World Robotic Explorer, world’s largest robot house, was opened in Thamrin City Mall, Jakarta. Robotic technology is offered as an activity -based education in the robot house and the house can accommodate around 255 people.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has offered an award worth $1.5 million to Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance comprising nine Universities including Carnegie Mellon University and 19 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
NASA has offered $5,000 worth scholarship to RoboTribe, the robotics team of the Rahway High School. This grant will help the team to develop a robot for participating in the US First regional robotics contest, which is scheduled to be held next year.
A team of researchers under the leadership of Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusett Institute of Technology, have developed a robot that can interact with humans.
The robotics firm Cyberdyne has come up with a body suit to help the disabled to walk. An exoskeleton robot device called the Hybrid Assistive Limb), or HAL, a sci-fi related coincidence sharing its name with the computer in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
The Dalu Rebot Restaurant, in Jinan, northern China's Shandong Province, has six robot waitresses and can cater for up to 100 diners.
Rose-Hulman has announced that it has received funds worth $50,000 from the Alcoa Foundation for supporting its initiatives in robotics. This funding will help Rose-Hulman to include new project workstations resembling industrial robotic systems.
NASA has offered a grant worth $5,000 to the Robotics team of Horn Lake High School to enable the team to contend in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) regional robotics contest in Los Angeles.
Amit Goffer, Founder of Argo Medical Technologies, has developed robotic ‘pants’ that utilizes motors and sensors to enable paraplegics to stand and walk.
The Siemens Competition announced the winners of its college scholarships during a ceremony at George Washington University. Six individual students and six teams of students competed in Washington after winning regional competitions in November. They presented their research to a panel of judges Sunday.
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