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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 ...
Meet the winners of Robot Launch 2014
Robohub Editors
27 May 2014
In February 2014, Robohub and Silicon Valley Robotics launched the first global startup competition for robotics. More than 75 startups from 19 countries entered the competition, with robotics inn...
New video shows range and versatility of professional service robots
Robohub Editors
23 May 2014
A new video promoting this year's AUTOMATICA event in Munich offers an excellent primer in the state of professional service robotics in Europe. Check out the video here:...
Robots14 brings it all together
Hallie Siegel
22 May 2014
CSAIL - MIT's M-Blocks on display at the Robots Demo Lunch, which was sponsored by EPFL Alumni. — at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Photo credits: swissnex.
One of the chief goals of ...
Robotics evangelist: ‘Personal robots’ should be invisible beings | The Register
Hallie Siegel
22 May 2014
Personal robots are fast approaching reality, says one robotics evangelist – but not as the humanoid servants so often portrayed in futuristic fantasies.
"Robots are the new black," said Andra K...
30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk
Nathan Labhart
21 May 2014
Source: University of Zurich Mediadesk
Watch Rolf Pfeifer’s farewell lecture at the University of Zurich, broadcasting live on Robohub Friday May 23, 2014 (18:00–19:30 CEST/16:00–17:30 UTC).
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Robot Launch Finals
Andra Keay and Robohub Editors
20 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the 2014 Robot Launch Finals, starting today May 20 at 10AM Pacific. From over 60 entries from all around the world, our judges have narrowed it down to six finalists: DoBo...
RobotLaunch startups take note! Sage advice from the experts at Robots2014
Hallie Siegel
16 May 2014
It's just a few days until the RobotLaunch Finals on May 20, where our remaining six teams will battle it out in front of a live panel of judges. So we thought we'd recap some of the expert advice we ...
Livestream: BAL ROBOTOV Roboforum
Robohub Editors
15 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the first annual BAL ROBOTOV Roboforum in Moscow, running May 15-18. Speakers include creator of Hubo, Jun-Ho Oh, iCub's Giorgio Metta, creator of the Blind Robot Louis-Phi...
Robot Launch 2014 Finals May 20 – Vote now for People’s Choice
Andra Keay
14 May 2014
Today we announce the six finalists from Robot Launch who will be presenting their pitches online live to a panel of expert judges on Tuesday May 20 at 10am PDT. Join us then to see who takes home the...
Livestream: Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo 2014
Robohub Editors
08 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the second sUSB-Expo in San Francisco. Speakers include Henri Seydoux of Parrot Drone, Wolfgang Juchmann of Velodyne LiDAR, Rory Paul of Volt Aerial Robotics, Chris Ande...
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice round three
Andra Keay
07 May 2014
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30 and during our live...
Recent robotics notices and awards
Frank Tobe
05 May 2014
Steadily the robotics movement gains traction. Contracts are being given, funding is arranged, companies are expanding, and all the while a stream of youths are inspired to enter STEM career paths. H...
Robot Launch 2014: Robohub People’s Choice Round Two
Andra Keay
30 Apr 2014
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30, and during our liv...
EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner
Bruno Siciliano
28 Apr 2014
The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present t...
Minesweepers: Towards a landmine-free world
Alaa Khamis
28 Apr 2014
Minesweepers International Outdoor Robotic Competition on Humanitarian Demining
Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is, at present, a serious problem of political, economical, environm...
Show us your AI – AAAI Video Competition
Sabine Hauert
27 Apr 2014
Update The submission deadline has been extended to May 4. Submit your AI and robotics videos for a chance to be featured on Robohub and win a Shakey Award at the AAAI Video Competition....
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...
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice Round One
Andra Keay
23 Apr 2014
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30 and during our live ...
#Robots14 event “From Imagination to Market” is itself imaginative
Frank Tobe
22 Apr 2014
An adage in tech funding is "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
Aaron Horowitz (left) and Hannah Chung (in the bear suit on the right) boost that concept - and their visibility - by weari...
Xconomy Robo Madness
Frank Tobe
22 Apr 2014
From left: Devdutt Yellurkar, Partner, Charles River Ventures; Aydin Senkut, Managing Director, Felicis Ventures; Peter Hebert, Managing Partner, Lux Capital; Frank Tobe, Editor, The Robot Report and ...
Schunk Manipulators, with Henrik A. Schunk
Per Sjöborg
20 Apr 2014
Link to audio file (27:49)In this episode Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company’s work in gripping technology, modular robotics and dexterous manipulation. They then look at se...
ROBOTS: From imagination to market
Sabine Hauert
17 Apr 2014
UPDATE Video and live tweets! Join us for a full day seminar and networking event at MIT on April 17 called "ROBOTS: From Imagination to Market". Starting with an introduction to robots in science fic...
Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites
Andra Keay
16 Apr 2014
We had a some amazing entries in Robot Launch 2014 across a wide range of fields, and not all of our favorites made it through to the Top 30. So we’d like to share some highlights of the First Round...
Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke
Frank Tobe
14 Apr 2014
People say the darndest things! And some of those statements add to the puzzle that is Willow Garage....
Robot Launch 2014: Announcing the top 30
Andra Keay
09 Apr 2014
Are you ready to find out who the semifinalists are in our first Robot Launch global startup competition for robotics? With 76 applications from 19 different countries, and entries covering industrial...
We Robot 2014 livestream
Robohub Editors
04 Apr 2014
Watch the live stream from the We Robot 2014 conference in Miami....
€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry
Hallie Siegel
02 Apr 2014
The call for Europe's newest robotics competition opened yesterday when a consortium of leading robotics and research institutions from across the EU announced the launch of the European Robotics Chal...
Last days to enter Robot Launch 2014
Andra Keay
26 Mar 2014
Robot Launch 2014 is the first global online startup competition for robotics, and as the deadline for first round entrants approaches (11pm PDT on March 30) we're excited to see just where in the w...
Six weeks to build a robot: A FIRST photo essay
Lynn Urbina
26 Mar 2014
This photo essay documents the Girls of Steel as they built their newest robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) division. Teams are given the parameters of the game and have just six weeks t...
Au revoir, French entrepreneurs – except for a bastion of robotics innovators in Lyon
Frank Tobe
25 Mar 2014
In a serious critique of French business practices, the International New York Times wrote about a brain drain from France - a migration of aspiring entrepreneurs feeling that they have to leave Fran...
Introducing the Cybathlon
NCCR Robotics
24 Mar 2014
As we have been enjoying amazing scenes from Sochi, Russia where disabled athletes have been completing in the winter Paralympics, researchers in Switzerland have been considering a new route for athl...
EU Robotics Week, with Fiorella Operto, Douwe Dresscher and Roko Tschakarow
Podcast team
22 Mar 2014
Link to audio file (41:00)The European Robotics Week 2013 featured 334 robotics related events in 24 countries and attracted more than 55’000 participants spanning all ages. To give us a snapsho...
MODEX: How quickly things change
Frank Tobe
18 Mar 2014
At previous MODEX events - trade shows exhibiting the latest manufacturing and supply chain equipment and technologies - Kiva had their own boothes. Big boothes with lots of people marveling at their...
Flying Donkey Challenge announces 33 entrants for first subchallenge
Andra Keay
17 Mar 2014
The Flying Donkey Challenge asks teams to create a UAV solution that can eventually circle Mount Kenya collecting and delivering 20 kilo payloads. The first subchallenge in this escalating task will t...
Are telepresence robots really robots?
Frank Tobe
14 Mar 2014
Are telepresence robots really robotic? Is the da Vinci robotic surgical system robotic? Is a car with adaptive cruise control acting robotically? Well … no to all three questions.
All thre...
