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Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception
Frank Tobe
02 Jun 2015
Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and pick...
#ICRA15 photo essay
Ioannis K. Erripis
31 May 2015
A small photo essay from the exhibition hall of ICRA 2015. (All photos by Ioannis Erripis @ Robohub.)...
#ICRA15 videos of plenaries and keynotes
Robohub Editors
29 May 2015
[updated] Have a look below for the videos of plenary talks and keynotes at ICRA 2015. You can also use this youtube playlist. We'll be uploading new videos as they arrive....
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RoboBusiness Exhibition, with RoboBusiness 2014
Audrow Nash
29 May 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to several robotics companies at the company showcase at RoboBusiness 2014, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts....
Live stream #ICRA15 – Plenary video and tweets from Seattle
Robohub Editors
26 May 2015
ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's flagship conference and a premier international forum for robotics researchers to present their work. The 2015 conference is taking place 26-30 May, ...
ICRA 2015 social media workshop for roboticists: Communicating your research in 140 characters or less
Hallie Siegel and Sabine Hauert
21 May 2015
Want to use social media to get more people engaged with your robotics research? Not sure how to get started? Robohub is hosting a social media workshop at ICRA this year: Communicating robotics in ...
Bionic athletes compete in disciplines drawn from everyday life
ETH Zurich
21 May 2015
By: Vanessa Bleich
Next year's Cybathlon will host people with physical disabilities equipped with advanced assistive devices including robotic technologies. The goal of this unique competition is to...
Five high school students win Robots4Us Video Contest — and a trip to the DRC Finals
DARPA Robotics Challenge
19 May 2015
Five short videos prepared by U.S. high school students have been selected as winning entries in DARPA’s “Robots4Us” video contest and will be featured at a June 7 invitational workshop on the f...
AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV
Clearpath Robotics
14 May 2015
By Rachel Gould
The 2016 agBOT Robotic Seeding Challenge challenges participants to build unmanned robotic equipment to plant, measure and track multiple crop seeds to improve farming efficiency...
IdeaHub, ABB launch new robotics accelerator programme
Simon Blair and IdeaHub / Venturebright
14 May 2015
The IdeaHub recently announced the launch of a robotics accelerator programme, run on behalf of ABB Robotics, to deliver solutions to some of the biggest issues facing robotics today and in the future...
Igniting a debate on legal, therapeutic and educational robotics
The benefits of assistive technologies are well known – reduced inefficiencies, low costs, available 24/7 and much more. But not so well known are the appropriate legal regulations that need to be ...
Two new soft robotics competitions announced by Soft Robotics Toolkit
Soft Robotics Toolkit
06 May 2015
The Soft Robotics Toolkit recently announced two competitions for robotics research and design. In July 2015, two expert panels will award prizes to soft robotics projects submitted by students, resea...
Robotic events gaining popularity
Frank Tobe
04 May 2015
2014 set new records for robotics of all types, industrial, field and service. 2015 is also setting records for attendance and number of exhibitors at robotics-related trade shows, contests and events...
sUSB Expo 2015 Livestream
Robohub Editors
29 Apr 2015
The sUSB is livestreaming from San Francisco, featuring top names in the unmanned and remote sensing field, including Patrick Egan, Chris Anderson, Whitney Brooks, Michael Drobac, and Andra Keay, a...
#ICRA15 video trailer: Preview the latest in robotics and AI
Sabine Hauert
23 Apr 2015
#ICRA15 just released a trailer featuring some of the highlights from the conference. It’s a nice sneak peak at the latest robots that will be presented in Seattle this May.
A must-watch!...
Live tweets from UN #CCWUN debate on lethal autonomous weapons
Robohub Editors
13 Apr 2015
Experts from all over the world are gathered at the United Nations in Geneva today to debate questions surrounding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) for the Convention on Certain Conventiona...
Should robots make life/death decisions? UN to discuss lethal autonomous weapons next week
Open Roboethics Initiative
10 Apr 2015
Should robots be allowed to make life and death decisions? This will be the topic of heated debate at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva next week (April 13-17th, 2015). As part of...
#WeRobot 2015 on now in Seattle
Robohub Editors
10 Apr 2015
The fourth annual We Robot conference on robotics, law and policy kicked off today in Seattle at the University of Washington School of Law. ...
Skolkovo conference seeks to jumpstart new areas of expertise for Russian robotics
Hallie Siegel
27 Mar 2015
Part startup/investor mixer, part public showcase, part industry/academic workshop, part hackathon, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference has its sights on becoming the largest robotics gathe...
A bionic model is born
Open Bionics
17 Mar 2015
The personalisation of healthcare devices has been a growing trend in the maker-sphere. From gold-plated hearing aids, neon walking sticks, and sparkling blade prosthetics to 3D printed arm casts, peo...
#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches part II
Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors
15 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...
Skolkovo International Robotics Conference: ‘A wheel of opportunity’
Skolkovo Robotics
13 Mar 2015
By David Nowak.
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference....
Qualcomm to power high school robotics with Snapdragon
Andra Keay
13 Mar 2015
On March 11, FIRST® announced that its worldwide high school robotics competition, FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®), will be using the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor as the platform for its robo...
#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches Part I
Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...
#ERF2015 in pictures
Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2015
ERF is the largest robotics networking event in Europe. Having launched this week in Vienna, this year's event has attracted over 600 attendees - a record number. Check out photos from the event belo...
‘Robots or jobs’ is key focus of #ERF2015
Adriana Hamacher
12 Mar 2015
The importance of allaying public fears that robots will create mass unemployment was the theme of the opening session at the 2015 European Robotics Forum (ERF), which kicked off in Vienna on Tuesday....
Live coverage of European Robotics Forum 2015
Robohub Editors
11 Mar 2015
The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum is kicking off today in Vienna.
This 3-day event, from March 11-13, is a meeting point for at least 600 scientists, companies and robotics officials...
Livestream: Rodney Brooks, Abhinav Gupta, Andrew McAfee on AI and the rise of robots
Robohub Editors
27 Feb 2015
Livestream of the Council of Foreign Relations' Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology starting 02/27/2015 at 12:45 EST....
Minesweepers uses robotics’ awesomeness to raise awareness about landmines & explosive remnants of war
Alaa Khamis
27 Feb 2015
Paul Jefferson, one of the earliest humanitarian deminers, said “a landmine is the perfect soldier: Ever courageous, never sleeps, never misses”. The simplicity and cost-effectiveness of mines are...
Forget Singularity, let’s talk Multiplicity: Ken Goldberg on AI at the WEF
Audrow Nash
23 Feb 2015
Each January, the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting takes place in Davos, Switzerland. This event is one of the preeminent economic conferences in the world, and this year, there was a majo...
Empowering startups’ global reach
Catherine Simon
18 Feb 2015
Innorobo’s call for start-ups has just closed and 25 semi-finalists from around the world will now be reviewed by a jury of experts to select the five winners. The winners will pitch to investors...
Media is more excited about farm robots than exhibitors at World Ag Expo
Frank Tobe
17 Feb 2015
The 48th annual World Ag Expo, with over 1,400 exhibitors, finished up in Tulare, California last week with little exposure to robotic game changers. Their Top 10 New Products included just one robot...
Call for euRathlon 2015 air/land/sea challenge now open
Marta Palau Franco
13 Feb 2015
euRathlon is a new outdoor robotics competition that invites teams to test the intelligence and autonomy of their robots in realistic mock emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima ...
Last chance to register for QUT’s ‘Intro to Robotics’ MOOC
EdCast
13 Feb 2015
Introduction to Robotics, taught by Professor Peter Corke of Queensland University of Technology, is an introduction to the exciting world of robotics and the mathematics and algorithms that underpin ...
Robots for Humanity inspires
Andra Keay
12 Feb 2015
Henry Evans had a brain stem stroke in 2002 that left him quadriplegic. Since then he has turned to robotics to unlock his abilities. Robots For Humanity (R4H.org) is a project that chronicles Henry...
