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VEX Robotics to Showcase VEX IQ at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013

VEX Robotics, Inc., announced today its support of, and presence at, the Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18-19, where the company will have a booth (#459) to make its consumer debut of VEX IQ – a robotics platform designed to transform STEM learning for young students and teachers.

From VEX Robotics, Inc 16 May 2013

Temple Engineering Graduates to Attend NASA Robotics Program

As sophomores, engineering students Vadim Linevich and Andrew Powell both became involved in the NASA-funded Student Space Exploration and Environmental Systems Laboratory (SSEESL) in Temple’s College of Engineering. The lab offers students a chance to work on diverse projects involving robotics, quad-copters, sub-orbital payload design and high altitude ballooning.

16 May 2013

CDU Students Search for Gold at 2013 National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition

A crew of Charles Darwin University engineering students will face off against more than 20 university teams from across Australia and New Zealand in the search for gold as part of a robotics competition.

15 May 2013

LOBOT Technique Provides Accurate, Real-Time, 3-D Positions for Robotic Vehicles

A Wayne State University researcher understands that the three most important things about real estate also apply to small ground robotic vehicles: location, location, location.

15 May 2013

Kickstarter Campaign Launched for tim-E Robotic Alarm Clock

From the inventors of Bop It!™ and Perplexus, two of the most popular children’s toys on the market, comes tim-E (pronounced “Timmy”), a next generation alarm clock and bedside companion for iPhone and iPod.

15 May 2013

Flying Robot uses Fibre-Based Gecko Adhesive to Perch on Walls

In the latest work presented at ICRA 2013 by Ludovic Daler in a paper titled “A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive”, the AirBurr V11 is shown attaching on walls using a deployable perching mechanism with gecko adhesives.

14 May 2013

Battle between Student-Designed Autonomous Robots

Thirteen autonomous robots will go head-to-head Saturday, May 18, as their student designers vie for a $1,000 cash first prize at the 22st annual Undergraduate Design Competition at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

14 May 2013

Home-Exploring Robot Butler Discovers Objects on its Own

A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it — an object’s location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted — a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.

7 May 2013

Safe and Environmentally Friendly Robotic Lawn Mower

The SmartMow Robot Lawn Mower is a safe, environmentally friendly, affordable solution to maintaining your lawn is designed to save kids from lawn mower injuries.

6 May 2013

Several VEX Robotics Tournaments in Arizona Receive Microchip Sponsorship

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced support of several VEX® robotics tournaments in Arizona.

6 May 2013