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Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research: Deadline June 5
Andra Keay
28 May 2015
Intuitive Surgical offers funding for technology research grants for projects in 2016. Researchers at non-profit institutions world wide can apply. LOIs can be submitted until June 5....
Visions of transformative research: Risk-reward, variation-selection, hot trends, exploration of the wild
Juan Rogers
08 Jul 2013
Over the last 20 years or so, a sense that science has become conservative or incrementalist has developed, and calls for change in the approaches to public funding of research have been heard from va...
Robohub focus on frontier robotics: High risks, high rewards
Hallie Siegel
27 Jun 2013
Researchers and entrepreneurs are used to weighing the potential risks and rewards of any project they are thinking of putting time and money into. Potential financial investors — be they govern...
What would you research if you did not have to worry about grants?
RBI Editors
17 Jun 2013
'Bean-counting' is a dull but necessary component of every grant proposal; it helps to keep our plans realistic, doable and accountable. But what if we weren't tied to grants and budgets? Would it cha...
Mark Tilden on “What would you research if you did not have to worry about grants?”
Mark Tilden
17 Jun 2013
Well, I'm lucky enough to be a gentleman scientist, so I concurrently study problems on minimal dynamical control systems (optimizing performance to silicon ratios), power regeneration and efficiency...
Illah Nourbakhsh on “What would you research if you did not have to worry about grants?”
Illah Nourbakhsh
17 Jun 2013
Community empowerment through massive robotic sensing.
There is no question we live in a world that is changing. Pollutants are changing the dynamics of the air we breathe, the water we drink and...
A crisis of expectations
Alan Winfield
29 Apr 2013
At the first UK Robot Ethics workshop on 25th March 2013, I offered — for discussion — the proposition that robotics is facing a Crisis of Expectations. And not for the first time. I argue that on...
Frank Tobe on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Frank Tobe
15 Feb 2013
Funding new robotic projects in America is mostly done two different ways:
(1) strategic funding from NASA, DARPA, DoD, NSF and other government organizations to do the pure science involved in sol...
Raffaello D’Andrea on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”
Raffaello D'Andrea
15 Feb 2013
The best way to commercialize robotics research is to make better connections between academics and entrepreneurs. Academics venturing out into the business world tend to have a "hammer looking for ...
