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    Happy Birthday Nao!
    In our paper ‘10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review’, we present an overview of the evolution of NAO’s technical capabilities. We also present the main results from a scoping review of the human-robot interaction research literature in which NAO was used.
    05 February 2022, by , , , and

    Towards mapping unknown environments with a robot swarm
    Mapping is an essential task in many robotics applications. A map is a representation of the environment generated from robots positions and sensors data. A map can be either used to navigate the robo...
    01 April 2021, by , and

    Energy, enthusiasm and spirit of cooperation: Award winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 announced
    The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
    29 September 2017, by

    #ERLEmergency2017 in tweets
    The ERL Emergency Robots 2017 (#ERLemergency2017) major tournament in Piombino, Italy, gathered 130 participants from 16 universities and companies from 8 European countries. Participating teams desig...
    27 September 2017, by

    Robots to the rescue!
    This article was first published on the IEC e-tech website. Rapid advances in technology are revolutionizing the roles of aerial, terrestrial and maritime robotic systems in disaster relief, search...
    19 July 2017, by

    The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/10/17
    The U.S. Army is developing a drone that moves like a flying squirrel. Credit: David McNally/U.S. Army News A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted members of al-Shabab. It is the second drone...
    11 July 2017, by



    Notes and pics from Xponential in Dallas, Innorobo in Paris and ICRA in Singapore
    Conferences and trade shows, held in interesting locations around the world, can be entertaining, informative and an opportunity to explore new places, meet new people and renew acquaintances. Three r...
    20 June 2017, by

    ICRA 2017 in Singapore: Recap
    ICRA, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, is an annual academic conference covering advances in robotics. It is one of the premier conferences in its field. This year, I was ...
    08 June 2017, by

    Collaborative robotics at the Automate and ProMat trade shows
    Six to ten years ago, exhibitors at Automate were promoting bin-picking in many, many booths. Bin picking wasn't mentioned this year because it is an available option these days. For the last six ye...
    19 April 2017, by

    Hard at work: A review of the Laevo Exoskeleton
    Back pain is one of the leading causes of work absenteeism in the UK, with 8.8 million days lost to work-related muscoskeletal disorders per year. On average, each case causes 16 days of absenteeism, ...
    23 February 2017, by

    Book Review: ‘Peer Reviews in Software, A Practical Guide,’ by Karl Wiegers
    I have been part of many software teams where we desired to do code reviews. In most of those cases the code reviews did not take place, or were pointless and a waste of time. So the question is: how ...
    01 June 2016, by

    Ability to self-repair isn’t the same as consciousness: Analyzing Automata from a tech standpoint
    I recently had a chance to view Automata and wanted to share my thoughts on the movie based upon the current and future state of robotics and artificial intelligence. As a film, this was a tough one...
    04 April 2015, by

    Ex Machina: When Turing meets Bechdel test
    Alex Garland’s first feature film as a director, Ex Machina, had its US debut at SxSW on March 14. This stylish idea film explores the Turing Test in a very Pinteresque fashion as a young coder fall...
    15 March 2015, by

    Kidbotics review: Thymio II
    This is Kidbotics, [tweetquote]a new educational robotics review series for kids who, like me, are just coming into the robotics scene.[/tweetquote] I am 12 years old, and these reviews are meant to g...
    05 December 2014, by

    The Economist 14-page Special Report: Rise of the Robots—Cool!
      The Economist, a prestigious London-based business magazine zealously read around the world, has a 14-page Special Report in their current issue. 'Rise of the Robots' offers insight into...
    02 April 2014, by

    Mapping in the Cloud
    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...
    23 December 2013, by and

    Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
    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...
    20 December 2013, by and

    Selected start-ups from Demo Fall 2013, Silicon Valley
    DEMO describes itself as the launchpad for emerging technology and trends. The DEMO Fall 2013 Conference was produced by IDG, the publishing giant of Computerworld, PC World, MacWorld, etc. I went to ...
    19 October 2013, by

    Calling all do-it-yourselfers: Robohub seeking contributions for focus series on “Getting Started in Robotics”
    In light of the popularity of his AR.Drone tutorials, we have invited Robohub contributor Mike Hamer to act as Guest Editor for our next focus series "Getting Started in Robotics." Like many ch...
    08 August 2013, by

    SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference
    SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...
    27 July 2013, by

    Robotics and the disruptive transformation of agriculture
    Over the last few years, there has been increasing talk about the potential of agriculture as a market for robotics. Speaking about future markets for unmanned aerial systems in a recent presentation ...
    15 July 2013, by

    DARPA unveils new humanoid robot
      DARPA unveiled their new humanoid robot Atlas that will be used as part of their robotics challenge. It can tackle rough terrain and carry human tools.   See on DARPA website....
    12 July 2013, by

    iRobot unveils new AVA 500 mobile robot for professionals
    New iRobot AVA 500, planned for 2014 delivery, navigates autonomously and can be sent from point A to B using an iPad....
    11 June 2013, by

    Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water
    There have been many headlines about "killer robots" and invasion of privacy. They protest that robots will soon choose targets and then bomb or shoot those targets under their own direction and will ...
    09 June 2013, by

    SparkFun AVC 2013
    Most robotics hobbyists will be familiar with the name SparkFun, associating it with an electronics and robotics parts and kits supply house, located in Boulder, Colorado, and perhaps also with the in...
    09 June 2013, by

    Plug-and-play artificial compound eye for robotic applications
    Flies have small brains that would not be able to process high-resolution images such as those that we see with our own eyes. Instead, they've perfected the use of compound eyes, composed of a dense m...
    20 May 2013, by

    This week’s military news
    ... The Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned aircraft made its first aircraft carrier launch this week. Landings come later. ... The US Navy’s Naval Research Lab (NRL) flew a UAV for 48 hours, break...
    15 May 2013, by

    Low-cost robots like Baxter, UR5 and UR10 successfully entering small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
    Much has been said about the need to augment the skills and increase the productivity of small factory workers by using robotic assistants called co-robots. Europe funded an SME (Small and Medium-size...
    14 May 2013, by

    ROS Industrial celebrates one-year anniversary
    ROS-I is developing and promoting a manufacturer-independent open-source library of drivers and the transfer of established components from research to industry - not just h/w interfaces and MS, IOS a...
    13 May 2013, by

    We Robot Conference: The Ethical Robot License for open robotics
    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...
    07 May 2013, by

     
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