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RoCKIn2015: A glimpse into the future of Europe’s domestic and industrial robotics industry

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...
27 June 2015, by

RoCKIn2014, live stream and live scores

The RoCKIn2014 competition event is taking place right now, you can watch the live stream, broadcasting directly from Cité de l'espace science museum and you can also view the live scores from RoCKIn...
28 November 2014, by

EU Robotics Week is on!

The fourth annual EU Robotics Week is on across Europe, with more than 300 activities happening this week in 25 EU countries. Industry, research institutes and universities all over Europe will be...
25 November 2014, by

It’s all about fun: Robot startups at Pioneers Festival 2014

The Pionners Festival took place again this year at the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria, bringing together startups and investors from all over the world to talk about entrepreneurship and future t...
05 November 2014, by

First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)

ALCOR Lab members describe their experience. From September 23rd to October 2nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise (TJEx) took place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pi...
30 October 2014, by

Driven by care needs, will it be the booming senior population that spurs wider acceptance of robots?

Tony Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Center of Robotics believes that [tweetquote]the medical industry could be at the forefront of changing the public per...
19 October 2014, by



RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics

Robots to install underfloor insulation in draughty homes, bots for edutainment, intelliTables and tiny robust drones flying with real bees wings - tantalising glimpses of a technology on the cusp of ...
16 October 2014, by

Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5

euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition funded by the European Union with a focus on realistic cooperative mock emergency-response scenarios in three different domains: land, sea and air. On the ...
07 October 2014, by

euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2

euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...
02 October 2014, by

Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week

Leaks of substances into the sea, damage to underwater structures, machine rooms flooded… these were real challenges that emergency services working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station ha...
24 September 2014, by

Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 2014

    When you see a slick robot - say for instance the new Aldebaran Pepper robot - you can easily be distracted by the design, the gestures, the interaction, the cuteness. But AUTOMATI...
02 July 2014, by

Why was this man smiling at AUTOMATICA 2014?

34,500 visitors from more than 100 countries came to Munich this June to visit AUTOMATICA 2014 and examine the robotics-related wares of 731 exhibitors from over 42 countries. But why was Esben Ø...
17 June 2014, by

IFR Maker/User Panel at AUTOMATICA

In a crowded back room at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) sponsored a panel of prominent robot users explaining their needs to a panel of executives represent...
11 June 2014, by

Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award

The team collect their award at the Automatica fair in Munich, June 2014. Four researchers from Davide Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, have won ...
10 June 2014, by

Recent funding announcements

Several robotics funding announcements have been made recently, the biggest of which was announced at AUTOMATICA 2014. The Partnership for Robotics in Europe launched SPARC - a €2.8 billion public-p...
09 June 2014, by

IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales

At a press conference this morning at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, International Federation of Robotics (IFR) President Arturo Baroncelli announced that 179,000 industrial robots were sold in 2013, a 12...
04 June 2014, by

EU launches world’s largest civilian robotics programme – 240,000 new jobs expected

The European Commission and 180 companies and research organisations (under the umbrella of euRobotics) have launched the world’s largest civilian research and innovation programme in robotics....
03 June 2014, by

EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner

The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present t...
28 April 2014, by

€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry

The call for Europe's newest robotics competition opened yesterday when a consortium of leading robotics and research institutions from across the EU announced the launch of the European Robotics Chal...
02 April 2014, by

EU Robotics Week, with Fiorella Operto, Douwe Dresscher and Roko Tschakarow

Link to audio file (41:00)The European Robotics Week 2013 featured 334 robotics related events in 24 countries and attracted more than 55’000 participants spanning all ages. To give us a snapsho...
22 March 2014, by

Embodied communication: Looking for systems that mean what they say

The lay notion of how human communication works is, basically, that we exchange packages of information that are encoded and then decoded in our heads using language. But it just takes a little observ...
14 March 2014, by

Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival

Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna. It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vien...
10 December 2013, by

Ethical robots: Some technical and ethical challenges

I've been talking about robot ethics for several years now, but that's mostly been about how we roboticists must be responsible and mindful of the societal impact of our creations. Two years ago I w...
19 November 2013, by

Is this the right time for robotic startups?

Last month the Pioneers Festival took place in the Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria. According to its website, the festival is Europe's premium event for entrepreneurship and future technologies. Star...
14 November 2013, by

Pioneers kickstarts the start-up scene with a hands-on celebration of innovation

Andreas Tschas (far left) and Juergen Furian (far right) present a cheque to the 2012 Startup Challenge winner Poikos (centre). Photo credit: Heisenberg Media. When founders Andreas Tschas and Juerge...
17 October 2013, by

Call for participation: RoCKIn Camp 2014

RoCKIn Camp 2014 Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto 25, Rome, Italy January 26th-30th, 2014 Deadline for intention to participate: October 20th, 2013 Application deadline: November20th, 2...
16 October 2013, by

#Robotsandyou: Help drive the discussion on the ethics of cognitive systems and robotics

On the 23 and 24th of October researchers in cognitive systems will meet in Brighton to discuss the social and ethical implications of their work. The conference is organized by EUCognition, the Europ...
11 October 2013, by

Maker Faire European Edition kicks off in Rome

Europe's first Maker Faire will be held in Rome's Palazzo dei Congressi from October 3-6.  Billing itself as a "four-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness," Make...
02 October 2013, by

Winners of the euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition announced!

Robot TeodorPrime of team FKIE opening the suitcase that contains explosive material. Photo credits: euRathlon. euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition where teams test the intelligence and aut...
30 September 2013, by

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Four recap

The autonomous robot MuCAR-3 from team MuCAR (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) arrives. Photo credits: Aaron Boardley. Clouds, mist and rain accompanied the fourth day of euRathlon 2013 civilian ...
29 September 2013, by







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