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RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics
Robots to install underfloor insulation in draughty homes, bots for edutainment, intelliTables and tiny robust drones flying with real bees wings - tantalising glimpses of a technology on the cusp of ...
16 October 2014, by
Adriana Hamacher
RoboBusiness startup Pitchfire winners
At RoboBusiness this week in Boston, Pitchfire - a Shark Tank-like pitch and question session - presented 14 start-up companies who pitched their wares to 5 judges. Two honorable mentions a...
16 October 2014, by
Frank Tobe
25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)
Just last week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella gave women some questionable career advice: "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing...
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
UCSD investing in robotics
At a one-day forum at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Chancellor Pradeep Khosla did two unusual things: he spent most of the day at the Contextual Robotics Technologies International F...
14 October 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”
October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...
14 October 2014, by
Robohub Editors
Registration now open for Cybathlon 2016
Full registration for the Cybathlon, a sporting event for disabled athletes using robotic assistive technologies is now open. The event will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 8th October 2016....
09 October 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition funded by the European Union with a focus on realistic cooperative mock emergency-response scenarios in three different domains: land, sea and air. On the ...
07 October 2014, by
Marta Palau Franco
Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014
Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....
03 October 2014, by
Mathieu Labbé
Safety concerns for collaborative robots
At a daylong workshop on Collaborative Robots by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), two main themes were expressed: worker safety and almost universal expectation for rapid deployment of colla...
03 October 2014, by
Frank Tobe
euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...
02 October 2014, by
Marta Palau Franco
SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge
A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...
29 September 2014, by
Patrick Goebel
#ShowUsYourAI – AAAI Video Competition – Deadline Oct 15
Submit your video to the AAAI Video Competition for a chance to win one of the several Shakey Awards. This year we'll be voting for the People's Choice Award right here on Robohub. The submission dead...
26 September 2014, by
Sabine Hauert
Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week
Leaks of substances into the sea, damage to underwater structures, machine rooms flooded… these were real challenges that emergency services working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station ha...
24 September 2014, by
Marta Palau Franco
IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 2)
More pitches from the interactive sessions at IROS. See also Part 1....
20 September 2014, by
Robohub Editors
Automata: The new “sci-fi” blockbuster set to put robot ethics under a spotlight
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...
19 September 2014, by
Adriana Hamacher
10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum
How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...
18 September 2014, by
Shima Rayej
IROS 2014 Webcam: Research pitches from the interactive sessions (Part 1)
The 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) is on in Chicago, and members of the robotics research community have descended on the Windy City. This year th...
17 September 2014, by
Robohub Editors
Boca Bearings 2014 Innovation Competition
http://youtu.be/uvLAbUFXPwo
The Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $10,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2014 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winners will be chosen based on a video subm...
09 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
In praise of robot football
Republished here is a short piece for The Conversation reflecting on robot football: 4-4-2 becomes 0101: inside the competitive world of robot football, published 4 August 2014.
This summer the ...
09 September 2014, by
Alan Winfield
Video: The future of robotics, as seen by roboticists
At Automatica 2014 in Munich this year, the ECHORD++ project asked roboticists like Vijay Kumar, Uwe Haass, Pere Homs, and Christian Schlegel one simple question: “What do you think is the future of...
22 August 2014, by
Robohub Editors
Watch the videos from the AI Video Competition
A large crowd of experts in artificial intelligence gathered around the AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony before catching their flights, or enjoying one last night in Québec City. The competition...
01 August 2014, by
Sabine Hauert
The two cultures of robocars
I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...
24 July 2014, by
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
Lights, camera, action at the Robot Film Festival
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...
23 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
Flying Donkey Challenge on hold as Kenyan authorities cope with Westgate Mall fallout
Today organizers announced that the first edition of the Flying Donkey Challenge in Kenya, which had preliminary sub-challenges slated to begin this November, is on hold indefinitely due to delays in ...
18 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
China International Robot Show (CIROS) a BIG hit
CIROS, the China International Robot Show held last week in Shanghai had record crowds, record numbers of exhibitors, 168,000 sq ft of exhibition space, and exuded confidence in a thriving up-and-comi...
16 July 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)
The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference (RSS14) is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16, and we are picking up where we left off yesterday on our coverage of t...
15 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
Science and startups at RSS2014 in Berkeley (Part 1)
The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16. From a small start, the conference now has over 800 attendees, with 28 differe...
14 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
Grizzly on the Mars Emulation Terrain at NCFRN
by Ryan Gariepy
I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and t...
09 July 2014, by
Clearpath Robotics
Startup Series #6: MIT Entreprise Forum VLAB
The VLAB Collaborative Robots forum on Thursday May 29 was a masterclass for robot startups. For 90 minutes at the Knight Management Center at Stanford, we heard all about the business of robotics fro...
09 July 2014, by
Andra Keay
