Replicable and measureable robotics research: Back to the basics of the scientific method

GoPro unveils long-awaited Karma stabilized drone system and kit

$60 million committed to Smart Cities Initiative

Farewell to Vic Scheinman, inventor of the modern robot arm

46 research reports analyze the robotics industry and autonomous vehicles

The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Manning

XoSoft: Intelligent trousers designed to assist people with limited mobility

Robocar parking is incredibly cheap

Michigan’s automated driving bills

Robots can successfully imitate human motions in the operating room

What’s new in robotics this week: British Standards Institute releases guidelines for ethical robot design

A practical look at latency in robotics: The importance of metrics and operating systems

Should your robot have a tether?

Tesla drivers wake up to a serious upgrade | Bloomberg

Victor Scheinman, assembly line robot inventor, dies at 73 | The New York Times

Critique of NHTSA’s newly released regulations

Robot teams create supply chain to deliver energy to explorer robots

US Department of Transportation issues guidance for automated driving

EQ-Radio: Detecting emotions with wireless signals

Artificial intelligence software is booming. But why now? | The New York Times

Robocar recap: Tesla radar, MobilEye fight, and the Comma One $1,000 add-on-box

Do no harm, don’t discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics | The Guardian

Designing and deploying a fleet of autonomous boats on the canals of Amsterdam

Brenna D. Argall: Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy | CMU RI Seminar

DelftAcopter: Innovative single-propeller hybrid drone

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/19/16

Pittsburgh and Singapore are now pilot sites for self-driving car services

LunaRoo

What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030

InterDrone 2016: Professionalization and business of drone industry

Autopilot cited in death of Chinese Tesla driver | The New York Times

Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh | TechCrunch

Machines can learn by simply observing, without being told what to look for

Integrators are dead, long live the integrator

Surgeons use robot to operate inside eye in world first

Watch humanoid robot Atlas balance on one foot

Breaking down robotaxi economics

Top 10 technologies in precision agriculture

Robohub roundtable: Cybathlon and advancements in prosthetics

Tune in: Economist holding Facebook Live Q&A about AI and the future of work

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/12/16

Robotiq launches DoF: A community for robotics professionals

Telepresence robots help chronically ill kids maintain social, academic ties at school

HAPTIX program underway to create prosthetic hand system that moves and feels like a real hand

Talking Machines: Restricted Boltzmann Machines, with Eric Lander

Meet the pilots preparing for Cybathlon: Claudia Breidbach

Human-robot disaster response team successfully deployed robots in earthquake damaged monuments

Future engineers build their own six-legged autonomous robots at Robot Camp

Cybathlon: A bionics competition for people with disabilities

The Head of CMU’s Robotics Lab Says Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Not Even Close’

Japan to develop 3-D maps for self-driving cars- Nikkei Asian Review

No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data

Case IH displays new cab-less concept tractor

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/5/16

Robohub Digest 08/16: Olympics, problematic crowdfunding, and NASA’s space robotics challenges

August fundings and acquisitions

ExoAtlet: Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation

From flying shuttles to rolling robots, automated supply chains are almost here

Drive.ai uses deep learning to teach self-driving cars – and to give them a voice

Baidu and Nvidia to Build Artificial Intelligence Platform for Self-Driving Cars

How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

Robot Tractor Draws Crowds on Debut at Iowa Farm Show

Surveying flooded mines with UNEXMIN: Interview with Norbert Zajzon

How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature

3D Print Your Own Breakfast

Inside the Robot-Run Genetics Lab of Tomorrow (Just Watch Your Step)

Interview: How to build a lionfish-killing robot

Lowe’s robot wants to help you find the plumbing aisle

Livestream: NASA’s final sample return robot competition

Taking measure of artificial intelligence and the Turing Test

Regulations on civilian drones in the US and Europe, what do they involve?

Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction

Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision

Why the death of Moore’s Law could give birth to more human-like machines

Teaching physics 101 to robots is harder than you think

Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish (video)

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/29/16

Cybathlon adds robots to olympics

Willow Garage as PARC for robotics

Are Robots Really Destined to Take Over Restaurant Kitchens?

Robots-as-a-service: New company introduces first ‘goods-to-box’ warehouse picking system | ZDNet

How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human

Italian team brings household robot a step closer

Installing and running time synchronization, with chrony

Two LiDAR makers each get big funding

World’s First Self-Driving Taxis Hit the Road in Singapore

Goodbye Rio, hello robots: Expect high-tech cool at 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Pizza drones are go! Domino’s gets NZ drone delivery OK – Business – NZ Herald News

Parrot’s Disco Drone Lets You Take to the Sky in Immersive FPV

Robot makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots

Introducing the Octobot: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot

Switzerland enlists robots to help deliver mail

Tackling the European refugee crisis with solar-powered UAVs: A fully autonomous 26 hour search-and-rescue flight

The Robots Are Coming. Welcome Them

The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Winfield

Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 3 of 3)

Soldiers test robot tech during visit by Army Secretary Fanning

Parts-Makers Mobileye, Delphi Team Up on Automated Driving

Robocar recap: Uber buys Otto, folks leave Google, Ford goes big, Tesla drops MobilEye

Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 2 of 3)

Make your own Dtto Modular Robot – Assembly instructions (Part 1 of 3)

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/22/16

Airbus to Build Autonomous Flying Taxis

How This Hedge Fund Robot Outsmarted Its Human Master

News bureaus and networks setting up drone divisions

Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses

People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones

People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones

Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light

Aging Danes Hope Robots Will Save Their Welfare State

Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first

As Ford sets a date, Jibo retracts theirs

NASA Space Robotics Challenge prepares robots for the journey to Mars

NASA’s asteroid redirect mission completes robotic design milestone

Man With Cerebral Palsy Walks For The First Time, Thanks To Robotic Skeleton Device

Uber Debuts Its First Fleet of Driverless Cars in Pittsburgh

Midea’s masterplan to become China’s robot powerhouse

50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea

Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine

Talking Machines: Generative art and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, with Doug Eck

Robotics Can Get Girls Into STEM, but Some Still Need Convincing

China’s Factories Count on Robots as Workforce Shrinks

Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years

IDC awards 5 warehouse robotics innovators

Robohub roundtable: Why do robotics crowdfunding projects fail?

Everything you need to know about drone racing

What coachmen from the 1920s can tell us about robots and jobs

SRI Spin-off Abundant Robotics Developing Autonomous Apple Vacuum

Toyota funds A.I., robotics research at Michigan campus

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/15/16

How Rethink Robotics Sees The Future Of Collaborative Robots

Can Singapore’s labor crunch spark a robot revolution?

Designing our home service robot from the ground up

Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?

Last call for startups – Robot Launch 2016

Pepper the ’emotional robot’ makes its way to Silicon Valley

Survey: Evaluate ethics of health related privacy with care robots

Robocar platooning, or just carpool?

Biohybrid robots built from living tissue start to take shape

Exoskeletons: From helping people walk to controlling robots in space

Uh-oh! Crowdfunded social robot Jibo won’t now ship outside North America

What happens when a robot company sells off a division?

Think Amazon’s Drone Delivery Idea Is a Gimmick? Think Again

Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist

European Robotics League posts first major tournament results

Robot companions are coming into our homes — how human should they be?

Prospector-1—first commercial interplanetary mining mission

Robotic gait training for kids with CP – it’s cool but does it work? – Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine – University of Alberta

How will robots shape our future? (infographic)

Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment

Flying Ring robot can fly on its side

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – Part 5

The dark side of ethical robots

Could RoboBees help save food supplies? (video)

Marty: the little walking robot that’s more than a toy

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/8/16

The Washington Post will use robots to write stories about the Rio Olympics

The Rio Olympics will have some of the smartest sports cameras ever

Interview: International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) winner on “Bigfoot 2” Husky UGV

Project Ngulia: From Phone to Drone

Welcome to the Cyborg Olympics

Major Drone Maker Implements No-Fly Zones For Rio Olympics

As Intuitive Surgical continues to shine, competitors are entering the fray

Hackers Fool Tesla S’s Autopilot to Hide and Spoof Obstacles

MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip

How Lockheed Martin’s SPIDER Blimp-Fixing Robot Works

Wall-climbing robots create a carbon fiber hammock (with video, images)

NPR podcasts discuss automation and the future of work

Scientists have designed a robotic onesie that uses tracking sensors to help struggling babies crawl

This Company Just Got Permission to Land a Robot on the Moon

Robot Revolution: Intelligence In, Intelligence Out — THE Journal

Wave robot able to crawl, swim and climb with single motor – E & T Magazine

China’s Impending Robot Revolution

Hello Pepper: Getting started to program robots on Android

July fundings, acquisitions and failures

Do we want robots to be like humans? – podcast

Seymour Papert, a Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence and Kids Coding, Has Died

Microswimmer robot chains can decouple and reconnect in magnetic field

Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis

‘In robotics, the challenge is the application’

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/1/16

US military using ‘drone buggies’ to patrol Africa camps

New Surgical Robots May Get a Boost in Operating Rooms

Relax about robots but worry over climate change – FT.com

Delphi to Begin Testing On-Demand Robot Taxis in Singapore

The relationship between dance and robotic fabrication – with video

Robohub Digest 07/16: Tesla’s Autopilot question, lethal robots, RoboCup, and a brave 10-year-old

Flying robots perform 100th show on Broadway, using new localization technology and algorithms

Pros and cons for different types of drive selection

‘IDSC Tailsitter’ flying robot performs vertical loops and easily transitions between hover and forward flight

Lessons from Brexit and learning to better communicate robotics research and innovation

Talking Machines: Machine learning and the Flint water crisis, with Jake Abernethy

Where machines could replace humans–and where they can’t (yet) | McKinsey & Company

Tesla parting ways with Mobilieye on Autopilot/Self-driving development following fatal crash [Updated]

This Space-Exploring Robot Tweeted a Heartbreaking Farewell

This robot just conquered its ultimate nemesis: stairs

The legacy of TV’s Robot Wars – BBC News

Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange

AUTOMATICA 2016: Digitalization, collaboration and service robotics

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/25/16

Physics-Based Optimization for Robot Control

Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now? — Silicon Valley Robotics

Watch this delivery through the eyes of a self-driving robot

IAM Robotics Takes on Automated Warehouse Picking

Elon Musk’s OpenAI is turning warehouse bots from Fetch Robotics into home helpers

China wants to be a top 10 country for automation by putting more robots in its factories

The cutting edge of robots: your lawn – The Boston Globe

How science can help us make AI more trustworthy

What’s new in robotics this week? SoftBank spending $32 billion on ARM

This drone can detect and detonate land mines

Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now?

Your Luggage’s Grand Robotic Adventure From Check-In to the Clouds

SSL to Provide Robotic Arms to DARPA for Satellite Servicing

Asimo Meets Pepper: Honda and Softbank Partnering in Robots

Artificial muscle for soft robotics: Low voltage, high hopes

Midea now owns 85.69% of KUKA’s shares

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 4

Google’s DeepMind A.I. Just About Cut Its Power Bill in Half

Mercedes-Benz unveils Self-Driving Bus

Robots Have Been Visiting Mars For 40 Years Today

Robots Could Hack Turing Test by Keeping Silent

Obi robot arm gives disabled diners a helping hand

Clever AI Turns a World of Lasers Into Maps for Self-Driving Cars

Why football, not chess, is the true final frontier for robotic artificial intelligence

Drive kinematics: Skid steer and mecanum (ROS twist included)

SoftBank jumpstarts IoT by buying ARM for $32 billion

This chubby robot puppy from Japan is equal parts amazing and adorable【Video】

Law-abiding robots? What should the legal status of robots be?

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/18/16

How Industry 4.0 and Pokémon Go met halfway on the road to maximizing the IoT

Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money

Google’s DeepMind AI to use 1 million NHS eye scans to spot diseases earlier

A bunch of computers will try to hack each other in Vegas for a $2 million prize

ARM chipmaker to be bought for £24bn by Japan’s Softbank – BBC News

Driving, flying, and climbing in a sand and gravel pit

Robots for a sustainable future

Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash With Europe

Tesla Stands By Autopilot, Plans More Educational Outreach – InformationWeek

Star Wars and the future of healthcare

A European perspective on robot law: Interview with Mady Delvaux-Stehres

Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help

“Deep learning is the most fundamental advance in AI research since AI started in 1956”

The obsession with creating ‘perfect female robots’: Should women be worried?

What Ethics Should Guide the Use of Robots in Policing?

Can a robot mend a lonely heart?

In The Near Future Robots Will Assemble Large Telescopes in Space

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 3

Mall security bot knocks down toddler, breaks Asimov’s first law of robotics

Commercial Drones Make a Splash at British Air Show

Are skintight suits the future of robotic exoskeletons?

Robot Launch 2016 searching for the world’s best robotics and AI startups

Relax, we’re not living in a computer simulation

Teaching the teachers: Study focuses on how teachers perceive educational robots in classrooms

Recreating ancient vertebrate’s first step on dry land, with a robot

Olive robotic suitcase brings new meaning to carry on luggage

Robots shoot, score, advance AI then fall over at the robot world cup 2016

DURUS Brings Human-Like Gait (and Fancy Shoes) to Hyper-Efficient Robots

When Is it Okay for the Police to Use Killer Robots?

Over 1,000 robots in use by US law enforcement, based on public data

Coming very soon: robotic toys, robot-made hamburgers, mobile robot deliveries

Anki’s new Cozmo SDK turns toy robots into sophisticated research tools

Tesla Ramping Up For Autopilot 2.0 With LIDAR, More Cameras – Gas 2

Understanding the massive gulf between the Tesla Autopilot and a real robocar, in light of the crash

MIT robot helps nurses schedule tasks on labor floor

62 market research reports study robotics industry

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/11/16

Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road

What’s new in robotics this week? Amazon’s robot champion

Robotic ray made with rat cells can be steered by light

Talking Machines: Automatic Translation and t-SNE, with Hal Daume

Unity between human and social machines: What if we humans were anthrobots?

Police use of robot to kill Dallas shooting suspect is new, but not without precursors

Robolliance focuses on autonomous robotics for security and survelliance

Rethink Robotics Strikes Gold at 5th China International Robot Show

Starship delivery robots getting ready to deliver in London, Germany, Bern

Pick a winner: Dutch robot rises to Amazon Challenge by grabbing and stowing items the best

Robots are learning navigation skills by being trained to hunt prey

A robot could deliver your next meal

The Robot Afterlife: An exciting story about the post-factory years

Should Tesla disable your Autopilot if you’re not diligent? Plus, a survey of robocar validation

Scientists Look Into “Growing” Drones Using “Chemputer”

Cozmo Blog

Who Will Build the Next Great Car Company?

Japan wants to take autonomous construction extraterrestrial

Geta load of this, Chinese robot parks your car for you

The ‘Michael Jordan’ Of Machine Learning Wants To Put Smarter A.I. In Your Home

Robohub Digest 06/16: Celebrating collaboration, record robot sales, ethical debates and Brexit

Logistic companies Swisslog, Dematic, Egemin and Intelligrated all acquired

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/4/16

Letter to the 10-year-old girl who applied to the Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship

The future of work

Automatica’s exhibitors were trumpeting Industry 4.0. Is this the turning point for robotics?

Live coverage: Robocup 2016

Man dies while driven by Tesla Autopilot

June fundings, acquisitions and failures

How template matching works in robot vision

What’s happening in robotics? Five trends to watch

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/27/16

ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2)

What’s new in robotics this week? Limiting cuteness in robot design

RoboThespian gets its own YouTube channel

NASA Robonaut 2 simulation: Placing an ISS panel in The Construct

Boston Dynamics made a new robot: SpotMini

Boston Dynamics made a giraffe robot

Lighting the way to deep machine learning

Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics

Building better trust between humans and machines

Forget Doomsday AI—Google Is Worried about Housekeeping Bots Gone Bad

Bespoke processor gives robot movement a speed boost

Drone deliveries: Canada Post looks to the future of mail

Lines Dividing Rich And Poor Captured With Drones

New partnership looks to strengthen European robot industry

Industrial robot sales for 2015 set new record, despite troubles in China

Next Big Future: Toyota will spend a billion dollars on a five year project to make mainstream affordable helper robots for the elderly

Airobotics raises $28.5M to pursue autonomous drone platforms for heavy industry

Business is waking up to the idea of deep learning

Elon Musk’s open source OpenAI: We’re working on a robot for your household chores | ZDNet

Europe’s robots to become ‘electronic persons’ under draft plan

Robohub roundtable: Job loss through automation, Foxconn controversy

FAA announcement for sUAS met with industry excitement

Teaching machines to predict the future

Meet Synthia, the virtual driving school for autonomous cars

Talking Machines: Fantasizing cats and data numbers, with Iain Murray

How to make a printed circuit board using a diode laser with a 3D printer

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/20/16

A Powerful Yet Tiny Engine Inches Closer to Powering EVs and Drones

The most staggering part about Amazon’s upcoming drone delivery service

Japan’s Global Robotics Equity Fund Popular with Older Investors

Electric-car hopeful Faraday Future wants to test autonomous cars in Michigan

Patients greeted by robot at Belgian hospital

Man seeking robot: One inventor’s quest to cure loneliness

Amazon is just beginning to use robots in its warehouses and they’re already making a huge difference

Deep Learning Isn’t a Dangerous Magic Genie. It’s Just Math

The robots are not taking over – the economy continues to generate more jobs

Designing simple, cheap cars of the future

What’s new in robotics this week? First commercial 3D printer in space is up and running

Robot called Amelia to do the job of human council workers for the first time 

Russian ‘runaway robot’ causes traffic jam – BBC News

The future of robotics – MoneyWeek

China’s Midea Unwraps Offer for Robot-Maker Kuka

This is the dark side of China’s growing robotics sector

Teaching robots the physics of sliding and pushing objects

The human brain vs. the digital brain: A case for visual inspections

Using soft robots for artificial muscles

Caring for robots: How assistive robotics may change our homes

Small UAV turbojet engine developed in Japan

Oakton Community College students take 2nd in NASA robotics competition

These are the weirdest interactions a ‘robot whisperer’ has seen between humans and bots

The Social Robot Revolution

Wal-Mart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart for Stores

Meet Betty of Milton Keynes, Britain’s first robotic office manager 

Robotic microscope locks on to wiggly worm’s brain

Do driverless cars mean I’ll never need to take my driving test? | Hannah Jane Parkinson

Unmanned combat robots beginning to appear

Going the last mile with robots

Berlin and Brussels wary of Chinese robotics bid – FT.com

Social Robots Are Just as Prevalent in Europe as They are in Japan

Airbus’ New 3D Printed Plane | iHLS Israel Homeland Security

Chinese investors keep buying international robotics companies

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/13/16

Research projects study automated orchard management – Fruit Growers News

Amazon’s robot army fuels expansion

Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

MIT’s AI passes Turing Test for sound

Robots Are Invading Malls (and Sidewalks) Near You

Robot workers are showing up in malls, hotels, and parking lots

ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 1 of 2)

How might drone racing drive innovation?

Letting policymakers handle the trolley problem

Infographic: The making of a collaborative robot

Xiaomi challenges DJI with a low-cost drone

Driverless car insurance has arrived – Driverless Cars – Adrian Flux

Come on, Let’s Give the Robots Hands Already

Next Big Future: World’s first child-exoskeleton for spinal muscular atrophy

First Surgical Robot from Secretive Startup Auris Cleared for Use

Siemens has an army of spider robots that work as a team to complete tasks

Passenger-carrying drone gets symbolic approval for test flights in Nevada

Motivational posters with a clever robotics twist

Robohub Digest 05/16: Prepping for AI, automating trucks, and summer robotic competitions

National Robotics Initiative celebrates five-year anniversary

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/6/16

Medtronic expects revenue from surgical robot in fiscal 2019

Robotic librarian finds lost books, won’t tell you to shush

How much can customers test robocars?

Big data, the cloud — FANUC and Kuka?

There’s now a robot that can check your bags at Geneva airport

Plan to Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships Could Spur Off-Earth Mining

Livestream conference: Artificial Intelligence for Social Good

Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says

Talking Machines: Spark and ICML, with Sinead Williamson

Russian developer collaborates with Facebook, Google to make ‘machines see’ – The Economic Times

Mazor Robotics inks deal with Medtronic

How Robots Are Impacting Education in Europe – Robotics Trends

U of Washington Tech Policy Lab answers the question: What is a robot?

The robot uprising has begun and it’s about to change your life

Robots add real value when working with humans, not replacing them

People Underestimate the Power of DJI’s SDK – Here’s Why You Shouldn’t – sUAS News

Robots add real value when working with humans, not replacing them

Mining and nuclear decommissioning: Robots in dangerous and dirty areas

Watch: Polish Police’s New Bomb Disposal Robots

Antenna separation: How close can you go?

Stanford’s ‘Jackrabbot’ robot will attempt to learn the arcane and unspoken rules of pedestrians

Beyond Asimov: how to plan for ethical robots

Google’s Magenta project just wrote its first piece of music, and thankfully it’s not great

Asus Zenbo Attempts to Convince Us That We Need a $600 Home Robot

These Australian Researchers are Working on Robot Cowboys

Toyota Could Be the Buyer for Google’s Robotic Dog

Emergency Room: Mumbai hospitals turn to robotic surgeries, but high costs a deterrent

What is a CRO and will your business soon need one?

An alternative to specific regulations for robocars: A liability doubling

Meet Zenbo, the Asus robot that costs no more than a smartphone

Soft-bodied robots: Actuators inspired by muscle

Toyota is the top bidder for robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics

May fundings, acquisitions and IPOs

What to Do When a Robot Is the Guilty Party

Winning team story: The ups and downs of building a drilling robot for the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge

Robocar news around the globe: Tesla crash, Declaration of Amsterdam, and automaker services

Meet A Real Man Of Steel

Book Review: ‘Peer Reviews in Software, A Practical Guide,’ by Karl Wiegers

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/30/16

Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute in planning for USA

JumpRoACH Is a Robotic Bug That Leaps and Flips Just Like an Insect

#ICRA2016 photo essay

How is Pepper, SoftBank’s emotional robot, doing?

Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) livestream today

Biological Agriculture for Roboticists, Part 6

INNOROBO 2015 Showcase

Pushing Back Deserts through Aerial Seeding

Why chatbots should be more like R2D2 than C3PO, and other lessons for Silicon Valley’s hottest trend

‘Only Humans Need Apply’ by Thomas Davenport and Julia Kirby – FT.com

Xiaomi’s new drone is as cheap as its smartphone

Foxconn replaces ‘60,000 factory workers with robots’ – BBC News

‘Robot kindergarten’ trains droids of the future

Robots can help reduce 35% of work days lost to injury

EmTech Digital 2016

Why businesses must get ready for the era of robotic things

Self-driving truck acts like an animal

University Students Launched A Rocket With Completely 3D-Printed Engine

In automation we trust: senior thesis project examines concept of over-trusting robotic systems

Airborne tech is coming to the rescue

Official Opening of NEST at Empa: NCCR Displays Research On Site | dfab

World’s First 3-D Printed Motorbike Unveiled Recently

Robotics narratives: Here, there, and everywhere

Adidas to launch robot-made shoes in 2017 – Times of India

Photos from the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge

EU’s Horizon 2020 has funded $179 million in robotics PPPs

NASA’s Valkyrie robots set the table for human life on Mars | Fox News

Airbus Shopfloor Challenge overview – with video

Talking Machines: Computational learning theory and machine learning for understanding cells, with Aviv Regev

Developing cost-effective, capable, surgical robots with a sense of “touch”

Using static electricity, RoboBees cling to surfaces

The Pittsburgh Steelers Are Practicing With Football Robots

How M2M technology spawned the internet of things

This is the robot that will shepherd and keep livestock healthy

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/23/16

Robot bees open the lid on hive behaviour

Autonomous exploration planning using aerial robots

Robo-bee: miniature robot perches like an insect – BBC News

Ladybird

Building a startup ecosystem for robotics in Europe

World’s Tiniest Engines Could Power Micro Robots : DNews

How Seattle is poised to be an epicenter for machine learning and artificial intelligence

Collaboration with ReWalk Robotics to develop wearable exosuits for patients with limited mobility

France is deploying anti-drone technology to protect football fans at Euro 2016

Uber shows off its first self-driving car

Bringing robots to retail: Interview with Fellow Robots CEO and co-founder, Marco Mascorro

Pepper robot gets first Android SDK…and it’s finally coming to America

Google I/O is calling all Android robot programmers

Chinese Midea makes $2.5 billion bid for up to 49% of KUKA

Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First

Self-driving trucks are coming — what will that mean?

Otto offers retro-fit driverless lorries – BBC News

Autonomous-Driving Venture Targets Heavy Trucks

MIT, Lockheed Martin launch long-term research collaboration

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/16/16

Seven teams from around the world go head-to-head in the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge

Live coverage of #ICRA16

Fish and ships: artificial lily pads and mussels monitor Europe’s waters

These 5 Robotics Startups Are Changing The Way Work Gets Done

The Robot Revolution in Caregiving

Hyundai shows off its wearable robot Iron Man prototype suit | News | Geek.com

Natural History Museum showcases African robotics

Ingestible origami robot

Researchers built an artificial hand so agile and graceful, it’s lifelike

Making an autonomous robotic ecosystem: Hortum Machina B

Protecting European wine: Vinbot rover optimises harvest and quality

#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Mini-micro robots

Are autonomous robots your next surgeons?

Paradigm shift: from Siri to Viv

Jibo and Bandai Namco Partnership

#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Incredible machines

Robohub roundtable: Robotics and space exploration

‘CardBoardiZer’ allows users to create robotic models in minutes – Purdue University

London Science Museum wants to rebuild the UK’s first robot

Would You Be Fooled By An A.I. Teaching Assistant?

The coming nightmare for the car industry

Nature inspires new generation of robot brains

Is Viv the one assistant to rule all robots?

#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Daily life activities

I am FRANKA: German collaborative robot can build itself

Review: Neato BotVac Connected

Visiting with local hobbyists on DC Drone Day

Bipedal robot conquers uneven ground

Watch an insanely dexterous robot perform precision tasks

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/9/16

#ICRA16 duckies and robots video: Flying machines

Talking Machines: Sparse Coding and MADBITS, with Clement Farabet

Live streaming with #CHI2016

Someone Taught Alexa To Summon The Tesla Model S

Someone Taught Alexa To Summon The Tesla Model S

MIT student robots battle it out, revolutionary-style

Two upcoming robotics events you should consider attending

Siri’s creators say they’ve made something better that will take care of everything for you

Siri’s creators say they’ve made something better that will take care of everything for you

The virtual assistant arms race is set to explode

The virtual assistant arms race is set to explode

Google develops a Chrysler minivan

Drone Ballet Turns Mount Fuji Into Cyberpunk Lightscape

This Drone Just Seeded A Rain Cloud In The Desert

SVR Case Studies: OATV investing in early stage service robotics

Farming with robots

FAA Administrator Makes Two Major Drone Announcements – sUAS News

When robots become team players – The Boston Globe

Famed Robotics Expert Yoky Matsuoka Heads to Apple

Robots: Friend or foe

#ICRA16 duckies and robots: a poetic tribute

Call for euRathlon/TRADR Summer School 2016 on heterogeneity in robotic systems

White House launches public workshops on AI issues

Siemens Created Spider Bots That 3D Print

Rise of the robots is sparking an investment boom ​ – FT.com

The Monospinner: world’s mechanically simplest controllable flying machine

Robohub Digest 04/16: FAA reauthorization, drone ships and US National Robotics Week

How drones could deliver better health

School’s in session — Nvidia’s driverless system learns by watching

FIRST hosts 20,000 students in world’s largest robotics competition

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/2/16

Octopus points to the future for keyhole surgery

April fundings, acquisitions and IPOs

IdeaHub, ABB recruiting innovators for 2nd round robotics accelerator programme

Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots

Robohub roundtable: Why is it so difficult to define ‘robot’?

What’s new in robotics this week? SpaceX sending Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018

The Great Barrier Reef’s Best Hope Is a Killer Robot

Farmers Reap New Tools From Their Own High-Tech Tinkering

This humanoid robot diver is a submersible avatar | Fox News

Tim Peake to control machine on Earth from International Space Station – BBC News

Mobile robots fight against deadly legacies of war

MIT CSAIL’s 6-foot-tall NASA humanoid robot has landed

Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js

Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm

Google, Ford, and Uber just created a giant lobbying group for self-driving cars

Stanford wind tunnel for birds could lead to more stable drones

This One-Eyed Robot Is Your Own Personal Minion, And It Makes Video Calls

The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs

Robotics narratives: If I only had a brain

Cable-driven parallel robots: Motion simulation in a new dimension

10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups

Stakeholders likely to be disrupted by the changeover to self-driving vehicles

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/25/16

Global and iRobot floor cleaning market

China’s growing robot industry turns to acquisitions

A robotic fish to save the seas

Robotic consensus

Talking Machines: Remembering David MacKay

How to benefit from the robotic skill shortage

4 reasons why Industry 4.0 will leave AGVs behind

SRI International spins off robotics project as Superflex, aiming at human augmentation

What to expect from autonomous cars

Big day for robotics: 3 fundings and a merger acquisition

Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies

Should robots be gendered?

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/18/16

GM’s purchase of Cruise fuels interest in self-driving car kits

How would a robocar handle an oncoming tsunami?

How to hire women

Root: A robot to empower the next generation of coders

Industrial robot sales for 2015 set a new record

Drone Shots of Earthquake Aftermath • Geospatial Information Authority of Japan

Mecha Monsters

comma.ai’s neural network car and new technology in robocars

Grishin Robotics launches new $100M hardware fund

Will the Tesla Model 3 Be the First Truly Self-Driving Car? – The New Yorker

Drone racing goes mainstream as ESPN inks broadcast deal

Robots could get ‘touchy’ with self-powered smart skin

Autonomous truck platoons travel across Europe

Collaborative robots and breaking down evolving risk assessment

Intel’s new hardware kits make it easier to build robots and drones

Filling the void left by Kiva Systems’ 2012 acquisition by Amazon

New startup accelerator looks to enable smart and connected machines

Drone Lighting Brings Out the Desert’s Otherworldly Side

Why robots need to be able to say ‘No’

Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat

Lawmakers seek to ensure FAA bill won’t preempt local drone laws

Grishin Robotics Raises $100M Fund to Pursue Trillion-Dollar Opportunity

Microbots can clean up polluted water

Celebrating robot makers and enthusiasts at the 7th Annual Silicon Valley Robot Block Party

Crewless ‘drone ships’ will be sailing the seas by 2020

Hitachi Develops Robot Assistant to Locate People Needing Help

Where should robots go when they retire?

Robust and transparent governance is key to building trust in driverless cars

Considering the future of law and robotics: We Robot 2016 video recap

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/11/16

SpaceX nails landing on drone ship

Autodesk looks to future of 3D printing with Project Escher

Alphabet’s secretive Schaft Inc. shows off new bipedal robot in Tokyo

AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’

When Is the Singularity? Probably Not in Your Lifetime

Talking Machines: Machine learning and society, with Neil Lawrence

Is drone racing the sport of the future? – FT.com

South San Francisco-based Dispatch raises $2 million – Silicon Valley Business Journal

Today DARPA Christens Its Robotic Submarine Hunting Ship

Robots that may help you in your silver age

Can I trust my robot? And should my robot trust me?

The super-secret, life-saving, flying robot

Facebook’s AI Is Now Automatically Writing Photo Captions

National Robotics Week 2016

3-D printing hydraulically-powered robots, no assembly required

This Drone Dodges Swords

Celebrating National Robotics Week at Robot Garden

How drones can improve scientific research in the field

15 robot portraits taken with an 1880s camera

Salesforce acquires MetaMind

Smart Digital Factory Lab showcasing Industry 4.0

California’s new minimum wage expected to boost Bay Area automation firms

47 reports dissect and examine the robot industry

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/4/16

March fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures

Drone plane startup nabs funds from Paul Allen, Jerry Yang

Facebook taps artificial intelligence for users with disabilities

Robohub Digest 03/16: Robotics’ first unicorn, AlphaGo success, and Tay and Google Car failures

Sweep: a low cost LiDAR sensor for smart consumer products

Japan’s first 5-axis hybrid 3D printer

Hadrian Bricklaying Robot

April Fools’ Day hijinks with robots

Drones will never be the same:  Today TerrAvion introduces the M-UAV

Teach your dog to code with robots!

Wireless localizer could mean safer drones and password-free WiFi

#ERF2016 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches

Summer Of 2016 – First Autonomous Cars In London

Hacker reveals $40 attack to steal Police drones from 2km away

Drones to help farmers with weed control