The third annual Bay Area Science Festival culminated on Saturday Nov 2 at AT&T Park after drawing big crowds to the eight-day celebration of science. A feature point of the Festival this year was a Robot Zoo, which Silicon Valley Robotics helped to organize. There was also a talk on “The Rise of Civil Robots” at […]

Silicon Valley companies are bringing home awards in Day One of RoboBusiness 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Elad Inbar and RobotsLab won the GameChanger award for education. A panel of distinguished experts from NASA’s JPL, universities around the world, the investment community and Robotics Business Review, chose RobotsLAB BOX to join an exclusive group of […]

NIKE has joined Formation 8 and ABB Technology Ventures in funding Grabit’s $3 million Series A round. Grabit is an industrial automation and material handling solutions company. Grabit’s current customers include some Fortune 500 companies in industries such as warehouse automation, parcel handling, consumer products, and textiles. NIKE has recently filed patent applications for automating an […]

You have a robot prototype or an idea. At some stage you want funding. Here are the two most useful resources for robot startups. Even if you are bootstrapping, using crowdfunding or friendly angels, at some stage you need to pitch your startup. Working on your pitch will also highlight weak areas of your business […]

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 […]

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 […]

SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show but it is predominantly military systems. SUSBEXPO is the brain child of Patrick Egan, who is a UAS business consultant, as well as being deeply involved in AUVSI, SUASNews, building on a background […]

  RIGHT NOW! SF Drones Startup Meetup is on Wednesday July 24. SUSBEXPO is on Thu-Fri July 25-26. BASE event is on Tuesday Aug 1. Bots&Beer Meetup is on Wed Aug 7. Women in Robotics Picnic Sat Aug 24. Silicon Valley Robotics and the Bay Area Science Festival are teaming up to bring the incredibly successful Robot […]

While I love getting robots in the mail, crowdfunding sites are also good for supporting a whole range of robot related activities. The 3rd annual Robot Film Festival just launched a Kickstarter campaign to complement ticket sales on Eventbrite. This year, the Robot Film Festival is at Bot&Dolly studios in San Francisco on July 20-21, after very successful previous […]

The profile of robotics is rising both in Silicon Valley and beyond. Who would have thought that a robotics company would be featured in Apple’s recent keynote at their Worldwide Developers Conference? Heads turned when Apple’s CEO Tim Cook invited Anki up on stage as a company who was leveraging iOS to merge artificial intelligence […]

I’m setting up at Maker Faire with Robot Garden (a new robotics hackerspace and accelerator) and hope you’ll all come see Robot Garden @ iGate in Booth #2675 in Expo Hall. We might not be able to report back cause we’re giving presentations and having a booth and trying to look around ourselves but this is an event […]

It was another amazing Robot Block Party at the CARS facility in Stanford. More than 30 companies, startups, STEM groups and individuals demonstrated robots ranging from PR2s to tiny brain powered helicopters. The Block Party was sandwiched between the Robotics and Law conference, “We Robot: Getting down to business” at Stanford Law School and the […]

Well, not quite. According to Rodney Brooks, robotics has too much Steve Wozniak and not enough Steve Jobs. And perhaps that’s where the ‘jobs’ part of a very full afternoon forum should have ended. Xconomy’s forum “Robots Remake the Workplace” at SRI International featured a stellar line up of robotics companies, startups and investors who […]

Happy Robotics Week to everyone!  Thanks to all the organizers, contributers and robot fans around the US. But why stop there? This year’s National Robotics Week has 177 events in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and Mars! “I’m very pleased to say we have huge participation from NASA JPL and the Curiosity team- so […]

  Join more than 30 robot companies, startups and groups in celebrating National Robotics Week. Robots from a range of companies large to small will be on display or roaming around. The Robot Block Party is free and open to the public. The Robot Block Party is organized by Silicon Valley Robotics, hosted by Center for Automotive […]

Lots of good robotics this weekend with Palo Alto Weekly feature and Engadget SF seems to be almost an entire robot expo! Speakers at Engadget’s weekend expo include: Steve Cousins of Willow Garage, Chris Anderson of 3D Robotics, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics, Russ Angold of Ekso Bionics, and Catherine Mohr of Intuitive Surgical. The panels […]

Robots were all over the California Academy of Science at their popular Nightlife event on Thursday March 7. This year Nightlife with Robots attracted 3000 people, making it one of their most popular evenings!  I was really impressed by the range of robots on display and what an enjoyable evening it was. I gave a […]