Gestures improve communication – even with robots

iRobot’s $199 floor mopper designed for Chinese markets

Morphing Metal Could Create Shapeshifting Robots : DNews

Rakuten will test drone delivery on golf course after investing in Japanese drone firm

Drones deliver sterile insects to tackle disease in Ethiopia

RoboRace: This is what an autonomous racing car looks like (Wired UK)

SVR Case Studies: Adept’s versatile mobile service platform

Robotics narratives: Look alive

3D Robotics undergoing layoffs and other challenges

Robots grow up: Building the emotional machine

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/28/16

Talking Machines: Software and statistics for machine learning, with Rob Tibshirani

Phone-based laser rangefinder works outdoors

Stop talking about bringing jobs back from China

Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore

Calculating why we should make a lot more robocars

Weekly smiles from the queen of useless robots

Why making robots is still hard

Interview: Billion dollar brain with Professor Alois Knoll

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 2

What Is a Robot?

Robotics narratives: Your move, robot

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/21/16

Google puts Boston Dynamics up for sale

Focus on innovation, skills, and regulation at #ERF2016 panel discussion

Book Review: Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming, by Lentin Joseph

Satellite Assembly in Space

Harvest Automation stumbles with warehouse robot

Technology Invades Hospitality Industry: Domino Delivery Droid, Hilton Robot, Ritz-Carlton Mystique – Forbes

Domino’s Is Launching A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Robot. No Really

Live coverage of #ERF2016

‘Moon Shot’ nine-part documentary series available on YouTube

Locus Robotics brings this Amazon solution to small retailers | ZDNet

5 innovation challenges in materials transport

Watson Developer Challenge: Conversational Applications

Robotics has its first unicorn – small SF startup Cruise Automation

Bots and Beer party lets humans, robots network

Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat

26 of the most powerful female engineers in 2016

Google’s Go-playing AI system beat Korean grandmaster 4 out of 5 games

Survey shows public attitude towards robotics generally positive, but evokes mixed feelings

Report: Analysis of U.S. drone exemptions 2014-2015

SVR Case Studies: Hardware may be hard, but strategic investing can make it smart

Robotics narratives: Birth of the bots

What the past of robotics law says about its future

iRobot’s new mopping robot Braava jet will clean your grimy bathroom – Boston Business Journal

Teenager From U.K. Wins World Drone Racing Competition In Dubai

This Robot Has Real Muscles That Let It ‘Walk’ Towards The Light

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/14/16

3 times humans have sued their robot impostors — and won

Agilic and PiBot

Indego joins Ekso with FDA exoskeleton approvals

Google DeepMind challenge match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo

Talking Machines: Machine learning in healthcare and the AlphaGo matches

Replacing public transit at night for Uber and Lyft

2016 New York City Drone Film Festival winners

Tickets for Cybathlon now on sale

IBM Watson now powers a Hilton hotel robot concierge

Toshiba’s robot is designed to be more human-like – BBC News

European Robotics: Creating new markets for SMEs

When Your Boss Is an Uber Algorithm

Government reveals plans to test driverless lorries on UK roads

Amputee Feels Texture with a Bionic Fingertip

American law needs a reboot when it comes to robots

Google AI begins battle with humanity’s best Go player tonight

Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot

Applying direct transcription methods to robot motion planning

Collaborative robots are broadening their marketplaces

Robohub Digest 02/16: AI breakthrough, redefining ‘driver’ in autonomous cars, and a robot city in Japan

The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 3/7/16

SPARKED wins at New York City Drone Film Festival

Testing the lifetime of human-machine interfaces in a few days

Why smart investors are finally paying attention to hardware | Local Motors

WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson

Star Wars: R2-D2 original builder Tony Dyson dies – BBC News

How can we use drones in the humanitarian and health sector?

Why Google’s crash is a good thing

J.J. Abrams Helps Launch New Doc Series to Land Robot on Moon

What the Past of Robotics Law Says About Its Future

Growth of robotics in emerging markets captures fund investors’ imaginations – FT.com

SVR Case Studies: Lessons for robotics from enterprise computing

Telepresence has come a long way, where do we go from here?

A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck

February fundings and acquisitions

Could we make a moral machine?

3 types of robot singularities and how to avoid them

In Emergencies, Should You Trust a Robot?

Talking Machines: AI safety and the legacy of Bletchley Park, with Nick Patterson

Workshop robots controlled by touch

The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/29/16

New electrical film that is both solid and liquid

The Multi-Billion Dollar Robotics Market Is About to Boom

Will automation make us happier? – live chat

How real is that Atlas robot video?

A new quadrupedal robot, the ANYmal

Watch Google’s Humanoid Robot Learn The World Is A Harsh Place

White House economic report looks to robotics for the future

The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/22/16

Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots

Automation and Employment

Automation may mean a post-work society but we shouldn’t be afraid

The last job on Earth: imagining a fully automated world – video

SVR Case Studies: Fetch Robotics bringing warehouses to life

Review Board Rules Health Insurance Must Cover Robotic Exoskeletons

Enabling human-robot rescue teams

Talking Machines: Robotics and machine learning music videos, with Michael Littman

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

Creating a synthetic “second skin” with soft pneumatic actuators

Maybe robots won’t kill us if they read ‘good’ books – Futurity

AAAI Video Competition winners

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/15/16

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 1

NHTSA redefines “driver” of self-driving car

First look at 2015 statistics on industrial robots from the IFR report

What’s new in robotics this week? Chameleon robot blends in with its surroundings

Robotic assistants: Science meets fiction, with Carme Torras

540 little robots and 29 drones celebrate Chinese New Year

‘Roach robot’ can squeeze through tiniest spaces – Futurity

GM and Lyft Are Teaming Up to Build a Network of Self-Driving Cars

This Is The Cover Of A New Book On Robot Law

Forbes Welcome

This Is The Cover Of A New Book On Robot Law

Drones recognise and follow forest trails in search of lost people

Understanding joint impedance with a knee exoskeleton

Could shallow underpasses be express tunnels for small robocars?

Robot golfer hits hole-in-one

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/8/16

Mind Meld – Zoe McCarthy

The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge

This $40,000 Robotic Exoskeleton Lets the Paralyzed Walk

Watch A Robot Sink A Hole-In-One

Robotic Fingers with a Gentle Touch

iRobot sells off defense & security division

What’s new in robotics this week? U.S. Army showcases driverless technology

Older adults worry ‘robot butlers’ will take over – Futurity

Fellow Robots Partners with Nihon Unisys, Ltd. in Japan to Introduce Retail Robot NAVII in Yamada Denki for a Proof of Concept

2016 funding and acquisition spree continues

Konica Minolta Completes Installation of Savioke Hotel Delivery Robot

Robohub Digest 01/16: €100 million for European robotics, CES and WEF 2016, passing of AI pioneer Marvin Minsky

2016 RAS Award Recipients Announced – IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

To err is human: raising the bar on AI

Vote for your favourite AI video – AAAI Video Competition People’s Choice Award

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/1/16

Meet the drone that already delivers your packages, Kiva robot teardown

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

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