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GraspIO – An easy way to build electronics using iPhone, iPad & Android
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...
03 December 2014, by
Grasp IO, Inc.
25 holiday gift ideas for RoboGeeks (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'...
21 November 2014, by
Robohub Editors
Over 70,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day
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 ...
20 November 2014, by
Frank Tobe
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Finding Objects Using RFID, with Travis Deyle
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...
15 November 2014, by
Sabine Hauert
Amazon’s Echo: A point-of-sale even the kids can relate to
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...
14 November 2014, by
Mark Stephen Meadows
Ground Drone Project: Urban mobile robot chassis
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...
13 November 2014, by
Phillip Walker
New educational robot helps kids learn coding through music
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...
04 November 2014, by
Vivek Mano
Nestlé 1st big buyer of Softbank’s Pepper robot
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 ...
03 November 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Rethinking iRobot, Samsung and Dyson robotic vacuum cleaners
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 ...
29 October 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot
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...
28 October 2014, by
Andra Keay
Balance of privacy and control key to acceptance of robot bath assistants
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...
15 October 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
NEXTAGE robot makes coffee! | Kawada Robotics Blog
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 ...
15 October 2014, by
Andra Keay
What would you want your robot home to do for you?
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...
14 October 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Jibo campaign ends, takes in almost $2.3M
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...
22 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?
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 ...
17 September 2014, by
Open Roboethics Initiative
Why is Japan the first to get Dyson’s new 360 Eye?
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...
10 September 2014, by
Reno Tibke
Recent robotic vacuum launches change industry from niche to mainstream
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...
10 September 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Housework 2.0: The battle of the robot vacuum cleaners begins!
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...
05 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Dyson launches new robotic vacuum cleaner
James Dyson announced his new 360 Eye robotic vacuum cleaner, which goes on sale in Japan later this year for $1,250. It will then be available in the UK, Europe, China and Australia later in 2015....
04 September 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Korean Yujin Robot launches meal transport robot
Korean-based Yujin Robot continues to release thoughtful new products. They just announced a meal-transport robot designed to operate in eldercare and other hospitality and health care facilities....
01 September 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Has Dyson’s robotic dream become a reality?
[tweetquote]Has Dyson finally cracked its 16-year mission to create a robot vacuum cleaner?[/tweetquote] The company’s teaser video hints at a new release which looks a lot like a rival for the be...
01 September 2014, by
Adriana Hamacher
Hotel delivery robot debuts in Silicon Valley
Savioke, a start-up headed by ex-Willow Garage CEO Steve Cousins, has provided Aloft Hotels with a robotic butler. Aloft Cupertino is the first to use the new SaviOne delivery robot....
13 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Robot butler at your service: Savioke to pilot hospitality bot at Aloft Hotel
In a press release today, Savioke unveiled its new robot, SaviOne, a robot butler that was designed for the hospitality industry. Starting August 20, guests requesting items from the front desk at Alo...
12 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
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...
30 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Wearable fashion toy Linkitz teaches girls how to program | TechCrunch
MIT PhD Lyssa Neel is using socializing and accessorizing to get get girls interested in programming. Neel’s invention, Linkitz, is a wearable electronic toy that allows kids to rearrange, take ap...
25 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Jibo raises $1M in first week of crowdfunding campaign
On July 15th, Jibo launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with the goal of raising $100,000 towards developing their new social robot for the home. Less than one week later, Jibo surpassed the ...
23 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
JIBO: A game changing social robot
JIBO, a 2013 Boston startup, launched an IndieGoGo campaign last week and is off to a rousing start, lots of favorable press, and, as of the time of this writing, has raised more than $700,000 over th...
20 July 2014, by
Frank Tobe
The second wave of social robots is here
Cynthia Breazeal’s Jibo launched today and coming on the heels of Pepper, Aldebaran and Softbank’s new social robot, and Jimmy from Intel. It seems like we’re seeing a second wave of social robo...
16 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
Home Depot starts selling 3-D printers in stores | Bloomberg
Home Depot Inc. (HD), the world’s largest home-improvement chain, will start selling 3-D printers today in stores for the first time, pushing deeper into a market that was once the domain of enginee...
14 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
The next era of conversational technology
In 1922, the Elmwood Button Co. commercialized a toy that could respond to voice commands. The toy, called Radio Rex, was a dog made of celluloid that would leap out of its house when you called its n...
04 July 2014, by
Roberto Pieraccini and Jibo
