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Robohub turns one!
Hallie Siegel
01 Oct 2013
Anniversaries have a way of inspiring even the most cynical of us to ask ourselves big existential questions: "Why are we here?", "What do we stand for?" and "What's the meaning of all this anyway?" S...
Winners of the euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition announced!
Marta Palau Franco
30 Sep 2013
Robot TeodorPrime of team FKIE opening the suitcase that contains explosive material.
Photo credits: euRathlon.
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition where teams test the intelligence and aut...
euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Four recap
Marta Palau Franco
29 Sep 2013
The autonomous robot MuCAR-3 from team MuCAR (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) arrives. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley.
Clouds, mist and rain accompanied the fourth day of euRathlon 2013 civilian ...
Call for papers: We Robot 2014
Robohub Editors
27 Sep 2013
We Robot 2014 - Conference on Legal and Policy Issues Relating to Robotics
University of Miami Law School, Coral Gables, FL
April 4-5, 2014
Submission/Registration Deadline: November 4, 2013...
euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Three recap
Marta Palau Franco
27 Sep 2013
UAV pilot demostration carried out by CATEC during the euRathlon 2013 workshop. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley.
The sun was shining again on the third day of euRathlon 2013 outdoor robotics competitio...
There are mobile robots and then there’s KUKA’s MOBILE robot
Frank Tobe
26 Sep 2013
... At the recent Hannover Messe trade fair, KUKA displayed their concept mobile robot showing how it could work a huge turbine blade.
... The device consisted of a KUKA omnimove mobile platform, a K...
euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Two recap
Marta Palau Franco
25 Sep 2013
Fraunhofer FKIE team's robot gets ready to enter the USAR scenario. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley.
The second day of euRathlon competition started with the opening session of the euRathlon 2013 wor...
Call for posters/demos: Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC)
Robohub Editors
25 Sep 2013
2nd Annual Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC)
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Sunday October 6, 2013
Submission/Registration Deadline: October 1, 2013
The Northeast Robotics Colloquium br...
euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day One recap
Marta Palau Franco
24 Sep 2013
Robot Telemax of Telerob team, moving the canister full of hazardous material from the loading platform. Photo credit: Aaron Boardley.
euRathlon is a new civilian outdoor robotics competition focused...
150 robotics-related exhibitors in Las Vegas for PackExpo
Frank Tobe
22 Sep 2013
... 26,000 attendees are expected for this year’s PackExpo being held in Las Vegas, September 23-25.
... Over 150 robotics-related companies are exhibiting including Rockwell Automation, Adept, ABB...
Call for papers: IROS workshop on science communication
Sabine Hauert
18 Sep 2013
Understanding Robotics and Public Opinion:
Best Practices in Public Science Communication and Online Dissemination
IROS Workshop 2013 in Tokyo, Japan
November 7, 9am – 12:30pm
Submission deadl...
14 teams qualify for euRathlon land competition
Marta Palau Franco
17 Sep 2013
Teams participating in ELROB land robotics competition tune up their robots. Photo credits: ELROB
Buildings that are collapsed or on fire, tunnels flooded with smoke or water, unstructured areas subj...
Interest in industrial robots seen at Taipei Intl. Industrial Automation Exhibition and Robot Show
Frank Tobe
13 Sep 2013
... The trade show, held the last week of August in Taipei, had a record 550 exhibitors. “It is the age of intelligence and automation,” said Eric Chuo, chairman of TAIROA (Taiwan Automation Intel...
Geek immersion: Campus Party London packs a ton of tech fun into five days
Jana Witt
11 Sep 2013
Campus Party events pride themselves in bringing together bright and like-minded people from all over the world, offering them an opportunity to hear from some of the greats in the worlds of the gamin...
Photo essay: VEX’s Paul McKnight hosts robotics competition @ Campus Party EU
Jana Witt
10 Sep 2013
At a robotics workshop Friday September 6th at Campus Party EU in London, VEX Robotic's Paul McKnight elaborated how robotics platforms and toolkits could be used in schools and universities to enhanc...
RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions
RoCKIn Robotics Challenge
07 Sep 2013
RoCKIn is a three-year EU project that aims to use robot competitions in order to innovate smarter, more dependable robots, and to increase public awareness of robotics. Part of its focus is to look...
‘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...
EU Campus Party on now at the O2 Arena in London
Jana Witt
04 Sep 2013
LIVE UPDATES TODAY Campus Party is one of the biggest electronic entertainment events in the world, bringing together young and ambitious “Campuseros” united by the movement’s motto: “The Inte...
AUVSI conference brings robots to drone debate epicenter
David Pietrocola
23 Aug 2013
AUVSI returned to D.C. for 2013.
Amidst a climate of fiscal austerity and vibrant debates over the growing importance of unmanned vehicles in foreign policy and homeland security, the 2013 AUVSI Unma...
News from the Living Machines conference London | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
02 Aug 2013
Researchers at a conference on biologically inspired robots at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London, have showcased new machines that could see robots becoming far more common in ou...
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...
DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids
Hallie Siegel
24 Jul 2013
Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...
euRathlon and the DARPA Robot Challenge: A difference of approach
Alan Winfield
22 Jul 2013
A week ago the DARPA Robotics Challenge unveiled the ATLAS humanoid robot, which will be used by seven competing teams. Developed by Boston Dynamics, ATLAS is an imposing 1.8m 150Kg bipedal humano...
Paradigm shift
Frank Tobe
20 Jul 2013
Global Future 2045, held June 15-16 in New York City, had a big impact on me.
The double-message promotion of GF2045 was intriguing and I thought it would be similarly interesting to my readers. PR...
Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz
17 Jul 2013
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
Campus Party Europe comes to the O2 in London September 2-7
Robohub Editors
12 Jul 2013
Up to 10,000 young geeks from across Europe will camp out in tents and sleeping bags for five days of intense 24/7 hacking, networking and elbow-rubbing with experts from some of the world's most infl...
FIRST 2013 photo essay: Girls of Steel in the trenches at the FRC championship finals
Lynn Urbina
05 Jul 2013
It’s the end of the competition, and we’ve worked hard to get here: the long nights in the machine shop, drawing 3D models, writing essays for awards and fixing our robot whenever it breaks down. ...
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...
Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2013
While I love getting robots in the mail, crowdfunding sites are also good for supporting a whole range of robot related activities. The 3rd annual Robot Film Festival just launched a Kickstarter campa...
Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robots | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
12 Jun 2013
Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot time-lapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the c...
Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans
Robohub Editors
11 Jun 2013
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
Update with the full video below
Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...
Behind the scenes at TED Global: Raffaello D’Andrea and team demo amazing quadrotor “athletes”
Markus Waibel and Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
With reporting and photos by Dario Brescianini and Mark Mueller and timelapse video by James Duncan Davidson.
Raffaello D'Andrea juggles quadrotors at TED Global 2013.
A quadrocopter swoops th...
How about we *not* make killer robots: Daniel Suarez at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
Technology thriller author, most recently of the book Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez has been thinking about drones for some time. But as he says, as he stands onstage at TEDGlobal 2013, he’s not h...
Athletic machines: Raffaello D’Andrea at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
“Athletic” is a term we use to describe human beings. But could it also be used to describe a machine?
In a demo recorded yesterday in his robot lab at TEDGlobal 2013, systems engineer Raffaell...
Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fix...
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2013
There have been many headlines about "killer robots" and invasion of privacy. They protest that robots will soon choose targets and then bomb or shoot those targets under their own direction and will ...
