Share the highlights, takeaways, and wisdom from the three expert sessions at our CES 2016 robotics conference.
Watch: DIYer Uses Star Wars Drone as a Snowblower
Drones won’t be replacing shovels or snowblowers any time soon.
The inevitability of the global march toward self-driving vehicles
Perhaps the biggest upcoming robotics-driven economic and social change will be the arrival of fully autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. Imagine a world full of self driving cars, planes and boats. The benefits range from life-saving and cost reduction to greater mobility options for people of all ages. Billions are currently being invested into making autonomous cars and planes a…
CES: Noise, hype, hustle and business as usual
CES is truly a global technology event. 3,800 exhibitors (of which 500 were startups); 2.47 million sq feet of exhibit space; 170,000 industry professionals (of which 50,000 were from more than 160 countries including a Cuban delegation)! Massive, exhausting, noisy, crowded, colorful, fun The key words one heard from passers-by and sales people were: smart;…
IBM and Intel describe an experiential future
CEOs from IBM and Intel, in keynote presentations at CES in Las Vegas last week, described and gave examples of disruptive changes in how consumers and businesses transact and interact with their purchases. Intel’s Brian Krzanich described the use of embedded chips and cloud services to enable experience-based transactions, many of which lead to sales…
AI & Robotics for Good Challenge: Meet the 20 Semifinalists
The semifinalists cover a wide range of applications, from devices that can be implanted in the human body, to large robots that can enter disaster zones.
Commentary from Kamen: Robots are taking our jobs—and that’s a great thing
By Dean Kamen • Edited by Paul Heney, Editorial Director || Robots are appearing with increased frequency in our world, and it’s easy to see why. Computation has become almost free. The speed at which processes run—and the capability of multi-core, super high speed, super high performance digital signal processing—is such that it’s a small issue. […]
Modern Robotics unveils newest collaborative robot
Modern Robotics Inc. has provided an exciting glimpse into the future of collaborative robotics with the introduction of Spartan, a robotics base kit that allows users to build and program a very capable and complete robot. The Spartan Robot kit includes the powerful Core Spartan Controller, two Optical Distance Sensors, one Touch Sensor, one Program Control Button, two […]
Rising Media acquires RoboUniverse and Inside 3D Printing shows
The RoboUniverse trade shows and conferences, and the Inside 3D Printing shows, hosted by MecklerMedia, have been acquired by Rising Media, a Germany-based global events producer focusing on Internet and technology-related conferences and exhibitions. The unexpected MecklerMedia dissolution, was announced on December 21, 2015 and comes on the heels of health concerns for CEO and founder Alan Meckler, as well…
Robotics Takeaways From CES 2016
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too much for one person to take in, but we gather some lessons about robotics for you.
Toyota Research gets Kuffner; Google gets Brondmo
At a press conference last week at CES, Toyota, led by Gill Pratt of DARPA fame and now CEO of Toyota Research Institute (TRI), informed the world what Toyota intended to do with it’s billion dollar investment in their new AI research facilities in Silicon Valley and Cambridge: âUp to now, our industry has measured on-road reliability…
Heroes of Industry
We all have our heroes. The people who epitomize an ethic, embody success, and who we look up to. Film heroes, music heroes, sports heroes, even Heroes of Industry. You can’t get into your car and drive to work without gasoline to power your car. Cars and gasoline was a foundation that began with Ford […]
KVH FOG-based inertial navigation systems (INS) for demanding unmanned applications
KVH Industries now sells a GEO-FOG 3D inertial navigation system (INS) with roll, pitch, and heading accuracies of 0.05° for demanding applications in unmanned, autonomous, and manned aerial, ground, marine, and subsurface platforms, such as subsea remotely operated vehicles (ROV) or mining systems. The GEO-FOG 3D is based on the company’s high-performance fiber optic gyro (FOG) technology combined with […]
The Best Robots of CES 2016
Here are the best robots from CES 2016.
7 Best Drones of CES 2016
Here’s our list of the most memorable drones from CES 2016.
Why Home Robots Must Continue to Evolve
Customizable CellRobot is 100 Robots in One
We get hands on with CellRobot, a customizable modular robot that can be assembled in hundreds of different combinations to perform many tasks.
Innovative trends in robotics, Part 3
Our recent robotics trends webinar included three great speakers. Here’s the presentation from Mark Bunger. He is a Vice President at Lux Research where he and his teams work with client innovation strategies across industries and scientific and technology domain. He joined Lux in 2005 and has launched and led many of the company’s intelligence […]
Leading through collaboration
by Paul J. Heney, Editorial Director UCSD Robotics guru Thomas Bewley talks about how technology will evolve in the coming years—and how engineers can better lead the way. If you spot Thomas Bewley at a trade show, chances are there will be a crowd around him. In addition to being a gregarious, approachable person, Bewley […]
Toyota’s New AI Hire Discusses Research at CES 2016
James Kuffner, who has moved from Google to Toyota, discussed robotics, AI, and cloud computing at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Innovative trends in robotics, Part 2
Our recent robotics trends webinar included three great speakers. Here’s the presentation from Gary McMurray. He is a Principle Research Engineer and Division Chief at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Food Processing Technology Division. McMurray’s research has focused on the development of robotic technologies and solutions for the manufacturing and agro-business communities. To watch the […]
Intel Helps Raise $15M for Savioke’s Hotel Robot
Startup Savioke has raised international capital for its Relay delivery robot, as Intel invests in robots as future users of its chips.