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IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Andy Hospodor & Joe Hospodor |
Robo-Girls Know the Way to San Jose An unprecedented seven all-girl teams brought their best robots to San Jose State University to compete in the Robotics Silicon Valley Regional match. The routes they took to the competition were as different as their robots.   |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-Girls All-girl teams make their presence felt at regional high school robotics competitions. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-Girls Redux: Sacramento Semifinals At the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics' Sacramento/Davis regional competition, a lone all-girl team is in the semifinal alliance, hoping to prove they're among the best of 39 teams. |
Popular Mechanics
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
Game On for Students in FIRST Robotics The 1531 veteran teams returning to the FIRST Robotics Competition know anything goes when it comes to the rules for the annual game, which change every year. And that's what makes it fun. |
Popular Mechanics
March 5, 2008
Jennifer Bogo |
Students Dig in to FIRST Robotics Race With Next-Gen Builds Hundreds of high school teams across the nation vie to win the FIRST Robotics Competition. |
Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Students Race for Lunar Cred in New FIRST Robotics Game (With Video!) Teams of high school students have six weeks to build a robot and then compete with it in regional events. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008 |
Inside a Student-Built FIRST Robot: Interactive How It Works Part battle-bot rally, part engineering crash course, FIRST Robotics takes science education out of classrooms and throws it into arenas packed with fans. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Ray Almgren & Mark Walters |
Let the Games Begin The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition leaps onto a new controller platform. |
Popular Mechanics
February 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Inside FIRST Robotics 2009: Robots are Now Ready to Rumble On Tuesday, high school robotics teams from around the country concluded the six-week build period ahead of next month's regional FIRST Robotics Competitions. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Erico Guizzo |
When My Avatar Went to Work A robot surrogate or telepresence robot took my place at the office. Here's why one may take yours, too |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Stephen Cass |
Getting Vexed Vex Robotics Starter Kit: A robot kit that's fun as well as functional. While the kit's target audience is high school kids in classroom and lab settings, it is versatile enough to appeal to a much wider audience. |
Popular Mechanics
March 13, 2008
Erik Sofge |
BattleBots Returns, but Will 'Science Fair Gone Mad' Grab Geeks? The robot death match show switches from Comedy Central to ESPN, and brings a competitive engineering spirit along for the ride. Will the new rules, a modified arena and a brains-over-babes attitude make it a hit? |
Popular Mechanics
June 14, 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Do Robot Players Dream of Synthetic Goals? The World Cup isn't the only global soccer tournament raging in Germany. Welcome to the world of RoboCup, where teams of robot dogs seek their own glory on a modified, wireless-enabled soccer pitch. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Guizzo & Ackerman |
How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker Rodney Brooks's new start-up wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot |
Reason
February 2001
Cathy Young |
Where the Boys Are Is America shortchanging male children? |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Steven Cherry |
Robots, Incorporated Microsoft's best and brightest are quietly trying to bring robotics into the mainstream. Good robotics programming is far harder than writing a typical application for personal computers. |
Popular Mechanics
September 19, 2008
Wayne Ma |
TechX Contest Preps Non-Superpower Military Bots for Urban War On the heels of the United Kingdom's Grand Challenge in August, TechX teams have been taking their cue from the United States' DARPA challenges model to begin levelling the urban warfare playing field. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Look Out, Beckham: Here Come the Robots At the "World Cup" for robots, the talk is that one day the humans on the pitch are going to get a run for their money. |
Popular Mechanics
November 24, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Obama Pushes For Improved Science and Technology Education "The key to meeting these challenges," President Obama said, "is reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of science and discovery and technological invention. The leadership of tomorrow depends on how we educate our students today." |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
Inventing the Future The next 20 years of American innovation will be shaped by 10 cutting-edge science and engineering programs. But before they change the world, these undergraduates will have to finish their homework. |
Wired
March 2004
Douglas McGray |
The Great Robot Race Unmanned aerial vehicles are for wimps. 20 driverless bots are about to get down and dirty in the Pentagon's million-dollar rumble from L.A. to Las Vegas. Start your engines. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Erico Guizzo |
Ney Robinson Salvi dos Reis: Into the Wild And engineer who designs amphibious robots to monitor the Amazon. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Amy Benfer |
Lost boys While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"? |
National Defense
May 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Erik Sofge |
The Uncertain Future For Social Robots Humans have feared a robotic uprising since the machines first appeared in science fiction. Today, experts caution against a more insidious threat: We might like living with them too much. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
Tristan Patterson |
Getting radical Skating might have been for punks, but they were as traditional as they come -- until some girls came along with the toughest 180 ever. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer R2-D2 and Rosie the robot maid may be coming soon to a home, or nursing home, near you. Thanks to advances in computing and navigation technology, robots -- including sophisticated robot toys and appliances -- are now being developed to serve people directly. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Paul Wallich |
I, Roboticist The author expounds on building a robot from a kit and talks about some of the technical difficulties he encountered. |
BusinessWeek
September 4, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Brainier Robots, Brainier Kids? LEGO's robot kit could help spark an early interest in science. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Meet the New Robots The latest generation of robots offers performance advances, growing integration of vision and an enlarging capability to transform manufacturing. |
Fast Company
March 2000
Michael Kaplan |
Battle of the Bots Louis. Marciano. Ali. Those were the great heavyweight fighters of the 20th century. But they were lightweights compared with the 21st century's new breed of fighters: Rhino. Mechadon. Biohazard. Introducing ... The robot rumble. |
Wired
May 2002
Michael Behar |
The New Mobile Infantry Battle-ready robots are rolling out of the research lab and into harm's way... |
