Year: 2013

Startup Series #5 Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival

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It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna comprised Rodney Brooks from Rethink Robotics and previously iRobot, Steve Cousins from Savioke and previously Willow Garage, Noland Katter from Anybots, and Walter Wohlkinger and Michael Zillich of Blue Danube Robotics, …

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Cubelets are growing up as Moss

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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 dynamic robot construction kit and by the time you read this, the kickstarter will be well over the target of $100,000.  This is …

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Category: Robots, Startups

Play-i want to bring a robot to every child

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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 based startup with a founding team from Amazon, Google, frog design and Apple; Vikas Gupta, Mikal Greaves, Saurabh Gupta and …

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Category: Robots, Startups

Unbounded launch affordable, all purpose UBR-1

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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 smaller, cuter PR2, the UBR is actually more sophisticated. After all, the PR2 was developed 5 years ago and a lot has changed in …

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Category: Cool Stuff, Robots, Startups

Is drone delivery really a robot startup?

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Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the world’s first drone delivery company.  It’s an exciting headline and I wish them well. But while you can quibble over who is really the first commercial drone delivery company, I think it’s more interesting that we’re hitting an inflection point where you …

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Category: Entrepreneurs, Startups

3D printing meets robotics

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Are they robots? Or are they just very good for building robots? Either way there’s going to be a lot of overlap when a 3D printing conference is curated by Cornell’s evolutionary robotics professor, Hod Lipson. The Inside 3D Printing conference is being held at Doubletree San Jose on Sept 17-18. The event features speakers ranging from industry …

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Category: Events

Startup Seminar on Manufacturability

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Silicon Valley Robotics held the first seminar in our Startup Series on Thursday Sept 13 at Counsyl in South San Francisco. More than 40 robot or hardware startup founders attended to get some insight into the manufacturing process specific to a robotics startup. There was a one hour panel followed by a very active discussion and network …

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Category: Events

‘Design a Robot’ competitions

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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 robots, to open source humanoids. The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) is running a design competition for robot companions. RoboSavvy is running …

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Category: Cool Stuff, Events, Robots