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May 12, 2014 “What do people think about autonomous cars?”
11 years
What do people think are the main advantages of owning an autonomous car? Do people think autonomous cars should be easily identifiable? How much money are people willing to pay for an autonomous car anyway?
Results of poll.
May 9, 2014 “Cobots: People and robots working together”
11 years
Many organizations are beginning to see the advantages of cobots. Large corporations like Apple and General Electric and smaller companies such as C & S Wholesale Grocer are beginning or increasing manufacturing within the US through a combination of people and robots.
May 7, 2014 “RoboEarth at TEDx “
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April 22, 2014 “UAV news”
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Google acquires Titan Aerospace for $60 million; Facebook acquires Ascenta for $20 million; Groupe Gorgé, through ECA, acquires Infotron for $10 million and the Navy is building a new UAV center. Here’s a wrap-up of these and other UAV stories in the news:
April 15, 2014 “Repurposed Military Drones Create Mobile Wireless Hotspots”
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The military is pouring a huge amount of resources into unmanned systems like UAVs. Every year, drones get fancier and more capable, which means that there’s an increasing number of slightly less fancy and slightly less capable drones gathering dust and feeling lonely in a hangar somewhere. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has an idea of what these drones might be good for: not delivering weapons, not surveillance, but instead providing mobile high-speed network connectivity for deployed troops.
April 11, 2014 “Why Are Search-and-Rescue Drones Grounded?”
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Federal Aviation Administration: model airplanes, no matter how small, cannot be flown for commercial purposes until the agency puts regulations in place to accommodate them.
April 2, 2014 “€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry”
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The competition will consist of a series of three industry-relevant challenges created to help keep Europe’s manufacturing industry globally competitive and at the leading edge of innovation. € 7M in grants, funded through the European Commission, will be awarded throughout the duration of the four-year program.
Mar 19, 2014 “DARPA’s Newest X-Plane Concepts Are All Robots”
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DARPA announced the four companies that’ll be competing to develop a new experimental aircraft that combines the efficiency of an airplane with the versatility of a helicopter. It’ll be something like a V-22 Osprey, except that DARPA is hoping for “radical improvements in vertical and cruise flight capabilities.”. And the thing that every proposal has in common? They’re all robots.
Mar 5, 2014 “Rumor: Facebook Eyeing Titan Aerospace’s Atmospheric Satellite Drones”
11 years
Rumor say that Facebook would want to start with a fleet of 11,000 of the $2 million Solara drones, and send them all to the skies above Africa, where they’ll lay down some not especially fast but quite pervasive ultra-low cost or free Internet.
Mar 5, 2014 “With 11,000 pre-orders, Play-i gets $8 million Series A”
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It was just a few months ago that Play-i raised over $1.4 million on Kickstarter. With a heavy advertising buy during the holiday season they now have 11,000 pre-orders for their Bo and Yana robotic toy. Yesterday they announced a Series A financing of $8 million. In the announcement about the funding they announced partnerships with over 100 developers who plan to produce independent apps for the new toy.
