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2014 April

Robot Launch 2014: Robohub People’s Choice Round Two

30 April 2014, by Andra Keay

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

30 April 2014, by Hallie Siegel

CloudSim-Ed: A robotics MOOC prototype

30 April 2014, by Open Source Robotics Foundation

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

29 April 2014, by AJung Moon and Footnote

Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?

29 April 2014, by Open Roboethics Initiative

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

29 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner

28 April 2014, by Bruno Siciliano

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 10 – Future Trends

28 April 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Minesweepers: Towards a landmine-free world

28 April 2014, by Alaa Khamis

Make it smart; make it here!

28 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

28 April 2014, by John Payne

SparkFun 2014 AVC course preview

27 April 2014, by John Payne

CMU RI Seminar: Sebastian Scherer on autonomous rotorcraft

27 April 2014, by John Payne

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

27 April 2014, by John Payne

WeRobot 2014 conference videos

27 April 2014, by John Payne

Show us your AI – AAAI Video Competition

27 April 2014, by Sabine Hauert

Recent robotics-related IPOs

26 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

Lettuce orbit earth: gardening in zero gravity | NASA

26 April 2014, by John Payne

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

26 April 2014, by John Payne

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

26 April 2014, by Kate Darling

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

25 April 2014, by John Payne

DARPA program to develop prosthetics with lifelike sensory feedback | Gizmag

25 April 2014, by John Payne

Field Robot Event 2014: June 17 – 19

24 April 2014, by John Payne

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

24 April 2014, by Nathan Labhart

The evolution of assembly lines: A brief history

24 April 2014, by Robert Corday

Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice Round One

23 April 2014, by Andra Keay

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

23 April 2014, by Andra Keay

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

23 April 2014, by John Payne

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

22 April 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

22 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

UAV news wrap-up

22 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

Xconomy Robo Madness

22 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

ECA Group acquires UAV copter maker Infotron for $10 million

22 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

Robotic milking | Farming Today | BBC Radio 4

22 April 2014, by John Payne

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

20 April 2014, by John Payne

Why robots, revisited | Cultibotics

20 April 2014, by John Payne

Schunk Manipulators

20 April 2014, by Per Sjöborg

Titan Aerospace sells again — this time to Google

18 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

Robots with a soft touch | The Verge

17 April 2014, by John Payne

DIY universal gripper | Make

17 April 2014, by John Payne

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

17 April 2014, by Andra Keay

Bad Boy Mowers: growing with robots | ABB

17 April 2014, by John Payne

ROBOTS: From imagination to market

17 April 2014, by Sabine Hauert

ShanghAI Lectures: Verena Hafner “Interactive Robotics”

17 April 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites

16 April 2014, by Andra Keay

NASA signs agreement with SpaceX for use of historic launch pad

16 April 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Back on Earth, Part 3

16 April 2014, by Jim Haas

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

15 April 2014, by John Payne

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

15 April 2014, by John Payne

3D laser lithography yields strong, light microstructure | Gizmag

15 April 2014, by John Payne

Toyota replaces some robots with human workers | Bloomberg

15 April 2014, by John Payne

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

14 April 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Symphony of the Soil trailer

14 April 2014, by John Payne

KUKA omniMove Universal Transport Vehicle | YouTube

14 April 2014, by John Payne

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

14 April 2014, by Hallie Siegel

Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke

14 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

Google Ventures invests in Savioke | BBC News

14 April 2014, by John Payne

Call for immediate limited commercial UAS use | Precision Ag

12 April 2014, by John Payne

ShanghAI Lectures: Patrick van der Smagt “Biomimetic Robotics”

10 April 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Robot Launch 2014: Announcing the top 30

9 April 2014, by Andra Keay

Drone crashes could cause headaches and lawsuits | NBC

9 April 2014, by CIS Blog

Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater

9 April 2014, by CIS Blog

Oldest known cardiovascular system already brain-focused | ScienceMag

9 April 2014, by John Payne

Robot: stop global warming | IRO 2014

9 April 2014, by John Payne

How productive are robots? | Economist Labour Market Blog

8 April 2014, by Hallie Siegel

Should we fence the arms of Universal Robots?

7 April 2014, by Ilian Bonev

Robohub Digest March 2014

7 April 2014, by Jana Witt

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

7 April 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

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

7 April 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

RMIT & DSTO improve UAV endurance using updrafts | Gizmag

7 April 2014, by John Payne

Triathlete injured as drone falls during race | ABC AU

7 April 2014, by John Payne

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

7 April 2014, by CIS Blog

The lean hardware startup: Investing in hardware startups | TechCrunch

6 April 2014, by John Payne

Festo’s BionicKangaroo recycles energy | Gizmag

6 April 2014, by John Payne

Self-organized criticality in the brain | Quanta

6 April 2014, by John Payne

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

6 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

6 April 2014, by John Payne

MiP: a collaboration between Wowwee and UCSD | Gizmag

5 April 2014, by John Payne

CMU snake robot finds medical application | Gizmag

5 April 2014, by John Payne

ROS user survey results | ROS.org

5 April 2014, by John Payne

Termite-Inspired Construction

4 April 2014, by Podcast team

Apple buys UK speech recognition firm Novauris to help improve Siri

4 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

Consumer AI devices entering the marketplace

4 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

We Robot 2014 livestream

4 April 2014, by Robohub Editors

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

4 April 2014, by CIS Blog

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

3 April 2014, by John Payne

Tiny lensless camera generates images algorithmically | Phys.org

3 April 2014, by John Payne

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

3 April 2014, by Nathan Labhart

What to do if you find a lost drone | Forbes

3 April 2014, by CIS Blog

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

3 April 2014, by John Payne

Why it is not possible to regulate robots | The Guardian

2 April 2014, by CIS Blog

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

2 April 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

2 April 2014, by Hallie Siegel

The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities

1 April 2014, by CIS Blog

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

1 April 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

XPrize for unassisted AI TED Talk | Gizmag

1 April 2014, by John Payne

Driven to gridlock: Driverless cars | CBS Los Angeles

1 April 2014, by CIS Blog

2014 March

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

30 March 2014, by John Payne

Drones to the rescue | Stuff

30 March 2014, by Andra Keay

A mighty contest | The Economist

30 March 2014, by Andra Keay

The invisible unarmed | The Economist

30 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Up in the air | The Economist

30 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Good and ready | The Economist

30 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Immigrants from the future | The Economist

30 March 2014, by Andra Keay

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

28 March 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

28 March 2014, by Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis

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

27 March 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Facebook refuses to call a drone a drone

27 March 2014, by Andra Keay

FAA appeals drone decision | Ryan Calo, Concurring Opinions

27 March 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

27 March 2014, by Nathan Labhart

SCHAFT staying in DRC | Automaton

27 March 2014, by Robohub Editors

Last days to enter Robot Launch 2014

26 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Six weeks to build a robot: A FIRST photo essay

26 March 2014, by Lynn Urbina

CSAIL panel discussion at SXSW | YouTube

25 March 2014, by John Payne

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

25 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

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

25 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

Introducing the Cybathlon

24 March 2014, by NCCR Robotics

PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem

24 March 2014, by Andra Keay

ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017

24 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

Google & DARPA want divorce | The Verge

22 March 2014, by John Payne

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

22 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Robotic milking winning friends

22 March 2014, by Andra Keay

EU Robotics Week

22 March 2014, by Podcast team

ROS 101: Drive a Husky!

21 March 2014, by Clearpath Robotics

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

21 March 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Designing cars for autonomous operation | Gizmag

20 March 2014, by John Payne

DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments

19 March 2014, by Gill Pratt and Robohub Editors

Snowden BEAMs into TED: How robotic telepresence disrupts borders

19 March 2014, by Hallie Siegel and Andra Keay

Are telepresence robots really robots? Part II

19 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

Self-contained soft-bodied robotic fish

19 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

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

18 March 2014, by Andra Keay

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

18 March 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Robotics in reach: Your smartphone could be a robot brain

18 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

MODEX: How quickly things change

18 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

17 March 2014, by Ilian Bonev

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

17 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Flying Donkey Challenge announces 33 entrants for first subchallenge

17 March 2014, by Andra Keay

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

15 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

SPHERES remote control demonstration | Gizmag

14 March 2014, by John Payne

Are telepresence robots really robots?

14 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

Embodied communication: Looking for systems that mean what they say

14 March 2014, by Gregor Schöner

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

14 March 2014, by Nicola Tomatis

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

13 March 2014, by Nathan Labhart

ROS goes to space!

13 March 2014, by Robohub Editors

NAO Next Gen now available for a wider audience

13 March 2014, by AJung Moon

Schunk to Google: Welcome to the robotics game

12 March 2014, by Henrik A. Schunk

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

12 March 2014, by Robert Morris

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

12 March 2014, by Andra Keay

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

12 March 2014, by Mark Stephen Meadows

What does it take to get from imagination to market?

12 March 2014, by RBI Editors

Lifehand 2 prosthetic grips and senses like a real hand

12 March 2014, by NCCR Robotics

Robonaut doctor to practice in space

12 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

Robot moon monkeys at CeBIT | Wall Street Journal

11 March 2014, by John Payne

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

11 March 2014, by Frank Tobe and Ioannis K. Erripis

Machine consciousness: Fact or fiction?

10 March 2014, by Igor Aleksander and Footnote

3 stories of emerging tech

10 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella

Micro bio-bots powered by beating heart cells

10 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

American nuclear materials storage site guarded by robots

10 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting

10 March 2014, by DigInfo TV

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

10 March 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Colin Angle interviewed | International Business Times

9 March 2014, by John Payne

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

8 March 2014, by John Payne

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

7 March 2014, by Andra Keay

10 inspirational women engineers and scientists

7 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Why robots will not be smarter than humans by 2029

7 March 2014, by Alan Winfield

Privacy, Google, and Big Deals

7 March 2014, by AJung Moon

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

7 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

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

7 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Back on Earth, Part 2

7 March 2014, by Jim Haas

Putting the IV into Intelligent Virtual Assistants

6 March 2014, by Mark Stephen Meadows

Proletarian robots getting cheaper to exploit

6 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

Robots in a box win LAUNCHedu at SxSW

6 March 2014, by Andra Keay

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

6 March 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Loving your #startup to death

5 March 2014, by Andra Keay

Facebook plans to offer Internet service using aerial robots

5 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

5 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

SwitchScience – RAPIRO – Adorable humanoid robot to assemble

5 March 2014, by Reno Tibke

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

4 March 2014, by Dan Kara

Patent pending for 43 years | Slashdot

4 March 2014, by John Payne

Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss

4 March 2014, by Mark Mueller

Engineers build brain-controlled music player

4 March 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace | TechCrunch

3 March 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Robohub Digest: February 2014

3 March 2014, by Jana Witt

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

3 March 2014, by Ilian Bonev

Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft

3 March 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Mazor Robotics is gaining momentum

3 March 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

3 March 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Robots in the Japanese garden | I Programmer

2 March 2014, by John Payne

Aleph Objects 3D printer factory

1 March 2014, by John Payne

2014 February

Tracking great white sharks with drones right from an iPhone

28 February 2014, by Andra Keay

EVE: An ultimate frisbee playing robot

28 February 2014, by Lynn Urbina

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

28 February 2014, by Florian Röhrbein

ISS SPHERES to see upgrade | Gizmag

28 February 2014, by John Payne

Back on Earth

28 February 2014, by Jim Haas

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

27 February 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Using geometry to help robots map their environment

26 February 2014, by Autonomous Robots Blog

Wise birds enter Robot Launch 2014 early

26 February 2014, by Andra Keay

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

26 February 2014, by Andra Keay

NASA’s Buckminster Fuller-inspired Super Ball Bot

26 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move

26 February 2014, by Valery Komissarova and Andra Keay

Top ten things I learned at Willow Garage

25 February 2014, by Steve Cousins

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

25 February 2014, by Erin Rapacki

From disembodied bytes to robots that think and act like humans

25 February 2014, by Colin Allen and Footnote

Artificial muscles from fishing line and sewing thread | Science

25 February 2014, by Sabine Hauert

New book on disaster robotics

25 February 2014, by Robohub Editors

Journalist sues police who questioned drone use | ABC News

25 February 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

25 February 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

25 February 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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

24 February 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

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

24 February 2014, by John Payne

3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralyzed skier walk again

21 February 2014, by Andra Keay

150th Episode Special

21 February 2014, by Podcast team

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

21 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Mission to Mars, Part 8

21 February 2014, by Jim Haas

Stretchable optical circuits could find use in robot skin | Gizmag

20 February 2014, by John Payne

Becoming better cyborgs | O’Reilly Radar

20 February 2014, by John Payne

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

20 February 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Massage Robot – YouTube

20 February 2014, by John Payne

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

19 February 2014, by Andra Keay

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

19 February 2014, by Rob Wilson

Packbot: Serving the Military and World Cup Football

19 February 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

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

18 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Hexagon acquires Aibotix

18 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Why drones are the future of sports photography | The Atlantic

18 February 2014, by Hallie Siegel

Why intelligence requires both body and brain

18 February 2014, by Colin Allen and Footnote

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

18 February 2014, by Chad Partridge

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

18 February 2014, by John Payne

Sydney Harbor Bridge gets blasted by robot

18 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

17 February 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

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

17 February 2014, by Autonomous Robots Blog

Mission to Mars, Part 7

17 February 2014, by Jim Haas

iRobot is on a tear

17 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Robotic skills want-ads up 13% in 2013

16 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Lockheed and AeroVironment to jointly develop UAS

16 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

15 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Strange robot band Z-machines and Squarepusher

14 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Study of ant necks could help develop stronger robots | Gizmag

14 February 2014, by John Payne

KUKA Robot vs. Timo Boll: The Duel

14 February 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Foxconn and Google cooperating to make robots

13 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

13 February 2014, by Nathan Labhart

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

12 February 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

12 February 2014, by Alan Winfield

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

12 February 2014, by Mark Stephen Meadows

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

12 February 2014, by AJung Moon

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

12 February 2014, by Chad Jenkins, Alexandra Peseri and Footnote

Brain powered quadcopter | Science Nation

11 February 2014, by Andra Keay

The Beginning of a Drone Revolution

11 February 2014, by Andra Keay

UAE offers $1m prize to drive drones programme

11 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award

11 February 2014, by Andra Keay

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

10 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

10 February 2014, by Andra Keay

The fate of jobs in relation to robotics is confusing

10 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

10 February 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Four interesting robotic investments

9 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Dyson invests £5m in robot lab

9 February 2014, by Andra Keay

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

9 February 2014, by John Payne

u-blox 3D Automotive Dead Reckoning | YouTube

8 February 2014, by John Payne

Industry and Society

7 February 2014, by Per Sjöborg

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

7 February 2014, by Robohub Editors

SAE defines six levels of driving automation

7 February 2014, by Bryant Walker Smith

Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes

7 February 2014, by Bryant Walker Smith

Mission to Mars, Part 6

7 February 2014, by Jim Haas

Lockheed Martin successfully tests autonomous convoy | Popular Science

7 February 2014, by John Payne

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

6 February 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

ShanghAI Lectures: Hiroshi Yokoi “Future Trend”

6 February 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Pentagon Opens DARPA Data to Public

5 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Man gets first prosthetic hand that can feel

5 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Flying Donkey Challenge

5 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Robots, soldiers and cyborgs: The future of warfare

5 February 2014, by Armin Krishnan and Footnote

ROS 101: A practical example

5 February 2014, by Clearpath Robotics

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

5 February 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Flying Donkey

4 February 2014, by Andra Keay

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

4 February 2014, by CIS Blog

Thymio II robot creates beautiful light paintings | IEEE Spectrum

3 February 2014, by Sabine Hauert

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

3 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 3: Cognition and embodiment

3 February 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

DoD Unmanned Air, Sea & Ground Budget 2014-2018

3 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Google’s robotic investments: an overview | Gizmodo

1 February 2014, by John Payne

Architecture + robotics = buildings that move

1 February 2014, by John Payne

Overhead transmission line inspection robots

1 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Agricultural robot market anticipated to reach $16.3 billion by 2020

1 February 2014, by Frank Tobe

Should a robot decide when to kill? | The Verge

1 February 2014, by John Payne

2014 January

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

31 January 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Mission to Mars, Part 5

31 January 2014, by Jim Haas

Drone can perch and walk like a bird | New Scientist

30 January 2014, by Andra Keay

GuardBot: From protecting territory to playing with dolphins

30 January 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

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

30 January 2014, by Nathan Labhart

ROS 101: Intro to the Robot Operating System

29 January 2014, by Clearpath Robotics

APRICOT project develops fish filleting robot | Gizmag

29 January 2014, by John Payne

Lakemaid Beer tests drone delivery to ice fishermen

29 January 2014, by John Payne

Competing sales reports for industrial robotics

29 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

Competing Sales Reports for Industrial Robotics

28 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

28 January 2014, by Mark Stephen Meadows

The new bot on the block | O’Reilly Radar

28 January 2014, by John Payne

Robot soldiers are coming! | DNews

28 January 2014, by John Payne

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

27 January 2014, by John Payne

The driverless city | Project Syndicate

27 January 2014, by Hallie Siegel

In the news: Intuitive Surgical

27 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

27 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

Google to buy artificial intelligence startup DeepMind | Re/code

26 January 2014, by John Payne

Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson

25 January 2014, by John Payne

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

25 January 2014, by Sabine Hauert

Startup Funding

24 January 2014, by Per Sjöborg

3D photolithography using lasers | Gizmag

24 January 2014, by John Payne

University of Coimbra developing minesweeping robot | Gizmag

24 January 2014, by John Payne

Mission to Mars, Part 4

24 January 2014, by Jim Haas

‘Unconscionable’ automation: beware the backlash | Ars Technica

23 January 2014, by John Payne

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

23 January 2014, by Nathan Labhart

Robots Can Now Teach Other Robots, Thanks To RoboEarth

22 January 2014, by Andra Keay

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

22 January 2014, by Sabine Hauert

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

22 January 2014, by Hallie Siegel

Rosetta awakes and prepares to chase comet | Science

22 January 2014, by John Payne

E-Whiskers: Berkeley researchers develop highly sensitive tactile sensors

22 January 2014, by John Payne

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

22 January 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Part 2: Embodied intelligence

21 January 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Beam+ remote presence robots becoming affordable

21 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

21 January 2014, by Robert Chew

Doggone it, there are no exciting consumer robots

21 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Robots with “soul” | TED

21 January 2014, by Andra Keay

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

21 January 2014, by John Payne

FAA selects state for drone testing | Laughlin Nevada Times

21 January 2014, by CIS Blog

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

20 January 2014, by John Payne

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

20 January 2014, by Jong-Oh Park

Robot farmers are the future of agriculture | The Guardian

19 January 2014, by John Payne

Geoffrey Hinton brings deep learning to Google | Wired

19 January 2014, by John Payne

Seegrid adds vision-guided lifting and stacking to product line

19 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

RoNeX unboxing | The Shadow Robot Co.

19 January 2014, by John Payne

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

18 January 2014, by CIS Blog

Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries

17 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

RoboEarth tested in life-like scenario | BBC

17 January 2014, by John Payne

Mission to Mars, Part 3

17 January 2014, by Jim Haas

Brainlike computing: Something big is happening

17 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live

17 January 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

NREC to automate strawberry blossom and weed removal

17 January 2014, by John Payne

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

16 January 2014, by Nathan Labhart

A discussion on deploying drones for international development

16 January 2014, by Matthew Schroyer

Tiny Robot Flies Like a Jellyfish

15 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Ekso Bionics goes public for $20.6 million

15 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Home telepresence Beam+ launches for $995 – IEEE Spectrum

15 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Clearpath Robotics accepts PR2 support role – IEEE Spectrum

15 January 2014, by Andra Keay

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

15 January 2014, by RBI Editors

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

15 January 2014, by Mark Stephen Meadows

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

15 January 2014, by AJung Moon

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

15 January 2014, by Daniel Wilson

Emotive communication with things – EmoShape Founder Patrick Levy Rosenthal

14 January 2014, by Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence

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

14 January 2014, by John Payne

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

14 January 2014, by Reno Tibke

The coolest girl at CES is the Aussie robot engineer

13 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Google acquires Nest for $3.2 billion

13 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

Why Google bought Nest: A theory | The Atlantic

13 January 2014, by Sabine Hauert

Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition

13 January 2014, by Andra Keay

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

13 January 2014, by Fabio Bonsignorio

Google to acquire Nest | Google

13 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Are investments in robotics capital intensive?

13 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

13 January 2014, by Hallie Siegel

New-tech grippers hit the market

13 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

And more robots from CES past

11 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Robot vaporware from CES past

11 January 2014, by Andra Keay

7 consumer robots to look out for from CES 2014

11 January 2014, by Shima Rayej

Interdisciplinary Teams

10 January 2014, by Per Sjöborg

Interview with Simon Blackmore | BBC Radio4 Farming Today

10 January 2014, by John Payne

Mission to Mars, Part 2

10 January 2014, by Jim Haas

The greatest myth about the robotics industry | IEEE Spectrum

9 January 2014, by Sabine Hauert

Eureka! There are academic startups at CES 2014

9 January 2014, by Andra Keay

Stopping killer robots | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

9 January 2014, by John Payne

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

9 January 2014, by Nathan Labhart

CES 2014 – Robotics on the Runway

8 January 2014, by Andra Keay

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

8 January 2014, by John Payne

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

7 January 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Micro-robotics and medicine: Interview with Toshio Fukuda

7 January 2014, by Hallie Siegel

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

7 January 2014, by John Payne

CES 2014: Please don’t run me down!

7 January 2014, by Andra Keay

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

7 January 2014, by Robert Morris

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

6 January 2014, by Robohub Editors

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

6 January 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Harvest Automation and SBI Software announce cooperative agreement

6 January 2014, by John Payne

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

6 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

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

6 January 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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

5 January 2014, by TechEmergence and Daniel Faggella

Mission to Mars

3 January 2014, by Jim Haas

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

2 January 2014, by Nathan Labhart

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

1 January 2014, by John Payne

The year in robotics | Popular Science

1 January 2014, by John Payne

Protecting jobs by adding robots

1 January 2014, by Frank Tobe

2013 December

Outreach activities: Making nanoparticle robots to ‘treat cancer’

29 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet nanocopter | Popular Science

29 December 2013, by John Payne

Teams and Tasks

27 December 2013, by Per Sjöborg

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

27 December 2013, by Nathan Labhart

Michael McMaster talks robots, building and his new project

26 December 2013, by Ajay Arora

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

25 December 2013, by John Payne

Taking your first steps in robotics with the Thymio II

25 December 2013, by Mike Hamer

Robot Holiday Videos 2013

25 December 2013, by Robohub Editors

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Aldebaran Robotics

24 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

Japanese Team Schaft Gets Highest DRC Score

24 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Michael McMaster

24 December 2013, by Robohub Editors

Happy Holidays from the Robohub team

24 December 2013, by Jim Haas and Robohub team

Mapping in the Cloud

23 December 2013, by Markus Waibel and Gajan Mohanarajah

Discovering social robotics with the Aisoy1

23 December 2013, by Mike Hamer

International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up

23 December 2013, by John Payne

Transcriptic: Robotic laboratory science | The Verge

22 December 2013, by John Payne

Japanese team dominates competition to create rescue robots | NYT

22 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

Robots of death, robots of love | TechRepublic

22 December 2013, by John Payne

▶ Robot Astronaut Kirobo Takes Part in Conversation Experiment – YouTube

22 December 2013, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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

21 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

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

20 December 2013, by Reno Tibke

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

20 December 2013, by John Payne

Watch the DARPA Robotics Challenge Live – IEEE Spectrum

20 December 2013, by Andra Keay

FRE2014 to be held in conjunction with DLG Field Days

20 December 2013, by John Payne

DARPA Robotics Challenge

20 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

20 December 2013, by Gajan Mohanarajah and Markus Waibel

DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast

20 December 2013, by Ioannis K. Erripis

China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg

20 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

20 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

Robot Holiday Video 2013: LASA, EPFL

20 December 2013, by Robohub Editors

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

19 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

ShanghAI Lectures: Eugen Elmiger “Drives for Intelligent Robots”

19 December 2013, by Nathan Labhart

China’s Moon Landing and Rover Tip of Iceberg

19 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

19 December 2013, by DigInfo TV

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

19 December 2013, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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

18 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Ascending Technologies

18 December 2013, by Robohub Editors

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

18 December 2013, by Torsten Andre

International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture

18 December 2013, by John Payne

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

18 December 2013, by Fabio Bonsignorio

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

17 December 2013, by Shima Rayej

Robot Holiday Video 2013: Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich

17 December 2013, by Robohub Editors

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

17 December 2013, by Andra Keay

▶ New York City 2 – Team Black Sheep

17 December 2013, by Andra Keay

IRO Competition: Opening day | Denver Post

17 December 2013, by John Payne

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

17 December 2013, by Hallie Siegel

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

17 December 2013, by CIS Blog

Is Silicon Valley automating our obsolescence?

16 December 2013, by Andra Keay

Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotics research at CMU

16 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

16 December 2013, by Andra Keay

Foxconn plans factory in PA and funds robotic research at CMU

16 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

16 December 2013, by Guido de Croon

The 2013 International Robot Olympiad in Denver

15 December 2013, by John Payne

KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders

15 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

KUKA opens Shanghai factory and announces orders

15 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

15 December 2013, by Andra Keay

Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% lay off

14 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

Rethink Robotics is downsizing

14 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

Google makes 8 big robotic investments

14 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

14 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

Google buys Boston Dynamics | New York Times

14 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

Soft robotics in space

14 December 2013, by Alan Winfield

Rethink Robotics downsizing: 23% laid off

13 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

The DARPA Robotics Challenge

13 December 2013, by Sabine Hauert

The hour of code is here | code.org

12 December 2013, by Andra Keay

ShanghAI Lectures: Josh Bongard “Resilient Machines”

12 December 2013, by Nathan Labhart

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

11 December 2013, by Andra Keay

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

11 December 2013, by Andra Keay

What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?

11 December 2013, by RBI Editors

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

11 December 2013, by Frank Tobe

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

11 December 2013, by Andra Keay

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

11 December 2013, by Andra Keay

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

11 December 2013, by AJung Moon

NSW government looks to drones for shark attack prevention