Consumer Robotics News

RSS

DP Engineering Academy's Robotics Team to Attend FIRST Regional Competition

DP's Penguinbot VI took the fourth place following the first day of qualifying matches in San Diego. The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy's robotics team, also known as Team 1717, got in touch with their robot on Thursday at the San Diego Sports Arena.

19 Mar 2011

Nordson ASYMPTEC to Sponsor Six Teams for the San Diego FIRST Robotics Competition

Nordson ASYMTEK for the fifth time is supporting teams who are participating in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competion in San Diego. It is to mentor and sponsor six teams from San Diego.

19 Mar 2011

Virginia Tech Develops Robotic Hand for Typing

DART developed and created by Nicholas Thayer and Shashank Priya of Virginia Tech is a dexterous anthropomorphic robotic typing hand.

18 Mar 2011

Engineers Develop Projects Using Robots as Key Tools for Teaching Basic Science and Math Concepts

Brooklyn Community Foundation has plans of offering a grant amounting to $500,000 to further develop an existing program, which would attract engineering students to work as mentors in Brooklyn Schools.

18 Mar 2011

Young Women Participate in FIRST Robotics Tournament

The "Girls of Steel" team, comprising the young women who are interested in science, have participated in the FIRST robotics tournament held at the University of Pittsburgh's Petersen Events Center in Oakland.

17 Mar 2011

Team Robotics Champion Win FIRST Robotics District Competition

Three teams of high school students from Auburn Hills, Pontiac, and Oxford have collaborated to win the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics District Competition at Kettering University.

16 Mar 2011

Students to Design Athletic Robot for FIRST Robotics Competition

Students at Churchland High are designing a special athletic robot to participate in the regional FIRST Robotics Competition.

16 Mar 2011

Researchers Conduct Research to Enable Robots to Move Like Humans

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are conducting a research on enabling robots to move in a more human-like fashion where one movement leads to another.

16 Mar 2011

Wapato High School Students Participate in Regional FIRST Robotics Competition

Students at Wapato High School, one of the four Yakima Valley schools, will be participating in the regional FIRST Robotics Competition on March 16-18 at the Qwest Field exhibition center in Seattle.

11 Mar 2011

Students Design Robot to Solve Rubik’s Cube

Ridgeway and Zachary Grady, senior students from the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at Rowan University, have modeled a robot that solves the Rubik’s cube in 15 seconds.

9 Mar 2011