PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University’s robot soccer team took home its fifth world championship without allowing a single goal at the 2015 RoboCup on July 22 in Heifi, China.. The CMDragons won the final round of the Small Size League (SSL) 5-0 over MRL, a team from Qazvin Islamic Azad University in Iran. “An accomplishment of this nature requires an extremely high level of team commitment and discipline, in terms of ideas and software development. I have worked with RoboCup teams for many years, and this year’s students were extremely engaged,” said Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science. Veloso advises the team and helped […] Read More

ICINCO 2015 – The 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics took place in Colmar, Alsace, France, from July 21 to 23. ICINCO 2015 was held in conjunction with ICETE 2015, ICSOFT 2015, SIMULTECH 2015 and DATA 2015 covering a broad range of related fields, including any aspect of Control, Automation and Robotics. After a strict selection process, the ICINCO program included full papers (14% of submissions) and short papers (29% of submissions). Additionally 31% of submissions papers were accepted for poster presentation. With these acceptance ratios, we can assume that ICINCO next editions tend to be a quality conferences with high caliber. All accepted papers will […] Read More

When: Thursday, July 30th from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM & Friday, July 31st from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PDT) Where: Silicon Valley Innovation Center in San Mateo, CA or Online via Live Stream Register on Eventbrite to Attend: Click Here Attend the ROBOTICS AS A BUSINESS conference to hear about emerging and disruptive trends in commercial robotics and learn from those who have built successful and profitable commercial robotics companies. Join leading robotics innovators, disruptors, experts, and investors for a full day of honest, engaging, and focused discussion, followed by a full day of Open House Tour of exciting robotics companies – local and international. Topics ROBOTICS AS […] Read More

Motor & Drive Systems 2016 is focused on the latest technical advancements impacting the design and integration of motor, drive systems and motion control for manufacturing, industrial and packaging, as well as vehicles and other traction applications. The 13th annual conference will be held January 21-22 in Jacksonville, Fla. Conference topics will include improving motor efficiency and reliability, regulatory and safety issues, testing standards and programs, emerging and high growth applications, developing and pairing motor & drive systems and improving loss prediction and calculation. Join hundreds of OEM design engineers and discover how new technologies are improving performance, energy efficiency and providing cost savings in a variety of applications. The […] Read More

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. – Northland Community and Technical College’s Robotics Team, XNOR, won the Amaze Award at the VEX Robotics World Championship Tournamentheld at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville Kentucky on April 15-18th. This is the largest robotics competition in the world with over 800 teams and 15,000 participants. In fact with nearly 100 VEX robotics teams throughout the state, Northland brought home Minnesota’s first VEX Trophy from the VEX Robotics World Championship Tournament. Each year VEX robotics teams design, build, and program a robot to compete in a new challenge. This year’s challenge, Skyrise, consisted of plastic cubes and stacking yellow pegs.   To score points the robot […] Read More

The purpose of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics, Automation, Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modelling and Control, and Industrial Engineering, Production and Management. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics; This conference intends to emphasize this connection. One of the most important contributions that ICINCO brings about is the creation of a high-level forum in collaboration with the most prestigious internationally recognized experts, including names such as Krzysztof […] Read More

POMONA, Calif.‹CHIMP, a four-limbed robot designed and built by Carnegie Mellon University¹s Tartan Rescue Team, finished third and won $500,000 Saturday at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), a two-day event that pitted 24 of the world¹s most advanced robots against each other in a test of their ability to respond to disasters. During its best run on Friday, the robot engaged the enthusiastic audience as it overcame several mishaps and missteps to complete all eight of the possible tasks in 55 minutes, 15 seconds ‹ good enough to put the team in first place on the first day of competition. But that time was surpassed on Saturday, when the winning […] Read More

METU Robotics days, which takes place every year in Spring, will be held on March 8-9 this year, in Ankara Turkey. Middle East Technical University is one of the biggest Universities in the world in Technical Subjects. The competition will take place in 8 different categories. Last Years competition hosted more than 800 robotics projects and 6000 visitors. This number is quite an achievement for a student organization of a university, METU Robotics Student Group, which organizes this event every year. For more information: http://en.odturobotgunleri.org.tr/ Read More

The AI & Robotics Innovation Forum will explore the topics of: intelligent robotics, transport and the the autonomous car, the home and assisted living, manufacturing and the future of the factory, and farming and agriculture robotics. Dates: 13 March 2013 Location: London Link: https://www.re-work.co/workshops/artificial-intelligence-robotics   Read More

The international conference on humanoid robots will be held in Atlanta, GA on Oct. 15-17 http://www.humanoids2013.com/ Read More