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Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5

Marta Palau Franco 07 Oct 2014

euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition funded by the European Union with a focus on realistic cooperative mock emergency-response scenarios in three different domains: land, sea and air. On the ...

Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014

Mathieu Labbé 03 Oct 2014

Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....

Safety concerns for collaborative robots

Frank Tobe 03 Oct 2014

At a daylong workshop on Collaborative Robots by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), two main themes were expressed: worker safety and almost universal expectation for rapid deployment of colla...

euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2

Marta Palau Franco 02 Oct 2014

euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...

SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge

Patrick Goebel 29 Sep 2014

A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...

#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15

Sabine Hauert 26 Sep 2014

Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. This year we'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. The submission dead...

Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week

Marta Palau Franco 24 Sep 2014

Leaks of substances into the sea, damage to underwater structures, machine rooms flooded… these were real challenges that emergency services working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station ha...

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)

Robohub Editors 20 Sep 2014

More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS. See also Part 1....

Automata: The new “sci-fi” blockbuster set to put robot ethics under a spotlight

Adriana Hamacher 19 Sep 2014

A major new sci-fi movie, Automata, promises to not only provide a feast for the eyes (see below for a clip from the film), but an overdue opportunity to spotlight some of the ethical dilemmas arising...

10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum

Shima Rayej 18 Sep 2014

How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)

Robohub Editors 17 Sep 2014

The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) is on in Chicago, and members of the robotics research community have descended on the Windy City. This year th...

Boca Bearings 2014 Innovation Competition

Hallie Siegel 09 Sep 2014

http://youtu.be/uvLAbUFXPwo The Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $10,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2014 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winners will be chosen based on a video subm...

In praise of robot football

Alan Winfield 09 Sep 2014

Republished here is a short piece for The Conversation reflecting on robot football: 4-4-2 becomes 0101: inside the competitive world of robot football, published 4 August 2014. This summer the ...

Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition

Sabine Hauert 01 Aug 2014

A large crowd of experts in artificial intelligence gathered around the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony before catching their flights, or enjoying one last night in Québec City. The competition...

The two cultures of robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 24 Jul 2014

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 ...

Lights, camera, action at the Robot Film Festival

Andra Keay 23 Jul 2014

Bringing together people and robots for an amazing social event, the 4th annual Robot Film Festival was held on Saturday July 19 at Bot & Dolly studio in San Francisco. The Festival opened with th...

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

Hallie Siegel 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 ...

China International Robot Show (CIROS) a BIG hit

Frank Tobe 16 Jul 2014

CIROS, the China International Robot Show held last week in Shanghai had record crowds, record numbers of exhibitors, 168,000 sq ft of exhibition space, and exuded confidence in a thriving up-and-comi...

Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)

Andra Keay 15 Jul 2014

The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference (RSS14) is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16, and we are picking up where we left off yesterday on our coverage of t...

Science and startups at RSS2014 in Berkeley (Part 1)

Andra Keay 14 Jul 2014

The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16. From a small start, the conference now has over 800 attendees, with 28 differe...

Grizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN

Clearpath Robotics 09 Jul 2014

by Ryan Gariepy I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and t...

Startup Series #6: MIT Entreprise Forum VLAB

Andra Keay 09 Jul 2014

The VLAB Collaborative Robots forum on Thursday May 29 was a masterclass for robot startups. For 90 minutes at the Knight Management Center at Stanford, we heard all about the business of robotics fro...

The next big things in robotics

Alan Winfield 08 Jul 2014

Last week I attended the launch event for a new NESTA publication called Our work here is done: Visions of a Robot Economy....

Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 2014

Frank Tobe 02 Jul 2014

When you see a slick robot - say for instance the new Aldebaran Pepper robot - you can easily be distracted by the design, the gestures, the interaction, the cuteness. But AUTOMATI...

DARPA announces new challenges, teams, and research goals for the DRC’s finale in June 2015

Ransom Mowris 27 Jun 2014

Teams of roboticists from around the globe will convene in Los Angeles for the third and final round of the DARPA Robotics Challenge on June 5th and 6th, 2015. For this phase, DARPA will be cutting ...

Donate to Robohub for a chance to win a Sphero 2.0

Robohub Editors 25 Jun 2014

Donate Any Amount Everyone who donates will be entered into a drawing for a Sphero 2.0 interactive robot! ...

Keeping Robohub plugged in

Robohub Editors 25 Jun 2014

It's not even July, and 2014 has already been a tremendous year for Robohub. In addition to doubling our readership to over 50,000 unique monthly visitors, we successfully organized the first global r...

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 ...

FIRST 2014 photo essay: Girls of Steel back in St. Louis

Lynn Urbina 19 Jun 2014

The Girls of Steel are in the stands during the awards ceremonies at the Buckeye regional, and we’re waiting to see if our team will make it to the Championships. It has been a long build season; we...

Why was this man smiling at AUTOMATICA 2014?

Frank Tobe 17 Jun 2014

34,500 visitors from more than 100 countries came to Munich this June to visit AUTOMATICA 2014 and examine the robotics-related wares of 731 exhibitors from over 42 countries. But why was Esben Ø...

Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science

Hallie Siegel 12 Jun 2014

During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic young person wearing a brain-controlle...

IFR Maker/User Panel at AUTOMATICA

Frank Tobe 11 Jun 2014

In a crowded back room at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) sponsored a panel of prominent robot users explaining their needs to a panel of executives represent...

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...

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