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    Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams

    Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...
    30 November 2015, by

    Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
    Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...
    15 October 2015, by

    Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
    This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
    05 October 2015, by and

    Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
    Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...
    21 September 2015, by

    #eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios
    On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...
    16 September 2015, by

    Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable
    Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...
    19 August 2015, by

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    194 Chinese robot companies
    In China, the robotics industry is booming. Companies are deploying thousands of robots in all types of factories, particularly in the auto industry. Chinese companies that manufacture robots and the...
    18 August 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

    Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
    Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....
    10 April 2015, by

    FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
    Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...
    17 March 2015, by
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    3D SLAM, with John Leonard

    In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Professor John Leonard from MIT about his research on dense, object-based 3D Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)....
    27 December 2014, by

    Enter the abyss with OpenROV, the $899 open source kit
    The OpenROV submersible is a low cost and open source kit designed for exploration and education. Originally launched on Kickstarter in 2012 it has now grown into a dedicated global community launch...
    26 December 2014, by

    Ocean-going robot fleet successfully completes fish-tracking mission
    The second phase of an ambitious project to gather valuable information on ocean processes and marine life using a fleet of innovative marine robots has just reached its conclusion. Co-ordinated by th...
    04 December 2014, by

    OpenStreetMap support in Gazebo
    During her internship as part of the Gnome Outreach Program for Women, Tashwin Khurana developed a tool for downloading data from the OpenStreetMap database to produce a corresponding world file fo...
    22 October 2014, by

    British National Oceanographic Centre launches major unmanned exploration mission
    Collecting oceanographic data is usually accomplished by a combination of satellites, buoys and research ships. All those methods have their limitations (e.g. buoys are only gathering info from a fixe...
    06 October 2014, by

    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

    Liquid Robotics continues its growth by partnering with Boeing
    Sunnyvale-based Liquid Robotics continues their growth-by-partnering formula by striking another collaboration, this time with Boeing....
    24 September 2014, by

    PrecisionHawk raises $10M
    According to a press release from today: PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAV and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today...
    18 September 2014, by

    UAV Surveys Argyle Diamond Mine in Australian | Aibotix
    According to a press release: East Kimberly Region, Australia / Kassel, Germany, September 4, 2014 – CADS Survey, an Australian supplier of marine, pipeline, and civil surveying services, C.R.Ken...
    04 September 2014, by

    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

    Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
    Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
    30 July 2014, by

    Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals
    Search and rescue operations are increasingly using drones, and the speed and ease with which UAVs can be launched is especially important when applying them as an emergency response tool. Jonathan C...
    25 July 2014, by

    Drones against illegal fishing
    Image source: Flickr With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...
    24 July 2014, by

    Winners of hurricane-tracking UAS design challenge announced | NASA News
    From a NASA press release: A team of students from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg captured first place in NASA's University Aeronautics Design C...
    09 July 2014, by

    Quadrotor allegedly seen spying on French team’s closed practice at World Cup
    UAVs, or drones, have been making their presence known in sports for some time now, mostly for aerial filming of open air games and races. But they are starting to show up for other uses in sports now...
    13 June 2014, by

    Aerial drone maps show Philippine typhoon devastation, aid in reconstruction
    A drone's eye view of the many coconut trees that were uprooted when Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines. Photo Essay Six months ago, Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippine’s South East coast....
    07 May 2014, by

    Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy
    The search and rescue team involved in the recent South Korean ferry tragedy has deployed a remotely-operated underwater robot to help in the investigation and hopeful search for possible survivors in...
    02 May 2014, by

    PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem
    Ever since Apple bought Prime Sense, roboticists have been asking what’s going to fill the gap. Robots need to know where they are and what’s around them. The Carmine, and the unveiled but undeliv...
    24 March 2014, by

    ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017
    Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years....
    24 March 2014, by

    Using geometry to help robots map their environment
    This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. To get around unknown environments, most robots will need to build maps. To help the...
    26 February 2014, by

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