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    When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)
    I’m in the Detroit area for the annual TRB/AUVSI Automated Vehicle Symposium. Those in Ann Arbor attended the opening of the new test track at the University of Michigan, but I was at a small event ...
    24 July 2015, by

    #ICRA16 wants you to make duckie-themed videos of robots
    ICRA 2015 is just behind us (see our coverage) and the team is already gearing up for the next edition in Stockholm, Sweden mid-May....
    24 July 2015, by

    Towards standardized experiments in human robot interactions
    While the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) R&D community produces a large amount of research on the efficacy, effectiveness, user satisfaction, emotional impact and social components of HRI, the res...
    23 July 2015, by

    Nat Geo’s Robots 3D proves that robots don’t need to be sci-fi to be compelling
    Close up, in 3D, what jumps out at you is not just how astonishing today’s humanoid robots are, but also how miraculous the human body they mimic is. National Geographic’s Robots 3D is showing in ...
    16 July 2015, by

    Come with me to the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition
    It wouldn’t be June in Colorado without the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition. Started back in 2009, the annual event is held at their global headquarters near Boulder, CO. ...
    13 July 2015, by

    Alan Turing robot makes its debut at Startup Village 2015
    Tho startups from the robotics cluster at Skolkovo — Nanosemantics and Lexy — teamed up with the Russian Neurobotics, to recreate a robotic version of the British computer science pioneer A...
    10 July 2015, by



    Siemens funds new Industrial Robotics Award in Robot Launch startup competition
    Siemens has joined the Robot Launch as a sponsor, offering an impressive “Industrial Robotics Award” consisting of access to the Siemens Frontier Partner program, which provides mentorship and i...
    10 July 2015, by

    #ICRAcam (Part 5): Flying w/o sensors, learning to swim, manipulating from primitives, & injecting at high speed
    In Part Five of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about passively stabilizing MAVs without using inertial sensors, a robot that learns different swimming gaits from experience, building high level m...
    08 July 2015, by

    Robots in Europe: Live tweets and pics from #Innorobo
    Innorobo is one of the the premiere EU event dedicated to robotics and disruptive technologies. Running July 1-3 in Lyon, France, the event features talks from the likes of Carlo Ratti, Rodney Brook...
    02 July 2015, by

    One year later: Update from Leka, Robot Launch 2014 Grand Winner
    Almost one year ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for Moti, a robotic toy that helps autistic children learn to regulate their own emotions through play. Leka cofounde...
    02 July 2015, by and

    #ICRAcam (Part 4): Robot-assisted microsurgery, clothing de-wrinkler, collaborative interaction, & 3D scene reconstruction
    In Part Four of our ICRAcam series, you’ll learn about control for a microsurgical device for soft tissue, a robot that can find wrinkles in clothing and straighten them out, collaborative task le...
    30 June 2015, by

    RoCKIn2015: A glimpse into the future of Europe’s domestic and industrial robotics industry
    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...
    27 June 2015, by

    Yaskawa robot learns the art of the samurai
    Japanese robotics company Yaskawa Electric Corporation pitted one of the most skilled swordsmen in the world against one of their machines and the results are incredible....
    24 June 2015, by

    Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
    FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
    24 June 2015, by

    #ICRAcam (Part 3): IKEA assembly-bots, RoboSherlock, MRI-powered millirobots and human-robot contact
    In Part Three of our ICRAcam series, you'll learn about what it takes to get a robot to build IKEA furniture, information processing for robot perception, an MRI-powered millibot that shoots like a G...
    23 June 2015, by

    #ICRAcam (Part 2): Handheld cobots, magnetic manipulators, mini robotic probes, and the Butterfly problem revisited
    Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we've got some more highlights from some of this year’s exciting papers. We’ll be sharing lots more ICRAcam videos over the next ...
    18 June 2015, by

    #RobotLaunch has great prizes for startups, but you can’t win if you don’t enter
    Robot Launch 2015 is bringing together a great pool of prizes and services for robot startups. All startups in the semis or finals are eligible for awards as we search for offers such as “Crowd Pl...
    18 June 2015, by

    #ICRAcam (Part 1): Adhesion grippers, robot life cycles, car-towing bots, and motion planning
    There was so much great research presented at ICRA in Seattle this year that it was tough to find the time to see it all. Thanks to IEEE RAS ICRA, who allowed us to film at the event, we are able to...
    16 June 2015, by

    DARPA Robotics Challenge leaves brilliant PR legacy
    With this robotics Grand Challenge, DARPA has advanced both the science of robotics and the story. Real robots did useful things, like operate power tools, drive cars and climb stairs far more succe...
    09 June 2015, by

    Don’t be fooled by robots falling down at DARPA’s Robotics Challenge
    This weekend I went to Pomona, CA for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, where robots (mostly humanoid) competed at a variety of disaster response and assistance tasks. This contest — a successor ...
    08 June 2015, by

    Live video and tweets from the #DARPADRC Finals
    Livestream video and tweets on the ground in Pomona, California and the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals. [tweetquote]Robohub's Andra Keay @svrobo is onsite at the DRC Finals to keep you post...
    05 June 2015, by

    DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals begin
    The DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals at the Pomona Fairgrounds is a far bigger event than I imagined. Four sets like this one plus a stage, a grandstand full of people and an exposition hall with 80+ ex...
    05 June 2015, by

    On stage at the DRC: While organizers create a disaster zone, competitors go for comedy
    The DRC is all about pushing robotics technology forward. It’s all about creating a community devoted to innovation. And as it comes down to the finale on Friday and Saturday, it will also be about ...
    04 June 2015, by

    Field and service robotics: The rubber meets the road at FSR in Toronto this June
    While there has been a lot of recent attention in the media surrounding self-driving cars and drones, the field and service robotics community has been quietly toiling away for much longer. Later this...
    03 June 2015, by

    DRC is not just about building robots; it’s about building community
    Something remarkable is happening in Building 9 here at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. Imagine a long, giant warehouse-like building divided into 24 bays, within which people from around the world are...
    03 June 2015, by and

    DARPA’s Robotics Challenge: A pocket-sized guide to the finals
    DARPA's latest Challenge reaches its climax on 6 June 2015, when 25 finalists compete for $3.5m of prize money in what’s possibly the most anticipated robotic contest ever. Since its inception in 20...
    03 June 2015, by

    Move-in day for the DRC Finals
    Traveling from dozens of locations around the world, the teams competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge have begun unloading their precious cargo into their respective working bays inside the caverno...
    02 June 2015, by

    Amazon challenges robotics’ hot topic: Perception
    Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and pick...
    02 June 2015, by

    #ICRA15 photo essay
    A small photo essay from the exhibition hall of ICRA 2015. (All photos by Ioannis Erripis @ Robohub.)...
    31 May 2015, by

    #ICRA15 videos of plenaries and keynotes
    [updated] Have a look below for the videos of plenary talks and keynotes at ICRA 2015. You can also use this youtube playlist. We'll be uploading new videos as they arrive....
    29 May 2015, by

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