Dassault and BAE Systems welcome Anglo-French UCAV pact – 1/31/2014 – Flight Global

Mission to Mars, Part 5

Drone can perch and walk like a bird | New Scientist

GuardBot: From protecting territory to playing with dolphins

ShanghAI Lectures: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”

ROS 101: Intro to the Robot Operating System

APRICOT project develops fish filleting robot | Gizmag

Lakemaid Beer tests drone delivery to ice fishermen

Competing sales reports for industrial robotics

Competing Sales Reports for Industrial Robotics

Robot love: Spike Jonze’s new sci-fi film ‘Her’ may be closer to reality than you think

The new bot on the block | O’Reilly Radar

Robot soldiers are coming! | DNews

Hardware crowdfunding platform Dragon Innovation offers $100K to projects that raise $1M | TechCrunch

The driverless city | Project Syndicate

In the news: Intuitive Surgical

Bloomberg Businessweek says: “Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It.”

Google to buy artificial intelligence startup DeepMind | Re/code

Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson

Swarms of drones could be the next frontier in emergency response | NBC News

Startup Funding

3D photolithography using lasers | Gizmag

University of Coimbra developing minesweeping robot | Gizmag

Mission to Mars, Part 4

‘Unconscionable’ automation: beware the backlash | Ars Technica

ShanghAI Lectures: Sukhan Lee “Cognitive Recognition for Service Robots”

Robots Can Now Teach Other Robots, Thanks To RoboEarth

Marvin Minsky honored for lifetime achievements in artificial intelligence | MIT News

What’s hidden among the Internet of Things? | CBC Radio, The Current

Rosetta awakes and prepares to chase comet | Science

E-Whiskers: Berkeley researchers develop highly sensitive tactile sensors

How biotech might pool the power of the human brain – with Proteo.me CEO Ivo Georgiev

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Part 2: Embodied intelligence

Beam+ remote presence robots becoming affordable

Anti-poaching illustrations inspired by one artist’s love for animals, mecha and robotics

Doggone it, there are no exciting consumer robots

Robots with “soul” | TED

PLEASED project working on “plant-borgs” to act as environmental biosensors | Gizmag

FAA selects state for drone testing | Laughlin Nevada Times

WunderBar: break off a piece of the Internet of Things | Gizmag

Robot tourism coming soon to Korea: Masan Robot Land project finally breaks ground

Robot farmers are the future of agriculture | The Guardian

Geoffrey Hinton brings deep learning to Google | Wired

Seegrid adds vision-guided lifting and stacking to product line

RoNeX unboxing | The Shadow Robot Co.

Down the road, the car will take you out for a spin | LA Times

Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries

RoboEarth tested in life-like scenario | BBC

Mission to Mars, Part 3

Brainlike computing: Something big is happening

Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live

NREC to automate strawberry blossom and weed removal

ShanghAI Lectures: Alois Knoll, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani “Joint-Action Science and Technology”

A discussion on deploying drones for international development

Tiny Robot Flies Like a Jellyfish

Ekso Bionics goes public for $20.6 million

Home telepresence Beam+ launches for $995 – IEEE Spectrum

Clearpath Robotics accepts PR2 support role – IEEE Spectrum

If you could enhance yourself with some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?

Mark Stephen Meadows on “If you could enhance yourself with some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”

AJung Moon on “If you could enhance yourself by some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”

Daniel H. Wilson on “If you could enhance yourself by some robotic accessory or implant, what would it be?”

Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal

Tony Hsieh’s quiet plan to bankroll hardware startups | Xconomy

What to Expect from Robotics in 2014: Google, Japan, and Much More

The coolest girl at CES is the Aussie robot engineer

Google acquires Nest for $3.2 billion

Why Google bought Nest: A theory | The Atlantic

Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Part 1 – Intelligence: Things can be seen differently

Google to acquire Nest | Google

Are investments in robotics capital intensive?

Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years

New-tech grippers hit the market

And more robots from CES past

Robot vaporware from CES past

7 consumer robots to look out for from CES 2014

Interdisciplinary Teams

Interview with Simon Blackmore | BBC Radio4 Farming Today

Mission to Mars, Part 2

The greatest myth about the robotics industry | IEEE Spectrum

Eureka! There are academic startups at CES 2014

Stopping killer robots | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

ShanghAI Lectures: Samia Nefti-Mezziani “Non-rational Particle Swarm Optimization”

CES 2014 – Robotics on the Runway

Sphero 2B tubular robot toy will reach speeds of 10 mph | Gizmag

Self drifting BMW shows off in new video from CES – Autoweek

Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda

Are new technologies undermining the laws of war? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

CES 2014: Please don’t run me down!

GLXP Update: Penn State Lunar Lions now in #3 spot

Video: Panel discussion celebrating 10 years of the Mars Exploration Rover

Sphero 2B: The newest addition to the Sphero family of connected toys | Sphero Robot Ball

Harvest Automation and SBI Software announce cooperative agreement

Snap 2014: Aerial drones and 3D mapping software for civil engineering surveying

new flying drone and two-wheeler built from Parrot | The Verge

Robots at home: Interview with Assistobot CEO Tjin Van Der Zant

Mission to Mars

ShanghAI Lectures: Christopher Lueg “Scaffolding & Embodiment: Perspectives in Human Computer Interaction”

The need to be open: U.S. laws are killing the future of robotics | Mashable

The year in robotics | Popular Science

Protecting jobs by adding robots

Outreach activities: Making nanoparticle robots to ‘treat cancer’

Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet nanocopter | Popular Science

Teams and Tasks

ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and Control of Mobile Robot Networks”

Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project

Meet the eight astounding finalists of DARPA’s Robotics Challenge | io9

Taking your first steps in robotics with the Thymio II

Robot Holiday Videos 2013

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Aldebaran Robotics

Japanese Team Schaft Gets Highest DRC Score

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Michael McMaster

Happy Holidays from the Robohub team

Mapping in the Cloud

Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1

International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up

Transcriptic: Robotic laboratory science | The Verge

Japanese team dominates competition to create rescue robots | NYT

Robots of death, robots of love | TechRepublic

▶ Robot Astronaut Kirobo Takes Part in Conversation Experiment – YouTube

Automaton’s overview of the first day of the DRC trials | IEEE Spectrum

Japanese Robots: The DARPA Robotics Challenge is Underway – Go Team SCHAFT, GO! (VIDEO)

The future is all robots, but will we even notice? | Forbes

Watch the DARPA Robotics Challenge Live – IEEE Spectrum

FRE2014 to be held in conjunction with DLG Field Days

DARPA Robotics Challenge

Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk

DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast

China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg

KUKA buys 51% of Reis Robotics with option to buy remainder

Robot Holiday Video 2013: LASA, EPFL

DARPA Robotics Challenge trials: What you should (and shouldn’t) expect to see | IEEE Spectrum

ShanghAI Lectures: Eugen Elmiger “Drives for Intelligent Robots”

China’s Moon Landing and Rover Tip of Iceberg

Robotic hand changer enables high-precision docking through dual surface resting

Still looking for last-minute holiday gifts? 15 ideas for robot fans (2013)

KUKA buys 51% of Reis Robotics with option to buy remainder

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Ascending Technologies

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Networked and Embedded Systems Lab, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture

ShanghAI Lectures 2013 Edition: Live webcast on Thursday, 09:30 CET

The 400lb CHIMP in the room: CMU’s Tartan Rescue Team prepares for the DRC

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

Google’s robotics program has legs, but where is it going? | The Verge

▶ New York City 2 – Team Black Sheep

IRO Competition: Opening day | Denver Post

Russia looks inward and outward at Moscow’s 2013 Open Innovations Forum

Google’s robotics program has legs, but where is it going? | The Verge

Is Silicon Valley automating our obsolescence?

Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotics research at CMU

New grants to help more students pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Enginerring, Math) careers | The National Law Review

Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotic research at CMU

Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper

The 2013 International Robot Olympiad in Denver

KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders

KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders

Kate Darling on near-term ethical, legal, and societal issues in robotics

Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% lay off

Rethink Robotics is downsizing

Google makes 8 big robotic investments

Apple, Amazon and now Google: It’s a pretty exciting day for robotics!

Google buys Boston Dynamics | New York Times

Soft robotics in space

Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% laid off

The DARPA Robotics Challenge

The hour of code is here | code.org

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Resilient Machines”

The childhood toys that inspired female engineers and scientists | Washington Post

Andra Keay on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”

What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?

Frank Tobe on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”

Connected big-rigs: Google Ventures-backed KeepTruckin upgrades the trucking industry | Venture Beat

The Internet of things is coming on faster than ever thanks to a new, huge alliance | Venture Beat

AJung Moon on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”

NSW government looks to drones for shark attack prevention

NASA JSC unveils ‘Valkyrie’ DRC robot | IEEE Spectrum

This is what the next generation of engineers looks like | Mashable

How Matternet Wants To Bring Drone Delivery To The People Who Need It Most | TechCrunch

Forget the octocopter, let’s talk about Kiva

Drones on and on and on | The Boston Globe

Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival

Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots

DHL testing delivery drones | Stuff

Episode 4: Why We Love Robots | AOL

Amid drone talk, Amazon has real robots | Wall Street Journal Blog

iRobot, 3D Systems and Makerbot recognized at Economist’s 2013 Innovation Awards

Google Lunar X Prize leader board: Barcelona Moon Team schedules launch ahead of Astrobotic, Moon Express, and Team Indus

Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs

Unmasking the RQ-180 | Ares blog

CubeSats: Launching education into space

Donate, spread the joy, and help Robohub grow

Google makes big robotics investment

The Lean Hardware Startup: Financing | TechCrunch

Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg

Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots

ShanghAI Lectures: Hisato Kobayashi “AI-ish approach for complicated robot control”

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos interviewed by Charlie Rose

Rehabilitation support robot “R-cloud” makes muscle movement visible

UPS researching delivery drones that could compete with Amazon’s Prime Air | the Verge

The Economist Innovation Awards 2013

Large-scale trial of driverless cars to begin on public roads | Telegraph

Google buys up robotics companies from DRC

Google puts money on robots, using the man behind Android | New York Times

Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)

Noisy imitation speeds up group learning

Amazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks to the future | 60 Minutes

Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real? | Automaton

Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority

Amazon Reveals It Wants To Deploy Delivery Drones | Huff Post

More about MOSS | Gizmag

Is it OK to torture or murder a robot? | BBC

Working with EOD Personnel

Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $350 million

Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $350 million

ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”

Baxter the Soft Industrial Robot Gets Japanese Distribution

Collective pitch thrust vectoring | Hack a Day

Global Machine Vision market to grow at 9.4% CAGR

Highlights From the International Robot Exhibition 2013 – IEEE Spectrum

Hardware Hits from Haxlr8r Include A Robotic Guitar Tuner | IEEE Spectrum

Global Machine Vision market to grow at 9.4% CAGR

8 robotic toys for the holidays (2013)

Mazor Robotics on a roll

8 Robotic Gifts for the 2013 Holiday Season

Medical/Surgical Simulation

Mazor Robotics on a roll

Which drone future will Americans choose?

Medical/surgical simulation and training

NASA: growing plants on the Moon | Forbes

iDiots: Japanese Toy Robots Animated to Make Fun of Us

ShanghAI Lectures: Koh Hosoda “Compliant Body as a Source of Intelligence”

The evolution of NSK’s guide robot for the visually-impaired | Gizmag

In case you missed the Uncanny Valley session at IROS

Two ears, one mouth (or, Somatic analytics, and a talk with Dr. Skip Rizzo)

Only 1 in 10 engineers are women | Let’s change toys

Ethical robots: Some technical and ethical challenges

Car Troubles

Robot servant commits suicide | BoingBoing

Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control and the power of machine learning

How I helped create Robo-Stox, a new stock index for the robotics community

3D scanners coming down in price

Thermal spraying with Praxair TAFA | ABB Robotics

Japanese Robots: iREX Multimedia (VIDEOS & GALLERY)

From the Greenhouse to the Fields

We the Geeks: Whitehouse hangouts celebrate robots, maker culture and more

ShanghAI Lectures: SAYA/Hiroshi Kobayashi “Hello, my name is SAYA”

Is this the right time for robotic startups?

What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?

Lynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

Frank Tobe on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

Andra Keay on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

New ETF (NASDAQ:ROBO) focuses on robotics industry

VIDEO Flying robots perform amazing acrobatics | CNN

Robotics CEO: 12-Year-Old Whiz As Smart As Ph.Ds

UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014

From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact

How drones will change your life | CNN

Legal issues with robots | Communications of the ACM

EMP: An industrial robotics success story | FANUC America Corporation

ShanghAI Lectures: Brian David Johnson “Brain Machines: Robots, Free Will and Science Fiction Prototypes”

New TV show: Have co-robots gone too far?

Intro to Robotics

Two Boston Notables Get More Money

New TV show: Have co-robots gone too far?

Two Boston notables get more money

Japanese Robots: Industrial Robotics Sampler from iREX 2013 (VIDEO)

Cubelets are growing up as Moss

AgriRover brings Mars rover technology to the farm | Gizmag

MOSS – The Dynamic Robot Construction Kit | Modular Robotics

iREX Maker/User Summit

iREX Maker/User Summit

REMINDER: iREX International Robot Exhibition Starts Tomorrow!

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: How to Ride Your Giant Exoskeleton, by Team Skeletonics (at Maker Faire: Tokyo 2013)

New ETF (NASDAQ:ROBO) focuses on robotics industry

IROS2013 is not just funny robot videos

Live Coverage of IROS Workshop on Science Communication

Air, water, energy and food in a nutshell: Space exploration as driver for sustainable robotic agriculture

Robotics Expo in Moscow

Occipital’s Structure Sensor 3D scanner for mobile devices | Gizmag

Elaboration of “keeping dust off optics” (2009Mar01) | Cultibotics Blog

Blue River Technology

Autonomous tracked dump-truck finalist for Dyson Award | Gizmag

Robotics Expo in Moscow

Robotics Expo 2013, Moscow

The unmanned wingman | Foreign Policy

ShanghAI Lectures: Auke Ijspeert “Controlling the Locomotion of Robots Using Central Pattern Generator Models”

Robot city: How the machines are driving Pittsburgh’s future | The Verge

Harvest Automation raises $11.75M Series C financing

Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t

Down on the farm with drones

Play-i want to bring a robot to every child

Government agencies invest $38 million in human-friendly robots

Beam-ing into RoboBusiness 2013

Beaming-in to RoboBusiness 2013

A close(ish) encounter with Voyager 2

RoboBusiness: Day Two

Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture

Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture

Japanese Exoskeleton Update: Does Team Skeletonics have New Gear? (VIDEO)

Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture

Call for Papers: ROB | ARCH 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Bernard Horan “Mixing real and virtual worlds in education”

RoboBusiness: Day one in the heart of Silicon Valley

Japanese Robots: Gymnast-Bot Nails Kovacs to Triple Backflip

32 robot photos you haven’t seen before | Atlantic Monthly

Harvey: A working robot for container crops

Robo-Stox: A dream come true

Soon Internet crowdfunding sites will let investors buy stock

DARC talks about the elephants in the room – freight planes and fighters

World’s 1st Robotics ETF Goes Live Tues

Ten lessons for farm drones

UBR-1 robot from Unbounded Robotics revolutionizes affordable mobile manipulation | Automaton

Tiny, cheap water-sensing chip outperforms larger, pricier sensors | Gizmag

Unbounded Robotics launch affordable, all-purpose UBR-1

Honda automatic driverless valet parking system

Mechs & Robots: if “Keloid” were a movie, Japan would buy tickets. Hint. Hint. (VIDEO)

Selected start-ups from Demo Fall 2013, Silicon Valley

Car of the Future Competition

Start-up profile: Knightscope

The agriculture business is “a sleeping giant” for companies building the internet of things

FutureDairy

Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics

Affordable Care Act

Beam into RoboBusiness

ShanghAI Lectures: Lutz Jäncke “On the neuropsychology of avatars”

Pioneers kickstarts the start-up scene with a hands-on celebration of innovation

Call for participation: RoCKIn Camp 2014

Japanese Robots: ASIMO’s nemesis grows stronger; will Honda respond? (VIDEO)

25 women in robotics you need to know about (2013)

Demo of military robots includes live-fire | Computerworld

How to feed the world | NYTimes

Is drone delivery really a robot startup?

Zookal starts “world first” delivery-by-drone service in Sydney

DARC day two

Breaking it down with the DanceBot: Getting started with electronics

#Robotsandyou: Help drive the discussion on the ethics of cognitive systems and robotics

DARC day one live

Japanese Robots: Honda’s UNI-CUB with a Civilian, a Smartphone, an Escape, and a Lesson (VIDEO)

Is open source a good business model for robotics?

Robert Morris on “Is open source a good business model for robotics?”

Brian Gerkey on “Is open source a good business model for robotics?”

Floating interactive display could be used in ATMs of the future

Robotics heavyweights keep it entertaining at 2013 Northeast Robotics Colloquium

Frank Tobe on “Is open source a good business model for robotics?”

Maps & apps

Sharp’s futuristic Health Care Support Chair – a proactive health care solution

Robots: Their rights and legal status | Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Why tech’s hottest companies want to hire more female engineers | TechCrunch

Nike fund SRI spinoff Grabit | Silicon Valley Robotics

ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit

Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton

MIT deploys swarm of self-assembling robot cubes | Automaton

Robot startup resources: Pitching

Don’t build robots, build robot systems

Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate

Arduino announces two new boards: Galileo and TRE | Make

VIDEO: NoodleBot at CEATEC 2013 – Robots & Noodles are Natural Together, Right?

Synched gears interlock at 4,500 rpm on state-of-the-art servo system

Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing

Getting Started in Robotics

Happy Birthday Robohub!

Honda Motor Europe – ASIMO was promoting science in Slovakia

Classroom robotics: Motivating independent learning and discovery

Open Hand Project: Who Wants a Robotic, 3D Printed, Open-Source, Sub-$1000 Prosthetic Hand?

Maker Faire European Edition kicks off in Rome

Classroom robots: A great way to get young people started

FRE2013 video playlist

NASA closes most of its doors due to US Congress shutdown, but Jet Propulsion Lab continues operating

APU-Module sowing

Intricate Gizmos That Do Nothing but Hold Themselves Up | Wired.com

Box – this video’s going viral

Robohub Reader Survey

Robohub turns one!

Rutgers receives innovation award for bridge inspection robot

Ship hull cleaning & inspection – ideal for robots

Winners of the euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition announced!

Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry, improve safety for inspectors

Robots compete in mock disaster-response scenarios at Eurathlon | Gizmag

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Four recap

SEDASYS – a robotic anesthesiologist

Japan robot can pick strawberry fields forever for farmer | Phys.org

3D Robotics gets $30 million to mainstream aerial robotics

Human & robot team up for high-tech harvest | Precision Pays

Mentors of Steel: The role of mentoring in robotics education

Call for papers: We Robot 2014

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Three recap

Japanese robots: Argo’s ReWalk exoskeleton gets a pile of Yaskawa robot money | Akihabara News

Ankle assist walking device helps stroke survivors walk more easily

Robots make friends on simulated Mars mission | IEEE Spectrum

A glimpse at our robotic future: 235 start-ups reviewed

There are mobile robots and then there’s KUKA’s MOBILE robot

QF-16 flies with an empty cockpit | Boeing

OAK, a Kinect-based active support system for the severely disabled

Getting into the driver’s seat: Girls of Steel tell us how they got hooked on robotics

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day Two recap

PacX Challenge winner shows large scale ocean mapping abilities

MHI and CIT Sign Technical Cooperation Agreement on Robots | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

A new worker’s revolution is rising in China and it doesn’t involve humans

Contest winner uses ocean robots for groundbreaking research into ‘dead zones’

MAKO Surgical sells to Stryker for $1.65 billion

Call for posters/demos: Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC)

My pathway to robotics

euRathlon 2013 land robotics competition – Day One recap

Drones for Schools

Getting started in robotics, an educational concern

From the mouths of babes (or in this case, iCubs)

150 robotics-related exhibitors in Las Vegas for PackExpo

US moving full speed ahead on killer robots | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Origami Robots

The triangle of life: Evolving robots in real-time and real-space

Japanese robots: Yaskawa Electric, traditionally industrial, goes consumer assistive | Akihabara News

It’s time to think about robotic Christmas gifts

IFR Reports show bright future for robotics industry

Call for papers: IROS workshop on science communication

Falcon UAV provides Colorado flood damage mapping until FEMA freaks out | IEEE Spectrum

Fire-breathing robot dragon for “Drachenstich”

14 teams qualify for euRathlon land competition

Bionic Man documentary to air in October in US

Matthew Schroyer on “What is the best way to get a robotics education today?”

Mitsubishi’s dexterous robots for factory automation: Global plastics industry news for India, Asia, Europe & US | Plastics Infomart

Terry Fong on “What do you look for when hiring a roboticist?”

Mark Tilden on “What is the best way to get a robotics education today?”

Theresa Richards on “What’s the best way to get a robotics education today?”

What is the best way to get a robotics education today? What do you look for when hiring?

Jonathan Roberts on “What do you look for when hiring a roboticist?”

Nicola Tomatis on “What do you look for when hiring a roboticist?”

Robohub focus on robotics education

Shaping the future of MEMS | EE Times

Mebotics’ Microfactory combines 3D printer and milling machine | Gizmag

Little-known uses for robots

Interest in industrial robots seen at Taipei Intl. Industrial Automation Exhibition and Robot Show

Medical robotic systems market to reach $13.6 billion by 2018

Nate the Robot RH.13 – Firewalls: Saving Robot Marriages!

Japanese robots: The week in Japanese robot videos (TripleBackFlip Bot, Denso, and Kirobo) | Akihabara News

Adept Technologies: Ready to be acquired?

This robotic prosthetic hand can be made for just $1000

Geek immersion: Campus Party London packs a ton of tech fun into five days

Photo essay: VEX’s Paul McKnight hosts robotics competition @ Campus Party EU

Hoaloha Robotics developing socially assistive hardware platform | IEEE Spectrum

Progress report on Hoaloha Robotics’ assistive-care robot

Adept’s restructuring is paying off: earnings better and stock higher

Researchers use single joystick to control swarm of RC robots

RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions

Construction with Amorphous Materials

‘Design a Robot’ competitions

1950s robot smashes auction estimate

Artificial muscles developed at NUS

Crowdsourcing new strategies for cancer treatment: Towards swarming nanobots

NASA to host workshop exploring ideas for protecting Earth from asteroids | NASA News Release

EU Campus Party on now at the O2 Arena in London

Is a career in STEM really for me? | IEEE Spectrum

The STEM crisis is a myth | IEEE Spectrum

Appearance manipulation system changes the look of printed materials and objects

The Resident: Drone pilots are anti-drone

Get ready for IROS and iREX in Tokyo this November 3-9

VW launches robot that collaborates with workers

Zeus multifunction 3d printer plus | AIORobotics

Will robots make us sexist? | Salon

Japanese Robots: Unboxing SCHAFT’s DRC Competition (VIDEO)

Who gets a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel? | Marketplace

FounderDating hardware edition

Open source coin sized autopilot for drones | Wired

Nate the Robot RH.12 – Well Played, Internet

What does the UK public think about robots? Sciencewise wants to know

Uber, Google confirm $258 million mega-investment

RoboSavvy Humanoid Design Challenge – GrabCAD

Penguin C Unmanned Aircraft System video | Unmanned Systems Technology

Memories of Skyrim

iRobot’s single-pass floor-mopping robots vs O’Cedar’s cheap duster

Israeli study on robot adoption suggests new-tech solutions

Interesting conclusions from Israeli study on robot adoption

25 Russian companies added to The Robot Report’s global map of robot providers

Russian robotics companies

Venture Capital in Robotics

AUVSI conference brings robots to drone debate epicenter

Remaining Willow Garage employees move to Suitable Technologies | IEEE Spectrum

Japanese Robots: iREX 2013 Primer – Japan’s International Robot Exhibition

The scourge of the RoboTroll is already upon us

The truth is no stranger than fiction when it comes to robots

Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft

The right way to regulate drone privacy

Easton LaChappelle at TEDxMileHigh: 3D printed robotic arm with EEG control

Spiri programmable quadrotor hits Kickstarter | Gizmag

Structures assembled from small interlocking composite components | MIT News Office

Funding news

Trolling Effects | TechDirt

Do robots need heads?

David Robert on “Do robots need heads?”

AJung Moon on “Do robots need heads?”

Mark Stephen Meadows on “Do robots need heads?”

Travis Deyle on “Do robots need heads?”

Orbotix introduces Sphero 2.0

Japanese robots: Cyberdyne’s taking HAL to Europe!

SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully completes 100m lateral maneuver before returning to launchpad

A robotics ETF may hit the market in the future | ETF Daily News

ShanghAI Lectures: Weidong Chen “Modeling and control of mobile robotic networks”

Six questions states need to ask about self-driving cars | Governing

Robotic plant to grow roots | DNews

SparkFun National Tour

National Geographic uses AGVs and drones for photo story about lions

Commercial ag goes unmanned | Mission Critical, AUVSI

Videos of presentations at Ryerson University symposium on UAVs

China’s 5-Year Plan targets robotics as a growth industry

CSAIL demos two robots assembling IKEA furniture

White House hosts Google+ Hangout; NASDAQ gets new ETF targeting robotics and automation

Major players in robotics join Whitehouse hangout

SparkFun Redbot

Drone Journalism

Dash launching Dragon hardware crowdfunding platform

Calling all do-it-yourselfers: Robohub seeking contributions for focus series on “Getting Started in Robotics”

Wall-E built to scale & fully roboticized (complete with Disney eyes) | Akihabara News

Arduino announces its first ready-to-roll robot | Gizmag

Making a WALL-E robot

In-corporating body language into NLP (or, More notes on the design of automated body language)

When terrible engineers are good

Delivered by drones: Are Tacocopters and Burrito Bombers the next Pony Express? | Slate

Robosub Static Judging

Suppliers are snapping up smaller robots to boost productivity

Shark scientists pit robot against human | DNews

Swimming robot tested for billion-mile trip to Saturn moon | National Geographic

The Farmery installs a mini-farmery at Burt’s Bees | The Volt Report

Talking robot sent into space

Meet the teams: DARPA Robotics Challenge Track A robots

News from the Living Machines conference London | The Telegraph

Modular Robotics’ production of Cubelets ramps up

Despite Segway and Fisker, Kleiner Perkins keeps making hardware bets

Japanese Robots: Toyota’s 5 Year-Old “Winglet” Begins Practical Testing (and it’s SO not a robot)