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School Students Create Robots Using Legos at FIRST Lego League

The teams participating in the FIRST Lego League for building robots included students from the Missouri Valley, Logan, Boyer Valley Schools, Woodbine, and West Harrison.

21 Feb 2011

RIA Releases Statistics Report on North American Robotics Market

Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has provided a new statistics report on the North American robotics market. The report states that robotics firms in North America experienced significant growth last year and they have been continuously growing since 2007.

21 Feb 2011

Robotics Company, Milara Procures New Building in Milford

Milara, developer of wafer-handling robots, has declared that it has purchased a new building measuring 50,000 square feet at 49 Maple St, Milford. This acquirement will enable the company to expand its robotics operations.

21 Feb 2011

Meka Robotics Unveils Meka M1 Mobile Manipulator

Meka Robotics has released Meka M1 Mobile Manipulator, a humanoid. The robot has a pair of nimble arms, a wheel base that can move in all directions and a head featuring the Microsoft Kinect sensor. The robot’s computer uses Meka Robotics’ real-time control software with the ROS annexure.

21 Feb 2011

FIRST State Robotics Contest to be Held in Kingswood Oxford School

Kingswood Oxford School will host the Connecticut State FIRST Tech Robotics Contest on March 5, 2011. Around 300 high school children representing 20 schools will participate in the challenge.

21 Feb 2011

CeBIT Fair to Include iDTRONIC's RFID Products

iDTRONIC, leading developer of RFID hardware, has announced that it will participate in the CeBIT fair, which will be held in Hannover between March 1 and 5, 2011.

21 Feb 2011

Spruce Creek High School and Forest High School Students Win FIRST Regional Robotics Contest

FIRST Lego robotics team formed by four students from Spruce Creek High School and Forest High School bagged the first prize in the FIRST regional contest held at the Cocoa Beach High School.

21 Feb 2011

Greater Berkeley Team to Participate in FIRST State Contest

‘Mad Dr. Lego’, an All Girl robotics team formed by eight students from Goose Creek, Ladson and the Macedonia areas of Berkeley County will take part in the FIRST State Contest, which will be conducted at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center on March 5.

21 Feb 2011

AMA International University Partners with Automation Supplier, FESTO

AMA International University (AMAIUB), leading training university in the Gulf Council region, has announced that it has partnered with FESTO, major provider of automation and pneumatic solutions.

21 Feb 2011

Ben-Gurion University Receives Sponsorship for Robotics Project

Scientists at the Ben-Gurion University (BGU) have received funding worth $1.3 million for building innovative algorithms that can make robots to sense and harvest profitable crops like orchard fruits, greenhouse peppers and high quality grapes.

21 Feb 2011

AUTOMATICA 2012 Exhibition to be Held in May

CEE has declared that the AUTOMATICA 2012 fair will be held sooner this year. Rather than being organized in June, the exhibition will be held between May 22 and 25, 2012 at the New Munich Trade Fair.

21 Feb 2011

Mind-Reading Robotics Offer Hope for New Prosthetics

Researchers are ready to advance their tests of a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) from animals to human subjects, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just granted them more than $6 million over the next three years to get those human clinical trials under way.

By Andy Choi 20 Feb 2011

Japan Plans to Send Robot into Space by 2013

Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan. Japan's space agency JAXA is considering putting a talking humanoid robot on the International Space Station to watch the mission while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the microblogging site Twitter.

By Andy Choi 20 Feb 2011