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iRobot Provides Updates to Create 2 Preassembled Robot Platform and STEM Outreach Program

iRobot Corp., the leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, today announced exciting updates to the company's successful STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) outreach program, including the launch of Create 2 – a preassembled robot platform, based off the company's Roomba®, that gives educators, students and developers firsthand robotic programming experience.

12 Dec 2014

Leverhulme Trust Grants Funding to Develop ‘Biomimetic’ Devices That Respond to Light

A project to develop ‘biomimetic’ devices that re-orientate in response to light has been granted funding by the Leverhulme Trust.

10 Dec 2014

FIRST Robotics’ New Competition Game to be Announced at Kick-Off Event on Jan. 3

FIRST Robotics’ new competition game and kit-of-parts will be the last present unwrapped this holiday season.

9 Dec 2014

Annual FIRST Robotics Championship Tournament at Clarkson University

Robots and their handlers invade Clarkson University for the annual FIRST Championship Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 13, and Sunday, Dec. 14.

8 Dec 2014

FIRST® LEGO® League Championship Tournament Takes Place at University of Rochester

Creativity and science come together at this weekend’s FIRST® LEGO® League Championship Tournament at the University of Rochester. The competition brings the top 36 teams, selected from a regional pool of over 130 teams to compete. Teams will demonstrate their problem-solving skills, creative thinking, teamwork, competitive play, sportsmanship, and sense of community.

8 Dec 2014

Gonzaga Senior Wins Scholarship to Study Robotics at University of Bristol

Christopher Birmingham, a Gonzaga University senior from Tacoma, Washington, who has focused his studies on developing robots to help the disabled and the elderly, has won a Marshall Scholarship, a prestigious and extraordinarily competitive award that enables future leaders to undertake advanced graduate study at universities in the United Kingdom.

5 Dec 2014

FIRST® Robotics Competition Australia Regional Event to Take Place Through 2018

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 the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) Australia Regional Event, through 2018, in collaboration with Macquarie University. For the first time, Australian FRC teams will be able to compete at a regional level without leaving the country.

4 Dec 2014

Students Examine Role of Engineers During Development of New Robotic Technologies

The continued expansion of robotic applications in fields including health care, energy, agriculture, defense and manufacturing is creating new opportunities for technology in the marketplace and new challenges for engineers, designers and entrepreneurs.

2 Dec 2014

Design Meets Robotics

An impressive opening night of the exhibition ‘Visually Defiant 2014’, buzzed with an abundance of innovative robotic designs.

1 Dec 2014

Bristol Robotics Laboratory Launches Robotics Innovation Facility

A new initiative to encourage and support the take up of robotics technology within industry across Europe is being launched at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) today, Wednesday 26 November.

27 Nov 2014