You can tour in person! Or you can do it via robot 🙂 We stopped by Circuit Launch in Oakland, California to get a tour of this electronics hardware co-working space and its toys. They boast 31,000 square feet of space, mechanical and electronic prototyping tools, VR and mixed reality studios, educational opportunities and, at the time […]

Robots.Jobs addresses robotic skills shortage with a national approach By Eugene Demaitre | February 6, 2019 | Source The Robot Report While the predictions of massive job displacement because of automation have yet to be proven, the more immediate problem of filling positions at companies developing or building robots remains urgent. Robots.Jobs is a new resource for matching specialized talent […]

In honor of Alan Rath’s Retrospective it’s Robot Open House San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art March 1st First Friday Does your robot do the running man? Dress up your robots with feathers, hands, eyes! https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Robotics/events/256983048/ Contact SJICA Christine Knopps christine@sjica.org OR SVR Andra Keay andra@svrobo.org Well known as a pioneer in electronic, kinetic, and […]

UPDATE: As of 2/13/19 Auris Health is being acquired by Johnson & Johnson for $3.4 Billion with an additional $2.35 Billion reserved for milestones achieved along the way. Dr Fred Moll remains with Auris. The next Women in Robotics Meetup will be looking under the hood at Auris Health and their diverse workplace. There are […]

Date Thursday, October 25th, 2018 See specific locations for details on times. Note that the Tokyo and Singapore locations will have their events on Friday the 26th Description World MoveIt! Day is an international hackathon to improve the MoveIt! code base, documentation, and community. We hope to close as many pull requests and issues as […]

Jingdong, also known as JD.com, has recently launched a new robotics challenge, “to find talented roboticists who can help advance the development of global e-commerce and logistics technologies,” according to the company. Hosted by JD’s robotics research arm, JD-X, the JD-X Robotics Challenge will ask contestants to design a ‘picking’ robot that can accurately pick selected […]

Recently featured on the cover of MAKE magazine, Jillian Ogle is a robot builder, game designer and the founder of Let’s Robot a live streaming interactive robotics community, where users can control real robots via chatroom commands, or put their on own robots online. Some users can even make money with their robots on the Let’s […]

What a unique conference! Sixty top-notch global speakers and 300 attendees/innovators interacted at the South San Francisco Conference Center on June 28 and 29 to share best practices to advance deep learning and the next generation of smart robots. The event was co-located with the AI in Industrial Automation Summit giving attendees full access to […]

NEW YORK — July 10, 2018 — Emerald Expositions, the largest operator of business-to-business trade shows in the United States, announced plans today for InterDrone’s fourth annual Women in Drones Luncheon, a special event it spearheaded in 2015 and has quickly grown into a model for networking in the commercial drone industry. InterDrone will take […]

ARM has just launched a new robotics competition on Hackster.io “The Autonomous Robot Challenge”. Registration is now open and entries will close on Sept 30 but if you get in early you might receive free hardware to help you build, like a DonkeyCar kit. The deadline to apply for free devices is July 21. Winners […]

ANYbotics led the way in the ICRA 2018 Robot Launch Startup Competition on May 22, 2018 at the Brisbane Conference Center in Australia. Although ANYbotics pitched last out of the 10 startups presenting, they clearly won over the judges and audience. As competition winners, ANYbotics received a $3,000 prize from QUT bluebox, Australia’s robotics accelerator […]

KEY POINTS (from Deborah Weinswig of Coresight Research)  The Coresight Research team recently attended the Retail Robotics & AI Conference on April 26 in San Francisco. Here are our top takeaways from the event: As consumers increasingly rely on technology when they shop, the retail industry is nearing a state of “retail singularity” in which […]

TechCrunch is partnering with UC Berkeley on May 11 to produce TC Sessions: Robotics, a one-day show focused on emerging robotics technologies and the startup scene.  Working on this agenda has been a blast for the editorial team because between the Bay area universities and the startup ecosystem there are far more robotics-riven technology projects and startups underway […]

With the Robot Launch 2018 competition in full swing – deadline May 15 for entries wanting to compete on stage in Brisbane at ICRA 2018 – we thought it was time to look at last years’ Robot Launch finalists. Tennibot won the CES 2018 Innovation Award, was covered in media like Times, Discovery Channel and […]

In spite of not being present, Team iRobot won the inaugural Silicon Valley Robotics Amazing Robot Trivia Night on April 11. All the tables were named after the attending robotics companies or FIRST teams, and mixed table teams picked a name at random. Team iRobot wasn’t actually from Boston, but a mixture of visitors and our […]

Entries are now open for the world’s newest robotics expo and competition, with prize money of around $1 million USD or more than $100 million yen. The World Robot Summit (WRS) 2018 will be held as a preliminary and qualifying event for the WRS 2020. The venue is the Tokyo Big Sight East Halls, over […]

Cars, cars, cars, cars. CES2018, the Consumer Technology Association’s massive annual expo, was full of self driving electric and augmented cars. Every hardware startup should visit CES before they build anything. It has to be the most humbling experience any small robotics startup could have. CES2018 is what big marketing budgets look like. And as […]