Horizon 2020 announced co-funding for 17 new robotics projects from the initial call, at the beginning of 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.
MecklerMedia announced the preliminary agenda for its RoboUniverse Conference and Expo in Seoul taking place at the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) on June 24-26, 2015.
NSK has recently announced that they are developing a quadrupedal robot that could act as a guide dog helping people who are visually impaired.