Robotics Announcements

• Robotic health aids  for an aging population
  
• China is also automating with robots
• This is just fun: robots to the moon
• Yes robotics is awesome
• the latest on mind controlled robots
• Telepresence robots for the disabled?
• now all ecommerce will be robot-automated?

• and robots are farming now too.
  
• Now robots are in retail these days
• Robot vehicle responsibility
• Robot vehicles being deployed now
• how about this for the future of robot power?
• How about now? have we crossed the uncanny valley yet?
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• Finally the killer app for telepresence robots?
• Ok - lets talk about social robots again - the uncanny valley not as uncanny as we thought?
• Humans have empathy for humanoid robots
• what about this? (read this one on your own)
• local delivery robots from skype founders

• Register your drones like cars?
• Human cyborgs - coming soon (inspired by student email)
• and cyborg brains
• so of course we need some brain hacking
• This week is robotics - yes the uncanny valley is real.
• robot bees

• Are we about to see a 'Cambrian Explosion' in robotics?
• A new study relevant to social robotics
• One of the more modern humanlike robots
• Another more modern humanlike robot

• More on the Jobs and Robots issue
• Will this fix the "mow your baby problem"
• Yet another robot kickstarter - 10 years ago this was available only in a research lab
• STEM Gap ("The Future of STEM is Synonymous with the Future of Work" discuss)
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• A good read on google and robotics.
• Yet another job that may well be automated so that there is no humands needed any more.
• A treaty to ban autonomous combat robots?
• More on pseudo-personhood for robots
• a new type of actuator
• bionic arms again - lets start the video at 4:36 for class.
• First look at social robotics
• Lets talk about this when we do social robotics as well.

• Stateside pepper adjustments are being done here
• More on employment, wages and robots
• Speaking of insectoid robots
• And Russian robot insects too
• More retail robots
• A outsiders view of social impact of robotics
• This week in soft robotics
• No Sex with pepper robots
• The original prediction of robot marriage
• Earlier this year Americans started talking about robot marriage
• Two robots marry in japan
• Robot cars are safer than Human driven cars (not exactly news)
• Robot trends according to IEEE
• Cars are already a bit of a robot - and this is a danger
  

Welcome to Robotics for Fall 2015. I'll post announcements from time to to here and often post news from this rapidly changing field here.