robotics

2nd International Skolkovo Robotics Conference coming March 1-2 in Moscow

Frank Tobe 10 Feb 2014

By Susan and Mike McFarlane, RobotGuide. Edited by Frank Tobe, The Robot Report. Created in 2010, Technopark "Skolkovo" provides innovative companies participating in the project to support the ...

Apple, Amazon and now Google: It’s a pretty exciting day for robotics!

Frank Tobe 14 Dec 2013

There is serious momentum in robotics these days, evidenced by recent news from Apple, Amazon and Google: Apple announced that they were investing $10.5 billion in supply chain robots and automati...

Robotics Summer of Learning at CMU

Cara Friez-LeWinter 06 Jun 2013

This summer, students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots, design games, animate stories, and earn a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes and scholarships! The Robotics Summer of Learn...

Stanford Robot Block Party – part of National Robotics Week

Frank Tobe 11 Apr 2013

I'm always surprised when I come to Stanford. I find new companies setting up shop in the area. Ford's new research lab wasn't there the last time I drove by, for example. Later, when walking aroun...

Robots on TV

Frank Tobe 04 Feb 2013

Verizon and GE have produced television advertisements that include robots. The ads are playing frequently and nationally. They are good, they're being talked about and tweeted, audiences like them, a...

Robot shows how to jump high

Andra Keay 30 Oct 2012

A simple robot demonstrates the timing and motion necessary to make the highest jumps, with parallels to human jumping. See on physics.aps.org...

Registration opens for the 2013 NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge – WPI

Andra Keay 29 Oct 2012

The objective of the competition is to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technology. The competition offers as much as $1.5 million in prize money. See on www.wpi....

Ada Lovelace Day: Women in robotics

Andra Keay 16 Oct 2012

Celebrate women in science and technology today, in honor of Ada Lovelace, world’s first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day was started by Suw Charman-Anderson in 2009 in recognition that good ro...