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NCKU Team Wins Many Medals in 2014 FIRA RoboWorld Cup

A Tainan-based research team of student and staff from the aiRobots Laboratory at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) won 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze medals, including the All-round Championship in the 2014 FIRA RoboWorld Cup on adult-sized humanoid robotics, the university announced recently.

1 Dec 2014

Renowned Osaka University Roboticist Visits Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

Professor Ruth Aylett and Professor Nick Taylor, on behalf of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, hosted a visit by the renowned roboticist Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute of Japan on Tuesday 18 November.

26 Nov 2014

Mankind to Humanoid Evolution Depicted in KAIST ‘Artificial Brain, Robots Evolve’ Exhibition

It is not difficult to find the desire to create a Neoanthropinae in the history of mankind. Humans evolve through man-made extensions and live by self-training them.

26 Nov 2014

Robotics Footprint to Expand at 2015 International CES

From humanoid entertainment devices to robotic cleaning machines, robots promise to revolutionize the way consumers interact with the world and monitor their health and environment. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that robotics exhibits at the 2015 International CES® have grown 25 percent from the 2014 CES.

25 Nov 2014

Edinburgh School Children Build Humanoid Robots with Heriot-Watt Robotics Expert

Children at St Mary’s Primary School, Leith, met one of the world’s leading robotics experts and built and programmed their own robots under his supervision.

20 Nov 2014

Cornell Engineers Join Team ViGIR for DARPA Robotics Challenge

Cornell engineers are adding their expertise in robot autonomy to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a multi-year, international prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

18 Nov 2014

SVForum Announces Upcoming Conference on ‘iHuman: The Future of Minds and Machines’

SVForum, Silicon Valley’s premiere nonprofit dedicated to startup connections and education, announced today its upcoming half-day conference “iHuman: The Future of Minds and Machines,” to be held on December 4th, 2014, in Silicon Valley, California.

17 Nov 2014

Research Unplugged Talk on the Future of Robot-Human Relationships

John M. Jordan, clinical professor of supply chain and information systems in Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, will give a Research Unplugged talk, “Rise of the Robots: Imagining the Future of Robot-Human Relationships” at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at Schlow Centre Region Library.

6 Nov 2014

Gaming Technique Adopted to Improve Remote Control of Emergency Response Robots

A method borrowed from video gaming can make remote-controlled emergency response robots easier to use – enabling the operator to focus more on the dangerous situations they face.

31 Oct 2014