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Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot

Andra Keay 28 Oct 2014

Fellow Robots, in partnership with Lowes Hardware, today launched the OSHbot as a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. Although the robot can only give informatio...

Balance of privacy and control key to acceptance of robot bath assistants

Open Roboethics Initiative 15 Oct 2014

While the past decade has witnessed the emergence of various prototypes and research projects involving bathing robots, the public acceptance of the concept seems to largely depend on one socially sen...

NEXTAGE robot makes coffee! | Kawada Robotics Blog

Andra Keay 15 Oct 2014

Visitors to Japan Robot Week 2014 at Tokyo Big Sight can order their coffee from a robot. http://youtu.be/PHxmGPA10ck Robot Launch Pad's insight: Japan is putting a lot of focus on robotics in ...

What would you want your robot home to do for you?

Open Roboethics Initiative 14 Oct 2014

The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are getting 'smarter': we wear smart watches, carry smart phones, and many of us are now living in smart homes that are equipped with intellige...

Reader poll: How much control should a bathing robot have?

Open Roboethics Initiative 01 Oct 2014

http://youtu.be/0ac2qwStrdo A few years ago, researchers at the University of British Columbia (AJung Moon, Peter Danielson and Mike Van der Loos) studied the public acceptance of a number of diff...

Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M

Hallie Siegel 22 Sep 2014

This weekend we became the #1 Most Successful Technology Campaign on Indiegogo ever when we broke $2.2M! We are both elated and deeply grateful to all our supporters for helping JIBO set a new recor...

Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?

Open Roboethics Initiative 17 Sep 2014

While vacuum robots continue to dominate the ‘robots at home’ market, with Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at ...

Why is Japan the first to get Dyson’s new 360 Eye?

Reno Tibke 10 Sep 2014

This post originally appeared on Akihabara News. The Dyson 360 Eye autonomous vacuum cleaner went public in Tokyo on September 4th, and it got a lot of attention - enough to make almost any prod...

Recent robotic vacuum launches change industry from niche to mainstream

Frank Tobe 10 Sep 2014

Recent robotic vacuum cleaner product launches by Dyson and Samsung have transformed what once was a niche market of early adopters and robot enthusiasts into a marketplace of serious consumer produc...

Housework 2.0: The battle of the robot vacuum cleaners begins!

Hallie Siegel 05 Sep 2014

The public may be expecting to see robot cyborgs battle it out in distant galaxies, but back here on earth the battle of the robots is taking on a distinctively quotidian reality. The double announcem...

Dyson launches new robotic vacuum cleaner

Frank Tobe 04 Sep 2014

James Dyson announced his new 360 Eye robotic vacuum cleaner, which goes on sale in Japan later this year for $1,250. It will then be available in the UK, Europe, China and Australia later in 2015....

Korean Yujin Robot launches meal transport robot

Frank Tobe 01 Sep 2014

Korean-based Yujin Robot continues to release thoughtful new products. They just announced a meal-transport robot designed to operate in eldercare and other hospitality and health care facilities....

Has Dyson’s robotic dream become a reality?

Adriana Hamacher 01 Sep 2014

[tweetquote]Has Dyson finally cracked its 16-year mission to create a robot vacuum cleaner?[/tweetquote] The company’s teaser video hints at a new release which looks a lot like a rival for the be...

Hotel delivery robot debuts in Silicon Valley

Frank Tobe 13 Aug 2014

Savioke, a start-up headed by ex-Willow Garage CEO Steve Cousins, has provided Aloft Hotels with a robotic butler. Aloft Cupertino is the first to use the new SaviOne delivery robot....

Robot butler at your service: Savioke to pilot hospitality bot at Aloft Hotel

Hallie Siegel 12 Aug 2014

In a press release today, Savioke unveiled its new robot, SaviOne, a robot butler that was designed for the hospitality industry. Starting August 20, guests requesting items from the front desk at Alo...

Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME

Hallie Siegel 30 Jul 2014

Last year, while celebrating my birthday in Maine, I was given a drone fitted with a high-definition camera. After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words ab...

Wearable fashion toy Linkitz teaches girls how to program | TechCrunch

Hallie Siegel 25 Jul 2014

MIT PhD Lyssa Neel is using socializing and accessorizing to get get girls interested in programming. Neel’s invention, Linkitz, is a wearable electronic toy that allows kids to rearrange, take ap...

Jibo raises $1M in first week of crowdfunding campaign

Hallie Siegel 23 Jul 2014

On July 15th, Jibo launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with the goal of raising $100,000 towards developing their new social robot for the home. Less than one week later, Jibo surpassed the ...

JIBO: A game changing social robot

Frank Tobe 20 Jul 2014

JIBO, a 2013 Boston startup, launched an IndieGoGo campaign last week and is off to a rousing start, lots of favorable press, and, as of the time of this writing, has raised more than $700,000 over th...

The second wave of social robots is here

Andra Keay 16 Jul 2014

Cynthia Breazeal’s Jibo launched today and coming on the heels of Pepper, Aldebaran and Softbank’s new social robot, and Jimmy from Intel. It seems like we’re seeing a second wave of social robo...

Home Depot starts selling 3-D printers in stores | Bloomberg

Hallie Siegel 14 Jul 2014

Home Depot Inc. (HD), the world’s largest home-improvement chain, will start selling 3-D printers today in stores for the first time, pushing deeper into a market that was once the domain of enginee...

The next era of conversational technology

Roberto Pieraccini and Jibo 04 Jul 2014

In 1922, the Elmwood Button Co. commercialized a toy that could respond to voice commands. The toy, called Radio Rex, was a dog made of celluloid that would leap out of its house when you called its n...

On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier

Mark Stephen Meadows 24 Jun 2014

Bruno Maisonnier at TedExConcorde. Photo credit: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ. Last week I dropped by Aldebaran’s studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. ...

Why social robots will change your life

Cynthia Breazeal and Jibo 24 Jun 2014

It is a fantastic time for technology. We live in a more connected world, and compared to even a few decades ago, we have vastly improved access to information and content, and have dramatically expan...

SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper

Frank Tobe 06 Jun 2014

The latest creation from Aldebaran Robotics - Pepper - is designed to live with humans. It doesn’t clean or cook but it talks, is mobile, can read emotions, and reacts aut...

SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper knows how you’re feeling | ComputerWorld

Hallie Siegel 05 Jun 2014

Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC. Its...

17% compound annual growth rate forecast for home cleaning, remote presence and home entertainment robots

Frank Tobe 02 Jun 2014

A recent Business Insider article, Beyond Factory Robots: Market Forecast and Growth Trends for Consumer and Office Robots, concludes that for the period from now until 2019, ...

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