Robots have long been thought of as either impractical toys for the burgeoning tech scene, or visionary specimens of a science fiction future. From Twilight Zone and the Jetsons to Stanley Kubrick’s Hal 500 and Michael Bay’s Transformers, the idea of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated the human imagination since the first computer chip was invented and the first motherboard built. Technology, it […] Read More

NYC FIRST Mega weekend took place on March 16th – 18th at Jacob Javits convention center in Manhattan. Over 200 teams from New York City, USA, Turkey, Brazil, Canada and Jamaica participated in the event. See event website at : http://nycnjfirst.org/                           Photos Courtesy of: Adriana Grossman, Jon Landers (www.thecreativegrp.com) and John Braiman Read More

See following link for Boca Bearing Innovation Competition, which also includes robotics entries. http://www.bocabearings.com/innovation-contest/ Read More

By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot Report (www.TheRobotReport.com) and Catherine Simon, General Secretary, French Federation of Robotics         Today’s devices are becoming smarter and connected. They sense their environment, process the data collected and act upon their decisions autonomously or semi-autonomously.  The transformation is beyond productivity and enters our daily life in health, safety, transportation, communication, entertainment, chores and more. This trend […] Read More

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” at the top right corner. Read More

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 Fort Smith, AR in December of this year. BEST, which […] Read More

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 summary of each session… November 2 Robots that matter – […] Read More

  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 manage a successful robotics business.      Complete with a Business Development […] Read More

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 that won top honors in the 2011 regional Digilent design […] Read More

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 Learned in Advancing Robotics With a Common Platform An Object-Based […] Read More