The 6th robot olympics of Istanbul Technical University in Turkey will take place on April 2012. The event hosted 350 projects last year and 2012 is expected to see 450 projects and more than 7500 visitors. Istanbul had also hosted 2011 Robocup this year. For more informatrion on ITURO, please visit www.ituro.org and click “English” […]
October 24th, 2011 – Following back to back national BEST Award winning performances, Metro Homeschool Robotics (MHR) kicked off the 2011 BEST Competition season at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, MO on October 21-22nd. Thirteen teams across Illinois and Missouri competed with the top four going to the Frontier Trails Regional BEST Championship in […]
The Robobusiness conference organized by Robotics Trends took place on Nov. 2 and 3, in Sheraton Hotel, downtown Boston. A lot of well known robotics firms were represented with their high level managers or presidents. Below you can find our notes from the sessions we attended, which highlight important points and give you a brief […]
RoboBusiness Leadership Summit is a one-of-a-kind executive-level conference, created to accelerate the commercial development of new intelligent mobile robotics products and services, new robotics businesses and wholly owned robotics markets. Join fellow robotics executives from across the globe at the only event giving you the information and connections needed to plan for, build, finance and […]
Digilent Design Contest’s 2011 World Champions Munich – A smart shopping cart, a bomb disposal robot, and a GPS-enabled rover were some of the winners of the 2011 Worldwide Digilent Design Contest Finals. Held in conjunction with the FPGAWorld conference inMunichon September 14 and 15, the student engineering contest was a showdown between projects […]
IROS – International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems will be held between September 25th-30th in San Francisco, Hilton Union Square. The program includes the following topics: Motion Planning for Real Robots 3D Point Cloud Processing: PCL (Point Cloud Library) Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World The PR2 Workshop: Results, Challenges and Lessons […]
It is said that “the engineer has been, and is, a maker of history;” and with the help of FIRST they will be makers of the future. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a program that helps young people discover science and technology outside the classroom. (Photo Credit: Wayne Crosby) They […]
BEDFORD, Mass. The second annual National Robotics Week will be held from April 9-17 with a weeklong series of regional events and activities aimed at increasing public awareness of the growing importance of “robo-technology” and the tremendous social and cultural impact that it will have on the future of how people will live, work and […]
Fourth annual Military Robotics conference and workshop will take place in London on 28-29 June 2011. In the last year’s event, there were 120 participants and this number is growing every year. The covered topics include the insights into which the robotics is moving, adoption of robotics into the current force structures, an up-to date […]
Robocup is a worldwide robotics competition event held annually. The main categories are Soccer, Rescue and Dance, with Soccer being the most popular. This year’s event took place in Singapore between 19-25th June and hosted 500 teams from 40 different countries and a total of more than 3000 participants. The number of teams and participants […]