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Bricklaying Robots And Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry

08/23/17, 05:38 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Construction

David Silverberg for Motherboard: The global construction space isn't known for ushering new tech into their workforce, but a painful labour shortage, calls for increased worker safety and more low-cost housing, and the need to catch up to other tech-savvy sectors is giving upstarts in robotics and exoskeletons their big moment.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS

08/21/17, 03:47 PM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Military and Security

Future of Life: Open letter by leaders of leading robotics & AI companies is launched at the worlds biggest artificial intelligence conference as UN delays meeting till later this year to discuss the robot arms race

Machine gun-toting drone threatens to change combat forever

08/21/17, 05:17 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | drones, Military and Security

Rich Haridy for New Atlas: In an interview with Defense One, Atuar states the current device can carry and fire a variety of different weapons up to a weight of 22 lb (10 kg),

New Robotics Lab Allows Anyone to Control the Machines

08/18/17, 05:50 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Assembly and Testing, research, ros

Jason Maderer for Georgia Tech: Researchers can write their own computer programs, upload them, then get the results as the Georgia Tech machines carry out the commands. They also receive video evidence and data of the experiment.

A robotic technology stack aimed at developers on a budget

08/16/17, 05:59 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Personal and Recreational, ros

Greg Nichols for ZDNet: Vincross, a Beijing-based robotics company, today announced a small programmable robot called HEXA. The new bot runs on MIND, an operating system built on the Linux kernel and optimized for robotics.

ROBO, The First Robotics & Automation ETF, Hits $1 Billion in Assets Under Management

08/14/17, 05:24 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Investing

Index provider ROBO Global thanks investors for embracing firms dedicated focus on robotics, automation and artificial Intelligence

How Robots Using Amazon Alexa Could Help Injured People Be More Mobile at Home

08/11/17, 05:58 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | amazon, Exoskeleton, Health Robotics

Barb Darrow for Fortune: A Canadian-American robotics company is turning to the popular Amazon Alexa-Echo combo to help people with spinal or lower-body injuries be more mobile and autonomous in their homes.

Why Co-Parenting With Telepresence Robots Could Be a Fantastic Idea

08/09/17, 05:42 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | telepresence

Heather Knight for IEESpectrum: The Beam remote presence system, from Suitable Technologies, allows you to "beam in" and visit family members from anywhere. Social roboticist Heather Knight argues that such technology could become a valuable co-parenting tool.

Robotics, artificial intelligence fund has tripled the Dow this year

08/07/17, 06:57 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Investing, Robot Stocks

Evelyn Cheng for CNBC: Artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics are making some real money for stock investors, and beating the market.

Robert Shiller: Fear of robots is driving the market rally

08/03/17, 09:13 PM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Robot Stocks

Alex Rosenberg for CNBC: "A theme that I have been coming back to is that the big worry that's on people's minds - I don't know how active it is in trading - but it's about where the world is going with automation and robotics,"

Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 won by Australian budget bot

08/02/17, 06:44 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | amazon, Pick and place

BBC: Cartman - a budget-priced robot from Australia - has triumphed in an annual contest to create a machine that can identify, pick up and stow warehouse goods.

Kaboom! Russian Drone With Thermite Grenade Blows Up a Billion Dollars of Ukranian Ammo

07/31/17, 05:21 AM | Other Topics | drones

Kyle Mizokami for Popular Mechanics: A drone carrying a grenade infiltrated an ammunition dump in the Ukraine, setting off an explosion that caused an astounding billion dollars worth of damage.

Amazon Enlists Researchers to Build Box-Packing Robots

07/28/17, 05:53 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | amazon, Collaborative Robots, Pick and place

Joshua Brustein for Bloomberg: Teams competing in Amazon's third-annual contest tackle a problem that has kept companies from automating warehouses entirely.

Open Board for 3D Gesture Control, Motion Capturing, Tracking and Robotics

07/27/17, 05:51 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | motion control

Action, gesture, motion, and robots can be kept under control through a wearable, small but powerful electronic board.

Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely

07/26/17, 05:40 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | drones, Technology Discussions, unmanned

Simon Parkin for MIT Technology Review: Drone delivery wont happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.

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