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Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Apr 2016
New Zealand’s government innovation agency Callaghan Innovations and Silicon Valley’s innovation non-profit SVForum organized Transforming AgTech, an event bringing together New Zealand and US a...
10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
26 Apr 2016
No agricultural robotics startup will be successful without a strong connection to the farm. And here are 10 strategies for creating that connection I’ve seen succeed. Thanks to the great panel a...
New startup accelerator looks to enable smart and connected machines
Sabine Hauert
14 Apr 2016
The Kickstart Accelerator program in Switzerland is currently accepting applications from early-stage startups making "smart and connected machines", namely robots....
Celebrating robot makers and enthusiasts at the 7th Annual Silicon Valley Robot Block Party
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Apr 2016
On April 6th, Jabil Blue Sky Innovation Center hosted the 7th Annual Silicon Valley Robot Block Party. The free event was ‘sold out,’ with more than 2000 RSVPs and 40 companies in attendance. Th...
Considering the future of law and robotics: We Robot 2016 video recap
Robohub Editors
11 Apr 2016
The fifth annual We Robot conference at University of Miami School of Law celebrated its most international and interdisciplinary group of participants yet, with people across the globe attending...
National Robotics Week 2016
Robohub Editors
06 Apr 2016
Happy National Robotics Week! This week robot-related activities, events, and talks are happening all across the US. Are you attending any events near you? ...
Celebrating National Robotics Week at Robot Garden
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
06 Apr 2016
For a small group, Robot Garden has the most National Robotics Week activities in the whole US. But that’s hardly surprising, as Robot Garden is a maker space in Livermore, California with a focus...
#ERF2016 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches
Robohub Editors
01 Apr 2016
Robohub was at the European Robotics Forum in Lubljana, Slovenia last week. We captured pitches from some of the European projects presented at the conference and funded under the last Horizon2020 cal...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 2
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Mar 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Focus on innovation, skills, and regulation at #ERF2016 panel discussion
Kassie Perlongo
22 Mar 2016
The opportunities for building “digital” environments where robots are integral parts, such as in manufacturing and processing industries, transport, health and environment, smart cities and regi...
Live coverage of #ERF2016
Robohub Editors
18 Mar 2016
The next edition of the European Robotics Forum is kicking off in Ljubljana.
This 3-day event, from March 21-23, is a meeting point for at least 600 scientists, companies and robotics officials fr...
Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2016
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Machines have been beating humans for years in games and contests: chess, Scrabble, checkers, Jeopardy! and more recently, the Chinese board game Go. Google's AI machi...
Google DeepMind challenge match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo
Robohub Editors
14 Mar 2016
Update: The final match was played on Tuesday, 15 March, with AlphaGo winning over Lee Sedol 4-1! Watch all the livestream matches below....
2016 New York City Drone Film Festival winners
Robohub Editors
11 Mar 2016
The New York City Drone Film Festival's mission is to help progress the art of aerial cinematography using drones. The 2016 festival had a very successful sophomore year.
Check out all the NYCDFF win...
Tickets for Cybathlon now on sale
NCCR Robotics
11 Mar 2016
On Saturday, 8 October 2016 ETH Zurich is organising the very first Cybathlon at the SWISS Arena in Kloten, Switzerland. Individuals with physical disabilities will compete side by side in six deman...
WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson
Robohub Editors
04 Mar 2016
UPDATED 4 Mar: We're sad to report that Professor Tony Dyson, who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has died. We’re reposting this excellent video of his keynote at WeRobot to highlight his...
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Robohub Editors
22 Feb 2016
Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
AAAI Video Competition winners
Sabine Hauert
16 Feb 2016
The AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony took place yesterday at AAAI-16 in Phoenix, Arizona. The competition aims to spread the word about research and applications in AI through exciting educationa...
ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 1
Open Source Robotics Foundation
13 Feb 2016
ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...
Towards building brain-like cognition and control for robots
Florian Röhrbein and Florian Walter
27 Jan 2016
The idea of connecting brain-inspired models of computation to robots is probably as old as the discipline of robotics itself; as far back as 1950, neurophysiologist William Grey Walter had already co...
Fourth Industrial Revolution main theme at #WEF16 World Economic Forum
Kassie Perlongo
26 Jan 2016
Another year gone as the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos draws to a close. Experts weighed in about upcoming global changes for robotics, AI, internet of things, and the rise of digital transf...
Rising Media acquires RoboUniverse and Inside 3D Printing shows
Frank Tobe
25 Jan 2016
MecklerMedia's RoboUniverse trade shows and conferences and Inside 3D Printing shows have been acquired by Rising Media, a Germany-based global events producer focusing on Internet and technology-r...
IBM, Intel describe experiential future for human-machine interaction
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2016
In keynote presentations at CES in Las Vegas last week, CEOs from IBM and Intel talked about disruptive changes in how consumers and businesses are transacting and interacting with their purchases....
#CES2016: Noise, hype, hustle … and business as usual
Frank Tobe
21 Jan 2016
CES is truly a global technology event: 3,800 exhibitors (of which 500 were startups); 2.47 million sq feet of exhibit space; 170,000 industry professionals (of which 50,000 were from more than 160 co...
Survey on your experience with robotics competitions
Mahmoud AbdelAziz
14 Jan 2016
From Grand Challenges such as the recent DRC, to STEM events such as FIRST, to startup pitches such as Robot Launch, competitions have been used to push the state of the art in the field, inspire the ...
Robocar news from CES 2016
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Jan 2016
I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...
Soft spot for soft robots? Register for the 2016 Soft Robotics Competition
Harvard SEAS
11 Jan 2016
By Adam Zewe | SEAS
If you have a soft spot for robotics, this competition is right up your alley. With separate tracks for academic researchers, college students, and high school students, the...
Registration now open for #ICRA16’s Airbus Shopfloor Challenge
Airbus Group
23 Dec 2015
The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge invites robotics teams from around the world to create innovative robotic solutions for a real-life manufacturing challenge, and compete live at the IEEE 2016 Internatio...
New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration
XPRIZE
17 Dec 2015
At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...
Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge
Rethink Robotics
16 Dec 2015
As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...
CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”
MIT News
15 Dec 2015
By Adam Conner-Simmons | CSAIL
Last Friday, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hosted 150 local high school students for its second annual “Hour of Code” ev...
European Robotics Week #ERW2015 recap and videos
euRobotics AISBL
14 Dec 2015
With over 750 events across Europe, this year’s edition of the European Robotics Week broke all records. Throughout the week, Europeans were invited to visit laboratories, join debates, build and pr...
New collaborative robots — and product lines — at iREX 2015
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
07 Dec 2015
We visited iREX 2015 last week at the Tokyo Big Sight. It was great to be in robotland and to be immersed in Japan's point of view on robotics. Some well-known collaborative robot manufacturers are ...
#iREX2015 collaborative robots video roundup
Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc.
04 Dec 2015
Several new collaborative robots were shown at the IREX show in Japan. Check out the video....
A helping hand for high-tech firms
Horizon Magazine
03 Dec 2015
by Jon Cartwright
Joel Gibbard started out designing prosthetic hands in his bedroom out of sheet metal, but found himself drawn to 3D printing because of its universality and low cost. Now his co...
ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10
Frank E. Schneider
01 Dec 2015
Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...
