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Robots on Tour event draws larger-than-expected crowds

  20 Mar 2013
Surprise! Robots are much more popular than expected! Robots on Tour started off on Friday 8 March 2013 with a scientific symposium at café/bar Sphères in Zurich, Switzerland. Big names from the...

Active military robots around the world

  15 Mar 2013
This is a brief presentation of some of the most widely used robots (or remotely controlled, semi-autonomous systems) from militaries around the world. There are numerous other projects that are curre...

Designed to mingle: Rezero ballbot’s smooth moves can handle a crowd

  05 Mar 2013
Designing robots that can function outside of controlled, factory environments isn’t easy. When those environments have people in them, they are especially unpredictable and difficult for a robot to...

KUKA youBot HACKATHON 2013

  27 Feb 2013
German KUKA youBot Store has announced a new initiative to promote education in mobile manipulation. Research groups and labs in universities and public research facilities are invited to organize an ...

2013 robotic gimmicks, gadgets and toys

  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....

Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters

  21 Feb 2013
Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...

Flying robot performs 2D/3D mapping in the alps

  20 Feb 2013
Sensefly just released a fun video of their latest product, eBee, autonomously flying over an alpine landscape near the Matterhorn while performing 2D and 3D mapping....

Bolt closes funding round and opens applications

  20 Feb 2013
Bolt, Ben Einstein's hardware and robotics accelerator in Boston, today announced the close of their first funding round and the opening of the first round of applications for 2013 hardware startups. ...

Cell origami

  19 Feb 2013
A couple years back, a team from Harvard and MIT developed a sheet of "programmable matter" that could fold into 3D structures....

Frank Tobe on “What funding scheme is the most conducive to creating a robotics industry?”

  15 Feb 2013
Funding new robotic projects in America is mostly done two different ways: (1) strategic funding from NASA, DARPA, DoD, NSF and other government organizations to do the pure science involved in sol...

So long, and thanks for all the bots!

  12 Feb 2013
So, depending on who you ask, Willow Garage is shutting down, pursuing commercial interests, or changing direction. But things are not as dire as some may think: ROS is fine (the OSRF will support it)...

NERVE, New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation Center, opens Feb. 12th

  11 Feb 2013
NERVE, the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation Center at UMass Lowell, when it opens tomorrow, will be one of three such facilities in the United States. Incorporating elements of NIST...

ManyEars: open source framework for sound processing

  08 Feb 2013
One of the latest papers in the Journal Autonomous Robots presents ManyEars, an open framework for robot audition....

RobotsLab launches BOX at TCEA 2013

  06 Feb 2013
We all know that robots are the gateway to STEM education, so what's not to love about getting 4 robots in a box, complete with lessons preloaded on a tablet. As both the US and UK undergo core curric...

3’600-strong underwater robot sensor network returns 1’000’000th measurement, has scientists craving for more

  05 Feb 2013
The Argo project, which has deployed a network of more than 3'600 robots covering all of the world's oceans, has returned it's 1'000'000th measurement....

Samsung launch accelerator and $1.1 billion in funds

  05 Feb 2013
Samsung today offered hope to robot startups with the launch of its new Catalyst Fund, a $100 million commitment to the development of components, subsystems and disruptive technology. This is almost ...

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

  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...

ROS on a stick

  29 Jan 2013
One of the exciting announcements at Automate 2013 is also one of the smallest. Gumstix, providers of Linux computers-on-modules (COMs) are offering ROS on a stick. For $45, Gumstix provide a bootable...

Prioria Maverick, flexible wing UAS

  30 May 2011
Maverick is a small uav made by Prioria, a company founded in 2003 by business and engineering graduates from the University of Florida. It is portable, very light and has most of the features a comme...

Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace

  24 Mar 2011
The use of UAVs has skyrocketed, a wide variety of systems ranging from extremely small flying bots to large airframes like the Predators or Global Hawk drones is currently in use, mostly from armed ...







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