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SparkFun AVC 2013
John Payne
09 Jun 2013
Most robotics hobbyists will be familiar with the name SparkFun, associating it with an electronics and robotics parts and kits supply house, located in Boulder, Colorado, and perhaps also with the in...
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...
Robotics Summer of Learning at CMU
Cara Friez-LeWinter
06 Jun 2013
This summer, students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots, design games, animate stories, and earn a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes and scholarships! The Robotics Summer of Learn...
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...
Field Robot Event 2013, Prague, June 27-29
John Payne
03 Jun 2013
According to the preface of the Proceedings of the 7th Field Robot Event 2009:
It was in September 2002 when the story started: in a train back home from Budapest, where Wageningen Agrotechnology stu...
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...
Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU
Kate Darling
22 May 2013
Call for Proposals (closes May 27)
Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference
October 11-13, 2013
NYU School of Law...
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 ...
We Robot Conference: 4. Social robot demo
Kate Darling
21 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...
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 ...
ICRA 2013 robot photo essay: “Anthropomatics – Technologies for humans”
Hallie Siegel
10 May 2013
The theme at this year's ICRA conference in Karlsruhe, Germany is "Anthropomatics – Technologies for Humans". Coined by a Karlsruhe informatics professor about 10 years ago, anthropomatics is the sc...
Live streaming of plenary talks at ICRA
Sabine Hauert
07 May 2013
View live stream here.
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is one of the most important conferences in robotics. This year's edition is taking place May 6-10 in Karl...
We Robot Conference: The Ethical Robot License for open robotics
AJung Moon
07 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...
Webinar with Dr. Pierre Dupont: Creating robotic technology for ultra-minimally invasive surgery
Robohub Editors
06 May 2013
Many surgeries today are performed as open, invasive procedures because surgeons lack the right tools. Our goal is to create the technology that will enable converting these open procedures to minima...
We Robot Conference: 2. Law as algorithm
Kate Darling
03 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...
We Robot Conference: 1. Intellectual property
Kate Darling
30 Apr 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...
Video interviews from Robot Block Party 2013
AJung Moon
24 Apr 2013
On April 10th, Robot Block Party 2013 took place right after We Robot conference.
Of course, I had an extra day to spend at Stanford University after the conference and couldn't miss out on the eve...
EPFL’s Festival Robotique draws a record 17,000 visitors
Robohub Editors
24 Apr 2013
The 6th Annual Festival Robotique in Lausanne, Switzerland drew a record number of visitors this past Saturday, making it one of the largest public science events in the country....
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...
Xconomy Forum’s final word about robots and jobs
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
At the Xconomy Forum held in Palo Alto earlier this week, the focal topic was "Robots Remake the Workplace." It was expected that the jobs issue would permeate the event. Do robots take away jobs? Ins...
We Robot: Live coverage on robotics and the law
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2013
Updated April 9, 2013 | Check this post for our live coverage of the We Robot conference happening April 8-9 at Stanford Law School....
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, ...
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Robert Morris
26 Mar 2013
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...
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...
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...
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....
Thoughts about RoboBusiness 2012
Frank Tobe
19 Feb 2013
I've read a wide range of reports and single-topic reviews about the presentations and about some of the exhibitors at last November's RoboBusiness Leadership Summit held in Pittsburgh. I didn't feel ...
Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution
Markus Waibel
04 Feb 2013
During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...
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 ...
Field Robot Event 2012 in video
John Payne
05 Jul 2012
The first video in this playlist is a presentation given last year at the announcement of the event. The rest were taken at the event itself, and show the nature of the competition as well a...
10th annual Field Robot Event underway
John Payne
28 Jun 2012
This year's Field Robot Event (FRE 2012) began today and runs through Saturday. I will bring together what reports I am able to find once the dust settles, but meanwhile you can view videos from past ...
2012 Field Robot Event, June 28th – 30th
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
This will be the 10th edition of the Field Robot Event. Organized by Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Wageningen UR (University & Research), it will be held in Venlo, The Nether...
