Month: September 2013

3D printing meets robotics

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 …

Startup Seminar on Manufacturability

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 …

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