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 combine aspects of engineering, math,  design and mechanics to construct […] Read More

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 play worldwide. National Robotics Week occurs annually on the second […] Read More

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 breakdown of leading technological developments in the field of autonomy, […] Read More

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 grows every year. The official goal of the Robocup Soccer […] Read More

This years event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, and the main focus is “Advancement of New Frontiers for Providing Better Intelligent Robots Services”.Among the workshops that will take place are: Best control practices for service robots, Congitive enhancement of robots using web as a source, Semantic Mapping and Autonomous knowledge acquisition, Evolutionary and Adaptive Robotics, Grasp planning and task learning by imitation, Robot Vision […] Read More

Latest international Robot Exhibition in Japan took place between November 25th and 28th in Japan. Many cool robots were on display such as an Autonomous cargo transport robot, a robotic hand that is able to imitate a human hand’s every move, robotic skates that can move forward when they sense a forward movement from the person wearing it, a ping pong playing robot called topio […] Read More

One of the biggest robot competition events in USA, BEST has just announced the Middle and High School events of this year. The competition will take place on December 11th and December 12th at Auburn University. Over 3500 students, teachers, sponsors and other supporters are attending to this year’s event. Alabama Governor Bob Riley will also attend to the event as a speaker. The event […] Read More

Three robots, powered by lasers, competed last week on November 4th, to climb a rope of one kilometer high hanging from a helicopter. The goal was to finish the distance at the same time by climbing with at least 2 meters/sec speed. The goal of the competition is to set up the knowledgebase for a future space elevator that will allow reaching out to space […] Read More

China plans to hold an olympic game next year. But in this one humans are only admitted as coachs. The robots, more specifically, two legged (bipedal) and two armed humanoid / android robots will compete only. No other type of robot will be admitted. The competition will span as wide range or events as possible, such as robofight, dancing, track and field, domestic service and […] Read More

We would like to inform our readers about upcoming events this October on advanced robotics concepts and design: The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems will take place on October 11 to 15, 2009 at St. Louis, MO, USA. There are a huge number of topics that will be discussed in this event for every aspect of robotic design and artificial intelligence. […] Read More