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FIRST State Robotics Contest to be Held in Kingswood Oxford School

Kingswood Oxford School will host the Connecticut State FIRST Tech Robotics Contest on March 5, 2011. Around 300 high school children representing 20 schools will participate in the challenge.

21 Feb 2011

Spruce Creek High School and Forest High School Students Win FIRST Regional Robotics Contest

FIRST Lego robotics team formed by four students from Spruce Creek High School and Forest High School bagged the first prize in the FIRST regional contest held at the Cocoa Beach High School.

21 Feb 2011

Greater Berkeley Team to Participate in FIRST State Contest

‘Mad Dr. Lego’, an All Girl robotics team formed by eight students from Goose Creek, Ladson and the Macedonia areas of Berkeley County will take part in the FIRST State Contest, which will be conducted at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center on March 5.

21 Feb 2011

AMA International University Partners with Automation Supplier, FESTO

AMA International University (AMAIUB), leading training university in the Gulf Council region, has announced that it has partnered with FESTO, major provider of automation and pneumatic solutions.

21 Feb 2011

Vstone to Organize Robot Marathon in Japan

Vstone, Japanese provider of robotic solutions, has announced that it will organize ‘Robo Mara Full’, the first ever marathon for robots.

From Vstone Co.,Ltd. 19 Feb 2011

Clement, Cope and Moore Middle Schools to Include Mobile Robotics Labs

Clement, Cope and Moore middle schools of Redland will include new robotics lab in March. The mobile lab is part of their after-school program, ‘THINK Together’.

19 Feb 2011

Commonwealth Students Compete in FIRST Robotics Contest

40 teams formed by students of high schools across the commonwealth participated in the FIRST Tech Challenge, which was held in the University of Virginia.

19 Feb 2011

Bharath University Develops India’s First Humanoid Robot

Students of Bharath University have developed India’s first humanoid robot and won the 'Best performance for Innovation Award' at the 'Spring Innovations’ contest.

19 Feb 2011

A Whiteboard Cleaning Robot

Robots are gradually beginning to taking over all our boring and mundane chores. Already our metal assistants have been taught to flip pancakes and shoot arrows. People at Fujitsu recently released video footage of them teaching a robot how to erase a whiteboard.

From Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. 16 Feb 2011

European Researchers to Develop RoboEarth Project

A team of 35 researchers from the Europe Union are working on RoboEarth, a project enabling robots to share knowledge for effectively accomplishing a task.

16 Feb 2011