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Tickets for Cybathlon now on sale

NCCR Robotics 11 Mar 2016

On Saturday, 8 October 2016 ETH Zurich is organising the very first Cybathlon at the SWISS Arena in Kloten, Switzerland. Individuals with physical disabilities will compete side by side in six deman...

WeRobot 2015 Keynote: The future of robotics, with R2D2 maker Tony Dyson

Robohub Editors 04 Mar 2016

UPDATED 4 Mar: We're sad to report that Professor Tony Dyson, who built the original Star Wars R2-D2 droid, has died. We’re reposting this excellent video of his keynote at WeRobot to highlight his...

Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots

Robohub Editors 22 Feb 2016

Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...

AAAI Video Competition winners

Sabine Hauert 16 Feb 2016

The AAAI Video Competition Award Ceremony took place yesterday at AAAI-16 in Phoenix, Arizona. The competition aims to spread the word about research and applications in AI through exciting educationa...

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – part 1

Open Source Robotics Foundation 13 Feb 2016

ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...

Towards building brain-like cognition and control for robots

Florian Röhrbein and Florian Walter 27 Jan 2016

The idea of connecting brain-inspired models of computation to robots is probably as old as the discipline of robotics itself; as far back as 1950, neurophysiologist William Grey Walter had already co...

Fourth Industrial Revolution main theme at #WEF16 World Economic Forum

Kassie Perlongo 26 Jan 2016

Another year gone as the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos draws to a close. Experts weighed in about upcoming global changes for robotics, AI, internet of things, and the rise of digital transf...

Rising Media acquires RoboUniverse and Inside 3D Printing shows

Frank Tobe 25 Jan 2016

MecklerMedia's RoboUniverse trade shows and conferences and Inside 3D Printing shows have been acquired by Rising Media, a Germany-based global events producer focusing on Internet and technology-r...

IBM, Intel describe experiential future for human-machine interaction

Frank Tobe 21 Jan 2016

In keynote presentations at CES in Las Vegas last week, CEOs from IBM and Intel talked about disruptive changes in how consumers and businesses are transacting and interacting with their purchases....

#CES2016: Noise, hype, hustle … and business as usual

Frank Tobe 21 Jan 2016

CES is truly a global technology event: 3,800 exhibitors (of which 500 were startups); 2.47 million sq feet of exhibit space; 170,000 industry professionals (of which 50,000 were from more than 160 co...

Survey on your experience with robotics competitions

Mahmoud AbdelAziz 14 Jan 2016

From Grand Challenges such as the recent DRC, to STEM events such as FIRST, to startup pitches such as Robot Launch, competitions have been used to push the state of the art in the field, inspire the ...

Robocar news from CES 2016

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 13 Jan 2016

I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...

Soft spot for soft robots? Register for the 2016 Soft Robotics Competition

Harvard SEAS 11 Jan 2016

By Adam Zewe | SEAS If you have a soft spot for robotics, this competition is right up your alley. With separate tracks for academic researchers, college students, and high school students, the...

Registration now open for #ICRA16’s Airbus Shopfloor Challenge

Airbus Group 23 Dec 2015

The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge invites robotics teams from around the world to create innovative robotic solutions for a real-life manufacturing challenge, and compete live at the IEEE 2016 Internatio...

New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration

XPRIZE 17 Dec 2015

At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...

Brown University wins inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge

Rethink Robotics 16 Dec 2015

As the worldwide leader in collaborative robotics research and education, Rethink Robotics is excited to announce the winner of the inaugural Rethink Robotics Video Challenge. Launched in the summer o...

CSAIL shows off demos to 150 high-schoolers for “Hour of Code”

MIT News 15 Dec 2015

By Adam Conner-Simmons | CSAIL Last Friday, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) hosted 150 local high school students for its second annual “Hour of Code” ev...

European Robotics Week #ERW2015 recap and videos

euRobotics AISBL 14 Dec 2015

With over 750 events across Europe, this year’s edition of the European Robotics Week broke all records. Throughout the week, Europeans were invited to visit laboratories, join debates, build and pr...

New collaborative robots — and product lines — at iREX 2015

Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc. 07 Dec 2015

We visited iREX 2015 last week at the Tokyo Big Sight. It was great to be in robotland and to be immersed in Japan's point of view on robotics. Some well-known collaborative robot manufacturers are ...

#iREX2015 collaborative robots video roundup

Samuel Bouchard and Robotiq Inc. 04 Dec 2015

Several new collaborative robots were shown at the IREX show in Japan. Check out the video....

A helping hand for high-tech firms

Horizon Magazine 03 Dec 2015

by Jon Cartwright Joel Gibbard started out designing prosthetic hands in his bedroom out of sheet metal, but found himself drawn to 3D printing because of its universality and low cost. Now his co...

ELROB 2016: Europe’s toughest & longest-running field robotics event is turning 10

Frank E. Schneider 01 Dec 2015

Robotic competitions have sprung up like mushrooms. Beside the obvious ones like EURATHLON, RoboCross, DARPA and MBZIRC, there are hundreds of smaller contests all over the world. Some of them are ac...

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Adriana Hamacher 27 Nov 2015

[clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...

Major debate on robots & society sets scene for #ERW2015 European Robotics Week

Adriana Hamacher 26 Nov 2015

A mouthwatering array of over 750 events has been taking place throughout Europe this week as the continent celebrates Robotics Week 2015. The festivities began with an eye-opening debate on "Robots a...

Robot Race to Hawaii Contest

Ricardo Téllez 24 Nov 2015

The Robot Race to Hawaii is a robotics contest where participants program a humanoid Nao robot to run a 10-meter race in the shortest time possible. The whole competition is run in a Webots simula...

The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show

Thomas Schmickl 24 Nov 2015

In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT -- Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...

More than 180,000 robotic vacuum cleaners sold on a single day

Frank Tobe 23 Nov 2015

On Singles Day 2015, a holiday for the Chinese singles and youth market, Ecovacs Robotics sold $47 million worth of robotic products. Ecovacs only has three robotic products: a line of vacuum cleaners...

Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video

Hallie Siegel 20 Nov 2015

Check out this great little film by drone startup PRENAV, which took home the LOL WTF prize at the Flying Robot International Film Festival last night. According to Nathan Schuett, CEO of PRENAV, the...

New video shows bionic athletes rehearsing for upcoming Cybathlon competition

NCCR Robotics 19 Nov 2015

In 21 countries across the globe, hundreds of people are preparing for Cybathlon 2016, where cutting edge robotic assistive technologies will help people with disabilities to compete in a series of ra...

European Robotics Week #ERW2015: 600+ events focusing on robots & society

euRobotics AISBL 19 Nov 2015

Over 600 events across the region will look at how robots will impact the way European citizens work, live and learn, as part of the 2015 European Robotics Week (#ERW2015), running 23-29 November....

Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW

Open Roboethics Initiative 17 Nov 2015

On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties....

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