Consumer Robotics News

RSS

Elementary School Students to Design Football Helmet for FIRST Competition

The Bio-Medical Brainiacs, a team of 10 fifth-graders from the Quiet Waters Elementary School, have developed a prototype football helmet equipped with more safety precautions.

2 Mar 2011

Eight-Member Team of Eight-Graders Win Judge’s Award at Grand Forks

Chronic Fusion, the eighth grade robotics team from Cheney Middle School won the Judge’s Award First Lego League Championship, North Dakota, held in early February.

2 Mar 2011

FedEx to Transport US Robots for FIRST Robotics Competition

During the annual FIRST National Robot Ship Day, FedEx will offer support to the US robotics teams who are competing in the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) by covering the transportation cost for more than 1,000 robots.

28 Feb 2011

Loomis Chaffee Team Qualifies for Massachusetts Robotics Championship Event

The Loomis Chaffee Robotics Team qualified for the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) by winning the Merrimack Valley Regional Competition. The Chaffee robotics team competed with 20 other high school teams from New England.

28 Feb 2011

Gostai Unveils Jazz Robots at CeBIT

Gostai will showcase its Jazz robot with an LCD screen at CeBIT this year. The Jazz robot, manufactured by Gostai, will be displayed at booth B09 of hall 9 in Hannover from March 1 to March 5.

28 Feb 2011

East Lake Students to Participate in Regional Robotic Competition

Students at the East Lake High school formed a robotic team called Krunch to design and build robots for this year’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition.

28 Feb 2011

Three Robotics Teams from M’Aiken High School Win Regional Competition

Three Tech Challenge robotics teams of M’Aiken High School won the regional event that was held in Cookville, Tenn., on Saturday. G-Force and its partner team took the first place whereas Atomix, another team from M'Aiken scored second and M'Aiken Tech Magic secured the third place.

28 Feb 2011

Team Ubotic Hopes to Win Worldwide Championship

Team Ubotic is a 17-member squad of young roboticists representing the Union High School. They have been working 8 hours every day, confident about qualifying for the international FIRST robotics competition with their robot “Ubot”.

28 Feb 2011

Sprockets Represent Diamond Bar High with Their First Robot

Sprockets, the robotics team representing Diamond Bar High School in the FIRST robotic competition, have developed a robot for the competition. Over 6 weeks, the team received several sponsors and raised $19,000.

28 Feb 2011

Pitt County Team Trains to Emerge as Champions

The FIRST Robotics Team from Pitt County revealed their robot in South Central High School's library. With team members from each of the six high schools in the county, the students worked incessantly on a robot with the parts and set of rules delivered to them.

28 Feb 2011