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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

ISR to Present Cutting-Edge Research Topics on Robotics at Automate 2011

International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), an international robotics conference, is scheduled to take place at the Automate 2011, at McCormick Place in Chicago from March 21, 2011 to March 24, 2011.

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

Study Releases Key Factors Affecting Commercialization of Robotics

According to a new study by Frost & Sullivan titled, “Robots for Maintenance and Safety”, the major factors that affect commercialization of robotics include the level of accuracy, increased productivity, and safety compliance for human resources.

28 Feb 2011

ESS’s Automated Feeding System Contributes to Cost Savings

ESS Technologies, a company that designs, manufactures and integrates packaging equipment, has introduced a flexible feeding system, called TaskMate to handle the packaging needs for a wide range of products.

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

AIS’s Touch Screen Panels Used for Enhancing Industrial Automation

American Industrial Systems (AIS) has introduced a line of touch screen Panel PC’s for supporting applications that deal with process control, machine and industrial automation.

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

Rochester Robotics Rally Helps Teams Gear Up for Final Competition

The Penfield High School was the venue for the Rochester Rally, an annual pre-competition event for the robotics team. A corporate team mentor for “Rolling Thunder”, Lee Drake describes it as an annual event for students to test-drive their robots for the 20th annual international competition.

28 Feb 2011

Robotics Team from Vallejo High Prepares for Davis Competition

Sponsored by a mortuary when they began their quest in robotics, the team at Vallejo High School has created a monster which took over 6 weeks. Their latest creation, a clawed 5-ft high robot, can grow up to 10-ft using its extendable arms. The monster is also capable of carrying a smaller robot which can climb a 10-ft long pole.

28 Feb 2011

Teen Robotic Engineers Display Talent at New Jersey Institute of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark was the destination chosen for the annual FIRST Tech Challenge.

28 Feb 2011

School Team Brainstorms for Nebraska Robotics Expo

The Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland brought together over 800 students from all over Iowa and Nebraska for the Nebraska Robotics Expo. The teams were required to develop a robot which was capable of performing tasks in front of the judges.

28 Feb 2011