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  • CIROS Promotes the Leaping Development of Robotics

    Jun 17, 2015

    With its global renowned exhibitors, CIROS has become the most important annual event of the domestic robotics industry while promoting and leading the transformation of manufacturing in China.

  • CoWriter: Children Using Robots To Learn Writing

    Mar 08, 2015

    CoWriter is a system developed by researchers from EPFL to help children improve their handwriting skills by using a robot which makes it possible for them to learn in a more positive environment.

  • How To Get A Robotics Job

    Aug 28, 2014

    The need for workers skilled in robotics in the manufacturing sector is growing. Those interested in STEM would be wise to consider a career in robotics. Here is everything you need to know about pursuing a career in the robotics field.

  • Robots To Staff Hotel In Japan

    Feb 03, 2015

    In July, the Henn-na Hotel in the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Japan will open with most of the staff being robots

  • The Rise Of The Chief Robotics Officer

    Mar 02, 2015

    The answer to robotics in the corporate sphere, as well as the ultimate target for robotic industry vendors will make its debut at the third edition of RoboBusiness Europe, taking place in Milan (Italy) on April 27-30, 2015

  • Aldebaran Introduces Companion, Pepper

    Jun 10, 2014

    Aldebaran Robotics introduces Companion Robot, Pepper, a robot that can sense and show emotions. Pepper is programmed to recognize human emotions from facial expressions, body language combined with your chosen words and can react accordingly.

  • ECHORD++ Integrates Public Bodies

    Nov 14, 2014

    Project ECHORD++ will hold two market consultation days in order to inform about its Pre-Commercial Procurement Pilots on November 20th in Barcelona and on 3rd December in Munich.

  • Powering-Up Emergency Responder Robots

    Jan 14, 2015

    Sandia National Laboratories’ newest emergency responder robots will address problems with degraded physical environments and energy efficiencies.

  • QUT Students Develop Robot Boat

    Aug 25, 2014

    Students at Queensland University of Technology have developed an autonomous robotic boat. They will be competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge in Singapore this October.

  • Lil'Bot is crowdfunding with Kickstarter

    Jun 06, 2014

    Lil'Bot is a robotics project which aims to build a low-cost, open-source, balancing robot that is easy to program. In order to fund this robotics project, its creator Chris Hakim started a crowdfunding program using Kickstarter.

  • Another Robot Bound To Run

    Sep 16, 2014

    MIT Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory researchers have developed a special computer process for bounding, which enables the Cheetah v. 2 to run faster and untethered

  • ACHIRES: Watch That Robot Run!

    Sep 05, 2014

    Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and his colleagues at the Ishiwaka Watanabe Laboratory of the University of Tokyo developed a bipedal walking robot that is one of the fastest robots ever made: ACHIRES

  • Robotic Fire Fighting scout helps rescuers

    Jun 05, 2013

    At the Coordinated Robotics Lab. new image processing techniques have been developed for a Fire Fighting Robot that can explore a building which is on fire. These techniques combine the information gathered and present them as a 3-D map.

  • Aldebaran Robotics shares source code

    Nov 14, 2011

    Aldebaran has expressed its intent to share their source code for programming NAO with the programming community. Robot NAO is very popular with universities and has become an innovative tool in teaching about robotics.

  • Phenox Funded

    Jun 11, 2014

    Phenox has reached its crowdfunding funding goal today with a phenomenal 23.000 USD ! Phenox is an intelligent programmable flying robot from the Tokyo based Phenox Lab.

  • Techfest 2014 IIT Bombay Greater Than Ever.

    Sep 09, 2013

    From jan 3rd till jan 5th, 2014 the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay will have it's yearly "Techfest" festival. It is Asia's largest science and technology festival and has become a great place for anyone related to robotics to find out what has been achieved in the past year.

  • NSK robot to guide blind people

    Sep 07, 2011

    NSK has recently announced that they are developing a quadrupedal robot that could act as a guide dog helping people who are visually impaired.

  • Drones Keeping An Eye On Peace

    Oct 28, 2014

    The CamCopter S-100 drone is being used in Eastern Ukraine to ensure proper involvement of pro-Russian separatists and Russia in accordance with the Minsk Protocol

  • ICARUS Uses UAV For Demining

    Jun 16, 2014

    To protect deminers and save time, ICARUS has started to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for mapping and detecting. One of the major issues facing flood-hit areas is the widespread presence of unexploded devices from the war.

  • Honda showcased brand new ASIMO robot

    Nov 07, 2011

    Honda recently unveiled the all-new ASIMO humanoid robot which is equipped with the latest autonomous behavior control technology, allowing it to move without being controlled by an operator.

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