Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award

The Drone Social Innovation Award is a new initiative of the rapidly growing Drone User Group Network (DUGN). With over 3000 members across North America, Australia and Europe, DUGN is the largest com...

11 February 2014, by Andra Keay

Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live

NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...

17 January 2014, by Ioannis K. Erripis

International Robot Olympiad 2013 wraps up

Materials used to produce International Robot Olympiad competition events. The 2013 (15th annual) International Robot Olympiad competition has come to a close. Next year it will take place in Beiji...

23 December 2013, by John Payne

DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials live broadcast

The time has come for the robots competing on the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) to make their first public appearance. The trials for the final 2014 event will take place on December 20-21, 2013 and ...

20 December 2013, by Ioannis K. Erripis

International Robot Olympiad 2013: Robots in agriculture

Let me admit up front that I'm not the best person to be covering a robotics competition. In fact this is only the second one I've attended; the first, Sparkfun's AVC, is a tough act to follow and set...

18 December 2013, by John Payne

The 400lb CHIMP in the room: CMU’s Tartan Rescue Team prepares for the DRC

Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan Rescue Team has completed assembly of its 400 pound 5-foot-2 inch tall simian-like robot that will compete in the first annual DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in H...

17 December 2013, by Shima Rayej

Beginner’s guide to the humanoid robot challenge (DRC)

The first real world trial in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) will be held on December 20-21 2013 at Homestead Freeway in Florida. Yes, it's open to the public. Anyone can come along and watch huma...

03 December 2013, by Andra Keay

Selected start-ups from Demo Fall 2013, Silicon Valley

DEMO describes itself as the launchpad for emerging technology and trends. The DEMO Fall 2013 Conference was produced by IDG, the publishing giant of Computerworld, PC World, MacWorld, etc. I went to ...

19 October 2013, by Frank Tobe

Call for participation: RoCKIn Camp 2014

RoCKIn Camp 2014 Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto 25, Rome, Italy January 26th-30th, 2014 Deadline for intention to participate: October 20th, 2013 Application deadline: November20th, 2...

16 October 2013, by Robohub Editors

RoCKIn Robot Challenge looks at task scenarios to help shape future competitions

RoCKIn is a three-year EU project that aims to use robot competitions in order to innovate smarter, more dependable robots, and to increase public awareness of robotics. Part of its focus is to look...

07 September 2013, by RoCKIn Robotics Challenge

‘Design a Robot’ competitions

Didn’t get a robot entered in the DARPA grand robotics challenge (DRC)? Never mind, there are several robot design and business model competitions on at the moment, from social robots, to affordable...

06 September 2013, by Andra Keay

FIRST 2013 photo essay: Girls of Steel in the trenches at the FRC championship finals

It’s the end of the competition, and we’ve worked hard to get here: the long nights in the machine shop, drawing 3D models, writing essays for awards and fixing our robot whenever it breaks down. ...

05 July 2013, by Lynn Urbina

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water

There have been many headlines about "killer robots" and invasion of privacy. They protest that robots will soon choose targets and then bomb or shoot those targets under their own direction and will ...

09 June 2013, by Frank Tobe

SparkFun AVC 2013

Most robotics hobbyists will be familiar with the name SparkFun, associating it with an electronics and robotics parts and kits supply house, located in Boulder, Colorado, and perhaps also with the in...

09 June 2013, by John Payne

KUKA youBot HACKATHON 2013

German KUKA youBot Store has announced a new initiative to promote education in mobile manipulation. Research groups and labs in universities and public research facilities are invited to organize an ...

27 February 2013, by Wolfgang Heller

Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA

ESA is organizing the first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station (ISS). The competition is open for young people from ESA member states who can compete in three age grou...

27 February 2013, by Ioannis K. Erripis

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