News on radio control, robotics & unmaned systems

 

• This Robot Just Won The DARPA Robotics Challenge - Popular science - 12.23.2013

 

• A Micro-Muscular Break Through - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - December 19, 2013

 

• Ladies And Gentlemen, Boot Your Robots! - NASA News - January 13, 2014

 

• Robots May Replace One-Fourth Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By 2030, Says General - Popular science - 01.22.2014

 

• Ames Team to Use Robots, Humans to Study Impact Sites and Volcanoes Selected to Join New Virtual Research Institute - NASA News - January 28, 2014

 

• Unmanned Aircraft: Countdown to Mission Possible - QUAS (Queensland Unmanned Aircraft System) - 06 February 2014

 

• Space Station SPHERES Run Circles Around Ordinary Satellites - NASA - February 14, 2014

 

• Robots will become soft and move like biological organisms - SISSA - 26/02/2014

 

• NASA Robots Showcased at Silicon Valley Robotics' 'Robot Block Party' - NASA News - April 7, 2014

 

• Ultra-fast, the robotic arm can catch objects on the fly - News Mediacom - 12.05.14

 

• Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions - MIT News - May 14, 2014

 

• Elon Musk says he invested in DeepMind over 'Terminator' fears - The Guardian - 18 June 2014

 

• Three-dimensionally printed biological machines powered by skeletal muscle - Proceedings of The National Academy of Science of USA - June 30, 2014

 

• Hector is the best rescuer: Rescue robots from TU Darmstadt win RoboCup world championship in Brazil - TU-Darmstadt - 2014/07/31

 

• Elon Musk warns us that human-level AI is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’ - Extremetech - August 4, 2014