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2014 March


Apple files patent application for 5-axis robotic arm | Patently Apple

March 30, 2014

Drones to the rescue | Stuff

March 30, 2014

A mighty contest | The Economist

March 30, 2014

The invisible unarmed | The Economist

March 30, 2014

Up in the air | The Economist

March 30, 2014

Good and ready | The Economist

March 30, 2014

Immigrants from the future | The Economist

March 30, 2014

The latest in ultra-affordable robots: AFRON competition announces winners

March 28, 2014

No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?

March 28, 2014

Facebook Will Use Drones and Lasers to ‘Beam’ Internet to the World – Mashable

March 27, 2014

Facebook refuses to call a drone a drone

March 27, 2014

FAA appeals drone decision | Ryan Calo, Concurring Opinions

March 27, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Nikolaos Mavridis “Robots, language, and social networks”

March 27, 2014

SCHAFT staying in DRC | Automaton

March 27, 2014

Last days to enter Robot Launch 2014

March 26, 2014

Six weeks to build a robot: A FIRST photo essay

March 26, 2014

CSAIL panel discussion at SXSW | YouTube

March 25, 2014

Finding perfection in the imperfect: Applying Darwinian neuro-evolution to robotics

March 25, 2014

Au revoir, French entrepreneurs – except for a bastion of robotics innovators in Lyon

March 25, 2014

Introducing the Cybathlon

March 24, 2014

PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem

March 24, 2014

ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017

March 24, 2014

Google & DARPA want divorce | The Verge

March 22, 2014

Google’s Project Tango headed to International Space Station | PCWorld

March 22, 2014

Robotic milking winning friends

March 22, 2014

EU Robotics Week

March 22, 2014

ROS 101: Drive a Husky!

March 21, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Louis-Philippe Demers “Embodiment and robotic arts”

March 21, 2014

Designing cars for autonomous operation | Gizmag

March 20, 2014

DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments

March 19, 2014

Snowden BEAMs into TED: How robotic telepresence disrupts borders

March 19, 2014

Are telepresence robots really robots? Part II

March 19, 2014

Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish

March 19, 2014

Edward Snowden appears on the @TED stage via robot. : davemorin

March 18, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session

March 18, 2014

Robotics in reach: Your smartphone could be a robot brain

March 18, 2014

MODEX: How quickly things change

March 18, 2014

Delta robots are so yesterday — Here come the four-armed parallel robots

March 17, 2014

It’s here! The NAO Robot is finally out of the classroom! We took it to skydive! Take a look…

March 17, 2014

Flying Donkey Challenge announces 33 entrants for first subchallenge

March 17, 2014

Rehab robots, smart prostheses and exoskeletons to reach $1.8 billion by 2020

March 15, 2014

SPHERES remote control demonstration | Gizmag

March 14, 2014

Are telepresence robots really robots?

March 14, 2014

Embodied communication: Looking for systems that mean what they say

March 14, 2014

Nicola Tomatis on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”

March 14, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Tamim Asfour “Robots think with their hands”

March 13, 2014

ROS goes to space!

March 13, 2014

NAO Next Gen now available for a wider audience

March 13, 2014

Schunk to Google: Welcome to the robotics game

March 12, 2014

Robert Morris on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”

March 12, 2014

Andra Keay on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”

March 12, 2014

Mark Stephen Meadows on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”

March 12, 2014

What does it take to get from imagination to market?

March 12, 2014

Lifehand 2 prosthetic grips and senses like a real hand

March 12, 2014

Robonaut doctor to practice in space

March 12, 2014

Robot moon monkeys at CeBIT | Wall Street Journal

March 11, 2014

Chess, Jeopardy and now… Ping Pong? Kuka robot goes up against table tennis champion Timo Boll

March 11, 2014

Machine consciousness: Fact or fiction?

March 10, 2014

3 stories of emerging tech

March 10, 2014

Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells

March 10, 2014

American nuclear materials storage site guarded by robots

March 10, 2014

Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting

March 10, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-I – Ontogenetic development: From locomotion to cognition

March 10, 2014

Colin Angle interviewed | International Business Times

March 9, 2014

The Teletank: A remotely operated tank deployed in 1939-40 | Popular Science

March 8, 2014

Commercial drone use legal in USA? Who’s willing to make bail?

March 7, 2014

10 inspirational women engineers and scientists

March 7, 2014

Why robots will not be smarter than humans by 2029

March 7, 2014

Privacy, Google, and Big Deals

March 7, 2014

The gateway to advanced neuroprosthetics: Jessica Feldman talks BrainGate and BCI

March 7, 2014

Judge rules commercial drones are legal, undoing six-year ban | The Verge

March 7, 2014

Back on Earth, Part 2

March 7, 2014

Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants

March 6, 2014

Proletarian robots getting cheaper to exploit

March 6, 2014

Robots in a box win LAUNCHedu at SxSW

March 6, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Shuhei Miyashita “Tribolon: Scalable Self-Assembling Robots”

March 6, 2014

Loving your #startup to death

March 5, 2014

Facebook plans to offer Internet service using aerial robots

March 5, 2014

With 11,000 pre-orders, Play-i gets $8 million Series A

March 5, 2014

SwitchScience – RAPIRO – Adorable humanoid robot to assemble

March 5, 2014

Brand strength, cultural influence of consumer-facing giants like Google, Apple and Amazon help legitimize robotics for businesses and investors

March 4, 2014

Patent pending for 43 years | Slashdot

March 4, 2014

Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss

March 4, 2014

Engineers build brain-controlled music player

March 4, 2014

Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace | TechCrunch

March 3, 2014

Robohub Digest: February 2014

March 3, 2014

What is so special about the robot arms of Universal Robots?

March 3, 2014

Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft

March 3, 2014

Mazor Robotics is gaining momentum

March 3, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 7 – Design principles of intelligent systems

March 3, 2014

Robots in the Japanese garden | I Programmer

March 2, 2014

Aleph Objects 3D printer factory

March 1, 2014


2014 February


Tracking great white sharks with drones right from an iPhone

February 28, 2014

EVE: An ultimate frisbee playing robot

February 28, 2014

Academic and industry collaboration (Part 4): Interview with Raffaello D’Andrea

February 28, 2014

ISS SPHERES to see upgrade | Gizmag

February 28, 2014

Back on Earth

February 28, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Serge Kernbach “Collective and Modular Robotics: Fundamentials and Frontiers”

February 27, 2014

Using geometry to help robots map their environment

February 26, 2014

Wise birds enter Robot Launch 2014 early

February 26, 2014

Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375 Billion Industry: Freight

February 26, 2014

NASA’s Buckminster Fuller-inspired Super Ball Bot

February 26, 2014

Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move

February 26, 2014

Top ten things I learned at Willow Garage

February 25, 2014

The robots behind your Internet shopping addiction: How your wallet is driving retail automation

February 25, 2014

From disembodied bytes to robots that think and act like humans

February 25, 2014

Artificial muscles from fishing line and sewing thread | Science

February 25, 2014

New book on disaster robotics

February 25, 2014

Journalist sues police who questioned drone use | ABC News

February 25, 2014

Drone journalism: Is Canada ready? | CBC’s The Current

February 25, 2014

Google introduces project tango, a smartphone that creates 3D environments | designboom

February 25, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 6 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration II

February 24, 2014

Preliminary 2012 Ag Census numbers tell a complex story | Civil Eats

February 24, 2014

3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralyzed skier walk again

February 21, 2014

150th Episode Special

February 21, 2014

168,000 robots were sold in 2013; 5% more than in 2012

February 21, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 8

February 21, 2014

Stretchable optical circuits could find use in robot skin | Gizmag

February 20, 2014

Becoming better cyborgs | O’Reilly Radar

February 20, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Xiao’an Li “Action Skill Developmental Learning for Autonomous Soccer Robots”

February 20, 2014

Massage Robot – YouTube

February 20, 2014

Robot Launch 2014: The first global startup competition for robotics is here!

February 19, 2014

Individual investors: Take a cue from corporate capital … the time is right for robotics

February 19, 2014

Packbot: Serving the Military and World Cup Football

February 19, 2014

Teen Crafts 3D-Printed ‘Robohand’ for Fingerless Boy

February 18, 2014

Hexagon acquires Aibotix

February 18, 2014

Why drones are the future of sports photography | The Atlantic

February 18, 2014

Why intelligence requires both body and brain

February 18, 2014

Will companies like Google and Amazon usher in a new era for robotics?

February 18, 2014

New laser 25X more powerful in mid-infrared | Gizmag

February 18, 2014

Sydney Harbor Bridge gets blasted by robot

February 18, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 5 – Soft Robotics and Bioinspiration I

February 17, 2014

What do teachers mean when they say ‘do it like me’?

February 17, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 7

February 17, 2014

iRobot is on a tear

February 17, 2014

Robotic skills want-ads up 13% in 2013

February 16, 2014

Lockheed and AeroVironment to jointly develop UAS

February 16, 2014

Runaway Drones Map Land, Film ‘Wolf,’ Knock Down People, as FAA Gives Chase

February 15, 2014

Strange robot band Z-machines and Squarepusher

February 14, 2014

Study of ant necks could help develop stronger robots | Gizmag

February 14, 2014

KUKA Robot vs. Timo Boll: The Duel

February 14, 2014

Foxconn and Google cooperating to make robots

February 13, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Adrianne Wortzel “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”

February 13, 2014

Big deals: What it means to have the giants investing in robotics

February 12, 2014

Alan Winfield on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”

February 12, 2014

Mark Stephen Meadows on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”

February 12, 2014

AJung Moon on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics?”

February 12, 2014

Automation, not domination: How robots will take over our world

February 12, 2014

Brain powered quadcopter | Science Nation

February 11, 2014

The Beginning of a Drone Revolution

February 11, 2014

UAE offers $1m prize to drive drones programme

February 11, 2014

Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award

February 11, 2014

2nd International Skolkovo Robotics Conference coming March 1-2 in Moscow

February 10, 2014

Remote Controlled Robots To Roam Tate Britain Gallery After Hours | TechCrunch

February 10, 2014

The fate of jobs in relation to robotics is confusing

February 10, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 4 – Evolution: Cognition from scratch

February 10, 2014

Four interesting robotic investments

February 9, 2014

Dyson invests £5m in robot lab

February 9, 2014

Becky Stern on conductive fiber, thread, and fabric available from Adafruit

February 9, 2014

u-blox 3D Automotive Dead Reckoning | YouTube

February 8, 2014

Industry and Society

February 7, 2014

Microsoft pays 5M CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures

February 7, 2014

SAE defines six levels of driving automation

February 7, 2014

Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes

February 7, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 6

February 7, 2014

Lockheed Martin successfully tests autonomous convoy | Popular Science

February 7, 2014

Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC by IEEE Spectrum

February 6, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures: Hiroshi Yokoi “Future Trend”

February 6, 2014

Pentagon Opens DARPA Data to Public

February 5, 2014

Man gets first prosthetic hand that can feel

February 5, 2014

Flying Donkey Challenge

February 5, 2014

Robots, soldiers and cyborgs: The future of warfare

February 5, 2014

ROS 101: A practical example

February 5, 2014

First flight trials of Taranis aircraft – News stories – GOV.UK

February 5, 2014

Flying Donkey

February 4, 2014

As automakers tap smartphone technology, concerns grow about use of drivers’ data | Washington Post

February 4, 2014

Thymio II robot creates beautiful light paintings | IEEE Spectrum

February 3, 2014

What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car companies want?

February 3, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 3: Cognition and embodiment

February 3, 2014

DoD Unmanned Air, Sea & Ground Budget 2014-2018

February 3, 2014

Google’s robotic investments: an overview | Gizmodo

February 1, 2014

Architecture + robotics = buildings that move

February 1, 2014

Overhead transmission line inspection robots

February 1, 2014

Agricultural robot market anticipated to reach $16.3 billion by 2020

February 1, 2014

Should a robot decide when to kill? | The Verge

February 1, 2014


2014 January


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

January 31, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 5

January 31, 2014

Drone can perch and walk like a bird | New Scientist

January 30, 2014

GuardBot: From protecting territory to playing with dolphins

January 30, 2014

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

January 30, 2014

ROS 101: Intro to the Robot Operating System

January 29, 2014

APRICOT project develops fish filleting robot | Gizmag

January 29, 2014

Lakemaid Beer tests drone delivery to ice fishermen

January 29, 2014

Competing sales reports for industrial robotics

January 29, 2014

Competing Sales Reports for Industrial Robotics

January 28, 2014

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

January 28, 2014

The new bot on the block | O’Reilly Radar

January 28, 2014

Robot soldiers are coming! | DNews

January 28, 2014

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

January 27, 2014

The driverless city | Project Syndicate

January 27, 2014

In the news: Intuitive Surgical

January 27, 2014

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

January 27, 2014

Google to buy artificial intelligence startup DeepMind | Re/code

January 26, 2014

Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson

January 25, 2014

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

January 25, 2014

Startup Funding

January 24, 2014

3D photolithography using lasers | Gizmag

January 24, 2014

University of Coimbra developing minesweeping robot | Gizmag

January 24, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 4

January 24, 2014

‘Unconscionable’ automation: beware the backlash | Ars Technica

January 23, 2014

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

January 23, 2014

Robots Can Now Teach Other Robots, Thanks To RoboEarth

January 22, 2014

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

January 22, 2014

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

January 22, 2014

Rosetta awakes and prepares to chase comet | Science

January 22, 2014

E-Whiskers: Berkeley researchers develop highly sensitive tactile sensors

January 22, 2014

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

January 22, 2014

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Part 2: Embodied intelligence

January 21, 2014

Beam+ remote presence robots becoming affordable

January 21, 2014

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

January 21, 2014

Doggone it, there are no exciting consumer robots

January 21, 2014

Robots with “soul” | TED

January 21, 2014

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

January 21, 2014

FAA selects state for drone testing | Laughlin Nevada Times

January 21, 2014

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

January 20, 2014

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

January 20, 2014

Robot farmers are the future of agriculture | The Guardian

January 19, 2014

Geoffrey Hinton brings deep learning to Google | Wired

January 19, 2014

Seegrid adds vision-guided lifting and stacking to product line

January 19, 2014

RoNeX unboxing | The Shadow Robot Co.

January 19, 2014

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

January 18, 2014

Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries

January 17, 2014

RoboEarth tested in life-like scenario | BBC

January 17, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 3

January 17, 2014

Brainlike computing: Something big is happening

January 17, 2014

Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live

January 17, 2014

NREC to automate strawberry blossom and weed removal

January 17, 2014

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

January 16, 2014

A discussion on deploying drones for international development

January 16, 2014

Tiny Robot Flies Like a Jellyfish

January 15, 2014

Ekso Bionics goes public for $20.6 million

January 15, 2014

Home telepresence Beam+ launches for $995 – IEEE Spectrum

January 15, 2014

Clearpath Robotics accepts PR2 support role – IEEE Spectrum

January 15, 2014

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

January 15, 2014

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

January 15, 2014

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

January 15, 2014

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

January 15, 2014

Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal

January 14, 2014

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

January 14, 2014

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

January 14, 2014

The coolest girl at CES is the Aussie robot engineer

January 13, 2014

Google acquires Nest for $3.2 billion

January 13, 2014

Why Google bought Nest: A theory | The Atlantic

January 13, 2014

Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition

January 13, 2014

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

January 13, 2014

Google to acquire Nest | Google

January 13, 2014

Are investments in robotics capital intensive?

January 13, 2014

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

January 13, 2014

New-tech grippers hit the market

January 13, 2014

And more robots from CES past

January 11, 2014

Robot vaporware from CES past

January 11, 2014

7 consumer robots to look out for from CES 2014

January 11, 2014

Interdisciplinary Teams

January 10, 2014

Interview with Simon Blackmore | BBC Radio4 Farming Today

January 10, 2014

Mission to Mars, Part 2

January 10, 2014

The greatest myth about the robotics industry | IEEE Spectrum

January 9, 2014

Eureka! There are academic startups at CES 2014

January 9, 2014

Stopping killer robots | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

January 9, 2014

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

January 9, 2014

CES 2014 – Robotics on the Runway

January 8, 2014

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

January 8, 2014

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

January 7, 2014

Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda

January 7, 2014

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

January 7, 2014

CES 2014: Please don’t run me down!

January 7, 2014

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

January 7, 2014

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

January 6, 2014

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

January 6, 2014

Harvest Automation and SBI Software announce cooperative agreement

January 6, 2014

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

January 6, 2014

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

January 6, 2014

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

January 5, 2014

Mission to Mars

January 3, 2014

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

January 2, 2014

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

January 1, 2014

The year in robotics | Popular Science

January 1, 2014

Protecting jobs by adding robots

January 1, 2014


2013 December


Outreach activities: Making nanoparticle robots to ‘treat cancer’

December 29, 2013

Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet nanocopter | Popular Science

December 29, 2013

Teams and Tasks

December 27, 2013

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

December 27, 2013

Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project

December 26, 2013

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

December 25, 2013

Taking your first steps in robotics with the Thymio II

December 25, 2013

Robot Holiday Videos 2013

December 25, 2013

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Aldebaran Robotics

December 24, 2013

Japanese Team Schaft Gets Highest DRC Score

December 24, 2013

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Michael McMaster

December 24, 2013

Happy Holidays from the Robohub team

December 24, 2013

Mapping in the Cloud

December 23, 2013

Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1

December 23, 2013

International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up

December 23, 2013

Transcriptic: Robotic laboratory science | The Verge

December 22, 2013

Japanese team dominates competition to create rescue robots | NYT

December 22, 2013

Robots of death, robots of love | TechRepublic

December 22, 2013

▶ Robot Astronaut Kirobo Takes Part in Conversation Experiment – YouTube

December 22, 2013

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

December 21, 2013

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

December 20, 2013

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

December 20, 2013

Watch the DARPA Robotics Challenge Live – IEEE Spectrum

December 20, 2013

FRE2014 to be held in conjunction with DLG Field Days

December 20, 2013

DARPA Robotics Challenge

December 20, 2013

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

December 20, 2013

DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast

December 20, 2013

China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg

December 20, 2013

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

December 20, 2013

Robot Holiday Video 2013: LASA, EPFL

December 20, 2013

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

December 19, 2013

ShanghAI Lectures: Eugen Elmiger “Drives for Intelligent Robots”

December 19, 2013

China’s Moon Landing and Rover Tip of Iceberg

December 19, 2013

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

December 19, 2013

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

December 19, 2013

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

December 18, 2013

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Ascending Technologies

December 18, 2013

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

December 18, 2013

International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture

December 18, 2013

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

December 18, 2013

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

December 17, 2013

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

December 17, 2013

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

December 17, 2013

▶ New York City 2 – Team Black Sheep

December 17, 2013

IRO Competition: Opening day | Denver Post

December 17, 2013

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

December 17, 2013

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

December 17, 2013

Is Silicon Valley automating our obsolescence?

December 16, 2013

Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotics research at CMU

December 16, 2013

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

December 16, 2013

Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotic research at CMU

December 16, 2013

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

December 16, 2013

The 2013 International Robot Olympiad in Denver

December 15, 2013

KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders

December 15, 2013

KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders

December 15, 2013

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

December 15, 2013

Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% lay off

December 14, 2013

Rethink Robotics is downsizing

December 14, 2013

Google makes 8 big robotic investments

December 14, 2013

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

December 14, 2013

Google buys Boston Dynamics | New York Times

December 14, 2013

Soft robotics in space

December 14, 2013

Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% laid off

December 13, 2013

The DARPA Robotics Challenge

December 13, 2013

The hour of code is here | code.org

December 12, 2013

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Resilient Machines”

December 12, 2013

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

December 11, 2013

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

December 11, 2013

What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?

December 11, 2013

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

December 11, 2013

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

December 11, 2013

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

December 11, 2013

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

December 11, 2013

NSW government looks to drones for shark attack prevention

December 10, 2013

NASA JSC unveils ‘Valkyrie’ DRC robot | IEEE Spectrum

December 10, 2013

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

December 10, 2013

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

December 10, 2013

Forget the octocopter, let’s talk about Kiva

December 10, 2013

Drones on and on and on | The Boston Globe

December 10, 2013

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

December 10, 2013

Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots

December 10, 2013

DHL testing delivery drones | Stuff

December 9, 2013

Episode 4: Why We Love Robots | AOL

December 9, 2013

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

December 9, 2013

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

December 9, 2013

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

December 9, 2013

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

December 7, 2013

Unmasking the RQ-180 | Ares blog

December 6, 2013

CubeSats: Launching education into space

December 6, 2013

Donate, spread the joy, and help Robohub grow

December 6, 2013

Google makes big robotics investment

December 6, 2013

The Lean Hardware Startup: Financing | TechCrunch

December 5, 2013

Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg

December 5, 2013

Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots

December 5, 2013

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

December 5, 2013

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos interviewed by Charlie Rose

December 5, 2013

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

December 5, 2013

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

December 4, 2013

The Economist Innovation Awards 2013

December 4, 2013

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

December 4, 2013

Google buys up robotics companies from DRC

December 4, 2013

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

December 4, 2013

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

December 3, 2013

Noisy imitation speeds up group learning

December 3, 2013

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

December 2, 2013

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

December 2, 2013

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

December 2, 2013

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

December 2, 2013

Amazon Reveals It Wants To Deploy Delivery Drones | Huff Post

December 2, 2013


2013 November


More about MOSS | Gizmag

November 30, 2013

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

November 29, 2013

Working with EOD Personnel

November 29, 2013

Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $350 million

November 29, 2013

Apple buys Israel’s PrimeSense for $350 million

November 29, 2013

ShanghAI Lectures: Shaohua Tan “Qualitative modeling and analysis”

November 28, 2013

Baxter the Soft Industrial Robot Gets Japanese Distribution

November 27, 2013

Collective pitch thrust vectoring | Hack a Day

November 27, 2013

Global Machine Vision market to grow at 9.4% CAGR

November 26, 2013

Highlights From the International Robot Exhibition 2013 – IEEE Spectrum

November 26, 2013

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

November 26, 2013

Global Machine Vision market to grow at 9.4% CAGR

November 25, 2013

8 robotic toys for the holidays (2013)

November 25, 2013

Mazor Robotics on a roll

November 25, 2013

8 Robotic Gifts for the 2013 Holiday Season

November 25, 2013

Medical/Surgical Simulation

November 24, 2013

Mazor Robotics on a roll

November 24, 2013

Which drone future will Americans choose?

November 24, 2013

Medical/surgical simulation and training

November 24, 2013

NASA: growing plants on the Moon | Forbes

November 23, 2013

iDiots: Japanese Toy Robots Animated to Make Fun of Us

November 23, 2013

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

November 21, 2013

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

November 21, 2013

In case you missed the Uncanny Valley session at IROS

November 20, 2013

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

November 20, 2013

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

November 19, 2013

Ethical robots: Some technical and ethical challenges

November 19, 2013

Car Troubles

November 19, 2013

Robot servant commits suicide | BoingBoing

November 18, 2013

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

November 18, 2013

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

November 18, 2013

3D scanners coming down in price

November 17, 2013

Thermal spraying with Praxair TAFA | ABB Robotics

November 16, 2013

Japanese Robots: iREX Multimedia (VIDEOS & GALLERY)

November 15, 2013

From the Greenhouse to the Fields

November 15, 2013

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

November 15, 2013

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

November 14, 2013

Is this the right time for robotic startups?

November 14, 2013

What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?

November 13, 2013

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

November 13, 2013

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

November 13, 2013

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

November 13, 2013

New ETF (NASDAQ:ROBO) focuses on robotics industry

November 13, 2013

VIDEO Flying robots perform amazing acrobatics | CNN

November 12, 2013

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

November 12, 2013

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

November 12, 2013

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

November 11, 2013

How drones will change your life | CNN

November 11, 2013

Legal issues with robots | Communications of the ACM

November 11, 2013

EMP: An industrial robotics success story | FANUC America Corporation

November 9, 2013

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

November 8, 2013

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

November 8, 2013

Intro to Robotics

November 8, 2013

Two Boston Notables Get More Money

November 8, 2013

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

November 8, 2013

Two Boston notables get more money

November 7, 2013

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

November 7, 2013

Cubelets are growing up as Moss

November 7, 2013

AgriRover brings Mars rover technology to the farm | Gizmag

November 7, 2013

MOSS – The Dynamic Robot Construction Kit | Modular Robotics

November 7, 2013

iREX Maker/User Summit

November 7, 2013

iREX Maker/User Summit

November 7, 2013

REMINDER: iREX International Robot Exhibition Starts Tomorrow!

November 5, 2013

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

November 5, 2013

New ETF (NASDAQ:ROBO) focuses on robotics industry

November 4, 2013

IROS2013 is not just funny robot videos

November 4, 2013

Live Coverage of IROS Workshop on Science Communication

November 4, 2013

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

November 4, 2013

Robotics Expo in Moscow

November 4, 2013

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

November 3, 2013

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

November 3, 2013

Blue River Technology

November 3, 2013

Autonomous tracked dump-truck finalist for Dyson Award | Gizmag

November 3, 2013

Robotics Expo in Moscow

November 3, 2013

Robotics Expo 2013, Moscow

November 2, 2013

The unmanned wingman | Foreign Policy

November 1, 2013

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

November 1, 2013


2013 October


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

October 31, 2013

Harvest Automation raises $11.75M Series C financing

October 31, 2013

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

October 30, 2013

Down on the farm with drones

October 29, 2013

Play-i want to bring a robot to every child

October 29, 2013

Government agencies invest $38 million in human-friendly robots

October 28, 2013

Beam-ing into RoboBusiness 2013

October 27, 2013

Beaming-in to RoboBusiness 2013

October 27, 2013

A close(ish) encounter with Voyager 2

October 27, 2013

RoboBusiness: Day Two

October 26, 2013

Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture

October 25, 2013

Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture

October 25, 2013

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

October 25, 2013

Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture

October 24, 2013

Call for Papers: ROB | ARCH 2014

October 24, 2013

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

October 24, 2013

RoboBusiness: Day one in the heart of Silicon Valley

October 24, 2013

Japanese Robots: Gymnast-Bot Nails Kovacs to Triple Backflip

October 24, 2013

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

October 23, 2013

Harvey: A working robot for container crops

October 23, 2013

Robo-Stox: A dream come true

October 23, 2013

Soon Internet crowdfunding sites will let investors buy stock

October 23, 2013

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

October 23, 2013

World’s 1st Robotics ETF Goes Live Tues

October 22, 2013

Ten lessons for farm drones

October 22, 2013

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

October 21, 2013

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

October 21, 2013

Unbounded Robotics launch affordable, all-purpose UBR-1

October 21, 2013

Honda automatic driverless valet parking system

October 21, 2013

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

October 20, 2013

Selected start-ups from Demo Fall 2013, Silicon Valley

October 19, 2013

Car of the Future Competition

October 19, 2013

Start-up profile: Knightscope

October 19, 2013

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

October 18, 2013

FutureDairy

October 18, 2013

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

October 18, 2013

Affordable Care Act

October 18, 2013

Beam into RoboBusiness

October 17, 2013

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

October 17, 2013

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

October 17, 2013

Call for participation: RoCKIn Camp 2014

October 16, 2013

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

October 16, 2013

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

October 15, 2013

Demo of military robots includes live-fire | Computerworld

October 15, 2013

How to feed the world | NYTimes

October 15, 2013

Is drone delivery really a robot startup?

October 14, 2013

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

October 14, 2013

DARC day two

October 12, 2013

Breaking it down with the DanceBot: Getting started with electronics

October 12, 2013

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

October 11, 2013

DARC day one live

October 11, 2013

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

October 11, 2013

Is open source a good business model for robotics?

October 9, 2013

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

October 9, 2013

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

October 9, 2013

Floating interactive display could be used in ATMs of the future

October 9, 2013

Robotics heavyweights keep it entertaining at 2013 Northeast Robotics Colloquium

October 9, 2013

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

October 9, 2013

Maps & apps

October 8, 2013

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

October 8, 2013

Robots: Their rights and legal status | Australian Broadcasting Corporation

October 8, 2013

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

October 8, 2013

Nike fund SRI spinoff Grabit | Silicon Valley Robotics

October 8, 2013

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

October 8, 2013

Boston Dynamics announces new WildCat quadruped robot | Automaton

October 7, 2013

MIT deploys swarm of self-assembling robot cubes | Automaton

October 7, 2013

Robot startup resources: Pitching

October 7, 2013

Don’t build robots, build robot systems

October 7, 2013

Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate

October 6, 2013

Arduino announces two new boards: Galileo and TRE | Make

October 6, 2013

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

October 6, 2013

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

October 6, 2013

Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing

October 5, 2013

Getting Started in Robotics

October 4, 2013

Happy Birthday Robohub!

October 4, 2013

Honda Motor Europe – ASIMO was promoting science in Slovakia

October 4, 2013

Classroom robotics: Motivating independent learning and discovery

October 3, 2013

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

October 3, 2013

Maker Faire European Edition kicks off in Rome

October 2, 2013

Classroom robots: A great way to get young people started

October 2, 2013

FRE2013 video playlist

October 2, 2013

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

October 2, 2013

APU-Module sowing

October 2, 2013

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

October 2, 2013

Box – this video’s going viral

October 1, 2013

Robohub Reader Survey

October 1, 2013

Robohub turns one!

October 1, 2013

Rutgers receives innovation award for bridge inspection robot

October 1, 2013




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