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FIRST® Tech Challenge Targeting Middle, High-School Students Selects Game-Changing Technology Platform

FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an international not-for-profit K-12 organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology, today announced that one of its four K-12 robotics programs, FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC®) targeted to middle and high-school students, has selected a game-changing technology platform beginning with the upcoming 2015/2016 season.

12 Mar 2015

Mouser, Grant Imahara Invite Engineers to Participate in Robotics Empowering Innovation Challenge

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the global authorized distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is partnering with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara to call on engineers of all levels to join them on a journey to Empower Innovation Together™. Engineers worldwide can engage with Grant Imahara through a variety of topics and series of challenges that question and defy innovation in the pursuit of new ideas.

26 Feb 2015

Floor Care Products to Dominate Consumer Robotic Home Care Solutions Market into 2019

Floor care products are the runaway market share leader among consumer oriented robotic home care / lawn care solutions, exceeding other classes of products such as robotic lawn mowers and pool cleaners by a wide margin.

19 Feb 2015

Sifteo Team to Help 3D Robotics Build New Consumer Drones

Just ask the two co-founders of MIT Media Lab spinout Sifteo: Their success in rapidly commercializing their popular “smart” gaming blocks recently led to an acquisition by 3D Robotics (3DR) to help build the company’s newest consumer drones.

17 Feb 2015

Introducing Youth to Robotics Could Help Create Future Engineers

Introducing youth to robotics before high school may spark an interest to become future engineers. Fun hands-on activties with robotics will build creativity, develop math skills and stimulate young minds.

16 Feb 2015

German Academic Exchange Service Provides More Than 800,000 Euro for Interactive Intelligent Systems Thematic Network

Equipping machines with the necessary intelligence that will enable them to recognize how to make life easier for their human users all by themselves: To further this research, Bielefeld University is strengthening its international ties with leading universities and research institutes on five continents.

13 Feb 2015