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Robotic Painting Arm Could Assist Surgeons in Surgeries

Would you let an artist perform life-saving surgery on you?
You might someday, if the artist is a painting robot.

4 Feb 2014

WPI Researchers Receive Awards from NSF’s National Robotics Initiative

Two researchers in the pioneering Robotics Engineering Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have received awards through the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Robotics Initiative to investigate and overcome fundamental challenges involved with robots working alongside people in settings such as manufacturing plants and the homes of the elderly.

4 Feb 2014

Northrop Grumman Awards Grant to Prototype-X FIRST Robotics Competition Team

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently provided grants worth nearly $7,000 to support two science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educational initiatives and one job training program in Salt Lake City.

31 Jan 2014

Electronic Tongue to Drink Beer Could Give Sense of Taste to Robots

Spanish researchers have managed to distinguish between different varieties of beer using an electronic tongue. The discovery, published in the journal 'Food Chemistry', is accurate in almost 82% of cases.

31 Jan 2014

Students Pit Robots at Montana State University College of Engineering First Robotics State Championship

Students from Montana, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming will pit their robots against each other on Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1 in the annual Montana State University College of Engineering First Robotics championship.

25 Jan 2014

Hawaii to Host VEX Robotics Summer Games on July 10-12, 2014

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation today announced that the State of Hawaii has been chosen to host the VEX Robotics Summer Games, a premier international STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) event. The VEX Robotics Summer Games will welcome up to 200 elementary, middle, high school and college teams from around the world to compete in the VEX IQ Challenge, VEX Robotics Competition (VRC), and VEX U in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 10-12, 2014 at the Hawaii Convention Center.

23 Jan 2014

Jigabot Unveils AIMe Robotic Camera Auto-Framing System at 2014 Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Institute co-founder Sterling Van Wagenen was on hand to celebrate Jigabot’s unveiling of its AIMe robotic camera auto-framing system to filmmakers attending the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

21 Jan 2014

NASA Participates in Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge

NASA will participate in the fifth annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge Friday, Jan. 17, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass.

17 Jan 2014

Clearpath Robotics to Provide Service and Support for Willow Garage’s PR2 Personal Robotics Platform

Willow Garage, the developer of PR2, announces the immediate transfer of support and services responsibilities to Clearpath Robotics, a leader in mobile robotics for research and development.

From Clearpath Robotics Inc. 17 Jan 2014

Budgee Friendly Robot Helps Senior Citizens and Disabled People Carry Their Stuff

Senior citizens and disabled people find it difficult to carry their items when moving around the house, going out to work, to the store, shopping or simply moving about within the society. To help solve this problem, Five Elements Robotics has created Budgee™.

9 Jan 2014