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Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants

Mark Stephen Meadows 06 Mar 2014

The incoming second wave of contextual agents There's a virtual lobby of Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) waiting to help us these days. These multi-million dollar systems include Yahoo's Don...

ShanghAI Lectures: Sukhan Lee “Cognitive Recognition for Service Robots”

Nathan Labhart 23 Jan 2014

Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-10 Recognition has been a subject of intense research interest to computer vision, AI, cognitive science, as well as robotics communities for, at least,...

Beam+ remote presence robots becoming affordable

Frank Tobe 21 Jan 2014

Suitable Technologies just announced their new Beam+ remote presence robot and is offering the first 1,000 units at a price of $995 (thereafter it will be $1,995). First shipments are scheduled for Su...

Doggone it, there are no exciting consumer robots

Andra Keay 21 Jan 2014

If CES shows us anything it’s that consumer robots aren’t exciting, they’re appliances. But it’s exciting that we have a growing field of consumer robots, smart devices and appliances. Accordi...

7 consumer robots to look out for from CES 2014

Shima Rayej 11 Jan 2014

This year’s CES in Las Vegas showcased some of the latest technologies from both established and up-and-coming robotics companies. Drones, telepresence robots, automated cleaning devices and enter...

Eureka! There are academic startups at CES 2014

Andra Keay 09 Jan 2014

Eureka Park at International CES 2014 is the zone for innovation, for startups and for spinoffs from university and grant funded research. Eureka Park is sponsored by Indiegogo and by the National Sci...

Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant

TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella 05 Jan 2014

Tjin Van Der Zant helped found “Robocup at Home” in 2006, and since then the organization has spread to include a number of new locations everywhere from Brazil to Thailand. As a professor at the ...

Mapping in the Cloud

Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah 23 Dec 2013

UPDATE: New video of a collaborative, cloud-based mapping experiment. Mapping is essential for mobile robots and a cornerstone of many more robotics applications that require a robot to interact with...

Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk

Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel 20 Dec 2013

2022 update: A new, one-wheeled version of the Cubli has been developed. The one-wheel Cubli is a three-dimensional pendulum system that can balance on its pivot using a single reaction wheel, as it i...

Still looking for last-minute holiday gifts? 15 ideas for robot fans (2013)

Ioannis K. Erripis 19 Dec 2013

If you still have holiday shopping to do, these gift ideas from the Robohub team will be sure to please the robot fans in your life. From stocking stuffers to once-in-a-lifetime gifts, you can find so...

8 robotic toys for the holidays (2013)

Frank Tobe 25 Nov 2013

Frank Tobe's holiday gift ideas for robot fans....

The scourge of the RoboTroll is already upon us

Alan Winfield 22 Aug 2013

When a robot ethics working group met nearly three years ago one of the things we fretted about was privacy. We were concerned especially about personal companion robots. Whatever their purpose, be it...

Orbotix introduces Sphero 2.0

John Payne 15 Aug 2013

http://youtu.be/5Bg88VkWGOQ There's not much more about Sphero 2.0 on the Orbotix website other than this two-minute video, but Evan Ackerman of Automaton has a little more information. The followi...

SparkFun Redbot

John Payne 09 Aug 2013

http://youtu.be/AGVsV4abajo The ready-made platform (kit) options just keep getting better. Here SparkFun shows off its new Redbot kit, which includes everything you need to put together a basic mo...

2 cute robots: one funded by Japan’s Space Agency the other by Kickstarter

Frank Tobe 30 Jun 2013

Japan’s cute talking robot will take off August 4th for the Space Station. Kirobo, a 13” 2# mini-humanoid robot remembers faces, can move its head and arms, and is expected to help keep company an...

We Robot Conference: 4. Social robot demo

Kate Darling 21 May 2013

On April 8-9, Stanford Law School held the second annual robotics and law conference, We Robot. This year’s event focused on near-term policy issues in robotics and featured panels and papers by sch...

Rethink Robotics and Aldebaran both launch robots for research, teaching and custom development

Frank Tobe 26 Apr 2013

Rethink Robotics just launched a version of their Baxter robot armed with a new SDK providing educators and researchers with almost limitless capabilities at an affordable cost. Using ROS and the new ...

iRobot stock jumps 15% on Q1 earnings and 2013 projections

Frank Tobe 24 Apr 2013

iRobot’s stock (ISRG:NASDAQ) jumped 15% today on yesterday’s earnings report which exceeded analysts’ expectations for both the quarterly earnings and the annual projections....

iRobot shipped 421.000 home robot units in Q1, 2013

Wolfgang Heller 23 Apr 2013

iRobot Corp., the leader in home consumer robotics, has shipped 421.000 home robot units in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 392.000 for the same quarter one year ago, according to data releas...

Romo on the move

Frank Tobe 16 Mar 2013

Romotiv, the maker of the Romo robot, is moving from Las Vegas to San Francisco. CEO Rinaudo wrote the reason behind the move, which will take place over the next three months, was the company’s des...

2013 robotic gimmicks, gadgets and toys

Frank Tobe 26 Feb 2013

Toys often precede more serious inventions. So, putting judgement aside, and withholding laughs and other "tells", here are some new robotic toys and gadgets hitting the market this year....

Management shakeup at Adept Technology

Frank Tobe 25 Feb 2013

... Rob Cain replaces John Dulchinos as CEO of Adept Technology. Cain has worked with Adept for the past few months as an advisor and representative of Hale Capital Partners and crafted a restructurin...

Augmented realty interface for telepresence robots

Wolfgang Heller 22 Feb 2013

Telepresence robots are remote controlled cameras on wheels that are connected via Wi-Fi to a user's computer, mobile phone or tablet. The user can communicate via a "human-scale" robot with other peo...

Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution

Markus Waibel 04 Feb 2013

During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...