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iRobot’s single-pass floor-mopping robots vs O’Cedar’s cheap duster 26 Aug 2013 | 01:37 pm
... iRobot recently announced their new Braava floor-mopping robot line of products. The $199 robots sweep and mop hard floors in a single pass while it navigates under and around furniture and other ...
Israeli study on robot adoption suggests new-tech solutions 24 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
... A study of small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMEs) in Israel concluded that new tech robots, i.e., those which are easily trainable, relatively safe to work alongside humans, and where user-ro...
25 Russian Companies Added to The Robot Report’s Global Map of Robot Providers 24 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
... Susan McFarland, of robotguide, a site providing a guide to personal robots, compiled a list of Russian robotics companies which we vetted and posted to our Global Map of Robot Providers. ... 25 ...
Remaining Willow Garage employees move to Suitable Technologies 22 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
... In a surprising move, Scott Hassan, CEO of Suitable Technologies, and previous CEO of Willow Garage, has hired most of the remaining employees of Willow Garage leaving only a support staff for the...
Funding News: 18 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
... Neato Robotics - the NJ-based competitor with iRobot’s Roomba vacuum cleaner - raised $14 million in new funding from two VC firms. In 2012, Neato raised $12.2 from two different VC companies. .....
National Geographic uses AGVs and drones for photo story about lions 12 Aug 2013 | 12:16 pm
... Once again National Geographic photographers have used innovative techniques to capture amazing images. Remember the polar bear cam in 2011 that got crushed by the curious bear as he examined and ...
China’s 5-Year Plan targets robotics as a growth industry 11 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
... China’s 12th 5-Year Plan targeted robotics as a growth industry necessary for China’s development. It expects a compound growth rate of 25%, said Wang Weiming, deputy director of the Ministry of I...
CSAIL demos two robots assembling IKEA furniture 11 Aug 2013 | 12:16 pm
... At last week’s White House Google+ Hangout, Daniela Rus, the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), demonstrated two robots working together to assembly...
White House hosts Google+ Hangout; NASDAQ gets new ETF targeting robotics & automation 10 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
... Leading roboticists talked about their recent projects and what inspired them to become involved with robotics at a White House hosted Google+ Hangout Friday. The event was covered by many media i...
Talking robot sent into space 4 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
... Kirobo, a 13” humanoid robot, was launched today and is on its way to the International Space Station. ... A mashup of the Japanese word for hope, “Kibo”, and “robot”, Kirobo is designed to be a ...
