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Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable

Fotokite 19 Aug 2015

Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...

194 Chinese robot companies

Frank Tobe 18 Aug 2015

In China, the robotics industry is booming. Companies are deploying thousands of robots in all types of factories, particularly in the auto industry. Chinese companies that manufacture robots and the...

Silicon Valley’s Crowne Plaza hotel launches Savioke robot delivery service

Adriana Hamacher 05 Aug 2015

Leading hotel operator the InterContinental Group is introducing delivery robots at its Crowne Plaza San Jose-Silicon Valley property. The robots, made by local startup Savioke, will deliver snacks, t...

Telcos vs. big data companies: Which sector will drive consumer robotics?

Hallie Siegel and Robohub Editors 30 Jul 2015

NTT’s recent entry into consumer robotics suggests that it’s not just about Google vs Amazon, or Softbank vs NTT anymore, but about telcos vs big data companies. With two major and distinct sector...

Japanese telcos vie for share in consumer robot-as-a-service business

Hallie Siegel 29 Jul 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Yesterday a second Japanese telecommunication firm entered the consumer robot-as-a-service market when the state-owned Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NT...

Robot as marketing strategy: Bosch takes a bet on Rotimatic’s consumer flatbread maker

Andra Keay 22 Jul 2015

First it was robot vacuum cleaners; now it's robot kitchen appliances. Robots are back in the popular imagination as household helpers, and industry seems to be taking a bet on leveraging that int...

Robotic flatbread maker gets $11.5 million from two venture funds

Frank Tobe 22 Jul 2015

Zimplistic, the Singapore and Silicon Valley startup behind the Rotimatic, a robotic home flatbread maker, sold over $5 million at their launch last year. Today, they have a backlog of $72M in orders...

BUDDY opensource companion bot meets 100K crowdfunding goal in 1 day; now >200% funded

Blue Frog Robotics 15 Jul 2015

[tweetquote]BUDDY has something to smile about.[/tweetquote] The new open source companion robot by Blue Frog Robotics, launched an Indiegogo campaign on July 7th and sailed past its $100K crowdfu...

Building the Jibo prototype: Interview with VP Engineering Andy Atkins

Jibo 08 Jul 2015

Our most recent video update comes from our VP of Engineering Andy Atkins. Take a sneak peak inside the minds of our engineers as they finish our newest Jibo P2s, to find out what kinds of challenges ...

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...

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podcast

CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener

Audrow Nash 12 Jun 2015

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...

Robotic assistive devices for independent living

Kavita Krishnaswamy and Tim Oates 08 Jun 2015

Autonomy is the soul of independent daily living, and a variety of assistive devices already exist to help people with severe physical disabilities achieve this. But many of them are designed to be us...

Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng

Talking Machines 04 Jun 2015

In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....

Residential robotic vacuum cleaner market poised for stellar growth

Vipassa Kakroo 28 May 2015

Although robotic vacuum cleaners have been on the market for over a decade now, it is only recently that they have started to become pervasive. Innovations in technology have allowed manufacturers to ...

iPetCompanion lets you play with your pets via telepresence

Michael Savoie 22 May 2015

iPetCompanion have developed telepresence technology that allows you to manipulate toys so you can play with your pets while you're away. The team has installed the system in hospitals and animal sh...

Shadow Robot’s Dexterous Hand can do more than cook up a storm

Adriana Hamacher 07 May 2015

The Shadow Robot Company has been perfecting its robot hands for almost two decades, but it took just a short demo by the world’s first robot chef last month to propel this small, London-based start...

Why Google’s robot personality patent isn’t what it appears to be

Mark Stephen Meadows 16 Apr 2015

[tweetquote]Google’s new patent: Less about creating robot personalities than collecting yours.[/tweetquote]...

Sensor-driven armband used to direct robots

Frank Tobe 21 Mar 2015

ThalmicLabs' MYO gesture-based armband is making inroads driving robots, moving robot arms and on the arms of a Dutch trance music producer, DJ and radio personality....

Why are JIBO, Pepper, Siri, Google Now and Cortana so important?

Frank Tobe 16 Mar 2015

There's a race going on to see which AI solution providing personal assistance is welcomed by businesses, end users and consumers, and whether this will be physical or virtual....

Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes

Jibo 11 Mar 2015

In this development video, hosted by Jesse Gray & Matt Berlin of Team Jibo and the MIT Media Lab, we’ll discuss how Jibo uses movement, sound, LEDs, and screen graphics to communicate with peopl...

Robots to serve guests in Japanese hotel | The Telegraph

Hallie Siegel 09 Feb 2015

Guests checking into a new hotel close to the Japanese city of Nagasaki this summer may find themselves complaining that the service is just a little .... robotic. With due cause. In a paradigm-s...

HoloLens: Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles | WIRED

Hallie Siegel 22 Jan 2015

In several months, Microsoft will unveil its most ambitious undertaking in years, a head-mounted holographic computer called Project HoloLens. But at this point, even most people at Microsoft have nev...

Natural language: The de-facto interface convention for social robotics

Mark Stephen Meadows 21 Jan 2015

Social Robotics: The UX of Natural Language A very smart and snotty journalist told me that he had spoken with Aldebaran's Pepper system when he was in Boston. Much to his chagrin, the robot didn't ...

What do consumers want? Better batteries, not wearables | Fortune

Hallie Siegel 15 Jan 2015

You wouldn’t guess it wandering the endless displays of gadgets here at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, but the top tech need on the mind of most Americans isn’t sharper televisions, smar...

SoftBank/Aldebaran Pepper robots go on sale in February

Frank Tobe 15 Jan 2015

IEEE/Spectrum Senior Editor Erico Guizzo describes in a recent post (and two videos) how Aldebaran's two-year Pepper project is coming to fruition....

Robocars at CES: BMW

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 09 Jan 2015

Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...

GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android

Grasp IO, Inc. 03 Dec 2014

GraspIO is part hardware and part software, and gives everyone an easy way to build electronics projects using smartphones and tablets. It’s the world’s first DIY electronics platform with easy-to...

25 holiday gift ideas for RoboGeeks (2014)

Robohub Editors 21 Nov 2014

[tweetquote]Need some gift ideas for that special robot geek in your life?[/tweetquote] We polled the Robohub team for their favorite ideas, from stocking stuffers to once-in-a-lifetime gifts, so you'...

Over 70,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day

Frank Tobe 20 Nov 2014

Just last month Rod Brooks chided me that robotic vacuum cleaners were already mainstream in response to what I had written: that they had just recently moved from niche to mainstream partly because ...

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