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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 […]
MEDIA ADVISORY 03.18.13 The robots return to Stanford on April 10 during National Robotics Week. The Robot Block Party is an annual robotics festival organized by Silicon Valley Robotics, with Stanford Robotics Club and the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The Robot Block Party runs from 1pm to 6pm on Wednesday April 10 […]
March 18, 2013 08:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time National Robotics Week 2013 and NASA to Take STEM Out of This World More than 125 roboticsbased events, demonstrations and workshops planned in 50 states to inspire thenext generation of innovators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) BEDFORD, Mass.(BUSINESS WIRE)The fourth annual National Robotics Week, April […]
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 […]
AUVSI have just released their report The Economic Impact of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the United States which forecasts 70,000 jobs created by 2015 and $13.6 billion economic impact in the US. http://www.auvsi.org/econreport IFR, the International Federation of Robotics, released “The Positive Impact of Robots on Jobs” in 2011 . The report was authored by […]
By Richard Mahoney at 9:51 AM PST, Mon Mar 4, 2013 Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) recently held its first Investor Breakfast at SRI headquarters in Menlo Park, with kudos from attending investors and the 10 participating early-stage companies. Part of SVR’s mission is to help nurture early-stage robotics companies in the greater Silicon Valley area. Both a growing […]
Are you interested in demoing at, or just attending, some of these great events? Join robotics companies like Anybots, Double Robotics, 9th Sense, Orbotix and heaps of other hardware startups in the Demo Pit at Launch SF March 4-6 Demo at California Academy of Sciences Nightlife on Thursday March 7th 6-10pm. Join robots from Beatbots […]
The “Top 50 for 2013” from Robotics Business Review’s RBR50 list is dominated by companies from California, particularly Silicon Valley. RBR, a division of EHPublishing released their second RBR50 list on Monday and not only are US companies considered the most influential and interesting to watch, but California companies top the list, as they did […]
Xconomy have just announced the “Robots remake the economy” forum at SRI International, Menlo Park, during National Robotics Week. The forum already features a hefty list of robotics experts ready to discuss the nuances of the changing face of manufacturing and employment in the US. I wouldn’t really call it a debate as the forum […]
I spoke about Silicon Valley Robotics at Google HQ last night to the monthly Homebrew Robotics Club meeting. The crowd was 135+ which was one of their largest ever meetings and the first half of the meeting was given over to robot show and tell, which ranged from Kentucky bots built by kids for the […]
For Grishin Robotics, the future is in the clouds. Grishin Robotics are investing $250,000 into RobotAppStore, an online marketplace for robotics applications. It seems that Grishin is betting on the robotics industry following the same patterns as the smartphone or personal computing industry. But can robotics be compared to either personal computing or smartphones, given […]
More than 300 people turned out last night for the BASE “The Future is Robotics” event hosted at Microsoft SF. The Bay Area Software Engineers group has regular meetups but this is the first event to focus solely on robotics and was a full house. “It was like a TED talk but without having to […]
Silicon Valley Robotics celebrated becoming a 501(c)6 organization last night with full house network event and the launch of the new svrobo.org website. While the Silicon Valley Robotics group has been meeting regularly since 2010, this more formal ‘business league’ structure will allow for better representation. The new website, directory and mail list will help […]
California has 3 in the global top 5 (with 7 in top 50) ! As the US has a total of 22 universities in the engineering top 50, then California is responsible for about 1/3rd of the USA’s dominance in the field. At least according to the statistics compiled by The Times Higher Education and […]