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Amazon Prime Air gets an updated FAA exemption
Frank Tobe
13 Apr 2015
In a 9-page legal letter, with 28 itemized conditions and limitations, the FAA issued an exemption to Amazon to enable Prime Air to test in US airspace....
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
Talking Machines
26 Mar 2015
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice
Daniel Faggella
20 Jan 2015
Link to audio file (27:29), or listen on iTunes
James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS’s “Nova,” in additi...
Q1 and Q2 2014 robot sales best ever
Frank Tobe
04 Aug 2014
Following the International Federation of Robotics' (IFR) announcement earlier this year that 2013 set an all-time robotics record, the North American Robotics Industries Association announced that 2...
iRobot buys back own shares up to $25M
Wolfgang Heller
25 Feb 2013
iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT), a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program. Under the program, iRobot...
Bioinspired robot STAR
Wolfgang Heller
21 Feb 2013
Researchers at the Biomimetic Millisystem Lab at UC Berkeley have developed a six legged, 12 cm long, bioinspired robot named STAR (Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot)....
First autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance
Wolfgang Heller
24 Jan 2013
Based on the following press release, iRobot, a leader in delivering robotic solutions, announced that the RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Adminis...
Empowered by UAVs
Wolfgang Heller
10 Jan 2013
The U.S. military UAV market is projected to grow at an 12% CAGR reaching $18.7 billion in 2018 according to a new report of Market Research Media Ltd. The report finds that the U.S. military UAV mark...
Swedish UAV ready for lift-off
Wolfgang Heller
10 Jan 2013
In December 2012, Swedish CybAero AB, a company developing and manufacturing autonomous unmanned helicopters, signed a strategic partnership agreement with the world's leading UAV company, Aer...
Multilateral manipulation by human-robot collaborative systems
Wolfgang Heller
09 Jan 2013
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas. A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to design the optimum workplace ...
Multilateral manipulation by human-robot collaborative systems
Wolfgang Heller
09 Jan 2013
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas. A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to design the optimum workplace ...
Robotic kit for kids
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of ...
CES Robotics 2013
Wolfgang Heller
04 Jan 2013
The annual CES - Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, is always a great opportunity for trendspotting and innovation hunting in consumer electronics including consumer robotics. CES 2013 ...
AeroVironment invests $3 million in Swedish CybAero
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
Credit. CybAero
AeroVironment Inc.(NASDAQ: AVAV) the clear leader in the man-portable, hand-launched UAS market, has announced a strategic partnership with Sweden-based CybAero (NASDAQOMXS: ...
Lego robot controlled from space
Wolfgang Heller
10 Nov 2012
Researchers from the METERON space project have for the first time ever successfully controlled a LEGO robot at ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, from the International Space Station (IS...
Robotic future of retail
Wolfgang Heller
01 Nov 2012
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University see the future of retail — with AndyVision, technology that helps to improve the shopping experience for both customers and retail staff.
AndyVision is a...
Two-armed robot system for under US$20k
Wolfgang Heller
30 Oct 2012
ST Robotics announced today the latest addition to their R12 robot product line, the Tandem R125, a low cost two-armed robot system for under $20,000. ST Robotics, based in Princeton, New Jersey and...
If I fly a UAV over my neighbor’s house, is it trespassing?
Andra Keay
11 Oct 2012
Even a toy drone with an HD camera scrambles our sense of property and privacy rights.
See on www.theatlantic.com...
Robots bring jobs back to the US | Kuka Robotics
Andra Keay
19 Sep 2012
See on www.kukaconnect.com...
Austin coffee robot Briggo looks to 2013 growth
Andra Keay
10 Sep 2012
Austin-based automated coffee vendor Briggo Inc. — which last week secured $2.8 million in financing — is preparing for an expansion that will bring more coffee robots to Austin next year and othe...
Will robots drive manufacturing back to the US?
Andra Keay
10 Sep 2012
Automated robots are producing manufactured and machined consumer and industrial goods around the world, but obstacles remain for widescale adoption, The New York Times reports.
See on www.thomasnet....
Why robot startups now? Part 2
Andra Keay
11 May 2012
2. Broader Financial Climate
A positive indicator for robotics startups is the improving financial climate. There are signs that the US housing market is stabilizing. Fannie Mae, the government bac...
