Research
It’s Official: Japan’s Got a lot of Robots
Using data from the International Federation of Robotics and the International Labour Organization, the guys at ieee Spectrum Online put together a few visualizations that show what most suspect: Japan’s got more industrial robots than anybody–10 times the world average and more than 3 times that of the US.
7Jan2009 | Ray Renteria | 1 comment | Continued
Watch out Bad Guys, Here Come the Bots
The assurance of mutual destruction was a profoundly effective peace keeper between the USA and the USSR. There is no equivalent threat today against the scattered terrorists deliberately embedded within innocent society across so many countries–a tactic that only works against their civilized enemies such as the USA. Our effort to create and deploy robotic [...]
3Jan2009 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
3Jan2009 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
God’s Dice
Rodney Brooks had it right in his 1991 paper “Intelligence without Reason.” His approach to Artificial Intelligence is based an emergence of behaviors not explicitly programmed into a system. Instead, a hierarchy of discrete behaviors is organized in such a way that higher-level behaviors subsume the resources required by lower-priority behaviors when appropriate conditions are [...]
31Aug2008 | Ray Renteria | 1 comment | Continued
Three Questions with Brad Heath - Virtex Assembly
Virtex Assembly is a high tech circuit board assembly firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founder and CEO Brad Heath sat down with SciVestor to discuss how Virtex is going to change the world, why Moore’s Law is driving automation gains, and why the business community cares about what Virtex is doing.
18Aug2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
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: Impact [...]
23Jul2008 | Ray Renteria | 0 comments | Continued
Three Questions for Chetan Kapoor - Agile Planet
Chetan Kapoor is a roboticist at The University of Texas and CEO of Agile Planet. We spoke about how his firm’s control software might change the world in the years ahead, what is driving robotics growth, and why business should take note.
9Jul2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
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.
10Jun2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued
Three Questions for Matt Mason - CMU
SciVestor sat down with Matt Mason, Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He discusses how the Institute might change the world, why Moore’s Law is important to roboticists, and why business should keep an eye on CMU.
3Jun2008 | Jonas Lamis | 0 comments | Continued