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Grillbots to Demonstrate New Features in Automated Grill-Cleaning Robots at CES 2015

Grillbots have achieved grill domination in 2014, selling more than 40,000 units worldwide. But 2015 brings the next wave of grill-cleaning advancements, with Grillbots not only expanding distribution channels internationally, but also announcing the addition of five new features that will improve the BBQ cleaning process for home grillers.

7 Jan 2015

FIRST to Launch 2015 Season of Robotics Competition

FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) will be joined by numerous public figures to launch the 2015 season of the FIRST®Robotics Competition with a worldwide Kickoff event originating from Manchester, N.H.

5 Jan 2015

FIRST® Founder Launches RECYCLE RUSH 2015 Robotics Game

Inventor and FIRST®Founder Dean Kamen launched the 2015 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) season today with the Kickoff of a new robotics game called RECYCLE RUSHSM before a crowd of more than 800 people at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., hometown of FIRST Headquarters. Nearly 75,000 high-school students on approximately 3,000 teams at 107 venues around the globe joined the 2015 Kickoff via live Comcast NBCUniversal broadcast.

5 Jan 2015

Empire Robotics to Demonstrate VERSABALL Gripper Playing Beer Pong at CES 2015

Attendees at International CES in Las Vegas, January 6-9, will encounter a new industrial robotic gripper archetype as Empire Robotics demonstrates the precision, gentle touch, and safe human interaction of its VERSABALL gripper by competing with any attendee up for the challenge at a game of beer pong, culminating in a competition between professional beer pong players and robot on the opening day. All of this takes place in the Empire Robotics’ booth #75183 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.

5 Jan 2015

MSU Extension’s Junk Drawer Robotics Program Introduces STEM Concepts Using Engineering Design Process

Michigan 4-H Youth Development bases all its programs and activities on experiential, inquiry based, hands-on learning. The model being used for this is the Experiential Learning Model: do, reflect and apply which is described in a series of articles by Michigan State University Extension.

2 Jan 2015

Ozobot Receives 2015 Kids at Play Interactive Award for Best Robot at International CES

Who's that tiny dancer in the aisles of the Consumer Electronics Show? It's Ozobot, the world's smallest programmable robot with the intuitive color-based language. Ozobot's capacity for fun and learning are endless.

31 Dec 2014

FIRST® Robotics Competition 2015 Season to be Launched with Worldwide Kickoff Event

30 Dec 2014

Kettering University Offers LEGO NXT Class Through Oxford Virtual Academy

Homeschool families interested in supplementing their in-home educational offerings can now do so with courses through Oxford Virtual Academy (OVA) at Kettering University.

29 Dec 2014

Buffalo Computer Graphics to Offer Tacbot Robots with Cameras and HAZMAT Sensors through Lithos

Buffalo Computer Graphics, Inc. (BCG) has partnered with Lithos Robotics Corporation to offer customers new video and audio options with camera systems and robots that can be placed directly at disaster sites and viewed in the DisasterLAN (DLAN) Streaming Video Module.

23 Dec 2014

New Robotic Technology Gives Ball State Students Benefit of Working with Professionals

What was once the stuff of science fiction is now an educational tool students in Ball State University’s architecture, planning and landscape architecture programs are incorporating into daily life.

22 Dec 2014