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Génération Robots gets new Twitter profiles: English, German and French As the European specialist for service robots, and already having a trilingual website, we decided to take it a step further and go the extra mile for our English-speaking and German-speaking communities ! We just created two new Twitter accounts : one in English ([…]
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The possibility of Europe’s becoming the world leader in robotics is not unreasonable; the project certainly has enough fervent support – and the success of the CNES’ Philae robot confirms this idea. Within the framework of European Robotics Week, the Midi-Pyrénées region is organising two events to be held from 27–30 November at the Cité[…]
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The quickly evolving field of robotics will face numerous challenges in a near future. Engineers and experts such as Rodney Brooks , the visionary who made vacuum robots popular, are now putting all theur knowledge and efforts into the creation of collaborative robots. They need to be affordable, easy to use, adaptative and safe for[…]
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On October 10th, the University of California, San Diego, hosted within its walls the « Contextual Robotics Technologies International Forum ». Rodney Brooks, the founder of Rethink Robotics, and creator of the collaborative Baxter robot , was joined by 8 of the world top leaders in the field of ubiquitous consumer robotics to discuss the[…]
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Rodney Brooks is hailed as one of the most important roboticists in the world who led a career as a famous and distinguished researcher in artificial intelligence at Stanford university, Carnegie Mellon and MIT. After co-founding iRobot in 2008, he leaves the latter and the academics world to create his company Heartlands robotics, considered as one of[…]
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RoboBusiness Europe 2014, is an international convention for robotics which took place this May in Denmark in the beautiful city Billund, right next to the original Legoland amusement park. Of course Generation Robots could not resist to be present at this event, so we packed our loved Baxter robot , called “Bob”, and traveled to[…]
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Europe is gaining traction as a genuine alternative for robotics manufacturers and innovations. After attending Innorobo 2014, the largest European tradeshow in March 2014 , Génération Robots will feature at another major robotics event, RoboBusiness Europe 2014 , occuring from 26th until 28th May 2014. If you’re unsure whether you should attend it or not,[…]
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The fourth edition of Innorobo has just finished in Lyon, featuring more than 300 different robots, ranging from industrial to service robots. Among these robots, some robots are halfway between industrial and service robots, we call them cobots or collaborative robots.

Génération Robots and HumaRobotics are present at Innorobo, the largest European service robotics tradeshow. This event is a chance to meet our coolest robots and even try Double from Double Robotics, an unseen robot in Europe.

Innorobo , is the largest European trade show on service robotics, and it will be held in Lyon, from 18th to 20th March 2014, at the Convention centre (Cité internationale of Lyon, France). While Innorobo 2014 focuses mainly on the service robotics industry in order to accelerate awareness and business development in the sector, the[…]
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