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From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment
Hallie Siegel
12 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]What do you get when you cross hundreds of drones with an indoor football stadium equipped with GPS?[/tweetquote] Quite possibly the world's largest drone entertainment show the world has ...
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Looney the Robot, with Hunter Lloyd
Audrow Nash
23 Jan 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Hunter Lloyd, who is a Professor of Robotics at Montana State University and a comedian. Hunter performs a comedy act for all ages with partner Looney, a NAO ...
RoboThespian co-hosts new robot documentary from CBC – “Roboticize Me”
Hallie Siegel
22 Jan 2015
Roboticize Me is a new documentary co-hosted by Peter Keleghan and his android sidekick RoboThespian. Produced by CBC's Doc Zone, the documentary looks at what’s driving our need to develop intel...
A cruel waste of STEM talent
Frank Tobe
19 Jan 2015
"Spare Parts" is a new movie showing grit, creativity, determination, and leadership in robotics through teamwork and individual success.
The movie has a Hollywood ending: teacher and kids inspire ...
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RoboThespian, with Will Jackson
Ron Vanderkley
10 Jan 2015
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In today’s podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Will Jackson from Engineered Arts Limited about his team’s work making robot actors....
12 favorite robot movies – new and old
Robohub Editors
25 Dec 2014
If you're planning for some downtime this holiday, try curling up with one of these robot/AI-themed movies recommended by the Robohub team....
20 great books to hook kids and teens on robotics
Hallie Siegel
18 Dec 2014
Kids love robots! And they love reading too. Ranging from preschool to teen, this selection of books includes fiction and nonfiction, activity books and maker manuals, all to help inspire the kids in ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its power. In an in-...
Kidbotics review: Thymio II
Kidbotics
05 Dec 2014
This is Kidbotics, [tweetquote]a new educational robotics review series for kids who, like me, are just coming into the robotics scene.[/tweetquote] I am 12 years old, and these reviews are meant to g...
GoPro to start making drones
Ben Fisher
04 Dec 2014
[tweetquote]GoPro is to start making its own line of drones and have them ready for release as early as Christmas 2015.[/tweetquote] Early indications of price point range from $500 to $1,000 for the ...
Call for holiday robot videos
Robohub Editors
17 Nov 2014
Is it that time of year already!?!? It must be given that your Editors woke up to snow on the ground this morning. Robohub will once again be featuring robot videos this holiday, so send your submiss...
The Future Starts Here: Robots, Botox, and Google Glass
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg
10 Nov 2014
[tweetquote]Why do we fall in love with some technologies, while others creep us out?[/tweetquote] Unravelling this mystery leads Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain to vampires, zombies, and Sigmund Freu...
A computer vision system for mining artistic influence
When we look at an image we not only recognize object categories and scene category, but we can also infer various aesthetic, cultural and historical aspects. For example, an expert (or even an averag...
“Chappie” movie to explore human reaction to AI, machine learning
Hallie Siegel
04 Nov 2014
A new action/sci-fi thriller by Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) is due in theatres March 6, 2015. Starring Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, and Sigourney Weaver, Chappie follows an exper...
Robots dance in synchronization while balancing on balls
DigInfo TV
29 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/Ebgrr4yLlCk
Murata Manufacturing recently unveiled a team of 10 robots, called the Murata Cheerleaders, which dance in formation while balancing on top of balls. The Murata Cheerlea...
Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked
Hallie Siegel
24 Sep 2014
If you thought "SPARKED" - the new short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios - is too real-looking to be CGI, you were right. But why go to all the trouble of using quadrotors to ...
‘Person of Interest’ Season 4 will tackle big questions about AI | Mashable
Hallie Siegel
24 Sep 2014
For three seasons, CBS's Person of Interest has tried to raise questions about who's watching us. But starting Tuesday, the show will shine a light on a subject producers think no one is keeping an ...
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
Markus Waibel
22 Sep 2014
We've seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other stage...
Automata: The new “sci-fi” blockbuster set to put robot ethics under a spotlight
Adriana Hamacher
19 Sep 2014
A major new sci-fi movie, Automata, promises to not only provide a feast for the eyes (see below for a clip from the film), but an overdue opportunity to spotlight some of the ethical dilemmas arising...
Project Hieroglyph: Science fiction for better futures
Joey Eschrich
16 Sep 2014
It seems like our most popular visions of the future always end with environmental collapse, authoritarian oppression … and the ever-popular zombie apocalypse. Science fiction, what Clive Thompson c...
Robots reborn: Upcycled illuminated robot sculptures by +Brauer
Robohub Editors
15 Sep 2014
Bruno Lefevre-Brauer (known as +Brauer), is a graphic designer living in Paris. Over the past 20 years he has designed numerous album covers for French and international artists and pursued his person...
“Drone Art” – an excerpt from The Drone Primer
This is an excerpt from The Drone Primer: A Compendium of the Key Issues, a free, one-stop, handbook addressing the basic and fundamental questions around drones in all their contexts, from foreign th...
Algorithm looking at art finds connections art historians had never noticed | Medium
Hallie Siegel
03 Sep 2014
Of course, Saleh and co do not claim that this kind of algorithm can take the place of an art historian. After all, the discovery of a link between paintings in this way is just the starting point for...
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
Frank Tobe
28 Aug 2014
The Orlando Sentinel reported that the [tweetquote]Walt Disney Company filed for three patents involving flying entertainment robots[/tweetquote], a growing segment in the emerging service robotics in...
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Birdly, with Max Rheiner
Audrow Nash
22 Aug 2014
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Max Rheiner from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) about his project Birdly. Birdly explores the experience of a bird in flight with several methods. Unl...
Why do people love robots? Find out in this Botscar-winning Robot Film Festival short
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain
11 Aug 2014
"Why We Love Robots" is a 5-minute short documentary film co-directed by UC Berkeley Prof. Ken Goldberg and his wife, award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Shlain. The film was nominated for an Emmy Award a...
New sci-fi short “Robot” seeks crowdfunding
Aaron Vanderkley
11 Aug 2014
'Robot' is a short film directed by up and coming West Australian director Zenon Samuels. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Robot explores the relationship an isolated war veteran has with a mysteriou...
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
Hallie Siegel
30 Jul 2014
Last year, while celebrating my birthday in Maine, I was given a drone fitted with a high-definition camera. After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words ab...
Mind of life: An excerpt from Daniel Wilson’s new sci-fi novel, Robogenesis
Daniel Wilson
29 Jul 2014
This excerpt is from my novel Robogenesis, in which humankind is trying to put together the pieces of a shattered civilization after a war between men and machines. In the aftermath of the robopocalyp...
Lights, camera, action at the Robot Film Festival
Andra Keay
23 Jul 2014
Bringing together people and robots for an amazing social event, the 4th annual Robot Film Festival was held on Saturday July 19 at Bot & Dolly studio in San Francisco. The Festival opened with th...
Revisiting telepresence robots at Robot Film Festival
Andra Keay
08 Jul 2014
What happens when you attend school via telepresence robot? This heartwarming Japanese science fiction film is now close to becoming science fact. In spite of winning a swathe of awards in Japan, Hino...
The thriving drone community of South Africa
Dronologista
30 Jun 2014
Source: Skylab Productions
A couple of years ago, while I was living in Cape Town, I met a group of people who were so into drones and aerial filming that they managed to initiate me into the world ...
On Pepper, Aldebaran and emotional robotics: Interview with Bruno Maisonnier
Mark Stephen Meadows
24 Jun 2014
Bruno Maisonnier at TedExConcorde. Photo credit: Rodrigo SEPÚLVEDA SCHULZ.
Last week I dropped by Aldebaran’s studio to get a glimpse of Pepper in action, and was pretty excited about this robot. ...
Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition
Oliver Bendel
09 Jun 2014
People take selfies with smartphones and digital cameras (or even with flying robots), and share them on social media, blogs, microblogs and image platforms for social purposes, and though selfies m...
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper knows how you’re feeling | ComputerWorld
Hallie Siegel
05 Jun 2014
Pepper is a cute, wisecracking personal robot designed to bring joy to everyone, and Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank wants people to start buying it next year for the price of a high-end PC.
Its...
There’s no business like show business
Frank Tobe
26 May 2014
Robotic Arts, a Las Vegas designer and integrator of robots used in novel ways for entertainment purposes, and Royal Caribbean International, are working together to provide a unique hi-tech robotic e...
