News from various blogs:

By Frank Tobe | June 18, 2011

Google and Android team up with iRobot and their AVA platform to add tablet and apps to AVA. [Robotland]

U.S. Senator calls robot projects wasteful. Robots call Senator wasteful. [IEEE Spectrum Automaton]

Great video about a new Japanese ball-copter — better than Parrot’s AR.Drone. [Everything-Robotic]

The Datron Scout UAV is a military version of the AR.Drone and blog shows the tactical uses. [Gizmag]

Economic conditions and opportunities bode well for robotics market. [Robotics Online]

Has AI finally taken a turn to be able to keep up with the mechanical, electronics and systems side of robotics? [Everything-Robotic]

Will the big robot manufacturers be able to transition to producing service and personal robot? [Everything-Robotic]

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.