Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Professor Whittaker and Team Participate in the Google Challenge

Professor William “Red” Whittaker recently lectured to the civil environmental engineering students.

6 Apr 2011

Festo Launches Robotic Bio-inspired Bird

Festo is famous for its biometric robots, and the SmartBird is its latest robot, which is a flying model resembling birds such as the herring gull.

6 Apr 2011

Dexter High School to Participate in FIRST Robotic Competition

Dexter High School Robotics Team with five DHS students and five adult mentors took part in the FIRST Robotic Competition conducted at the Skyline High School in Ann Arbor.

6 Apr 2011

ABB Robotics Unveils Palletising Robot at AUSPACKPLUS 2011

The IRB 760 Palletising Robot developed by ABB Robotics was unveiled at the AUSPACK PLUS 2011.

6 Apr 2011

Gait of Robots Inspired by Movements of Spiders and Crabs

For researchers, inspiration for building robots has come in from the walking patterns of spiders, lobsters and crabs. A study of their movements has revealed that their legs have rhythmic nerve impulses, which control their gait.

5 Apr 2011

Robotic Spine Surgeries Performed at UC Irvine

In Orange County in California, at the UC Irvine Spine Program, Dr. Samuel Bederman and Dr. Nitin Bhatia have performed the first chain of robotic Spine Surgeries.

5 Apr 2011

St. David’s Establishes Texas Institute of Robotic Surgery

St. David’s Health Care had made an announcement to the effect that the nation’s first Robotic Institute University called the Texas Institute of Robotic Surgery would be begun at its North Austin Medical Center.

5 Apr 2011

Barobo Awarded Research Grant to Commercialize iMobot

A start-up company, Barobo associated with the University of California Davis, has been awarded a research grant for small business innovations and would use this to commercialize the iMobot, a modular robot, by the end of the year.

5 Apr 2011

Arcadia Student’s Trinity X in FIRST Robotics Competition

Students from the Arcadia Unified School District are participating in the Los Angeles Regional 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition with a robot designed by them called Trinity X.

5 Apr 2011