Events
FSR Conference: Call For Papers
The 7th Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR) will be held at MIT this year between July 14 – 16. The conference is soliciting papers to be submitted on a number of topics. Notably absent is the topic of ethics. I was a little surprised considering the nature of field and service robots–working closely [...]
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Robot executives featured in SciVestor workshop
On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the Emerging Technologies Workshop. This event is sold out, and is being held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The day’s agenda follows: Schedule 8:30am Doors open 9:00am Registration – coffee and breakfast bar available 9:30am Opening Keynote – Jonas Lamis, [...]
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National Instruments shows Robot Partnerships
SciVestor took a tour of the Robotics Pavilion at National Instruments’ NI Week 2008. Anu Saha, NI marketing manager discusses academic and corporate partnerships that feature LabView and CompactRIO technologies.
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Join SciVestor at The Singularity Summit
Intel CTO and Ray Kurzweil Among Visionaries Headlining Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership SAN JOSE, CA, August 29, 2008 – Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership takes place October 25 at the intimate Montgomery Theater in San Jose, CA, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence announced today. Now in its third year, the Singularity [...]
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Jonas Lamis featured speaker at RoboDevelopment Conference
Robotics Trends has just announced the line up for the Robo Development Conference and Expo ’08, to be held November 18-19 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. SciVestor Executive Director, and RobotCentral contributor Jonas Lamis has been named as a Featured Speaker for the event. Details are available here. Intelligent Sensor Technologies 2010 to 2020: [...]
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Three Questions for Dan Kara – Robotics Trends
SciVestor spoke with Dan Kara, CEO of Robotics Trends. Robotics Trends is an events and research firm focused on the robotics industry. They run the RoboBusiness and RoboDevelopment events. He discusses the rise of autonomy, the future of the robotics industry, and offers advice to the investment community.
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SciVestor Video – Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap 2010-2020
SciVestor Executive Director Jonas Lamis narrates the Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap that was presented at RoboBusiness 2008. This presentation is based in part on Robot Central’s observations, research, and opinions of emergent technologies from the DARPA Grand Challenge series of competitions. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian autonomous vehicles. Mr. [...]
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MoD Grand Challenge: Go Find the Bad Guys
In 2004 and 2005 came the DARPA Grand Challenges–competitions in which vehicles were expected to traverse hundreds of desert miles completely autonomously. In 2007, DARPA brought the robots into a suburban setting for the Urban Challenge. Last August, we discussed ELROB, the European Land Robot competition in which robotic vehicles were challenged with traversing an [...]
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Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap – Presentation
New free research presentation available from SciVestor. You can download it here. This presentation is being presented at RoboBusiness 2008. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian autonomous vehicles. We discuss a plausible technology driven autonomous vehicle roadmap from 2010 – 2030. The presentation highlights several emerging technology vendors including [...]
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Oshkosh Steadfast on its Path to Military Smartcars
In what seems to be a recurring theme among DARPA Urban Challengers, these guys have greater ambitions than winning the race. “The goal was to be a strong performer, not necessarily win,” Chris Yakes, Director of the Advanced Products Group for Oshkosh, said. Yakes explained that his team is developing an autonomous system in kit [...]
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