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Comprehensive Report on Market for Educational and Entertainment Robots

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Educational and Entertainment Robot Market Strategy, Market Shares, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014" to their offering.

20 Jun 2013

REC Foundation and Texas Workforce Commission Support VEX Robotics Competition School Teams

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the Texas Workforce Commission today announced a partnership to support growth and development of 400 new and 100 existing VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) high school teams to engage approximately 5,000 students both in public school and home school settings.

18 Jun 2013

Seventh Annual Western National Robot Rodeo Being Hosted by Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is hosting the seventh annual Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise, a lively and challenging five-day event that draws civilian and military bomb squad teams from across the country to see who can most effectively defuse dangerous situations with the help of robots.

18 Jun 2013

Stanford Students Build Robotic Soccer Goalkeeper

"Some of these students have been here all night long," said computer science Professor Oussama Khatib, motioning to the half-dozen groups of students hunched over computer screens and robotic arms.

14 Jun 2013

iRobot Partners with Cisco to Market Ava 500 Video Collaboration Robot

At InfoComm today, iRobot Corp., a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, announced the company has signed a joint marketing agreement and is working in close alliance with Cisco to bring the enterprise-grade iRobot Ava 500 video collaboration robot to market.

From iRobot Corporation 11 Jun 2013

Inexpensive, Autonomous Robotic Scouts for Firefighters

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.

6 Jun 2013

FIRST Global Robotics Competition Receives $123,000 Contribution from NRG Energy

NRG Energy Inc. has donated $123,000 so far this year through sponsorships and employee auction proceeds as part of a year-long program to benefit FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).

30 May 2013

Fire Ant Inspires Subterranean Search and Rescue Robots

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

23 May 2013

Robotics Competition for Computer Scientists at iAAMCS Event

Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for increasing African-American participation in computing.

22 May 2013

Robotics Company, GeckoSystems, Forecasts Profitable 4th Quarter

GeckoSystems Intlernational Corporation is pleased to announce that due to the licensing agreement recently reached, the company forecasts a net profit for the 4th quarter of their fiscal year ending June 30. For over fifteen years GeckoSystems has dedicated itself to development of "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service™"

From GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. 22 May 2013