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Meet the Robotics Wiz Behind Old Spice's Giant Mechanical Sea Creature

05/24/17, 05:39 AM | Mobile & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | soft robotics
David Gianatasio for AdWeek: Unless youve been lost at sea, youve probably heard about the giant robotic squid that Old Spice deployed last weekend for a wacky, high-profile internet game on Twitch.

Drones, autonomous vehicles on Echodyne's radar as it pulls in $29M from investors

05/23/17, 05:37 AM | Mobile & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, drones, Financing
Matt Day for Seattle Times: Echodynes radar arrays are designed to bring some of the power and precision of massive, heavy, military-grade radars to a tablet-sized device.

Americans no longer have to register non-commercial drones with the FAA

05/22/17, 05:34 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, regulations
April Glaser for Recode: The court ruled that the FAAs drone registration rules, which have been in place since 2015, were in violation of a law passed by Congress in 2012.

How Robotics Will Change the Food Industry

05/19/17, 05:33 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile & Service Robots | food
Quora via Forbes: I think we'll see this across industries where basic tasks that can be easily automated eventually will be, and it will pave the way for a workforce that is more productive and efficient.

Report: Cyberattacks on Industrial Robots

05/18/17, 07:38 AM | Industrial Robotics | cloud, Cybersecurity, security
Trend Micro recently released the first in-depth, hands-on research that demonstrates the extent to which industrial robots can be compromised.

The Not-So-Secret Code That Powers Robots Around the Globe

05/18/17, 05:38 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile & Service Robots | ros
Ellen Huet for Bloomberg: A Silicon Valley startup is the guardian of the building blocks of robot life.

The tech giants of Silicon Valley are starting to rely on crime-fighting robots for security

05/17/17, 05:44 AM | Mobile & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Military and Security
Melia Robinson for Business Insider: On a recent night outside the offices of Knightscope, a robotics startup in the heart of Silicon Valley, a middle-aged man allegedly toppled a five-foot tall, 300-pound robot to the ground.

Unmanned Mowing Robots will be on sale in Japan soon, developed by public and private partnerships

05/16/17, 09:42 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | japan, lawn
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will work on the development of an unmanned mowing robot in collaboration with Industrial Technology Research Institute, Yokohama City, Fukuoka Prefecture and others.

ELLIQ: Intuition Robotics Bridges Uncanny Valley To Cure Loneliness Epidemic

05/16/17, 05:50 AM | Mobile & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Personal and Recreational
Red Herring: ELLIQ comprises a tablet screen and a small, bobble-headed assistant, which looks like two bell jars glommed together, that interacts with elderly users, the device and humans on the other end of communication.

Teaching robots to teach other robots

05/15/17, 05:33 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile & Service Robots | Artificial Intelligence, deep learning
Adam Conner-Simons, CSAIL via MIT News: CSAIL approach allows robots to learn a wider range of tasks using some basic knowledge and a single demo.

The US coast guard is deploying drones to catch increasingly tech-savvy drug traffickers

05/12/17, 05:36 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, Military and Security
Neha Thirani Bagri for Quartz: The drone takes into account things like a vessels size, cargo, and movement, to determine if it might be a security threat. When a "target of interest" is detected, a go-fast boat is launched, and the chase begins.

Another Race to the Moon-This Time by Robots

05/11/17, 08:22 AM | Mobile & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | space
On September 13, 1959, the Soviet Union landed the first human-made object on the surface of the Moon. The United States landed the first human on July 20, 1969. Now, there is a race to land the first robot on the moon.

Amazon Selects Finalists to Compete at the Amazon Robotics Challenge Event in Japan This Summer

05/11/17, 06:01 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | amazon, Pick and place
The Amazon Robotics Challenge will award up to $250,000 in prizes and encourages idea sharing and innovation within the robotics and automation community

Researchers developing robotic prosthetics to help restore balance in fall victims

05/10/17, 05:52 AM | Mobile & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Exoskeleton, Technology Discussions
Ryan Terry for Phys.org: Hur's prior research helped him answer two questions: "Can we predict a fall? Can we then reduce the number of falls?"

Technology Behind the Intel Drone Light Shows

05/09/17, 08:51 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones
The entire fleet of Intel Shooting Star drones are all controlled by one computer. The fleet size is dependent on the animation needed and can range from hundreds of Intel Shooting Star drones or even more in the future.

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