2011 June

Carls Jr ad say: If machines can’t eat it, machines shouldn’t make it. But robots do process food.

29 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

President Obama approves $70 million for robotics; STEM problem not addressed

24 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

News from various blogs

18 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

Schunk manipulators

17 June 2011, by Podcast team

Kiva Systems starts rental program

16 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

US research dollars keep flowing

16 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

Bipedal walker adapts to passenger weight

14 June 2011, by Sabine Hauert

Agricultural robotics and employment

12 June 2011, by John Payne

New robo thriller book, movie coming

10 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

3D printing going mainstream

10 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

UC Berkeley student team solving laundry problem with robots

8 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

Got $3,000 and a lot of trust?

6 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong

6 June 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Smaller bomb-carrying drones being readied for combat

4 June 2011, by Frank Tobe

The Bilibot Project

3 June 2011, by Podcast team

Any-shape robot formations

2 June 2011, by Sabine Hauert

2011 May

Prioria Maverick, flexible wing UAS

30 May 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Blended reality

20 May 2011, by Podcast team

Sex with robots? An industry review

15 May 2011, by Frank Tobe

Graduating without a wheelchair

15 May 2011, by Frank Tobe

Underwater 3D mapping

13 May 2011, by Sabine Hauert

Place recognition and localization with omnidirectional vision

9 May 2011, by Sabine Hauert

European robotics (Part 2)

6 May 2011, by Podcast team

2011 April

FIRST robotics World Championship Finals awarded

30 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

Money is out there—particularly for low-cost platforms

24 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

European robotics (Part 1)

22 April 2011, by Podcast team

Stable visual navigation

20 April 2011, by Sabine Hauert

Pics of iRobot’s PackBots inside Fukashima

18 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

DARPA ARM project launches public robot simulator and lab testing

17 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

AP reports Predator drone may have killed two US troops

13 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

Robots in the news

10 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

Robotic arts

8 April 2011, by Podcast team

Finding outdoor odor sources using particle filters

5 April 2011, by Sabine Hauert

Dissecting the controversy about the robotics industry

3 April 2011, by Frank Tobe

2011 March

New details about Robonaut2

30 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

South Korea moving ahead with R-Learning program

30 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

Job creation with robotics

27 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

Some things can’t be done without robots

26 March 2011, by John Payne

Mind control

25 March 2011, by Podcast team

Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace

24 March 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis

WSJ 2010 winner of Robotics Innovation Technology Award gets $18 million venture money

22 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

Robots get students motivated to pursue STEM careers

17 March 2011, by Sabine Hauert

Stats and predictions about service robotics

13 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

Future manipulators

11 March 2011, by Podcast team

2011 venture fundings & acquisitions

10 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

Integrating path planning and robot control

7 March 2011, by Sabine Hauert

The New Cool – a look inside the FIRST Robotics Program

5 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

Allosphere and STEM

1 March 2011, by Frank Tobe

2011 February

Telepresence going mainstream

26 February 2011, by Frank Tobe

Telepresence

25 February 2011, by Podcast team

Real-time behavior-based control

22 February 2011, by Sabine Hauert

IBM’s Watson easily wins Jeopardy!

17 February 2011, by Frank Tobe

Simulated pronking robots move like springboks

14 February 2011, by Sabine Hauert

Robotics roadmaps – Japan

11 February 2011, by Podcast team

2011 Engelberger Robotics Award announced

11 February 2011, by Frank Tobe

Agricultural automation progressing… slowly

10 February 2011, by Frank Tobe

Harvest automation

6 February 2011, by John Payne

My Keepon bot to be available for Xmas 2011 at $40

5 February 2011, by Frank Tobe

High-speed walkers pretend to go downhill

3 February 2011, by Sabine Hauert

2011 January

President Obama excludes robotics in State of the Union speech

30 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

Alabama robot center opens

30 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

Odor source localization

28 January 2011, by Podcast team

10 billion downloads from Apple App Store

24 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

Kinect boon to Robotics

24 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

Learning Bayesian filters without precise ground truth

21 January 2011, by Sabine Hauert

There’s a robot in your future

19 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

Robots and smart devices at CES 2011

18 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

The ascendency of Arduino

16 January 2011, by John Payne

Robots Podcast: Harvest automation

14 January 2011, by Podcast team

Japan to invest $3 billion to deep-sea mine for gold, silver and rare metals

14 January 2011, by Frank Tobe

Shared control for wheelchairs

8 January 2011, by Sabine Hauert

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