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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 […]
Sign of the new era: Apple earned more profits than Microsoft in 2011 for the first time since 1990 (Photograph by Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images) Excerpt from an excellent article “In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again” by Peter Burrows and Ashlee Vance on July 05, 2012 in BloombergBusinessWeek. For decades, the accepted wisdom of the Valley was that the best […]
In 2011, shortly after the Silicon Valley Robotics forum started, the future for the emergent cluster looked good, as described by Rich Mahoney in IEEE Automaton: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/next-big-thing-in-silicon-valley-robotics Post the recent Xconomy forum on ‘The Future of Robotics in Silicon Valley’, it’s clear that Silicon Valley robotics has a long way to go before celebrating its […]
Wade Roush Xconomy 4/12/12 Faster than anyone expected, it’s going to be May 3—the day we’re gathering an amazing group of roboticists and entrepreneurs for our first forum on The Future of Robotics in Silicon Valley and Beyond. The event takes place from 1:00 to 5:30 pm at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA, and features representatives from 10 […]
Links to stories and photos from the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party @VAIL Stanford April 11 2012. headlining Stanford Report April 16 2012 – see the full article which includes the video below [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4VWhSAsi88] featured on CBS, NBC and KTVU: CBS: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6933852-robots-showcased-at-stanford-block-party/ http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/04/11/stanford-kicks-off-annual-robot-block-party/ NBC (general story): http://www.nbc12.com/story/17377463/sris-taurus-robot-rsvps-to-robot-block-party-at-stanford-university KTVU: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/robots/nMXb4/ http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/stanford-robotic-block-party-puts-new-high-tech/vGtjs/ More from Stanford News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5mTsq1q03Iw Cool pictures, stories and tweets: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/nrw-stanford-robot-block-party http://www.twylah.com/Scobleizer/topics/block-party http://www.instartupland.com/?p=574 […]
MEDIA RELEASE 03.25.12 Looking for a career in robotics? Come to the Job Fair at the Robot Block Party at the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab at Stanford from 1 to 2pm on Wednesday, April 11 2012. The job fair is a new initiative at the popular Robot Block Party in celebration of National Robotics Week. […]
MEDIA RELEASE 03.25.12 Watch out for robots wandering around Stanford! In celebration of National Robotics Week, Silicon Valley’s Robot Block Party returns to the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab at Stanford Wednesday, April 11 2012, from 1 to 6pm. There’ll be wonderful robots on display ranging from Mars Rovers from The Tech Museum, to middle school […]
In celebration of National Robotics Week for the third year the Robot Block Party will be held on the Stanford University campus and will showcase the best of robotics technology in the Bay Area! The VAIL complex will host the Robot Block Party from 1 till 6, starting with a job fair, then a public […]
The third annual National Robotics Week will be held April 7-15, 2012. We doubled our events in 2011 from our 2010 inaugural year, and hope to reach even more participants in 2012. Stay tuned and look for events near you! Mark your calendars and watch here for more information. The purpose of National Robotics Week […]
Upcoming Events: -Autonomous Anonymous, Dec 1 7-10pm, Antonio’s Nut House -SVR meeting Winter 2011 (working group meetings scheduled regularly) Past Meetings: October 2010: Marketing panel hosted at Willow Garage May 2010: SVR meeting at KLA-Tencore (talks by Joint Venture Silicon Valley & Karl Mathia) April 2010: National Robotics Week at Stanford University January 2010: SVR […]
National Robotics Week Events The congressionally mandated National Robotics Week will be held April 9-17 this year ( http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org ). Silicon Valley Robotics is spearheading events and program in the Bay Area. We will be holding our 2nd Robotics Block Party open to the public that week at Stanford’s VAIL Center. If you manage or […]