Autonomous quadcopter has smartphone brain | IEEE Spectrum

The FAA’s drone ban at the Super Bowl is absurd | Gizmodo

A new regulatory agency for autonomous technology is needed first | Ryan Calo via New York Times

AAAI Video Competition winners

Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy

Raffaello D’Andrea on the future of robotics

Robot caregivers: How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

HV-100 robots pay for themselves in less than one year | Harvest Automation

UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras

2 agricultural robotics projects funded under latest Horizon 2020

Robotics needs to get political

What’s next for the commercial drone industry?

NASA developing robotic helicopter scout for Mars rovers | Gizmag

Clamor for Bay Area and Silicon Valley talent

Japanese Robots: ActiveRobo SAM wants your seat, not your job

‘Quadcopter’ crashes onto White House grounds, poses security threat

Government employee flies small drone over White House Fence | NY Times

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/26/15

Drone crash at White House comes as FAA develops rules | USA Today

Drone that crashed at White House was a quadrocopter | TIME

Secret Service: ‘Quadcopter’ drone crashed onto White House grounds | Fox News

FRE2015 to be held in Slovenia | University of Maribor

The Year of CoCoRo Video #04/52: Aggregation parcour

iRobot starts VC shop | Tech Crunch

Collaboration, connectivity, convergence: 2015 and beyond | Robotics Online

The year ahead (and behind) in robotics | Popsci.com

John Leonard : Mapping, localization, and self-driving vehicles | CMU RI Seminar

euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research

Looney the Robot

ROS, Arduino, and a Husky simulation

LIDAR Lite module | SparkFun

Might the first, supervised robocars be… well… boring?

Training a robot via human feedback | MIT Media Lab

HoloLens: Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles | WIRED

Obama connects robots to jobs in State of the Union address

RoboThespian co-hosts new robot documentary from CBC – “Roboticize Me”

Open science: Preaching what I practice

Robotbase’s superset of TurtleBot, a Kickstarter project | IEEE Spectrum

It’s About Women Running Startups

Do more with Udev

Natural language: The de-facto interface convention for social robotics

DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk

Robotics, AI in the spotlight at #WEF15 World Economic Forum

First in vivo use of micromotors to deliver medicine | ACS Nano

2014 fundings, IPOs, acquisitions, and failures (Updated)

$87 million in European robotic projects funded

Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice

Why drones are good for business

Robotics 2015 from Robotics Online

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/19/15

WinSun builds 3D printed villa and apartment building | 3ders.org

Robocar parking

Detroit Auto Show and more robocar news

Transport Canada’s position on indoor and tethered drone operations

A cruel waste of STEM talent

The Year of CoCoRo Video #03/52: Jeff robots explore

Rapere: An intercept drone to seek and destroy other drones | IEEE Spectrum

Kanna Rajan : Advancing autonomous operations in the field from outer to inner space | CMU RI Seminar

Who will buy your bot? End user opportunities

Robot bodies and how to evolve them

European Commission reveals details of proposed cuts to science | Science

An open letter to everyone tricked into fearing AI | PopSci

Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever

What do consumers want? Better batteries, not wearables | Fortune

Elon Musk donates $10M to keep AI beneficial | The Future of Life Institute

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

SoftBank/Aldebaran Pepper robots go on sale in February

Teaching a robot to ‘cook’ by showing it YouTube videos of cooking shows

Despite hard landing, Falcon 9 recovery attempt bodes well for future of reusable spacecraft

FAA issues waivers for real estate and agricultural UAVs

Voxel8 paves the way for 3D-printed electronics | Gizmag

Slow down that runaway ethical trolley

How much interaction with a robot is socially acceptable?

JCC503 Robo, a high-efficiency washer in the form of CNC-controlled robotic arm

Can a robot baby curb loneliness among Japan’s senior citizens? | TechInAsia

Nissan and NASA team up for autonomous drive vehicle development | Gizmag

A startup perspective on exhibiting at CES

CES 2015: The ‘amazing’ autonomous Mercedes

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/12/15

NASA drops mini robots into volcano | Gizmag

Canada’s regulations for foreign commercial UAV operators

The Year of CoCoRo Video #02/52: Overview of largest swarm

3D printing with integrated circuitry | Make

Voltera circuit board prototyping printer | Make

Drones are getting better faster than anyone expected | The Verge

Drones at CES: Sense and avoid | The Verge

RoboThespian

Spare Parts: Opens in theatres January 16th

Disney/ETHZurich robot draws art in the sand | Phys.org

Robocars at CES: BMW

The story of Atlas, FRC Team #3504 Girls of Steel

Revolutionary implant enables broken spinal cord to function again

Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist

Rethink Robotics gets $26.6 million Christmas gift

iCub philosophy, history and recent results: Lecture by Giorgio Metta

40% annual growth forecast for Chinese robotics

How robotics is changing the face of Business Process Outsourcing

The best projects at the IIT Bombay Tech Fest 2015 | DNA India

DJI Drone Rodeo at CES | The Verge

Mobile Robotics (ROBO) a new MOOC starting this week

The Year in Robots – NYTimes.com

Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept

Walking assistive devices for the elderly

Island Forum 2014: Advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence

Robot looks like a fish to ride with marine life | Phys.org

Know Before You Fly: FAA campaign to bring new UAV owners up to speed on rules | Gizmag

Controlling a brushless DC motor with no encoders

Pics everywhere: Top 2014 robot pictures

Robohub Digest Dec. 2014: Hawking AI warning, fish-tracking success, two new robotics MOOCs

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/5/15

The Year of CoCoRo Video #01/52: Overview of the Jeff robot

Lettuce on Mars: Growing greens on the Red Planet | Gizmag

Robocars driving when the map is wrong

Artistic touch humanises Australia’s androids

Cars in the UK, China, LA, CES and here : Robocar news update

Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning

SBC Bonanza: 40 products compared | LinuxGizmos

JPL enters RoboSimian in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals | Gizmag

Robohub’s 10 most viewed articles from 2014

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29

Food delivery drones planned for restaurant chain & airport lounge

3D SLAM

Two MOOCs for robotics enrolling now

Offsetting lethal autonomy with empathy | CityAM

Uber’s legal battles and robocars

Enter the abyss with OpenROV, the $899 open source kit

12 favorite robot movies – new and old

Drones deliver a raft of surprises in 2014 | Gizmag

Amphibious HexH2o drone shoots both aerial and underwater video

Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program to improve agility of UAVs | DARPA

Google presents their actual autonomous car test prototype

Holiday robot video 2014: Robot Drive-In Movies

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/22

Incremental encoder selection

Fish ‘drives’ aquarium on wheels | Inhabitat

What happens to society when robots replace workers? | Harvard Business Review

The important role of robotic gaming in STEM’s evolving landscape

AI may be dominant ‘life’ in cosmos | Motherboard

Holiday robot video 2014: UTARI

Curiosity finds active organic chemistry on Mars | Gizmag

Robotics 2014 in a word: MORE

Reaction to the Sony hack incommensurate with real damage/threat | Motherboard

From literature to living rooms: Perceptions of robots in society

Robot simulators and why I will probably reject your paper

Ugly robot christmas sweaters and other bling for your robot wardrobe

20 great books to hook kids and teens on robotics

Robot Startup Series #7: Interview with Soft Robotics’ Carl Vause

Reading for robot fans: 24 books to inspire, educate and provoke

Holiday robot video 2014: GraspLab @ CITEC Bielefeld

Holiday robot video 2014: ArtiMinds Robotics

South Korean gov’t robotics budget grows 8.3%, to almost $146 million (US) in 2015

Humanoid robot with open electronics

Holiday robot video 2014: Autonomous Christmas Lab

CompuGirls: Young women have role to play in technology field

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

10.1% CAGR projected for material handling robots through 2020

Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range

Four-legged robot claimed to be world’s nimblest | Wired UK

Electronic skin can sense the direction in which it’s being touched | Gizmag

The 2015 3D Printer Guide | 3D Hubs

Robotics in Theatre, Film, and Television

ETH and University of Zurich launch Wyss Translational Center Zurich

ROS101: Creating a subscriber using GitHub

Donate to Robohub for a chance to win a Parrot minidrone

iRobot Create 2 arrives | IEEE Spectrum

Retail robots: The droid at till no 7 | BBC

Future driving: Business models for robocars

5 tips on how NOT to run your crowd-funding campaign

4 cores at 1.5 GHz, SBC for $35 | LinuxGizmos

Evolving swimming robots to study origins of extinct vertebrates

New CAA rules govern use of drones in built up areas

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8

25% of KUKA shares trade hands

New Horizons spacecraft awakens for close approach to Pluto | NASA

Foxconn robots unsuitable for iPhone assembly, new design coming | MacRumors

Your food will be grown by robots | Fast Company

Kidbotics review: Thymio II

Robo-Wars: The regulation of robotic weapons

Humorous MOSS video | Modular Robotics

FOCUS 30 Robotic Total Stations: Saskatchewan bridges in better shape | GeoConnexion

GoPro to start making drones

Ocean-going robot fleet successfully completes fish-tracking mission

Hunting as a pack | The Economist

Capturing the UK robotics opportunity

GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android

Japanese Asteroid Probe Set to Launch Tonight | Slate

Christmas is orange at Amazon

Agricultural technology making news

Ozobot, Knightscope, HiBot and Airware all get funding

Fraunhofer developing flying inventory robots | Gizmag

Hawking: AI could end human race | BBC News

Iowa professor developing robotic weeder | Iowa State Engineering

Technology pushes productivity, but at a steep price | NYTimes

Drones, planes, too close for comfort in Canadian skies | CBC Radio

Robohub Digest Nov. 2014: Philae touchdown, Pirker overturned, 70K robovacuums sold

Deep Space Industries and Solid Prototype announce strategic partnership | DSI

Philae: A proof of concept for cometary landing

CMU unveils lunar rover: “Andy” | Carnegie Mellon News

Mobility Transformation Facility

Transport Canada releases new framework for governing UAV operations

RoCKIn2014, live stream and live scores

NSF’s 40-year history supporting US robotics research

New device could make large biological circuits practical | MIT News

Evaluating the effectiveness of robot behaviors in human-robot interactions

Aeon Scientific wins 2014 Swiss Technology Award

Firmer footing for robots with smart walking sticks

The CORAL group: Interview with Joydeep Biswas and Brian Coltin

Antarctic sea ice mapping by underwater robot put to test | Gizmag

Japan’s new robotics push: Funding and deregulation

Readers optimistic about role of robots as care assistants for seniors

EU Robotics Week is on!

One giant leap: Rosetta and the space mining frontier

MecklerMedia launches RoboUniverse

First person flier: Parrot’s Bebop + VR | The Verge

A fast-paced survey of 3D printing | DNews

Intelligent force sensor demo | Adept

Making geese poop elsewhere | Motherboard

25 holiday gift ideas for RoboGeeks (2014)

Microsoft testing Knightscope security robots | ExtremeTech

Minesweepers 2014: Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining

Small UAV Coalition urges FAA to focus on regulations that enable domestic UAV innovation

National Science Foundation and federal partners award $31.5M to advance co-robots in US

Over 70,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day

NTSB overturns Pirker case: Drones are aircraft

Deregulation at heart of Japan’s new robotics revolution

NERVE Center: The robot playground

Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids

NTSB Overturns Pirker Case: Finds For FAA That Drones Are Aircraft Subject To Its Rules

Skynet (no, not that one): Dropboxes for delivery drones | Gizmag

Researchers turn to cats to help soften robot landings | Gizmag

Robots put to work on e-waste | UNSW Newsroom

Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition

Safety fears over ‘barking mad’ Amazon plan to test parcel-delivering drones in Cambridge | Cambridge News

UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones

Call for holiday robot videos

CMU project to build real Baymax

My mechanical friend | Australian Magazine

Wojciech Matusik: Multi-material 3D printing | CMU RI Seminar

Finding Objects Using RFID

Computer Vision Expert Martial Hebert Named Director of Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute | CMU

Mini-robot to enhance pipeline Inspections | PG&E Currents

Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to

Nate the Robot takes on eldercare!

DJI 4K-shooting Inspire 1 drone with articulated landing gear | Gizmag

Robotic gardeners & the future of food in deep space | Motherboard

Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis

Video: Autonomous robot surgery on deformable tissue phantoms

Google commits $1.36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies

Are agricultural robots ready? 27 companies profiled

Rosetta spacecraft picks up target comet’s mysterious “song” | Gizmag

Will Rockwell Automation Inc. (ROK) miss earnings in Q4? – NASDAQ Analyst Blog

One-third of jobs in the UK at risk from automation – News Release | Deloitte UK

Google Leases NASA Airfield to Research Robotics and Space Exploration | AdAge

Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae makes first ever landing on a comet

Big Hero 6 and the Current State of the Art in Soft Inflatable Robots | Hizook

Five examples of insect-inspired robotics | Digitized

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

Google leases NASA’s Silicon Valley airfield

Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandpa?

ABB invests in AI startup Vicarious

Your car may be programmed to kill you — and 9 more fun facts about self-driving vehicles | Yahoo Tech

The Future Starts Here: Robots, Botox, and Google Glass

Transport Canada relaxes commercial drone regulations, increases focus on academic use

Sharp – Younger sister-like home cleaning robot

Raspberry Pi A+ smaller, less expensive, has HAT connector | Gizmag

Maker Club: Learn to code, design and build 3D printed robots!

Latest research report shows 10.4% CAGR for robotics to 2025

Interstellar’s robots inspired by 20th-century architect | Mercury News

Robotic feedback used to recreate ‘phantom presence’ perception at EPFL | Gizmag

Joelle Pineau: Socially adaptive navigation | CMU RI Seminar

Novel robots for gait and arm rehabilitation: Interview with Robert Riener

ROBO-STOX® introduces European Robotics and Automation Index

£1.25M advanced drone lab gets the go ahead

Rethink includes Robot Positioning System in Intera 3.1 upgrade for Baxter | Gizmag

A computer vision system for mining artistic influence

Amazon Picking Challenge

It’s all about fun: Robot startups at Pioneers Festival 2014

New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music

“Chappie” movie to explore human reaction to AI, machine learning

Maker Club is hoping to start a 3D-printed home robot revolution | Gizmag

Shawn Hymel explains electromagnetism and magnets | SparkFun

Robohub Digest October 2014: Google news, space shakeups, 3D printing and Japan’s robot revolution

New soft ‘antagonistic’ actuator enables robots to fold

Nestlé 1st big buyer of Softbank’s Pepper robot

FPS control method tested with emergency response robots

Gerhard Sagerer: Social Robotics | CMU RI Seminar

Google news: Rubin leaves; Pichai promoted to #2; and Google invests in Magic Leap

Robotics then and now: Interview with Peter Corke

Video: Robotics at Skolkovo

Nylon Fishing Line Actuator

Robot car toy maker Anki hires Skylanders and EA veterans as key executives

Android creator Andy Rubin is leaving Google

Former Android Boss Andy Rubin is Leaving Google | the Next Web

First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)

RoboLaw: Why and how to regulate robotics

Antares orb-3 accident

Rethinking iRobot, Samsung and Dyson robotic vacuum cleaners

GridBot robot takes just 5 hrs to remove wood log stuck in high-pressure powerplant pipe

How a bunch of startups are trying to make a business case for robotics in India | TechCircle

Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot

When it comes to regulating robotics, multiple questions are at issue

Skyward announces first commercial drone network demonstration | SUAS News

Opensource 3D printed “Poppy” humanoid enables experimentation in robot design

2013 IFR stats; RIA Q3 results for US set new records

Luxembourg & China launch private mission to the Moon | The Daily Beast

Elon Musk interviewed at MIT AeroAstro Centennial event | Mashable

IBM reinvents itself by establishing a frontier homestead for cognitive computing | Forbes

Google adds to DeepMind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U

A horse of a different color: Ryan Calo on What robotics can learn from cyberlaw | Slate

Monkeybar project using aerial drones to get on top of malaria | Gizmag

RobotX competition | AUVSI Foundation

Drones: How UAV’s have taken over our airspace | Journeyman Pictures

CyPhy Works’ new tethered mini-drone flies for 2 hours | IEEE Spectrum

Seegrid files for Chapter 11 protection

Designing Jibo: Subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful

Xenex updates protocols for germ-zapping robots in response to Ebola threat | Gizmag

NRL takes delivery of SA-400 Jackal | Scion UAS

SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today

Scientists consider repurposing robots for Ebola | NYT

This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company

Medrobotics, Monsieur and Arago get funding

Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements

Michigan latest state to ban direct Tesla sales | The Verge

OpenStreetMap support in Gazebo

Wasp’s 3D printers produce low-cost houses made from mud | Gizmag

Algorithm enables robots to discern between humans and rubble | Gizmag

Bionic Bird: A smartphone-controlled flapping-wing device | Indiegogo

Robots That Are Ready to Work, in Pictures | Xconomy

RoboBusiness: Workhorse Robots, Starter Kits, and Internet of Bots | Xconomy

When women stopped coding | NPR

Drones For Good Award announces semi-finalists

UAE starts process of building Arab region’s first Mars probe | Gulf Business

ROSCon 2014 videos and slides available

KUKA acquires Swisslog for $357 million

Disaster relief this year’s theme at University of Maryland | The Diamondback

Gladiator robots coming soon? | Business Insider

Driven by care needs, will it be the booming senior population that spurs wider acceptance of robots?

How one boy with autism became B.F.F.’s with Apple’s Siri | NYT

Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities

Tim Barfoot: Long-term visual route following | CMU RI Seminar

Air traffic control system for drones | MIT Technology Review

The feeling of what it is like to be a robot

Engaging Girls in Robotics

Fotokite: A quad on a tether | In The Making

Friday Q&A: Law Professor Ryan Calo | Roll Call

RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics

Robots use UV to help prevent spread of infections in hospitals, may help contain ebola | DNews

RoboBusiness startup Pitchfire winners

Bipedal robot uses high-speed vision to run

25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)

Balance of privacy and control key to acceptance of robot bath assistants

4 reports predict steady growth for robotics

NEXTAGE robot makes coffee! | Kawada Robotics Blog

Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator

Qualcomm launches robotics accelerator | ZDNet

iRobot unveils tablet-based universal control system | Gizmag

Robots are not here to take your jobs | USA Today

ESA confirms primary landing site for Rosetta | ESA News

Dronecode: Open, community-maintained firmware for UAVs | Boing Boing

3D-printed UAV now sports ducted fan motors | Gizmag

Next Big Trend: Robots That Follow You Around | WIRED

Move over, humans, the robocars are coming | Washington Post

What would you want your robot home to do for you?

Wearable technology that feels like skin | Wall Street Journal

Open Bionics founder Joel Gibbard wins Young Design Engineer of the Year Award

Autonomous naval drones in testing | TestTube

RobotShop continues acquisition spree

UCSD investing in robotics

Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”

Raspberry Pi: Nearly 4 million sold | TechCrunch

Nursing Grandma with a robot

EVENT REMINDER: Japan Robot Week 2014

Michael Kaess : Real-time mapping for autonomous robots | CMU RI Seminar

James Gosling : Self-sustaining ocean-going robots | CMU RI Seminar

Breakout Labs looking for robots that can change the world

Drone startups: Anura pocket drone

Registration now open for Cybathlon 2016

Takara Tomy – Entertainment Robot – Robi jr – for 15000 yen

Video: The making of an Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR)

Self-driving car test sites

CoCoRo CeBIT

Video: Rise of the nanorobot, with Brad Nelson

Town for driverless cars being built in Michigan | MIT Technology Review

Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5

Robohub Digest September 2014: Robo-vacuums, regulation, IROS and more

Tiny 3D Printed Robots Make Teleoperation Cheap and Simple – IEEE Spectrum

Simple 3D Printed Grip Makes Household Robots a Little More Realistic – IEEE Spectrum

British National Oceanographic Centre launches major unmanned exploration mission

Quest for Computer Vision

Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014

Arduino enters open source 3D printing | Gizmag

Safety concerns for collaborative robots

3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals

ScratchDuino DIY magnetic robotics kit on Kickstarter

Stepping motor with battery-free absolute sensor enables accurate positioning

euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2

How is Robohub doing? Take our 2nd annual reader survey

Robohub turns two!

Reader poll: How much control should a bathing robot have?

IFR Statistics – World Robotics 2014

Experiments designing an ethical robot

Building a robotics company

SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge

Poll shows bots seen more as appliance than companion, but still good for whole family

Robot jurisprudence: How to judge a ’botm | The Economist

Robotic Toy Carmaker Anki Raises $55 Million

Commercial drone regulations: Canada vs. US

Vision-enabled package handling

Robots dance in synchronization while balancing on balls

A lyrical introduction to Hod Lipson’s dream of self-aware robots | Salon

Kevin Dowling : Learning through startups | CMU RI Seminar

IROS Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 3)

#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15

Drone Exemptions for Hollywood Pave the Way for Widespread Use | NYT

Robots Dance in Synchronization While Balancing on Balls

Snapshot of US UAV situation

Artificial General Intelligence that plays Atari video games: How did DeepMind do it?

GelSight sensor measures deformation of flexible manipulator surface | MIT News

Facebook Lays Out Its Roadmap for Creating Internet-Connected Drones | WIRED

Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked

DHL UAS parcel delivery gets first test

A call for debate on robot policy

Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week

‘Person of Interest’ Season 4 will tackle big questions about AI | Mashable

Drone delivery: DHL ‘parcelcopter’ flies to German isle | Reuters

Delivery by drone: DHL testing service with 12-kilometre flight to German island | CTV News

Live webstream: Risks and opportunities for the auto re/insurance industry

Liquid Robotics continues its growth by partnering with Boeing

Death, drones and driverless cars: how Google wants to control our lives

Hot topic: Regulating robotics

We need to pass legislation on artificial intelligence early and often | Slate

Problems with precautionary principle-minded tech regulation & a Federal Robotics Commission

RoboLaw: EU roadmap for developing guidelines on regulating robotics

ROS 101: Creating a publisher node

Attaining “embodiment” in brain-machine interface technologies: gTec’s Christoph Guger

This Robot Tastes Better Than A Wine Critic | TechCrunch

A radical but possible plan to connect African nations with cargo drones | WIRED

Microsoft layoffs claims Robotics Research team over the weekend | Neowin

Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M

HelloSpoon: A fun, affordable mealtime assistant for people with upper limb disabilities

Colias: tiny, low-cost, autonomous swarming robots | Gizmag

New RFID technology helps robots find household objects | Georgia Tech

Tiny humanoid robot learning to fly real airplanes | IEEE Spectrum

Watch this crazy drone with arms fly and turn a wheel in mid-air | TIME

New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment

AirDog

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)

John Kaag: The moral hazard of drones | Berkman Center

Automata: The new “sci-fi” blockbuster set to put robot ethics under a spotlight

PrecisionHawk raises $10M

10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum

IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)

Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?

Women in engineering at IROS 2014

The case for a federal robotics commission | Ryan Calo via Brookings Institute

Stanford & UCBerkeley create ant-sized radios powered by ambient radio energy | Stanford

Who goes where? Simulated robot boats self-organize to defend against attacks

MINIX 3.3.0 includes ARM support | Slashdot

Project Hieroglyph: Science fiction for better futures

Robots reborn: Upcycled illuminated robot sculptures by +Brauer

Drone Social Innovation Award Winners

Impact of robocars perceived as net positive even if jobs are displaced

These Korean guys have unleashed a robot cheetah! | Akihabara News

ReWalk IPO gets $36 million; Corindus private placement gets $26.6

Unbounded robotics closes down

Clearpath introduces Jackal, their new unmanned ground vehicle

Google buys ‘smart’ spoon maker Lift Labs | PCworld

ROS to support Qualcomm Snapdragon Processors | OSRF

Machine ethics: Programming ethical behavior | UConn Today

“Drone Art” – an excerpt from The Drone Primer

ShanghAI Lectures: Inman Harvey “Metaphorical homunculi: we don’t really have little men inside our heads”

Augmented reality Hardhat 2.0 for industrial workers | Wallstreet Journal

Closing the high-tech gender gap | Sangeeta N. Bhatia via MIT Technology Review

Why is Japan the first to get Dyson’s new 360 Eye?

Recent robotic vacuum launches change industry from niche to mainstream

Boca Bearings 2014 Innovation Competition

In praise of robot football

Your robot chauffeur has arrived | RobotsLab Blog

On internal models, consequence engines and Popperian creatures

Robotic raptors look and fly like the real thing | Gizmag

Open Brain-Computer Interface: An Interview with Conor Russomanno

CUTE: Headless robot chasing a laser pointer

Drones set to revolutionise surf lifesaving

The robot revolution has already begun | World Economic Forum Blog

What does the second machine age mean for our jobs? | Erik Brynjolfsson via World Economic Forum Blog

Katsushi Ikeuchi: From shape-from-shading through e-Heritage | CMU RI Seminar

M-Blocks

If your avatar could talk, what would it say?

Housework 2.0: The battle of the robot vacuum cleaners begins!

UPCOMING EVENT: Japan Robot Week 2014

UAV Surveys Argyle Diamond Mine in Australian | Aibotix

ShanghAI Lectures: Kevin Warwick “AI with biological brains”

Announcing the Winners of the IROS 2014 Baxter Contest! | Rethink Robotics

Ollie Is Here! | Sphero

Samsung answers Dyson’s announcement with their own | Gizmag

DARPA issues RFI regarding robotic services for satellites | Network World

Dyson launches new robotic vacuum cleaner

Galway to host World Robotic Sailing Championship | Silicon Republic

Building a robot with human touch | NYTimes

Algorithm looking at art finds connections art historians had never noticed | Medium

Transportation of medical equipment: Robots to replace couriers | Hospital Direct

How brain signals could control a variety of devices: BrainGate’s Beata Jarosiewicz

We should not be privileging the singularity hypothesis | Alan Winfield via The Guardian

Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?

Rain on Google’s self-driving car parade

Your robot doggie could really be pleased to see you

Jerry the Bear: A robotic learning coach for kids with type 1 diabetes

Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize: Fianlists | Gizmag

Drone developers consider unavoidable obstacles | NYTimes

Korean Yujin Robot launches meal transport robot

Readers support cars that communicate and self-organize

Robohub Digest August 2014: Drone deliveries, record robot sales, job fears, butlers and more

Bankers beware: City ‘will soon be run by robots’

Has Dyson’s robotic dream become a reality?

Google Drones Lift Industry Hopes

Imagination Technologies releases MIPS single-board computer | LinuxGizmos

Japanese robots: Pepper gallery! | Akibaranews

NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News

Microsoft announces standalone 2nd gen Kinect sensor | Gizmag

Google’s secret drone delivery program

SCENE IN TOKYO: Robotic Helper Climbs Stairs in Shinjuku Station

Google’s self-driving cars still face many obstacles | MIT Technology Review

Dyson video teaser points to big announcement on Sept. 4th | TechCrunch

Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program “project wing” | the Atlantic

CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders | MIT News

New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions | MIT News

Spark Aerial: Your aerial cinematography flight school

The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!

ShanghAI Lectures: Tamas Haidegger “Humans-robots-humans: Who is operating who?”

Planning robot motions that humans can relate to

NASA’s “swarmies” robots would team up to explore alien worlds | Gizmag

Robirds: Robotic birds of prey to terrorize real birds | WIRED

Crash optimization

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Five Myths and Facts About Robotics Technology Today – IEEE Spectrum

Autonomous mini helicopters hunt down invasive weeds from the air | Gizmag

Robots to help build aircraft | Phys.org

Google is testing its autonomous cars in a ‘Matrix-style’ version of California

What a drone-filled America could look like | The Verge

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Precise Automation’s PF400 collaborative SCARA robot

Algorithm reduces computational load of drone ‘health’ monitoring | MIT

Robo Brain learns “how to” from images and videos | Popular Science

Autonomous cars 101 | Brad Templeton via Big Think

How drones are emerging as a valuable conservation tool | Lian Pin Koh via Environment 360

The cyborg workforce | GE Reports

In the future, will only robots celebrate Labor Day? | Forbes

Unbounded Robotics to shut down due to issues with Willow Garage spin-off agreement | IEEE Spectrum

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The secrets Google wanted to keep about its self-driving cars | Quartz

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Bridge inspection robot detects corrosion in hard-to-reach spots | ETH News

Video: The future of robotics, as seen by roboticists

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Automata (the movie) coming Oct. 10th | The Verge

Here’s a terrible idea: Robot cars with adjustable ethics settings | Patrick Lin via WIRED

ShanghAI Lectures: Rüdiger Dillmann “Programming by Demonstration”

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Edmonton airport testing out customer service robots

Clearpath’s public stance on Killer Robots sets precedence in corporate responsibility

Reader poll: How do you feel about “Swarms of Autonomous Cars”?

Sex bots, robo-maids, and other myths of the coming robot economy | Popular Science

Robot cars with adjustable ethics settings | WIRED

Measuring position repeatability of industrial robots

Experts have no idea if robots will steal your job | Harvard Business Review

If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you

Coordinated UAV docking

Grasping with robots – which object is in reach?

Amazon looks to gain liftoff for drone delivery testing | USA Today

Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | The Guardian

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DJI Spreading Wings S900

Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away | MIT News

Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes

Internet of things tops Gartner’s Hype Cycle | Network World

ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Enhancing Autonomy and Safety of Assistive Robots”

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Hotel delivery robot debuts in Silicon Valley

Robot butler at your service: Savioke to pilot hospitality bot at Aloft Hotel

Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | Alan Winfield via The Guardian

South Korean private-public partnership to invest $2.6B in robot industry by 2018

Why do people love robots? Find out in this Botscar-winning Robot Film Festival short

New sci-fi short “Robot” seeks crowdfunding

AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research Center

3D Robotics acquires Sifteo

Governmental funding of strategic robotic projects

Targeting a robotic brain capable of thoughtful communication

HexHog: an ATV for wheelchair users | Gizmag

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Gimball: The cage-enclosed drone from EPFL | In The Making

How Hackable Is Your Car? Consult This Handy Chart | Autopia | WIRED

IBM researchers make a chip full of artificial neurons | Ars Technica

Origami inspires rise of self-folding robot | NYT

Watch this robot build itself using origami | The Verge

AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research

Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph

Robots that use Wi-Fi to see through walls | Gizmag

ShanghAI Lectures: Barbara Webb “AI – Artificial Insects”

Drone with directional antenna expands Wi-Fi range for disaster-struck areas | Gizmag

Why robots are getting cuter

The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars

Robocars love the draft | Automaton

VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft

Robocar news: UK Legalization, MobilEye IPO, Baidu, new LIDAR and more

Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?

Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car

This robot needs just a few seconds to learn to walk again after you break its legs

Robohub Digest July 2014: Social robots, autonomous cars, STEM education and more

If courts are going to treat corporations like humans, they should do the same for robots | Slate

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Edison: A low cost robotics platform

Wave-riding robots help track illegal fishing | Australia Network News

NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before

When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News

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SoftBank establishes new robotic company SoftBank Robotics