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Dan O’Mara: Turning Robotics Education on its Head | Sense Think Act Podcast #19
Audrow Nash and Sense Think Act Podcast
24 May 2022
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Dan O'Mara, who is the founder and COO of Circuit Launch and Mechlabs. Circuit Launch is a space for hardware entrepreneurs to work in Oakland, California, and M...
MimicEducationalRobots teach robotics for the future
Brett Pipitone
24 Apr 2022
Robots will soon become an inescapable part of modern life, and I seek to prepare today’s students to work with these emerging technologies.
Play RoC-Ex: Robotic Cave Explorer and unearth the truth about what happened in cave system #0393
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
03 Jul 2021
Dive into the experience of piloting a robotic scout through what appears to be an ancient cave system leading down to the centre of the Earth. With the help of advanced sensors, guide your robot expl...
Robohub and AIhub’s free workshop trial on sci-comm of robotics and AI
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
21 Apr 2021
Would you like to learn how to tell your robotics/AI story to the public? Robohub and AIhub are testing a new workshop to train you as the next generation of communicators. You will learn to quickly c...
iRobot Education expands its free coding platform with social-emotional learning, multi-language support
iRobot
08 Apr 2021
iRobot Corp. unveiled new coding resources through iRobot Education that promote more inclusive, equitable access to STEM education and support social-emotional development. iRobot also updated its iR...
Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls
Silicon Valley Robotics and Women In Robotics
18 Feb 2021
Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph....
Carlotta Berry’s talk – Robotics Education to Robotics Research (with video)
Robotics Today
22 Dec 2020
A few days ago, Robotics Today hosted an online seminar with Professor Carlotta Berry from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In her talk, Carlotta presented the multidisciplinary benefits of ro...
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DJI’s RoboMaster FPS Competition, with Shuo Yang
Audrow Nash
21 Jul 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Shuo Yang about DJI's RoboMaster first-person shooter (FPS) competition, a competition designed to get people excited about robotics. For the competition, univ...
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Cozmo, by Anki, with Andrew Neil Stein
Abate De Mey
29 May 2018
In this episode, Abate interviews Andrew Stein from Anki. At Anki they developed an engaging robot called Cozmo which packs sophisticated robotic software inside a lifelike, palm sized, robot. Cozmo r...
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ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn
Audrow Nash
10 Dec 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest conference an...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Jillian Ogle from Let’s Robot
Robohub Editors
25 Aug 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
Robotbenchmark lets you program simulated robots from your browser
Olivier Michel
22 Aug 2017
Cyberbotics Ltd. is launching https://robotbenchmark.net to allow everyone to program simulated robots online for free....
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Robot Academy, with Peter Corke
Audrow Nash
22 Jul 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Peter Corke, Professor of Robotics at the Queensland University of Technology and Director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, about Robot Academy. Rob...
FIRST global competition off to a rousing start with all teams getting visas
Frank Tobe
19 Jul 2017
After much uproar, media attention, and political pressure, Pres. Trump intervened and enabled all the teams headed to Washington, DC for the F.I.R.S.T Global Robotics Championship, whose visas had be...
Second edition of Springer Handbook of Robotics
Bruno Siciliano
09 Jul 2017
The Second Edition of the award-winning Springer Handbook of Robotics edited by Bruno Siciliano and Oussama Khatib has recently been published. The contents of the first edition have been restructured...
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Nick Kohut from Dash Robotics
Robohub Editors
06 Jul 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
The Robot Academy: Lessons in inverse kinematics and robot motion
Peter Corke
30 Jun 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
Using MATLAB for hardware-in-the-loop prototyping #1 : Message passing systems
Florian Enner
28 Jun 2017
MATLAB© is a programming language and environment designed for scientific computing. It is one of the best languages for developing robot control algorithms and is widely used in the research communi...
The Robot Academy: Lessons in image formation and 3D vision
Peter Corke
13 Jun 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
From member to mentor: Life after being a FIRST student
Molly Urbina
12 Jun 2017
3! 2! 1! Go! Suddenly, robots jerk into motion and zoom across the field to score points, crossing over several types of terrain and shooting balls into high and low goals. Another buzzer sounds, driv...
Teaching ROS quickly to students
Ricardo Téllez
09 Jun 2017
Lecturer Steffen Pfiffner of University of Weingarten in Germany is teaching ROS to 26 students at the same time at a very fast pace. His students, all of them within the Master on Computer Science of...
The Robot Academy: An open online robotics education resource
Peter Corke
26 May 2017
The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning Introduction to Robotics and Robotic Visio...
Robotics classes in temples: Tradition and innovation in Japan
Alberto Moreno
25 May 2017
Robotera: Is the fusion of robots (robo) and temples (tera, in Japanese). Buddhist temples in Japan are offering robotic classes to foster interest in future generations in Buddhist culture and tem...
EduExo: Robotic exoskeletons for everyone
Volker Bartenbach
22 May 2017
For decades robotic exoskeletons were the subject of science fiction novels and movies. But in recent years, exoskeleton technology has made huge progress towards reality and exciting research project...
What is machine learning?
In this article, we explain in plain language machine learning....
Smart Grasping System available on ROS Development Studio
Ruben Alves
10 May 2017
Would you like to make a robot to grasp something, but you think that is impossible to you just because you can’t buy a robot arm? I’m here to tell that you can definitely achieve this without buy...
LIDAR vs RADAR: A detailed comparison
Robots for Roboticists
09 May 2017
I was recently asked about the differences between RADAR and LIDAR. I gave the generic answer about LIDAR having higher resolution and accuracy than RADAR. And RADAR having a longer range and performi...
Programming your NAO robot for human interaction
Philip English
09 May 2017
Today we are looking at how to program your NAO Robot for Human Interaction. Watch the video and follow the steps below to get interactive with your robot pal!
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Machine Learning with OpenAI Gym on ROS Development Studio
Ricardo Téllez
08 May 2017
Imagine how easy it would be to learn skating, if only it doesn’t hurt everytime you fall. Unfortunately, we, humans, don’t have that option. Robots, however, can now “learn” their skills o...
TrotBot take two: Galloping like a horse
Ben Vagle
04 May 2017
Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a mini-van (you can read my original post here). Now, at DIYwalke...
Are gestures the future of robotic control?
Anna Johansson
29 Apr 2017
A few decades ago, touchscreens were impressive, yet clunky pieces of technology reserved for applications that did little more than show off that touchscreens were possible. Today’s touchscreens ar...
SICK LMS full LIDAR teardown
Robots for Roboticists
28 Apr 2017
I recently found a SICK LMS291 in the trash (dumpster diving time!). It is a bit of an older model---manufactured in August 2000---however the fundamentals should be similiar to the current generation...
World Book Day 2017: 20 robot related books to inspire kids and teens
Alex Kirkpatrick
23 Apr 2017
Happy International World Book and Copyright Day! It's a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and reading, held annually on 23 April---a symbolic date coinciding with the anniversary of the ...
Crash Course Computer Science video series
John Payne
17 Apr 2017
Crash Course is a video channel you can access through YouTube. Crash Course Computer Science is an ongoing playlist of fast-moving videos that begin with the most basic underpinnings of digital comp...
PLA vs. ABS: What’s the difference?
Ken Giang
14 Apr 2017
PLA and ABS are the 2 most common FDM desktop printing materials. Both are thermoplastics, meaning they enter a soft and moldable state when heated and then return to a solid when cooled. Via the FDM ...
A vision for Nigeria’s youth: FIRST LEGO league competition held in Nigeria
Stella Uzochukwu
14 Apr 2017
In March, robot programming students took part in the 2016-17 FIRST LEGO LEAGUE competition (FLL) with the theme ‘ANIMAL ALLIES’. FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is a program that supports children and...
