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BUDDY opensource companion bot meets 100K crowdfunding goal in 1 day; now >200% funded
Blue Frog Robotics
15 Jul 2015
[tweetquote]BUDDY has something to smile about.[/tweetquote] The new open source companion robot by Blue Frog Robotics, launched an Indiegogo campaign on July 7th and sailed past its $100K crowdfu...
Building the Jibo prototype: Interview with VP Engineering Andy Atkins
Jibo
08 Jul 2015
Our most recent video update comes from our VP of Engineering Andy Atkins. Take a sneak peak inside the minds of our engineers as they finish our newest Jibo P2s, to find out what kinds of challenges ...
RoCKIn2015: A glimpse into the future of Europe’s domestic and industrial robotics industry
RoCKIn Robotics Challenge
27 Jun 2015
Over the last 20 years, robot competitions have emerged as a powerful means to foster progress in robotics research and development (R&D). RoCKIn is part a of new generation of scientific robotics...
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CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener
Audrow Nash
12 Jun 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng
Talking Machines
04 Jun 2015
In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....
Residential robotic vacuum cleaner market poised for stellar growth
Vipassa Kakroo
28 May 2015
Although robotic vacuum cleaners have been on the market for over a decade now, it is only recently that they have started to become pervasive. Innovations in technology have allowed manufacturers to ...
iPetCompanion lets you play with your pets via telepresence
Michael Savoie
22 May 2015
iPetCompanion have developed telepresence technology that allows you to manipulate toys so you can play with your pets while you're away. The team has installed the system in hospitals and animal sh...
Shadow Robot’s Dexterous Hand can do more than cook up a storm
Adriana Hamacher
07 May 2015
The Shadow Robot Company has been perfecting its robot hands for almost two decades, but it took just a short demo by the world’s first robot chef last month to propel this small, London-based start...
Why Google’s robot personality patent isn’t what it appears to be
Mark Stephen Meadows
16 Apr 2015
[tweetquote]Google’s new patent: Less about creating robot personalities than collecting yours.[/tweetquote]...
Sensor-driven armband used to direct robots
Frank Tobe
21 Mar 2015
ThalmicLabs' MYO gesture-based armband is making inroads driving robots, moving robot arms and on the arms of a Dutch trance music producer, DJ and radio personality....
Why are JIBO, Pepper, Siri, Google Now and Cortana so important?
Frank Tobe
16 Mar 2015
There's a race going on to see which AI solution providing personal assistance is welcomed by businesses, end users and consumers, and whether this will be physical or virtual....
Jibo’s coordinated expression mechanisms: Behind the scenes
Jibo
11 Mar 2015
In this development video, hosted by Jesse Gray & Matt Berlin of Team Jibo and the MIT Media Lab, we’ll discuss how Jibo uses movement, sound, LEDs, and screen graphics to communicate with peopl...
Robots to serve guests in Japanese hotel | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
09 Feb 2015
Guests checking into a new hotel close to the Japanese city of Nagasaki this summer may find themselves complaining that the service is just a little .... robotic.
With due cause. In a paradigm-s...
HoloLens: Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles | WIRED
Hallie Siegel
22 Jan 2015
In several months, Microsoft will unveil its most ambitious undertaking in years, a head-mounted holographic computer called Project HoloLens. But at this point, even most people at Microsoft have nev...
Natural language: The de-facto interface convention for social robotics
Mark Stephen Meadows
21 Jan 2015
Social Robotics: The UX of Natural Language
A very smart and snotty journalist told me that he had spoken with Aldebaran's Pepper system when he was in Boston. Much to his chagrin, the robot didn't ...
What do consumers want? Better batteries, not wearables | Fortune
Hallie Siegel
15 Jan 2015
You wouldn’t guess it wandering the endless displays of gadgets here at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, but the top tech need on the mind of most Americans isn’t sharper televisions, smar...
SoftBank/Aldebaran Pepper robots go on sale in February
Frank Tobe
15 Jan 2015
IEEE/Spectrum Senior Editor Erico Guizzo describes in a recent post (and two videos) how Aldebaran's two-year Pepper project is coming to fruition....
Robocars at CES: BMW
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
09 Jan 2015
Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...
GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android
Grasp IO, Inc.
03 Dec 2014
GraspIO is part hardware and part software, and gives everyone an easy way to build electronics projects using smartphones and tablets. It’s the world’s first DIY electronics platform with easy-to...
25 holiday gift ideas for RoboGeeks (2014)
Robohub Editors
21 Nov 2014
[tweetquote]Need some gift ideas for that special robot geek in your life?[/tweetquote] We polled the Robohub team for their favorite ideas, from stocking stuffers to once-in-a-lifetime gifts, so you'...
Over 70,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day
Frank Tobe
20 Nov 2014
Just last month Rod Brooks chided me that robotic vacuum cleaners were already mainstream in response to what I had written: that they had just recently moved from niche to mainstream partly because ...
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Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle
Sabine Hauert
15 Nov 2014
Full transcript below.
In this episode, Sabine Hauert speaks with Travis Deyle, about his IROS-nominated work on RFID tags, his blog Hizook, and the career path that brought him from academia, to fou...
Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to
Mark Stephen Meadows
14 Nov 2014
Amazon, the largest online retailer and Internet company in the USA, sells media, data, software, video games, electronics, food, toys, clothes, furniture, and jewelry. It is a big provider of cloud c...
Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis
Phillip Walker
13 Nov 2014
The Ground Drone Project wants to make a [tweetquote]low cost ground robot chassis for hobbyists and inventors that is capable of traversing challenging obstacles[/tweetquote]. The project’s origina...
New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music
Vivek Mano
04 Nov 2014
Meet Wigl! Wigl is an interactive educational robot with a musical ear. We’ve launched our Indiegogo campaign for Wigl, the first musical robot buddy for kids. Wigl is controlled by musical notes th...
Nestlé 1st big buyer of Softbank’s Pepper robot
Frank Tobe
03 Nov 2014
Earlier this year Softbank announced the launch of Pepper, a robot created specifically for SoftBank and the Japanese market. Last week Nestlé announced that it will use Pepper to sell its Nescafé ...
Rethinking iRobot, Samsung and Dyson robotic vacuum cleaners
Frank Tobe
29 Oct 2014
At a break in a conference in San Diego, I was sitting enjoying my tea, when up walked Rodney Brooks (of Rethink Robotics and Baxter fame) and said (with a mischievious smile):
I have a bone to pick ...
Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot
Andra Keay
28 Oct 2014
Fellow Robots, in partnership with Lowes Hardware, today launched the OSHbot as a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. Although the robot can only give informatio...
Balance of privacy and control key to acceptance of robot bath assistants
Open Roboethics Initiative
15 Oct 2014
While the past decade has witnessed the emergence of various prototypes and research projects involving bathing robots, the public acceptance of the concept seems to largely depend on one socially sen...
NEXTAGE robot makes coffee! | Kawada Robotics Blog
Andra Keay
15 Oct 2014
Visitors to Japan Robot Week 2014 at Tokyo Big Sight can order their coffee from a robot.
http://youtu.be/PHxmGPA10ck
Robot Launch Pad's insight: Japan is putting a lot of focus on robotics in ...
What would you want your robot home to do for you?
Open Roboethics Initiative
14 Oct 2014
The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are getting 'smarter': we wear smart watches, carry smart phones, and many of us are now living in smart homes that are equipped with intellige...
Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M
Hallie Siegel
22 Sep 2014
This weekend we became the #1 Most Successful Technology Campaign on Indiegogo ever when we broke $2.2M! We are both elated and deeply grateful to all our supporters for helping JIBO set a new recor...
Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?
Open Roboethics Initiative
17 Sep 2014
While vacuum robots continue to dominate the ‘robots at home’ market, with Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at ...
Why is Japan the first to get Dyson’s new 360 Eye?
Reno Tibke
10 Sep 2014
This post originally appeared on Akihabara News.
The Dyson 360 Eye autonomous vacuum cleaner went public in Tokyo on September 4th, and it got a lot of attention - enough to make almost any prod...
Recent robotic vacuum launches change industry from niche to mainstream
Frank Tobe
10 Sep 2014
Recent robotic vacuum cleaner product launches by Dyson and Samsung have transformed what once was a niche market of early adopters and robot enthusiasts into a marketplace of serious consumer produc...
Housework 2.0: The battle of the robot vacuum cleaners begins!
Hallie Siegel
05 Sep 2014
The public may be expecting to see robot cyborgs battle it out in distant galaxies, but back here on earth the battle of the robots is taking on a distinctively quotidian reality. The double announcem...
