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Robotics and AI prominent in MIT’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35
Adriana Hamacher
02 Sep 2015
The MIT Technology Review’s annual list of 35 Innovators Under 35 aims to illustrate the most important emerging technologies of the moment. Released this August, the 2015 list features a number of...
#RobotLaunch2015 Finals announced, plus final round of Readers Pick
Andra Keay
02 Sep 2015
The Robot Launch competition finals will be held on Friday Sept 18 when a selection of great startups will pitch live to an investor panel. Are Robohub readers on the same wavelength as our expert pa...
Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round three
Andra Keay
26 Aug 2015
For the past two weeks, Robohub readers have been voting for the "Readers' Pick" startup from the Robot Launch competition. This week we publish the final 10 videos from our Top 30. During our live f...
Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round two
Andra Keay
19 Aug 2015
This month, Robohub readers can vote for the "Readers' Pick" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're publishing 10 videos from our Top 30. Our ultimate Robohub Readers’ Favorite...
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Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, with Leanne King and Ioan Alexandru
Audrow Nash
07 Aug 2015
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In this interview, Audrow Nash talks to two teams from Mobile Microrobotics Challenge at the 2015 International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA)....
#IJCAI15 brings together leading researchers in AI
Sabine Hauert
28 Jul 2015
Over one thousand of the world’s top experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are in Buenos Aires this week for the 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (#IJCAI15). ...
Automated Vehicles Symposium recap (Part 2)
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jul 2015
From small beginnings, over 800 people are here at the Ann Arbor AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles symposium. Let’s summarize some of the news....
A conversation with Jerry Kaplan, Martin Ford and John Markoff
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Jul 2015
Renowned technology commentators and authors John Markoff, Jerry Kaplan and Martin Ford entranced the audience with their perspectives on robotics, automation, AI and the impact on society. The even...
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Cheetah 2, with Sangbae Kim
Audrow Nash
24 Jul 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Sangbae Kim, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 201...
When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
24 Jul 2015
I’m in the Detroit area for the annual TRB/AUVSI Automated Vehicle Symposium. Those in Ann Arbor attended the opening of the new test track at the University of Michigan, but I was at a small event ...
#ICRA16 wants you to make duckie-themed videos of robots
Sabine Hauert
24 Jul 2015
ICRA 2015 is just behind us (see our coverage) and the team is already gearing up for the next edition in Stockholm, Sweden mid-May....
Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions
Nicole Mirnig
23 Jul 2015
While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...
Nat Geo’s Robots 3D proves that robots don’t need to be sci-fi to be compelling
Adriana Hamacher
16 Jul 2015
Close up, in 3D, what jumps out at you is not just how astonishing today’s humanoid robots are, but also how miraculous the human body they mimic is. National Geographic’s Robots 3D is showing in ...
Come with me to the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition
Michael Savoie
13 Jul 2015
It wouldn’t be June in Colorado without the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition. Started back in 2009, the annual event is held at their global headquarters near Boulder, CO. ...
Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015
Robohub Editors
10 Jul 2015
Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...
Siemens funds new Industrial Robotics Award in Robot Launch startup competition
Andra Keay
10 Jul 2015
Siemens has joined the Robot Launch as a sponsor, offering an impressive “Industrial Robotics Award” consisting of access to the Siemens Frontier Partner program, which provides mentorship and i...
#ICRAcam (Part 5): Flying w/o sensors, learning to swim, manipulating from primitives, & injecting at high speed
Robohub Editors
08 Jul 2015
In Part Five of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about passively stabilizing MAVs without using inertial sensors, a robot that learns different swimming gaits from experience, building high level m...
Robots in Europe: Live tweets and pics from #Innorobo
Robohub Editors
02 Jul 2015
Innorobo is one of the the premiere EU event dedicated to robotics and disruptive technologies. Running July 1-3 in Lyon, France, the event features talks from the likes of Carlo Ratti, Rodney Brook...
One year later: Update from Leka, Robot Launch 2014 Grand Winner
Ladislas de Toldi and Leka
02 Jul 2015
Almost one year ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for Moti, a robotic toy that helps autistic children learn to regulate their own emotions through play. Leka cofounde...
#ICRAcam (Part 4): Robot-assisted microsurgery, clothing de-wrinkler, collaborative interaction, & 3D scene reconstruction
Robohub Editors
30 Jun 2015
In Part Four of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about control for a microsurgical device for soft tissue, a robot that can find wrinkles in clothing and straighten them out, collaborative task le...
RoCKIn2015: A glimpse into the future of Europe’s domestic and industrial robotics industry
RoCKIn Robotics Challenge
27 Jun 2015
Over the last 20 years, robot competitions have emerged as a powerful means to foster progress in robotics research and development (R&D). RoCKIn is part a of new generation of scientific robotics...
Yaskawa robot learns the art of the samurai
Adriana Hamacher
24 Jun 2015
Japanese robotics company Yaskawa Electric Corporation pitted one of the most skilled swordsmen in the world against one of their machines and the results are incredible....
Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
Robohub Editors
24 Jun 2015
FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
#ICRAcam (Part 3): IKEA assembly-bots, RoboSherlock, MRI-powered millirobots and human-robot contact
Robohub Editors
23 Jun 2015
In Part Three of our ICRAcam series, you'll learn about what it takes to get a robot to build IKEA furniture, information processing for robot perception, an MRI-powered millibot that shoots like a G...
#ICRAcam (Part 2): Handheld cobots, magnetic manipulators, mini robotic probes, and the Butterfly problem revisited
Robohub Editors
18 Jun 2015
Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we've got some more highlights from some of this year’s exciting papers. We’ll be sharing lots more ICRAcam videos over the next ...
#RobotLaunch has great prizes for startups, but you can’t win if you don’t enter
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2015
Robot Launch 2015 is bringing together a great pool of prizes and services for robot startups. All startups in the semis or finals are eligible for awards as we search for offers such as “Crowd Pl...
#ICRAcam (Part 1): Adhesion grippers, robot life cycles, car-towing bots, and motion planning
Robohub Editors
16 Jun 2015
There was so much great research presented at ICRA in Seattle this year that it was tough to find the time to see it all. Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we are able to...
DARPA Robotics Challenge leaves brilliant PR legacy
Andra Keay
09 Jun 2015
With this robotics Grand Challenge, DARPA has advanced both the science of robotics and the story. Real robots did useful things, like operate power tools, drive cars and climb stairs far more succe...
Don’t be fooled by robots falling down at DARPA’s Robotics Challenge
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Jun 2015
This weekend I went to Pomona, CA for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, where robots (mostly humanoid) competed at a variety of disaster response and assistance tasks. This contest — a successor ...
Live video and tweets from the #DARPADRC Finals
Robohub Editors
05 Jun 2015
Livestream video and tweets on the ground in Pomona, California and the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals.
[tweetquote]Robohub's Andra Keay @svrobo is onsite at the DRC Finals to keep you post...
DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals begin
Frank Tobe
05 Jun 2015
The DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals at the Pomona Fairgrounds is a far bigger event than I imagined. Four sets like this one plus a stage, a grandstand full of people and an exposition hall with 80+ ex...
On stage at the DRC: While organizers create a disaster zone, competitors go for comedy
DARPA Robotics Challenge
04 Jun 2015
The DRC is all about pushing robotics technology forward. It’s all about creating a community devoted to innovation. And as it comes down to the finale on Friday and Saturday, it will also be about ...
Field and service robotics: The rubber meets the road at FSR in Toronto this June
Tim Barfoot
03 Jun 2015
While there has been a lot of recent attention in the media surrounding self-driving cars and drones, the field and service robotics community has been quietly toiling away for much longer. Later this...
DRC is not just about building robots; it’s about building community
Gill Pratt and DARPA Robotics Challenge
03 Jun 2015
Something remarkable is happening in Building 9 here at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. Imagine a long, giant warehouse-like building divided into 24 bays, within which people from around the world are...
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge: A pocket-sized guide to the finals
Adriana Hamacher
03 Jun 2015
DARPA's latest Challenge reaches its climax on 6 June 2015, when 25 finalists compete for $3.5m of prize money in what’s possibly the most anticipated robotic contest ever. Since its inception in 20...
Move-in day for the DRC Finals
DARPA Robotics Challenge
02 Jun 2015
Traveling from dozens of locations around the world, the teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge have begun unloading their precious cargo into their respective working bays inside the caverno...
