Talking Machines: Gaussian processes and OpenAI, with IIya Sutskever

Turning the lens on robotics reporting: An interview with New York Times technology reporter John Markoff

A brief history of robotic force torque sensors

Talking Machines: Real human actions and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Jenn Wortman Vaughan

The world’s first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce daily | Tech Insider

Towards building brain-like cognition and control for robots

Fourth Industrial Revolution main theme at #WEF16 World Economic Forum

Robotics, AI and automation in “Forbes 30 under 30”

How Zano Raised Millions on Kickstarter and Left Most Backers with Nothing — Kickstarter

Kurzweil Interviews Minsky: Is the Singularity Near?

There’s a good reason why the next generation of robots will look like animals

Meet the Drone That Already Delivers Your Packages — Bolt Blog

AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky dies at 88 | New York Times

Personalizing telepresence in service robots

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/25/16

Rising Media acquires RoboUniverse and Inside 3D Printing shows

Blue Origin makes historic second landing using the same rocket | Gizmag

200th Episode Special

The inevitability of the global march toward self-driving vehicles

IBM, Intel describe experiential future for human-machine interaction

#CES2016: Noise, hype, hustle … and business as usual

Could robotaxis be the answer to electric car depreciation?

How to fine tune your robot’s payload, and why

Tech’s big security problem: ‘We’re building 500mph cars with brakes that can cope with 30mph’

Robots That Could Decompose When They’re No Longer Needed

Into the heart of a glacier — with a drone

Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to make hairpin turns in a simulated “forest”

Mastering ROS for robotics programming

Horizon 2020 earmarks € 98M for new wave of european robotics

The Future of Jobs

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/18/16

UAE robotics competition announces 20 semi-finalists | The National

Watch this service robot predict your organizing preferences

Toyota Research gets Kuffner, and Google gets Brondmo

US feds propose $4B investment in robocars, seek unified regulatory policy

SpaceX Rocket vs. Robot Boat, Round 4! Tune in Live to the Grudge Fight

Watch The ATLAS Robot Do Simple Chores Slowly

Using force feedback in robotics

Google’s detailed intervention rates reveal the real unsolved problem of robocars

Flying robots, with Dario Floreano (Part two)

Swansea University researchers are using Artificial Intelligence to detect cancer cells

Solving delivery robots as a service: Interview with Savioke CEO Steve Cousins

Survey on your experience with robotics competitions

Savioke receives $15M in Series A funding to scale their business

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Man maneuvers robotic arm with his thoughts – Futurity

Robocar news from CES 2016

BBC to reboot Robot Wars (Wired UK)

Two New Year’s resolutions for developers of automated vehicles

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/11/16

Soft spot for soft robots? Register for the 2016 Soft Robotics Competition

Microrobots for Harvesting Crystals

How friendly is your AI? It depends on the rewards

How to design a robotics experiment

3 supply chain trends to watch for in 2016

Look out for the Internet of Flying Things as businesses takes to the skies

Create a ROS sensor plugin for Gazebo

10 essential skills for roboticists

New insect-inspired vision strategy could hasten development of mini-drones

IoT may be 2016’s hot new trend, but in industrial robotics it’s been around for a decade

Intel acquires German drone startup Ascending Technologies

Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move

Toyota Research Institute Announces All-star Leadership Team for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Research | TOYOTA Global Newsroom

Foxconn shopping for robot manufacturer to keep pace with brisk Pepper sales

The Year of CoCoRo Video #52/52: Final Demonstration

Interview with IJARS, with Howie Choset and Seth Hutchinson

This flying machine uses ducted fans for propulsion and control

Robocar news roundup: Lyft and GM, Sidecar, the nature of competition, and CES

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/4/16

Why co-bots will be a huge driver of innovation and growth for robotics

2015 robotics fundings, IPOs, acquisitions and failures

Humanoid Robot Nadine May be the Receptionist in Future Offices

Robotics Classes in Nigeria Are Inspiring a New Generation of Engineers

Meet Knightscope’s Crime-Fighting Robots

Microsoft’s Cortana now doing daily morning weather report

Robots can now learn household tasks by watching YouTube videos | ExtremeTech

New Sino-Israeli Robotics Institute gets $20 million initial funding

Competing market research reports agree: Expect double-digit growth for most robotics segments

The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

Drones Could Scope Out Martian Real Estate

How do robots ‘see’ the world?

Heron-1 UAS Reaches 70,000 Operational Flight Hours in Afghanistan

7 trends for artificial intelligence in 2016: ‘Like 2015 on steroids’ – TechRepublic

Did SpaceX Just Put Boeing and Lockheed Martin Out of the Space Launch Business?

Telepresence, or tele-existence? 4 devices seeking to break down barriers to remote presence

XPRIZE calling all innovators to help map our ocean

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29/15

The future of robot off-line programming

U.K. Could Follow International Approach to Drone Rules – Robotics Business Review

The future has arrived: 5D Robotics has developed autonomous heavy equipment tech for United Rentals with a distinct human element

Robot panic peaked in 2015 – so where will AI go next?

Using drones in wine making

Watch a Robot Tamer Control Industrial Machines With Simple Gestures

7 reasons why robotics companies should be using simulators

Construction Drilling

The robotics year, 2015 in review

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 6

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 5

Speedy robots may someday run to the rescue

Registration now open for #ICRA16’s Airbus Shopfloor Challenge

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 4

U.S. manufacturing may depend on automation to survive and prosper | Brookings

UK Royal Society wants to hear your thoughts on machine learning

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 3

Flying robots, with Dario Floreano (Part 1)

The Year of CoCoRo Video #51/52: Big Vision

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 2

Artificial Intelligence and Nonprofits — The Digital Civil Society Lab | Medium

Service robots: The next big productivity platform

How do robots ‘see’ the world?

SpaceX delivers 11 satellites and successfully lands a first stage on land

Holiday robot videos 2015: Part 1

“Made in China” initiative is nurturing robotics according to plan

Yamaha RMAX crop sprayer gets full FAA approval

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/21/15

Star Wars: these could be the droids we’re looking for in real life

How we built a robot that can evolve – and why it won’t take over the world | The Conversation

The billion-dollar robot question — how can we make sure they’re safe? | Washington Post

Blue River Technology, Jibo and others get holiday funding

NSF and partners award $37M to advance nation’s co-robots

Autonomous mobile additive manufacturing robot runs circles around traditional 3D printers

California’s new DMV regulations may kill the state’s robocar lead

What’s new in robotics this week? Australia’s $310K (AUD) firefighting bot

New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration

Evaluating what’s easy and what’s hard to automate in your workshop

SVR Case Studies: Introduction to service robotics

Will drones get their own air traffic control? – Futurity

California Proposes Driverless-Car Rules

New $7 Million XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in new era of ocean exploration | XPrize

Robots to reside in more than 1 in 10 American households by 2020 | Juniper Research

Robots to reside in more than 1 in 10 American households by 2020 | Juniper Research

From pencil and paper to hands-on making, a brief history of MIT’s legendary MechE 2.007

Configuring multiple USB devices: An alternative to udev

Register your drone. It’s the law.

Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge

Four Market Forces That Will Shape Robotics Over The Next Year

Telepresence toys

Scaling up underwater swarmbot research from tabletop ‘aquarium’ to the Venice Lagoon (CoCoRo Video #50/52)

CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”

2016 will be a pivotal year for social robots

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/14/15

SRI International behind new robotic technology for Verb Surgical

Drones for modesty (video)

European Robotics Week #ERW2015 recap and videos

New comprehensive report on the risks drones pose to aircraft

Multi-Agent Systems and Human-Swarm Interaction

What’s new in robotics this week? DJI is training 10K drone pilots

Japanese company creating a robot companion for your desk – CNET

J&J, Alphabet aim for smarter, smaller, cheaper surgical robot | Reuters

Could a robot run for President? | The Washington Post

Jibo raises another $16 Million to bring its ‘Family Robot’ to China And Japan

Call for holiday robot videos

Holiday gift ideas for RoboGeeks (2015)

BCG study finds that reshoring with robots works

How many axes does my robot need?

How to get started (and progress) in robotics: A quick guide for teens and adults

The race to land a privately funded robot on the moon is officially set for 2017

$150M in VC funding (2015) for businesses that use ROS

The Year of CoCoRo Video #49/52: Base stations

Tabletop telepresence finding its niche

Free global list of robot-related business and edu/research facilities exceeds 4K entries

What’s Hard About Space Robotics? It’s Not Just the Technology, Industry Leaders Say

China wants robots to replace millions of low-paid workers | Mashable

Robohub Digest 11/15: Service and consumer robots catching on

New collaborative robots — and product lines — at iREX 2015

How Locus Robotics invented its own robot to finish what Kiva Systems started | Boston Business Journal

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/7/15

Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics – Women Mean Business

What’s new in robotics this week? Bosch unveils agricultural robot

#iREX2015 collaborative robots video roundup

Google Vision Tech Could Mean Your Stuff Will Recognize You

Simple robots, complex behaviors: A control systems perspective on Braitenberg Vehicles

Robot Learns To Code

A helping hand for high-tech firms

Personal telepresence relatively affordable, but expect to pay extra for the tablet

Toyota harbors big ambitions for “partner robot” business that draws on manufacturing knowhow

Passion for utility drove Engelberger’s vision for robotics

Worried About Robots

Dilbert Teaches Robot To Code

Robot Wants To Code

iREX 2015: Greatest Robotics Show in the Known Universe Underway in Tokyo

Father of robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at age 90

The Market is Speaking:  TerrAvion collects more acres every week than electric drones do in a year

Bioinspired robotics #3: Wearables, with Conor Walsh

ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10

Fidelity joins growing field of automated financial advice | New York Times

Life with robots: ‘What people enjoy most is avoiding social interaction’ | The Guardian

Body-enhancing exoskeletons could be stepping into industrial trials next year

The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops

Robotics fundings and acquisitions: October/November

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/30/15

Marine Robotics Systems

What’s new in robotics this week? Researchers teach robots to disobey (for their own good)

Robot to help passengers find their way at Schipol aiport in Amsterdam | Gadgets 360

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Major debate on robots & society sets scene for #ERW2015 European Robotics Week

Talking Machines: Probabilistic programming, with Ben Vigoda

MPs are told the word ‘robot’ is not derogatory, but only if it’s an intelligent one | Independent

China’s robot sector needs to pick up pace to upgrade manufacturing and rival foreign competitors, say experts | South China Morning Post

On the ethics of research in robotics, with Raja Chatila

How to calculate a robot’s forward kinematics in 5 easy steps

Robots and Healthcare Saving Lives Together

Robot Race to Hawaii Contest

Drone registration Task Force makes 11 key recommendations

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

Google’s robot group struggles to fill leadership vacuum as it shoots for ambitious launch before 2020 | Business Insider

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/23/15

No, a Google car was not ticketed for going too slow (and other robocar stories)

China’s top leaders add political weight to robot conference | South China Morning Post

‘Rise of the Robots’ receives Business Book of the Year award

More than 180,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day

How soft robots will help sick kids and the elderly walk

What’s new in robotics this week? Empathy for robots

Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video

Robot Companies: Robots Won’t Steal Our Jobs, They’ll Be Our Minions | Motherboard

Studio RAP completes robotically fabricated building in the Netherlands | Dezeen

Hasbro introduces robo-kitties for seniors | CBC News

The state of telepresence: Healthcare and telemedicine

Large Seattle Crowd Kicks off DARPA’s Robotics Fast Track West Coast Tour

Why ‘Rise of the Robots’ was named the most important business book of the year | Business Insider

New video shows bionic athletes rehearsing for upcoming Cybathlon competition

European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society

Case study shows new roles for robots in today’s economy

Four classic movie robots that are no longer far fetched

NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions

Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW

Nailbot: A ‘nail art’ robot that inspires creativity

The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling

“Shrinking bull’s-eye” algorithm speeds up complex modeling from days to hours

Arevo Labs launches robot-based additive manufacturing platform for composite parts : CompositesWorld

Phiro is a smart robot that lets kids learn to code 5 different ways

What you need to know about underwater drones

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/16/15

Behind the scenes at Web Summit 2015 – Tech Weekly podcast

ICRA 2015 Company Showcase

What’s new in robotics this week? Robotic spacecraft riding the solar wind

Join the debate on robots & society during #ERW2015

Echoes of the DRC at Humanoids 2015

How ethical is your ethical robot?

1,000 workers produce latest batch of 1,000 Pepper robots

Yamaha’s Motobot robot wants to beat MotoGP star Valentino Rossi | Wired UK

DARPA takes its Robotics Fast Track program on a West Coast tour, Nov. 17-19

Alpha 2, a Humanoid Robot With Social Skills, Is Now on Indiegogo | IEEE Spectrum

Getting HyQ the robot ‘disaster ready’ | Reuters

Awesome BioRobots Inspired by Animal Movements! – YouTube

Robotics Startups Are Coming to the Retail Aisle

A new versatile gripper with electroadhesion

Alpha 2 Humanoid Robot is Your Family’s Personal Assistant – Robotics Trends

6 predictions, 9 stocks, a revolution, an apocalypse, and killer robots – oh my!

Global majority want autonomous weapons banned: New report

Simbe Robotics launches new retail robot

Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups

Baby steps for robot makers: China won’t play key role in next-generation industrial bots as tech gap with foreign firms widens, experts say | SCMP

Compressorhead rocks the crowd to find new robot band member | Gizmag

The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/9/15

Feeding the robot chef

Marvin Minsky Reflects on a Life in AI | MIT Technology Review

Bioinspired robotics #2: Materials, manufacturing & design, with Robert Wood

Drone maker DJI and Toyota: setting up R&D centers in Silicon Valley

The past and future of AI: A chat with Barbara Grosz | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Google’s robot group struggles to fill leadership vacuum as it shoots for ambitious launch before 2020 | Business Insider

Pittsburgh’s Robot Film Festival: Preview

What’s new in robotics this week? It’s getting harder to tell a human from an android

Emotionally literate tech to help treat autism

Toyota to spend $1bn on artificial intelligence project in Silicon Valley | The Guardian

Talking Machines: Digital humanities with David Mimno

Fastest brain-computer-interface speller developed | KurzweilAI

Q&A: John Markoff on self-driving cars, the robot revolution and the chances … | GeekWire

Slowly, Clunkily Racing Toward the Robot Revolution: Lessons from the DARPA Grand Challenge | h+ Media

ABB eyes rapid expansion as robotics grows | China Daily

Robot revolution: rise of ‘thinking’ machines could exacerbate inequality

15 official world records set by robots

Sex robots should be banned, expert tells Web Summit

​The robots aren’t just coming. They’re already here – CNET

Delivery robots from Starship Technologies

R2T2, a collaborative rescue action at the crossroads between education, robotics and space exploration LIVE STREAM

Blue Belt Technologies acquired by Smith & Nephew for $275 million

Life with robots: ‘What people enjoy most is avoiding social interaction’

Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo

The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling

Robohub Digest 10/15: Drone registration, a hand with eyes, and swarming in Venice Lagoon

While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems emerge

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/2/15

Service robots finally start to catch on

Forget Siri: Here’s a New Way for Robots to Talk

Embodied Quadrotors

Loon balloons to fill Internet gaps in Indonesia’s islands | Gizmag

Robots in Depth: Michael Rubenstein on the challenge of building 1,024 Kilobots

1st in nation: Driverless shuttles coming to San Ramon Bishop Ranch | CBS SF Bay Area

What’s new in robotics this week? Robots can now teach each other new tricks

What we know about the FAA’s new drone registration requirement, and what we don’t

Four-legged robot that efficiently handles challenging terrain

Cannybots: Smart toy cars for play and learning

Wal-Mart seeks to test drones for home delivery, pickup | Reuters

Huerta Announces UAS Registration Task Force Members | FAA Press release

A smart inhaler for people with asthma | MIT News

Meet Teforia, a tea brewing robot for the home

Blueberry picking robot could win $250,000 prize

Four influential technologies with roots in robotics

This is the first footage shot by the GoPro drone | The Verge

Toyota’s Kirobo Mini | Toyota Europe

Small drone makes its own maps to navigate indoors | MIT Technology Review

Virtual Reality system to fly in space and bring non-astronauts aboard ISS | Deep Space Industries

Bioinspired robotics #1: Swarm collectives, with Radhika Nagpal

Why Tesla’s Autopilot and Google’s car are entirely different animals

Healthcare robotics for therapy, with Ayanna Howard

Inside the Pentagon’s effort to build a killer robot | TIME

How robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning will affect employment and public policy | Brookings Report

snickerdoodle: A brain for your robot

The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/26/15

Crowdsourcing in machine learning, with Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research

Anki’s new robot car racing game totally blew me away by bridging the digital and real world | The Next Web

Lots of great events lined up for EU Robotics Week #ERW15

Dyson robotic vacuums go on sale in Japan

RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea

Amazon has doubled the number of Kiva bots in its warehouses | Business Insider

A robot that tries to get your attention | Phys.org

Why Dyson’s pricey robot vacuum is late for its Japanese debut | Endgadget

Robots in Depth: Grishin Robotics’ Valery Komissarova on getting funding

ROS Industrial videos and training | Silicon Valley Robotics

ROS Industrial videos and training | Silicon Valley Robotics

Researchers developing drones to autonomously repair the cities of the future | Gizmag

What’s new in robotics this week? A robot with digital hormones

Dyson releases 360 Eye in Japan for ~$1200, files legal proceedings against Bosch for VW-like cheating

Dyson’s robot vacuum is available in Japan for $1200 | Yahoo Finance

James Dyson accuses Bosch of cheating ‘like Volkswagen’ | The Telegraph

RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea | Wyss Institute at Harvard

Pepper makes its EU debut in France | AFP

Key takeaways from #ICRW2015 International Collaborative Robots Workshop

Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

Stanford’s self-driving Delorean goes drifting for Back to the Future Day

Governments greasing wheels in robotics

Samsung is developing robots to replace cheap Chinese labour | Wired

CCI professor makes Robohub’s list of top women in robotics | UNC Charlotte

Stanford’s autonomous DeLorean can’t time travel, but can do donuts | Gizmag

The state of telepresence: Business enterprise class

Sony’s Kaz Hirai Talks Autonomous Cars (But No Sony Robot Vehicle — Yet) | Re/Code

Makewonder launches US-wide kids robotics competition – Deadline to enter Dec 1 | Makewonder

Doubt Surrounds Drone Registration – Robotics Trends

A Robot Finds Its Way Using Artificial “GPS” Brain Cells | MIT Technology Review

25 features of the new Horizon 2020 research plans: robot farmers to 5G phones | Science Business

Liatris: looking to change how robots see the world

The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud

The Year of CoCoRo Video #42/52: Murky waters

Boeing establishes analytics lab for aerospace data at Carnegie Mellon | CMU News

Final days to register for $1m UAE competition

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/19/15

U.S. will require drones to be registered | NBC

A Tale of Two Ports: Automation at Oakland vs Rotterdam | Medium

Strategic acquisitions and long-term R&D investments abound

Self repairing city: Robots and drones made in Leeds to repair potholes and street lights

Open Bionics just unveiled Star Wars, Marvel and Disney themed prosthetics for kids | Robotics Trends

Google balloon and Facebook drone teams collaborate to bring Internet access to billions | MIT Technology Review

What’s new in robotics this week? China’s had a telescope on the moon the past 2 years

Robot swarms will explore the waterways of Venice | Fox News

The Open Academic Robot Kit

From robotics to analytics, why NASA is offering startups over 1,000 patents for ‘free’ | ZDNet

Stephen Finally Gets To Tackle A Robot – YouTube

Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners

The robotics revolution: The next great leap in manufacturing | Boston Consulting Group

How robots will redefine competitiveness | Boston Consulting Group

Industries and economies leading the robotics revolution | Boston Consulting Group

Countering singularity sensationalism: Ken Goldberg reviews three books at the nexus of people and robots | Nature

Robo Wunderkind: A robot anyone can build

Empire Robotics on the cover of Popular Mechanics (Nov. 2015)

CyPhy Works and Righthand Robotics get funded

#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline extended to October 23!

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell

Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015

Tweets from #ICRW2015 International Collaborative Robotics Workshop 2015

Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin

Our robot sky | Medium

Robots in Depth: OSRF’s Tully Foote on open source, ROS, and standardization

Robocar news roundup: Google’s hire, BMW/Mercedes carsharing, Apple clues, and more

Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/12/15

The Year of CoCoRo Video #41/52: Metacognition

25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2015

In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot

snickerdoodle now crowdfunding

Talking Machines: Treating cancer clusters, with Quaid Morris

Laundroid the laundry-folding robot will take your (least-favourite) job | CBC

The state of telepresence

Work, play and STEM: How robotics will bridge the gap

Israeli Google Lunar XPRIZE Team is first to sign launch agreement for private Moon mission on SpaceX Falcon 9

The world’s first robot farm requires no (human) farmers at all | Modern Farmer

Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously

Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights

Intelligent machines: Will we accept robot revolution? | BBC News

Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread

Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets

Where does Jibo fit in the family hierarchy? | Jibo Blog

DARPA begins ElectRX program for self healing via nanoparticles that stimulate organs/nerves | DARPA

“Training academies” for industrial robots | MIT Technology Review

A car that knows what the driver will do next | MIT Technology Review

Robots in Depth: Melonee Wise on building robots, and robot companies

The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column

Robohub Digest 09/15: Big brands, and cozying up to robots

In Singapore, robots are now leading workouts for the elderly | Tech in Asia

Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain

A3 releases report on robots fueling productivity | Silicon Valley Robotics

IFR predicts double digit growth for service robots through 2018

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/5/15

What does the VW scandal mean for robocars?

Elon Musk’s sleight of hand | Medium

Daimler driverless lorry tested in motorway traffic | BBC News

Micro and Nano Robotics

For the love of Robots | swissnex India

Sony and Japan’s mobile internet firm DeNA invest in driverless technology | Wall Street Journal Japan

RoboCab: Driverless taxi experiment to start in Japan | Wall Street Journal Japan

IFR predicts 15% industrial robot growth through 2018

The word ‘robot’ is meaningless. Why are we still saying it?

Key take-aways from the DroneApps Forum

ROSCon Livestream Oct. 3-4

Soft robotic gripper can pick up and identify wide array of objects

Robohub turns three!

August/September robotics fundings report

How is Robohub doing? Take our annual reader survey

Teaching a brain-controlled robotic prosthetic to learn from its mistakes

Gazebo rendering abstraction

IEEE driverless car roundtable

A new study of robot faces suggests the ‘Uncanny Valley’ is real

Remember EATR, the military robot that was supposed to eat humans? | Gizmodo

Volkswagen isn’t the first company to use software to break the law and it won’t be the last | Fusion

Who is Google’s self-driving car CEO, and where is he heading? | re/code

Push, pull, nudge: The control challenge of non-prehensile robotic manipulation

Shopping via telepresence makes for good PR; how long before it’s mainstream?

euRathlon 2015 announces Grand Challenge winners

The Year of CoCoRo Video #39/52: Adaptive layers in a pool

Live tweets and pictures from #IROS2015

10 more robotics companies acquired. Why?

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/28/15

Rethink Robotics finally get their mojo with Sawyer

One-armed factory robot Sawyer goes on sale | BBC News

Foster + Partners unveils designs for Mars settlement that could be 3D printed by robots

People, robots wait in line for new Apple iPhone 6s in Palo Alto

Talking Machines: The Master Algorithm, with UW’s Pedro Domingos

Day Four at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Why we need journalism about machine learning

Day Three at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Robots in Depth: Gregory Dudek on field robotics

#RoboBusiness Day 1: Computing to change from transaction processing to cognition processing

Meet the winners of #RobotLaunch2015

Dobot’s robot arm: Industrial precision at low cost

Volvo imagines robots will someday collect your trash | Mashable

Target plans to test robot workers at its upcoming concept store | BGR

Wi-Fi-connected Roomba 980 maps a better route | Gizmag

Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo

Day Two at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Mind your Manners, Robot: How social cues influence human-robot interaction | Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

New advanced robot to join cleanup effort at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant | The Mainichi

Buyers of robot ‘Pepper’ to sign contract vowing not to use it for sex | Daily Mail

New smart robot accelerates cancer treatment research | Phys.org

How Etsy can strengthen America’s small-scale manufacturing sector | Brookings Institute

Full coverage of Disrupt SF 2015

IBM’s Watson Won’t Be Replacing Humans Any Time Soon

Drones Will Deliver Your Pizza, And Much Much More

Robo Wunderkind’s Programmable Bricks Are Like Legos That Teach You How To Code

Let’s hope that #IStandWithAhmed will help improve diversity in robotics

Virtual assistants are the testbeds for tomorrow’s personal robots

Vecna’s Daniel Theobald: Setting standards for robots

The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/21/15

Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap

Angee automated home security system doubles as a personal assistant | Gizmag

1,407 FAA exemptions for UAS

Chatbot Rose wins 2015’s Loebner artificial intelligence prize | BBC News

TechBridgeWorld

Live tweets from #RobotLaunch2015 Finals

Documentary of a cyborg drummer

For the record: No, a robot did NOT swear at BBC hosts on live TV

Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on

AI: 15 key moments in the story of artificial intelligence

Interview with Danica Kragic

Diversity matters in robotics #IStandWithAhmed | Silicon Valley Robotics

Barbie wants to get to know your child | NYT

SpaceX shows off Crew Dragon interior | Gizmag

Baidu launches virtual assistant Duer | MIT Technology Review

Pepper to get a new personality for the US market | MIT Technology Review

Deep learning machine teaches itself to play chess in 72 Hours, plays at international master level | MIT Technology Review

Blue Origin to launch from Florida | Gizmag

Trident ROV may be that underwater drone you’ve been looking for | Gizmag

Adept succumbs, sells to OMRON for $200M

#eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios

Icelandic research institute unveils ethical robotics policy

Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child | NY Times

Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys | BBC News

Erle-Spider, the Ubuntu drone with legs

SMEs need robots that know their limitations and ask for help

We need robots that are smart enough to ask for help | IEEE Spectrum

The Year of CoCoRo Video #37/52: Combined scenario two

Tweets from #DroneApps

Uber would like to buy your robotics department | New York Times

Uber’s raid of Carnegie Mellon robotics department has its limits | Education Drive

China publishes first report written by ‘robot journalist’ | The Times of India

Seek-and-destroy robot to stop starfish killing the Great Barrier Reef | CNET

Rodney Brooks talks about China as the next big market for Rethink | BRW

Gill Pratt talks to Automaton Blog about his move to Toyota

Talking Machines: Strong AI and autoencoders, with Hugo Larochelle

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/14/15

Tricking LIDAR and robocars

Big bucks and big audiences for drones

Robots now have their own living space at Bristol Robotics Lab

Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones

Morphological computation: The hidden superpower of soft-bodied robots

How the BBC micro:bit will kick-start a coding revolution | Wired UK

Bristol Robotics Laboratory tests helper bots in replica flat | BBC News

Robot Launch global robotics startup competition announces top 15 finalists

First champion crowned for FPV drone racing UK nationals

Researchers use vision-guided Baxter robot to assist the blind | Vision Systems

Toyota hires robotics expert Gill Pratt for AI push | Financial Times

Robots lay three times as many bricks as construction workers | MIT Technology Review

Siemens’ Frontier Partner program provides software tools to robotics startups

The Year of CoCoRo Video #36/52: Relay swarm

Robohub Digest 08/15: Jibo gets Asian funding, Russian exoskeleton gets clinical trials, and Hitchbot loses its head

Corporations and governments stimulating robotics and AI development

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/7/15

Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment

Fotokite Phi

CoCoRo: Tracking the development of the world’s largest autonomous underwater swarm

BUDDY goes into final hours of crowdfunding at +500% of goal; announces new US offices

Completely paralyzed man steps out in robotic exoskeleton | Gizmag

Price wars: Counting the cost of drones, planes and satellites

Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data | The Guardian

Creating the voice behind Jibo

Robotics and AI prominent in MIT’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35

#RobotLaunch2015 Finals announced, plus final round of Readers Pick

The Restaurant With No (Visible) Workers

Eatsa, A Futuristic Restaurant Where Robot Cubbies Serve Quinoa

The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication

Uber hires hacking and robotics experts | Insurance Journal

Neato Robotics’ new connected Botvac robot vacuum sports lasers and wifi | TechHive

3D Robotics launches 3DU to promote drones in education | TechCrunch

Gill Pratt: Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics? | Automaton Blog

Coming of age: Clearpath’s Ryan Gariepy on growing a robotics startup

Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech

California drone bill misses the mark

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/31/15

As robotics industry grows, so too do the research reports

Firing up The Machine

Evolved virtual creatures as content

Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade

Removing steps of common processes

Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round three

Self-driving ‘crash’ trucks to hit Florida highways this year | The Guardian

Hitachi warehouse robot grabs goods with two arms | CIO

Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data | The Guardian

Meeting on a narrow road

The Year of CoCoRo Video #34/52: Relay chain basics

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/24/15

New book by John Markoff explores common ground between humans and robots

Thousands take glimpse into future at Robotronica

Robots and Communication

When you need someone from Canada to calibrate your robot in New Zealand

Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round two

Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable

194 Chinese robot companies

The Year of CoCoRo Video #33/52: Combined scenario number one – relay chain

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/17/15

Helping Siri hear you in a party | KurzweilAI

GreyOrange gets $30m for mobile robots

Google Alphabet: Is it good for robocars?

Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten

Clinical trials begin for Russia’s first medical exoskeleton

Robots learn to evolve and improve | BBC News

Carnegie Mellon, GE Ventures bringing robotics accelerator program to Pittsburgh | Post-gazette

Robot Launch 2015 – Robohub Readers’ Pick round one

MIT Robot Steals Human Brains to Help It Balance | Spectrum.IEEE

The Year of CoCoRo Video #32/52: Combined scenario number one – target find

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/10/15

Buzz: A novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms

Fly catcher robot to speed up insights into Alzheimer’s | Reuters

Midea, Eyeing China’s Huge Aging Population, Targets Robotics With Yaskawa | Forbes

Mobile Microrobotics Challenge

Money continues to flow into robotics startups

Designing Jibo for developers

Jibo Raises $11 Million To Bring Its Social Robot To Households In Asia | Techcrunch

Robotic research: Are we applying the scientific method?

Silicon Valley’s Crowne Plaza hotel launches Savioke robot delivery service

The Year of CoCoRo Video #31/52: Combined scenario number one – base station arrival

Ads, sales and shows make a business case for robotics

Unknown assailant destroys hitchhiking robot in Philadelphia | Mashable

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/3/15

AI researchers should not retreat from battlefield robots, they should engage … | The Conversation AU

Robohub Digest 07/15: Competition for Softbank, cake for Engelberger, and robot cookers for consumers

Where to place fuses and how to protect your robot and motors