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Submission + - How to get started (and progress) in robotics: A quick guide for teens & adu (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Roboticist David Kohanbash gives you a broad overview of the steps you'll need to take to go from novice/DIY maker to full- fledged hands-on robotics practitioner. This is not a getting started tutorial, but it does give a great overview of the basic foundational steps that you will have to take along the way, from getting started with microcontrollers, to learning embedded programming and advanced computing. It also contains recommended reading and resources.

Submission + - This year VCs have invested $150M in businesses using ROS (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: The open source Robot Operating System is celebrating its eighth birthday with some significant numbers under its belt! Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) CEO Brian Gerkey writes about some of the milestones for ROS this year and also writes a bit about ROS 2.0, which will make it easier to work with teams of multiple robots, robots that require real-time control and small embedded systems.

Submission + - Free global list of robot-related business & research facilities exceeds 4K (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: The Robot Report has been compiling and vetting companies that manufacture robots or are directly involved in their making since 2008. Today that list has exceeded 4,000 manufacturers, integrators, service robot providers, startup companies, ancillary businesses and educational facilities. The list is global and free.

Submission + - Robohub November Digest: Service and Consumer Robots Catching On (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Robots are starting to move out of the factory and into more common use as a service industry, where they work alongside people in places that range from the warehouse to the supermarket. They are also being taken up by consumer markets: witness the 180K robotic vacuums sold in one day, for China's Singles Day this year. Or the anticipated 1 million drones to be sold during the Christmas season this year. Robohub's November digest puts it all in context.

Submission + - New collaborative robots - and product lines - at iREX 2015 (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Well-known collaborative robot manufacturers are using iREX — Japan's premiere robotics trade show — to unveil their new cobots to the public. And they're coming up with not just one collaborative robot, but entire product lines of them. Could this be the game changer that helps cobots move into mainstream manufacturing?

Submission + - Simple robots, complex behaviors: A controls perspective on Braitenberg Vehicles (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Valentino Braitenberg was a neuroscientist and cyberneticist who used very simple electro-mechanical vehicles as a way to communicate how animal psychology could have evolved. His thought exercises, generally referred to as Braitenberg Vehicles, begin as a single sensor connected directly to a single actuator and evolve through multiple iterations into vehicles that can remember, have the ability to predict, and develop an ego. Controls expert Brian Douglas takes us through an informative and well-paced video tutorial on Braitenberg's concepts and how they apply to control systems.

Submission + - Europe's toughest and longest-running field robotics event is turning 10 (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: ELROB — The European Land Robot Trial — will mark its 10th anniversary in 2016. The trials will be focusing on emergency response scenarios that have been designed by real end users. This article explains how the ELROB trials are different from other field robotics competitions, like the DRC or euRathlon.

Submission + - Body-enhancing exoskeletons could be stepping into industrial trials next year (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Often more about preventing workplace injuries than giving people super human strength, the exoskeletons currently being tested in research labs could soon revolutionize industrial work. Until recently, power has been one the biggest obstacles limiting the adoption of exoskeletons. Batteries have been too heavy to carry around, and it's impractical to tether an exoskeleton in real working conditions. But now researchers are starting to be able to get sufficient power at lower weights, and are developing new technologies, such as springs, that use less power.

Submission + - Robots: From imagination to market (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Lots of great advice and insight for young hardware startups to be gleaned by experts who've been there. All from the "Imagination to market" event at this year's European Robotics Week.

Submission + - EU hosts major debate on robots and society for European Robotics Week (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Two panel discussions focusing on the role of robots in society framed EU Robotics Week this year. EU policy is geared toward maintaining the region's economic status as a world class producer of robotics, in order to ensure that the region benefits economically from the technology — note that through the EU SPARC program, the continent benefits from the largest civilian-funded robotics program in the world. But the public has to be on board with the uptake of the technology if this is to happen. Interesting debate involving experts from law, policy, ethics, business and economics.

Submission + - Major debate on robots & society sets scene for #ERW2015 European Robotics W (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Two panel discussions focusing on the role of robots in society framed EU Robotics Week this year. EU policy is geared toward maintaining the region's economic status as a world class producer of robotics, in order to ensure that the region benefits economically from the technology — note that through the EU SPARC program, the continent benefits from the largest civilian-funded robotics program in the world. But the public has to be on board with the uptake of the technology if this is to happen. Interesting debate involving experts from law, policy, ethics, business and economics.

Submission + - The ethics of conducting robotics research, lecture by Raja Chatila (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Robotics engineer and researcher Raja Chatila (Director of Research at the French National Center of Scientific Researcand Director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris) talks about the duty of those conducting research in this field to understand the consequences of their research, how it might be commercialized, and also to explain this to the public. Fitting lecture to watch given that this week is European Robotics Week and the theme this year is "Robots and Society". See also http://robohub.org/european-ro...

Submission + - The state of telepresence: Healthcare and telemedicine (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Telemedicine can let doctors and nurses check in on patients who might be recovering at home, or monitor people in remote locations where it's hard to access physician services. This article gives an overview of the different systems that are out there, what are some of the legal obstacles, and how various countries are investing in the technology.

Submission + - New videos show bionic athletes rehearsing for upcoming Cybathlon competition (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Next year's Cybathlon will host teams of robotics researchers and disabled athletes as they compete in a series of races designed to push robotic assistive technologies to their limits. This summer practice sessions were held in Switzerland so that the teams could rehearse for the finals, which will take place next October. Six separate events were trialled there: a bike race featuring a brain-computer interface, a powered prosthetic arm race, a powered prosthetic leg race, a powered exoskeleton race and a powered wheelchair race.

A series of videos documents the practice sessions — makes you wonder how long before we will see these categories at the Paralympics!!

Submission + - European Robotics Week will give lots of opportunity to interact with robots (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: A recent Eurobarometer showed that the more personal experience people have with robots, the better they like them. Robotics stakeholders across Europe are hoping to give them plenty of opportunities to do so during the European Robotics Week (Nov 23-29). Already over 600 events are listed across the region. This year's focus: Robots and Society. Looks like a great discussion is planned at the University of Bristol.

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