Ex-NASA astronaut Dan Barry, lecturing at Singularity University, offers a vision of robotic progress in 3-5 years and also 5-10 years. Read a review and watch an interview.

NSF grants three-year funding to expand CMU’s Quality of Life Technology Foundry technology transfer to the commercial sector.

CyPhy Works receives $1.75M first round of venture capital from same VC firm that invested $20M in iWalk, the robotic ankle and foot prosthetic company.

Last month’s International Expert Days conference confirmed growth expectations but added an international perspective about the emerging service robotics sector. See Everything-Robotic for details of the two-day workshop.