Turning Robots into Products
For up to date information about the business of robotics you can’t go past the Robots Podcast from EPFL Switzerland. Every 2 weeks, Robots will take you for a ride through the world’s research labs,...
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Robotics Hackathon Launch Party
Are you a Bay Area robotics hackathon team or just interested in robot startups? Join us at the Citrix Startup Accelerator for the launch of the Robotics Hackathon. The Robotics Hackathon is sponsored...
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Updated Robotics Hackathon Info
Amazing response to the cloud robotics hackathon! Citrix will keep the space open all weekend for teams to use as a base. Today, Feb 18, is the deadline to register your team for a Rover kit project....
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Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon Info
Dear Robotic Hacker, We thank you for registering for the first Cloud Robotics Hackathon, being held on March 2nd to March 4th 2012 at multiple locations worldwide. Please read the following e-mail...
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Cloud Robotics Hackathon update
Lots of hackathon stuff posted on our new Google+ page for Robot LaunchPad so check out all the videos/demos/pix. More than 60 people showed up to the Hackathon, making us the largest event next to the...
View ArticleWinners of Cloud Robotics Hackathon
….. straight from Robotics Hackathon HQ….. (Our CONGRATULATIONS to ALL especially Silicon Valley team OLogic !) We are very happy to announce the results of the Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2012. We...
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Kickstarter and Robots – not always #botiful
SF Bay Area Robotics meetup – August 21 7pm – 8.30pm at Lemnos Labs – is a kickstarter edition. Claire Delauney will share her experience with Botiful, as she reaches the final 12 hours of her...
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Double Robotics – Crossing the Chasm?
Double Robotics, the Ycombinator company behind ‘wheels for the ipad’ is a fantastic showcase of the new breed of affordable consumer robotics. But can they cross the chasm? These guys know how to...
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Grishin’s First Investment – Double Robotics
It was announced today that Grishin Robotics was investing $250,000 investment into Y Combinator startup Double Robotics. Double Robotics have already sold out their first order of affordable...
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Ada Lovelace Day: Women in robotics
Maykah team at Maker Faire: Alice Brooks, Bettina Chen, Jennifer Kessler who make ‘Roominate’ the DIY electrical dollhouse. Celebrate women in science and technology today, in honor of Ada Lovelace,...
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Robot Startup Series #1 Autom and Cory Kidd
Consumer robotics had a watershed moment just a few days ago, when Autom, the robot weightloss coach, was launched at Dublin Web Summit. I’m very excited to open our Robot Startup Series with an...
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Robot Startup Series #2 Bob Christopher
Bob Christopher was CEO of Ugobe, the company that made Pleo, the robot dinosaur, one of the first successful consumer robotics products. Greg Appelhof is the CEO of TRG, a global retail company...
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CES gets robots all wrong
In my opinion, the International Consumer Electronics Show used robots gratuitously, out of context and without benefit to robotics companies. It’s a category problem more than anything else and is...
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Nightlife with Robots
Robots were all over the California Academy of Science at their popular Nightlife event on Thursday March 7. This year Nightlife with Robots attracted 3000 people, making it one of their most popular...
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Robotics infiltrates Engadget’s Expand
Seagull chasing a drone at Engadget Expand SF – this behavior persisted for the whole Fighting Walrus demo! The first Engadget Expand expo at Fort Mason in San Francisco was a great weekend out with...
View ArticleCrowdfunding robots
Do you like getting robots in the mail? I’m a sucker for cool crowdfunded robots like some of these ones. But this can also be serious research for your startup. Crowdfunding is a great way to extend...
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Crowdfunding robots: Robot Film Festival
While I love getting robots in the mail, crowdfunding sites are also good for supporting a whole range of robot related activities. The 3rd annual Robot Film Festival just launched a Kickstarter...
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Does crowdfunding derisk robotics?
Crowdfunding is often cited as one of the mechanisms accelerating robot startups, alongside COTS, reduced costs, rapid prototyping, digital manufacturing, smart phones, connectivity etc. The entire...
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Dash launching Dragon hardware crowdfunding platform
Dash is the first product to launch today on Dragon Innovation‘s new hardware crowdfunding site. Dragon Innovation was founded in 2009 by Scott Miller and Herman Pang, ex iRobot and Hasbro. Dragon...
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‘Design a Robot’ competitions
Didn’t get a robot entered in the DARPA grand robotics challenge (DRC)? Never mind, there are several robot design and business model competitions on at the moment, from social robots, to affordable...
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Unbounded launch affordable, all purpose UBR-1
Unbounded Robotics today launched UBR-1, a robot that has many of us very excited. UBR is the first robot with intelligence, manipulation and mobility for below $50k. While UBR definitely resembles a...
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Play-i want to bring a robot to every child
After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures, many of us have been waiting for Play-i to come out of stealth and show us their stuff. Play-i are a Silicon Valley...
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Cubelets are growing up as Moss
Three years after their successful Cubelets, Modular Robotics launched a new kickstarter today for Moss. It’s like Cubelets just got clever and maybe a little bit more fashionable too. Moss is a...
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CES 2014 – Robotics on the Runway
Robotics has a starring role at International CES 2014, the world’s largest gadget expo, starting with a VIP Robotics on the Runway event organized by the producers of the Digital Health Summit,...
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Robot Launch 2014 finalists announced
Today we announce the six finalists from Robot Launch who will be presenting their pitches online live to a panel of expert judges on Tuesday May 20 at 10am PDT. Join us then to see who takes home the...
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Second wave of social robots is here
Cynthia Breazeal’s Jibo launched today and coming on the heels of Pepper, Aldebaran and Softbank’s new social robot, and Jimmy from Intel. It seems like we’re seeing a second wave of social robots....
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Snapshot of US UAV situation
The impact on businesses of the ongoing US ban on commercial UAV operation can be seen in a snapshot of this week’s drone news. Drones are very affordable these days, and there is nothing to stop...
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Just launched – Fellow Robots’ Oshbot
Fellow Robots, in partnership with Lowes Hardware, today launched the Oshbot as a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. Although the robot can only give...
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2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market
Fetch Robotics has just announced $3 million funding from Shasta Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which will be used to bring their new mobile manipulator robots to market in Q2 2015. Fetch...
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A year since Robot Launch – Leka (2014 Grand Winner)
At Leka, our mission is to help exceptional children live exceptional lives. Our first product, Moti, a small spherical autonomous a smart toy to help take care of children with special needs. Being a...
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Meet the winners #RobotLaunch2015
From smart forklifts and web-based simulation interfaces, to assistive walking devices, robotic companions — even one for your pet! — the range of mature robotics that made it to the 2015 Robot Launch...
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Simbe Robotics launches a new retail assistant
The area of service robotics is getting active, with a new retail robot startup launching today. Tally is one of several robotics startups launching today at Haxlr8r’s 7th Demo Day. Tally is an...
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Anki’s new Cozmo SDK gets back to robotics research
Anki’s new robot Cozmo (with free SDK) shows that this consumer robotics startup has got bigger plans than simply dominating the smart toy category. Founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics...
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Looking towards service robots in 2017
Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it when he...
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Catalia Health uses social robots for health
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather than...
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CleverPet is a robot that humans (and dogs) love
The largest markets for robots is for when there aren’t any people around. We often call those jobs the dirty, dull and dangerous ones, but then there are devices like CleverPet which play with your...
View ArticleRobot Launch 2017
The Robotics Hub, in collaboration with Silicon Valley Robotics, is looking to invest up to $500,000 in robotics, AI and sensor startups! Finalists also receive exposure on Robohub and space in the new...
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25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017
Ada Lovelace Day on October 10 2017 is a day to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and there was no shortage of women to feature on Robohub’s annual Ada Lovelace Day “25 women in...
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Sometimes the best innovations at CES are the smallest
The 2018 Nissan Leaf receives CES2018 Tech For a Better World Innovation Award. Cars, cars, cars, cars. CES2018, the Consumer Technology Association’s massive annual expo, was full of self driving...
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