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

Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds

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

Efficient robotic components under development using fundamental mechanism research

Like Amazon, these 9 companies need their own drones

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

Finally somebody debunks the Pew Research Center’s “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs” report

Over 3,000 robotics-related companies, research facilities and ancillary businesses

3 Latest news breaks in emerging tech

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

Want a happy worker? Let robots take control.

Does the Small UAV industry need its own coalition?

Inroads in perception

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

Video: The future of robotics, as seen by roboticists

Birdly

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”

A byte to eat

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

Impact factors 2013 in the field of mechanisms and robotics

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”

Four recent videos about robots and jobs

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

Stiquito

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

Drone Startups: PreNav

Q1 and Q2 2014 robot sales best ever

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

Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition

SoftBank establishes new robotic company SoftBank Robotics

K-MAX test extended to 3-year deployment | IEEE Spectrum

The power of 4-H robotics

DJI DropSafe System

ShanghAI Lectures: Dustin Li “Embodied Development for an Autonomous Delivery Robot”

Collaborative learning for robots | MIT News

Robohub in the news: Microbots, robot swarms, and other news from the future | Footnote

Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME

Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy

Japanese Robots: Jiro Aizawa, the Father of Toy Robots

Eindhoven wins 2014 robot soccer World Cup | Gizmag

Mind of life: An excerpt from Daniel Wilson’s new sci-fi novel, Robogenesis

British drivers shun autonomous cars in new survey | CAR magazine UK

Mars Opportunity Rover sets off-world driving record | NASA News

See what it’s like to go off-road inside the Marines’ self-driving vehicle | The Verge

What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?

Ekso Bionics

Wearable fashion toy Linkitz teaches girls how to program | TechCrunch

Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals

10,000 robots to be used on new iPhone 6

ShanghAI Lectures: Thierry Bücheler “Latest Insights on Human Collective Intelligence”

The two cultures of robocars

Drones against illegal fishing

Could Jibo developer Cynthia Breazeal be the Steve Wozniak of robots? | Ryan Calo

Lights, camera, action at the Robot Film Festival

Future of Trucking: Big Rigs Become Robot Convoys

Jibo raises $1M in first week of crowdfunding campaign

Makers of the Jibo set new crowdfunding record | Boston Magazine

Family uses drone to help locate missing man | WMTV

Drone Activist Launches Pilot Association To Represent Interests Of Small Commercial Operators

When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?

Drone ‘Finds Trapped People Using Phone Signal’

Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision

HeatWave: mobile 3D thermal mapping in real-time | CSIRO

Robots for entertainment – Part II

The Next Economy (video)

JIBO: A game changing social robot

FBI warns driverless cars could be used as ‘lethal weapons’ | The Guardian

CROPS leaflet updated

New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers | MIT News

Flying Donkey Challenge on hold as Kenyan authorities cope with Westgate Mall fallout

ShanghAI Lectures: Fumiya Iida “Soft robotics approach toward artificial ontogenetic development”

Honda’s new Asimo robot can run, jump and sign | BBC

Deploying automated vehicles

Latest Honda ASIMO: Autonomous, intelligent, and responsive | Gizmag

Short CoCoRo AUV swarm underwater video

Silicone sensors give robot fingers sense of touch | Wired.co.uk

The second wave of social robots is here

China International Robot Show (CIROS) a BIG hit

Robots able to pick peppers, test soil, and prune plants | Singularity Hub

Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)

Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states | MIT News

Alleged drone ‘Peeping Tom’ photo reveals perils of drone related journalism | Forbes

Science and startups at RSS2014 in Berkeley (Part 1)

‘Gobble Hawk’ Wins NASA High-Altitude UAV Competition | Automaton IEEE Spectrum

Home Depot starts selling 3-D printers in stores | Bloomberg

3d printer builds houses in China | The Guardian

Amazon requests FAA permission to test delivery drones

3 exoskeleton companies go public

Harvesting Robots for High-value Crops | Journal of Field Robotics

Should we let robots take our jobs? | DNews

Amazon seeks FAA permission to test drones outdoors near Seattle

University students developing robotic gardening technology | NASA

Cruise

Will agricultural robots arrive in time to keep fruit and vegetable costs down?

Facebook – Our ffriendly automated identity bender

Building Social Robots: The Journey of Pleo

Could software replace your doctor? | USA Today

Drone startup: SR2

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Morphological Change in Machines Accelerates the Evolution of Robust Behavior”

La robolution est en marche

Winners of hurricane-tracking UAS design challenge announced | NASA News

Grizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN

Startup Series #6: MIT Entreprise Forum VLAB

Hardware startup funding figures

Driverless tech: First comes carriage … then the law | Crain’s Detroit Business

Is America incapable of regulating robots? | The Atlantic

The next big things in robotics

Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?

Revisiting telepresence robots at Robot Film Festival

Robots automate testing for bacteria, including coliforms

A Prominent Lawyer Is Calling For A New Federal Agency To Regulate Robots

In the future, your needs will be met by robot baristas, robot Realtors and robot sales agents.

Robohub Digest June 2014: Robots at the World Cup, machine ethics and more

How do you want to interface with your autonomous car? Poll results

Nasa to Power ISS Robots With Google’s Project Tango 3D Smartphones

Robohub launches Indiegogo partner page for crowdfunding robot startups

Mercedes-Benz is teaching autonomous cars how to speak | Daimler Media

Autonomous cars: less sexy, better for sex | NYT

What is a robot? The answer is constantly evolving

AVC 2014 condensed to 11 minutes of highlights | SparkFun

The next era of conversational technology

Radar : A sensory mode on the horizon | Make

TiddlyBot gives Raspberry Pi robot powers

North Korea Drones On | 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea

America is running out of farm workers: Will robots step in? | Vox

ROS 101: Drive a Grizzly!

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Musculoskeletal Humanoids”

FAA Will Miss UAS/NAS Integration Deadline | UAS Vision

Building machines from muscle: University of Illinois demonstrates “walking” bio-robot | Gizmag

Drone startups: Fotokite

BugJuggler: The 70 ft tall car-juggling robot | Gizmag

Robotics community mourns loss of MIT Professor Seth Teller

Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 2014

“Ladybird” autonomous robot to help out down on the farm | Gizmag

Cartwheeling Spider Robots on Sand Dunes – Automaton IEEE Spectrum

Keeping jobs in-country | NY Times

Don’t laugh; the new Google prototype car has implications for your business

My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll

The Most Important People Working In Robotics Today

The thriving drone community of South Africa

The man making silicon valley go crazy for hardware | WIRED

Automaton on DARPA robotics challenge finals

Simultaneous localization and detailed mapping | University of Sheffield

FRE2014: More complete overview

Computer-Assisted Surgery

DARPA announces new challenges, teams, and research goals for the DRC’s finale in June 2015

VC funding for robotics in 2013 | Hizook

ReWalk exoskeleton gets FDA approval for home use | Gizmag

Curiosity’s Martian anniversary selfie is a sign of the times

Intel to sell kits for 3D-printed robots | ITworld

ShanghAI Lectures: Barry Richards and Craig Turnbull “Robotics and Automation Applied to the Aircraft Industry”

Migration from Mexico to U.S. is tapering off. How does this impact farmers?

Donate to Robohub for a chance to win a Sphero 2.0

Keeping Robohub plugged in

Autonomous vehicles: A powerful tool if you can get the problem right

FAA grounds Amazon’s drone delivery plans | Ars Technica

On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier

Why social robots will change your life

UK Robotics Mission on Silicon Valley tour

Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?

Bird-inspired drones may be able to perch on power lines to recharge | Gizmag

If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results

Robotic early detection of pipeline leaks: Faster & cheaper

AVC 2014 | SparkFun

FRE2014: Early videos | YouTube

The National Park Service ordered a ban on drones in the 401 national parks.

12.6% CAGR forecast for mobile robotics market

Noonee: The chairless Chair

FIRST 2014 photo essay: Girls of Steel back in St. Louis

ShanghAI Lectures: Olivier Michel “Webots: Fast prototyping and simulation of mobile robots”

3D printed vehicle competition | Virginia Tech

Grasping objects in a way that is suitable for manipulation

Minibuilder robots print large-scale structures on site | Gizmag

Elon Musk is worried that AI research could produce a real-life Terminator | The Verge

Game of drones – extreme sports photography

SoftBank has another humanoid robot – IEEE Spectrum

Airdog: Yet another Follow-Me copter on Kickstarter!

A Drone Designed To Follow And Film You Is Smashing Its Kickstarter Goal

Follow-Me Mode: Available Today, Free in DroidPlanner 2.0

Robots With Origami Wheels | Automaton – IEEE Spectrum

HRI takes to the road in the form of hitchBOT

Why was this man smiling at AUTOMATICA 2014?

Automated Driving: Upcoming Change in Perspective?

How important is the FAA’s first commercial licence approval?

Field Robot Event 2014 begins Tuesday

Global trends in robotics from patent analysis

Aldebaran CEO Bruno Maisonniers’s speech at Pepper introduction event

A Code of Ethics for HRI Practitioners

Tweet to drive a robot!

Quadrotor allegedly seen spying on French team’s closed practice at World Cup

Asratec Releases ‘V-Sido OS’ for Humanoid Robots

While the cat’s away, the mice play: What the drone delivery biz is doing while FAA ruling is under appeal

See, sense, think, react: the robots are coming

Exoskeleton with haptic sensors helps paralysed man to kick off World Cup

Exclusive Q&A: World cup kickoff looms for demo of brain-controlled machine | Science

ShanghAI Lectures: Fabio Bonsignorio “Embodied Finance: Embodying Disruptive Innovation in Embodied Cognitive Systems”

BP gets first FAA approval to use commercial UAVs

An ethical dilemma: When robot cars must kill, who should pick the victim?

HorseFly unmanned aerial parcel delivery system uses truck as base

The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think

NASA astronauts set to harvest first space vegetable

IFR Maker/User Panel at AUTOMATICA

Reader poll: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?

Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award

Skybox Imaging acquired by Google for $500 million

Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent

Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Results from our reader poll

Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition

Recent funding announcements

Inside the USAF’s drone pilot training | The Atlantic

Computer passes Turing Test for first time by convincing judges it is a 13-year-old boy

MOSS videos | Modular Robotics

Augmentation: The other side of the robotics coin | Computerworld

Robots are evil: The sci-fi myth of killer machines | Popular Science

Edyn smart garden monitoring system | Gizmag

SoftBank + Aldebaran = Pepper

SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper knows how you’re feeling | ComputerWorld

ROS meets precision agriculture at Blue River Technology

ShanghAI Lectures: Claude Patrick Siegenthaler “In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets”

Prices of industrial robots are going down

IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales

How do self-driving cars work?

Apple’s operating systems build in primitives needed for realistic mechanical animation

EU launches world’s largest civilian robotics programme – 240,000 new jobs expected

New robot hand, with OSRF electronics and ROS support

Multimodal interaction at AWE2014 with HIT Lab NZ

Droplets: A low-cost swarm robotics platform for teaching and experimentation

Robohub Digest May 2014

Sporobot: Malaria vaccine harvesting robot | Indiegogo

17% compound annual growth rate forecast for home cleaning, remote presence and home entertainment robots

ShanghAI Lectures: Toshiyuki Nakagaki “How does an amoeba tackle a maze?”

Russian robotics

SpaceX unveils its next generation Dragon V2

Intel’s 3-D printed robot will hit the market later this year | CNN

Can killer robots learn to follow the rules of war? | The Smithsonian

The answer to mis-selling? Let a robot pick your investments | The Telegraph

Bay Area Maker Faire biggest yet

The Singularity: Sci-fi’s faith-based initiative | Popular Science

Low-latency event-based visual odometry | ETHZ via Phys.org

RWE Deutschland receives innovation prize for multirotor application | Aibotix International

Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo recap

Automated Driving – Something Missing

Amazon will be using 10,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of the year | CNN

SOLID: A robot recap

Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car

Reader Poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?

Meet the winners of Robot Launch 2014

Advanced nanometer-scale manufacturing technologies

Rumor: Apple may announce smart home platform next week | AppleInsider

Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ autonomous cars?

Meet your (ROS-based) cleaning team from Avidbots

There’s no business like show business

Signal processing technology to extract required information from image, sound, and biometric signals

Carl Bass of Autodesk: Keynote at MakerCon 2014

Transforming robots to transform your room

Thin silicon lenses dramatically reduce cost of thermal imaging | Gizmag

Titan Medical secures $34.8 million from public offering

Arduino-powered balancing robot for education, hacking and fun

New video shows range and versatility of professional service robots

Roombots: Modular robots that self-assemble into furniture | Gizmag

Robots14 brings it all together

Robotics evangelist: ‘Personal robots’ should be invisible beings | The Register

Crabster robot deployed in South Korean ferry disaster | IEEE Spectrum

GRASP: Intelligent, swarming nanobots | Motherboard

ShanghAI Lectures: Minoru Asada “Cognitive Developmental Robotics”

30 years of AI with Rolf Pfeifer: A robotics legend delivers his farewell talk

The autonomous driving r/evolution: Call to contribute to Robohub Focus

ROS in the cockpit

The sci-fi myth of robotic competence | Popular Science

Robot Launch Finals

Lil’Bot Kickstarter campaign: Arduino-compatible balancing robot

Extreme-environment robotics under development at Keio University

The Trick That Makes Google’s Self-Driving Cars Work

Google’s Self-Driving Cars Have Never Gotten a Ticket

Japanese Robots: Celebrating the Life of Dr. Kanako Miura

America’s dominance in military robotics is starting to crumble

Robots begin to attack waste and dirt

Google buys Quest Visual, the maker of Word Lens | Ars Technica

Asimov’s First Law: Exploring the implications | FUTURESTATES.tv via The Verge

Only 5 of 87 countries represented support preemptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons | The Verge

Meet Arduino ZERO | Arduino Blog

US Navy wants smart robots with morals, ethics | Slashdot

Information systems for banana farming | ACFR

RoboRoach

RobotLaunch startups take note! Sage advice from the experts at Robots2014

Touch Bionics updates i-limb prosthetic hand | Gizmag

Fast robot arm catches flying objects | Automaton

Autodesk introduces own 3D printer: Uses open hardware model | BBC News

ShanghAI Lectures: Yukie Nagai “What should robots learn from caregiver-infant interaction?”

Livestream: BAL ROBOTOV Roboforum

Killer robots have uncertain future: World debates ethics | SlashGear

Ron Arkin and Noel Sharkey debate lethal autonomous weapons at UN

Fujitsu selling lettuce grown in clean room | The Verge

Flower Power review: Can technology give you a green thumb? | Engadget

Mirobot: An open source WiFi robot for kids

Robot Launch 2014 Finals May 20 – Vote now for People’s Choice

Technology to help adults age in place just a few years away | The Star

Canadian farmers invest in robots to work ‘smarter, not harder’ | CBC

Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm” prosthesis receives FDA approval | IEEE Spectrum

EPFL researchers teach robotic arm to catch | Gizmag

Scientists try to teach robots morality | Gizmag

Reader poll: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ an autonomous car?

What do people think about autonomous cars? Results from our reader poll

Parrot introduces Bebop and new controller | IEEE Spectrum

‘Killer robots’ to be debated at UN

Marco Tempest: TED Talk with a robotic assistant

3D map maintenance in dynamic environments | ASL, ETHZurich

Stephen Hawking on the risks of AI | The Independent

Disney & ETHZurich create Pixelbots | WIRED

Livestream: Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Alan Spreckley “Robotic Automation in Manufacturing”

Drone inspectors: UK airline easyJet looks to tech to cut costs

Autonomous vehicles: the ethics of programming emergency decisions | WIRED

Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice round three

Aerial drone maps show Philippine typhoon devastation, aid in reconstruction

Researchers want to build swarm of 1,000 Droplet robots | IEEE Spectrum

Mirobot: DIY WiFi robot for children | Kickstarter

Grasping unknown objects

Is surveillance the new business model for consumer robotics?

AT Black Knight Transformer’s first flight | Gizmag

Rex Bionics set for takeoff

Snake-like robot to help automate aircraft wing construction | Gizmag

Robot helps 94-year-old Italian grandmother live independently at home

SCiO spectrometer: a handheld physical search engine | SlashGear

Robohub Digest April 2014

Recent robotics notices and awards

Gzweb for mobile platforms

Boomer: the baby dinosaur robot | OhGizmo!

Robots down on the farm | Cali Lewis

Lab seeks funds for large-scale swarm | CU Boulder

Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy

How to teach manners to a robot | Motherboard

Zero Tillage Robotics

A drone’s eye view of the latest oil train explosion | Motherboard

Robot Launch 2014: Robohub People’s Choice Round Two

Google’s self-driving car masters city streets | Evan Ackerman on Discovery News

CloudSim-Ed: A robotics MOOC prototype

What should a robot do? Designing robots that know right from wrong

Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?

5 cool (and informative) robot videos you don’t want to miss

EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends

Minesweepers: Towards a landmine-free world

Make it smart; make it here!

Proliferation of weaponized drones: Saudi Arabia joins the club | The Verge

SparkFun 2014 AVC course preview

CMU RI Seminar: Sebastian Scherer on autonomous rotorcraft

Industrial human-robot collaboration becoming more common | MIT Technology Review

WeRobot 2014 conference videos

Show us your AI – AAAI Video Competition

Recent robotics-related IPOs

Lettuce orbit earth: gardening in zero gravity | NASA

The 2014 Oregon Precision Farming Expo: a sign of things to come

The People’s Bot: Robotic telepresence for the public good

Arcturus Jump VTOL add-on for fixed wing UAVs | Gizmag

DARPA program to develop prosthetics with lifelike sensory feedback | Gizmag

Field Robot Event 2014: June 17 – 19

ShanghAI Lectures: Simon Grand “Building Intelligent Companies: Enterpreneurial Management and Design Principles”

The evolution of assembly lines: A brief history

Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice Round One

With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time

The robotics revolution: Looking forward from 1982 | Steve Roberts in Mechanix Illustrated

Launching RoboJobs: The new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community

#Robots14 event “From Imagination to Market” is itself imaginative

UAV news wrap-up

Xconomy Robo Madness

ECA Group acquires UAV copter maker Infotron for $10 million

Robotic milking | Farming Today | BBC Radio 4

Automaton’s Video Friday returns with a bang! | IEEE Spectrum

Why robots, revisited | Cultibotics

Schunk Manipulators

Titan Aerospace sells again — this time to Google

Robots with a soft touch | The Verge

DIY universal gripper | Make

It’s official – you can now buy a UBR-1

Bad Boy Mowers: growing with robots | ABB

ROBOTS: From imagination to market

ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”

Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites

NASA signs agreement with SpaceX for use of historic launch pad

Back on Earth, Part 3

DARPA Wi-Fi drones: Just what Facebook needs | Gizmag

TinkerBots set to blow through $100K fundraising goal | Indiegogo

3D laser lithography yields strong, light microstructure | Gizmag

Toyota replaces some robots with human workers | Bloomberg

Google Acquires Solar-Powered Drone Maker Titan Aerospace | the next web

Symphony of the Soil trailer

KUKA omniMove Universal Transport Vehicle | YouTube

Taxes pay for robots, but robots don’t pay taxes | The Globe and Mail

Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke

Google Ventures invests in Savioke | BBC News

Call for immediate limited commercial UAS use | Precision Ag

ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”

Robot Launch 2014: Announcing the top 30

Drone crashes could cause headaches and lawsuits | NBC

Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater

Oldest known cardiovascular system already brain-focused | ScienceMag

Robot: stop global warming | IRO 2014

How productive are robots? | Economist Labour Market Blog

Should we fence the arms of Universal Robots?

Robohub Digest March 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 9 – Towards a theory of intelligence

1.1M£ robotic “Porton Man” to test protective clothing for UK’s armed forces

RMIT & DSTO improve UAV endurance using updrafts | Gizmag

Triathlete injured as drone falls during race | ABC AU

As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers | Ars Technica

The lean hardware startup: Investing in hardware startups | TechCrunch

Festo’s BionicKangaroo recycles energy | Gizmag

Self-organized criticality in the brain | Quanta

Intuitive Surgical upgrades da Vinci surgical system and recalls tools used by them

DARPA’s Phoenix program: robotic orbital assembly of modular satellites | WIRED

MiP: a collaboration between Wowwee and UCSD | Gizmag

CMU snake robot finds medical application | Gizmag

ROS user survey results | ROS.org

Termite-Inspired Construction

Apple buys UK speech recognition firm Novauris to help improve Siri

Consumer AI devices entering the marketplace

We Robot 2014 livestream

WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society | The Washington Post

Forests surrounding Chernobyl a fire waiting to happen: robotic chipper needed | Motherboard

Tiny lensless camera generates images algorithmically | Phys.org

ShanghAI Lectures: Rafael Núñez “Where mathematics comes from’”

What to do if you find a lost drone | Forbes

Sheffield UAV 3D-printed in less than 24 hours | Gizmag

Why it is not possible to regulate robots | The Guardian

The Economist 14-page Special Report: Rise of the Robots—Cool!

€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry

The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities

The intersection of engineering and neuroscience: Dan Bacher on BrainGate and assistive technologies

XPrize for unassisted AI TED Talk | Gizmag

Driven to gridlock: Driverless cars | CBS Los Angeles