Lab NZ
Andra Keay
02 Jun 2014
The Augmented World Expo (AWE) was on at Santa Clara Convention Center from May 27-29. The conference, organized by Ori Inbar and Tish Shute, has grown rapidly in recent years as augmented reality tec...
SOLID: A robot recap
Andra Keay
28 May 2014
O’Reilly’s recent SOLID conference, May 21-22 at Fort Mason SF, was all about the intersection of hardware and software, but it also extended and challenged our ideas about what was hardware in a ...
‘Design a Robot’ competitions
Andra Keay
06 Sep 2013
Didn’t get a robot entered in the DARPA grand robotics challenge (DRC)? Never mind, there are several robot design and business model competitions on at the moment, from social robots, to affordable...
SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference
Andra Keay
27 Jul 2013
SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...
AWE2013: Hardware for an augmented world
Andra Keay
06 Jun 2013
Day One of AWE2013, the Augmented World Expo, finished with Sphero, the robot ball, taking out the first ‘Auggie Award’ for hardware. Sphero, by Orbotix, won the Auggie for their augmented reality...
AWE2013: What is the augmented world?
Andra Keay
05 Jun 2013
Augmented reality and virtual reality have been overhyped and underdelivering for years but there are many indications that things are changing. It’s not just that Google Glass has been on the stree...
Maker Faire overview
Andra Keay
22 May 2013
http://youtu.be/5APvyZHf1Dk
It’s impossible to see everything at Maker Faire but I tried. I was exhibiting with my hackerspace Robot Garden and had the pleasure of being both a participant and ...
Accelerators and opportunities for robotics startups
Andra Keay
19 May 2013
New accelerators are opening and existing programs are expanding. It’s an exciting time to be a robotics or hardware startup. In my next post I’ll talk about some of the sorts of startups that inv...
Countdown to Maker Faire
Andra Keay
17 May 2013
I’m setting up at Maker Faire with Robot Garden (a new robotics hackerspace and accelerator) and hope you’ll all come see Robot Garden @ iGate in Booth #2675 in Expo Hall. We might not be able ...
Robot Block Party recap
Andra Keay
16 Apr 2013
It was another amazing Robot Block Party at the CARS facility in Stanford. More than 30 companies, startups, STEM groups and individuals demonstrated robots ranging from PR2s to tiny brain powered hel...
Jobs isn’t the issue for robotics
Andra Keay
12 Apr 2013
Well, not quite. According to Rodney Brooks, robotics has too much Steve Wozniak and not enough Steve Jobs. And perhaps that’s where the jobs part of a very full afternoon forum should have ended. X...
National Robotics Week in the US (and Mars)
Andra Keay
06 Apr 2013
Happy Robotics Week to everyone! Thanks to all the organizers, contributers and robot fans around the US. But why stop there? This year’s National Robotics Week has 177 events in all 50 states, ...
Robotics infiltrates Engadget’s Expand
Andra Keay
19 Mar 2013
The first Engadget Expand expo at Fort Mason in San Francisco was a great weekend out with lots of robotics. In fact the striking thing was how much of the event was talking about or demonstrating rob...
CES gets robots all wrong
Andra Keay
15 Jan 2013
In my opinion, the International Consumer Electronics Show used robots gratuitously, out of context and without benefit to robotics companies. It’s a category problem more than anything else and is ...
Overview of robotics at CES 2013
Andra Keay
09 Jan 2013
Robotics is still the picture rather than the story at International CES, the largest innovation and consumer electronics display in the world. When CNET’s Next Big Thing panel discussed “What is ...
Robobusiness getting lean
Andra Keay
23 Oct 2012
Bossa Nova Robotics launched the lean version of Rosie, the robot maid from the Jetsons, today at Robobusiness. CEO Martin Hitch explained how Bossa Nova have taken their experience in the brutal and ...
Mega Startup Weekend with robots
Andra Keay
28 Mar 2012
For the 1st time in startup weekend history, teams are asked to build robot startups in a 54hr challenge. Using just a mockup OR an existing robot platform OR all the robot resources you possess, can ...
Winners of Cloud Robotics Hackathon
Andra Keay
13 Mar 2012
….. straight from Robotics Hackathon HQ…..
(Our CONGRATULATIONS to ALL especially Silicon Valley team OLogic !)
We are very happy to announce the results of the Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2012...
Cloud Robotics Hackathon update
Andra Keay
05 Mar 2012
Lots of hackathon stuff posted on our new Google+ page for Robot LaunchPad so check out all the videos/demos/pix.
More than 60 people showed up to the Hackathon, making us the largest event next t...
Cloud Robotics Hackathon
Andra Keay
24 Feb 2012
A good team has a balance of skills including people & design skills, learners and experts. The technical challenge is only one part of building a great robot demo.
1. Build robot
2. Connect...
Robotics Hackathon launch party
Andra Keay
13 Feb 2012
Are you a Bay Area robotics hackathon team or just interested in robot startups?
Join us at the Citrix Startup Accelerator for the launch of the Robotics Hackathon. The Robotics Hackathon is spon...
What is ROBOT launchpad?
Andra Keay
17 Nov 2011
How many robot businesses can we make in one weekend?
JUST ADD ROBOTS to a roomful of entrepreneurs
in search of a WINNING STARTUP IDEA!
The ROBOT launchpad connects startup and robotics communities....
