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    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

    DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments
    When Google bought Boston Dynamics last December, the news made headlines, but it was not the first time the Internet giant has invested in DARPA-funded robotics. As part of Robohub's Big Deals series...
    19 March 2014, by and

    American nuclear materials storage site guarded by robots
    Since 2011, a Nevada nuclear materials storage site has been guarded by robots (Mobile Detection, Assessment and Response System). Last week the US Marines announced that their airbase in Twentynine P...
    10 March 2014, by

    New book on disaster robotics
    A new book by MIT's Robin Murphy documents the use and performance of tactical ground, aerial, or marine robots at 34 incidents between 2001 and 2013....
    25 February 2014, by

    Robots, soldiers and cyborgs: The future of warfare
    Boston Dynamics' BigDog. When we imagine the future of warfare, we often envision a battlefield where humanoid robots and other machines fight alongside or in the place of human soldiers. From the dr...
    05 February 2014, by and

    DoD Unmanned Air, Sea & Ground Budget 2014-2018
    Within the defense sector, demand for unmanned air, ground and sea systems continues unabated. Drivers include combat operations, reduced military budgets, a changing national security environment and...
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    GuardBot: From protecting territory to playing with dolphins
    What has the capability to strengthen homeland security, produce a ball’s-eye view of a soccer match and swim underwater with dolphins? GuardBot: the latest development in unmanned amphibious vehicl...
    30 January 2014, by and

    The 400lb CHIMP in the room: CMU’s Tartan Rescue Team prepares for the DRC
    Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Rescue Team has completed assembly of its 400 pound 5-foot-2 inch tall simian-like robot that will compete in the first annual DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in H...
    17 December 2013, by

    The DARPA Robotics Challenge, with Paul Oh

    Link to audio file (40:39)In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews Paul Oh, the Director of the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab at Drexel University. His team, spanning 10 universities, is competing in...
    13 December 2013, by

    Unmasking the RQ-180 | Ares blog
    The Air Force has long debated how to conduct penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions since the venerable, high-speed SR-71 retired in 1998. But despite the need and a linge...
    06 December 2013, by

    Working with EOD Personnel, with Julie Carpenter

    Link to audio file (34:30) In this episode, AJung Moon talks to Julie Carpenter, a recent graduate of the University of Washington who interviewed 23 U.S. Military Explosive Ordnance Disposal person...
    29 November 2013, by

    14 teams qualify for euRathlon land competition
    Teams participating in ELROB land robotics competition tune up their robots. Photo credits: ELROB Buildings that are collapsed or on fire, tunnels flooded with smoke or water, unstructured areas subj...
    17 September 2013, by

    AUVSI conference brings robots to drone debate epicenter
    AUVSI returned to D.C. for 2013. Amidst a climate of fiscal austerity and vibrant debates over the growing importance of unmanned vehicles in foreign policy and homeland security, the 2013 AUVSI Unma...
    23 August 2013, by

    DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
    The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
    27 June 2013, by

    Autonomous lethal weapons, with Peter Asaro

    Link to audio file (29:07)In this episode, AJung talks to Peter Asaro from The New School in New York city about autonomous weapons systems. Peter tells us about the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an...
    17 May 2013, by

    Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Let’s all stop them, shall we?
    Killer robots. Looking at the two words together is enough to conjure up images of chaos and destruction.  They're an image far too familiar in science fiction settings such as Isaac Asimov or Ar...
    27 April 2013, by

    iRobot stock jumps 15% on Q1 earnings and 2013 projections
    iRobot’s stock (ISRG:NASDAQ) jumped 15% today on yesterday’s earnings report which exceeded analysts’ expectations for both the quarterly earnings and the annual projections....
    24 April 2013, by

    Blimp-in-a-box contract causes acquisition
    Global Telesat Corporation (think Globalstar, inmarsat and Iridium), and Lighter Than Air Systems, were awarded a DoD contract to provide the Army with two Blimp-in-a-box systems....
    06 April 2013, by

    How will robots shape the future of warfare?
    Updated March 17, 2013 | This month we've asked our experts to weigh in on the future of robotics in warfare, and the broadness of this topic has prompted some of our panelists to push back and reques...
    15 March 2013, by

    Active military robots around the world
    This is a brief presentation of some of the most widely used robots (or remotely controlled, semi-autonomous systems) from militaries around the world. There are numerous other projects that are curre...
    15 March 2013, by

    Robohub focus: Robots and warfare
    For the rest of this week, Robohub will have a special focus on the use of robots in warfare.  All kinds of robots are being developed for strategic defence and military action (in space, in the...
    13 March 2013, by

    Swedish UAV ready for lift-off
    In December 2012, Swedish CybAero AB,  a company developing and manufacturing autonomous unmanned helicopters, signed a strategic partnership agreement with the world's leading UAV company, Aer...
    10 January 2013, by

    The nEUROn maiden flight
    On December 1st, the nEUROn, Europe’s unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) stealth technology demonstrator, successfully completed its maiden flight from the Dassault Aviation company’s flight test ...
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    Demining and defusing, with Frédéric Guerne and Paul Bosscher

    Link to audio file (46:31)In this episode we speak with Frédéric Guerne, director of Digger DTR, and with Paul Bosscher, chief robotics engineer at Harris Corp., about robots which assist us in demi...
    15 July 2011, by

    Prioria Maverick, flexible wing UAS
    Maverick is a small uav made by Prioria, a company founded in 2003 by business and engineering graduates from the University of Florida. It is portable, very light and has most of the features a comme...
    30 May 2011, by

    Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace
    The use of UAVs has skyrocketed, a wide variety of systems ranging from extremely small flying bots to large airframes like the Predators or Global Hawk drones is currently in use, mostly from armed ...
    24 March 2011, by

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