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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
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
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
April 2007
Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-Girls All-girl teams make their presence felt at regional high school robotics competitions. |
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
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." |
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
May 2007
Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-girls Take On the World More than 10,000 teenagers from 344 teams traveled from 23 countries to the Georgia Dome for the 2007 FIRST Robotics World Championship. Seven all-girl teams made the run through the gauntlet of regional championships to be part of the Atlanta group. |
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. |
National Defense
April 2015
Valerie Insinna |
Robot Puts Out Shipboard Fires Another possibility currently under development is sending robots to find and put out fires aboard Navy ships. |
PC Magazine
January 29, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do. |
National Defense
December 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades. |
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. |
| AskMen.com |
Baseball-Playing Robots A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
John Teresko |
I, Microsoft By providing a common development platform, Microsoft hopes to expand the potential for robotics. |
National Defense
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
Food Engineering
January 10, 2006 |
Process automation Robot developed for the food industry. |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2009
Glenn Derene |
Innovators Share Ideas at 2009 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards The fifth annual Breakthrough Awards, brings together scientists, engineers and inventors who are changing (or who will soon change) our world for the better. Here are some scenes from the all-day event. |
PC Magazine
April 18, 2007
Erik Rhey |
Q&A: iRobot Co-Founder Helen Greiner The co-founder and chairman of the board for iRobot talks about the future of helper robots, the PackBot in war zones, and women in technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
David Schneider |
Robot Gift Ideas These robotics kits can liven up the holidays -- and give a kid a taste of robotics engineering |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Rise of the Robots Robots are well on their way from the pages of science fiction to your front door. In fact, advanced humanoid robots could be a part of our everyday life as early as 10 years from now. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 5, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
MIT and FIRST Ally To Encourage STEM Education Careers The cornerstone of the alliance is a pilot program to teach robotics to K-12 students after school. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
IndustryWeek
February 15, 2012
Josh Cable |
Industrial Robotics Expand Beyond the Automotive Industry Thanks to the maturation of robotics technology, a growing number of industries are using robots for a wider range of applications. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Watch A Robot Take On A Ping-Pong Champ In This Epic Matchup To celebrate the opening of a Shanghai factory, German robotics company Kuka pitted its one-armed ping-pong-playing robot against German table tennis champ Timo Boll. |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2008
Wayne Ma |
Without Winner, TechX Offers Gut Check for Worldwide War Bots Can military robots from non-superpower countries be ready for battle if they're running into garbage bins and mistaking plants for elevators? |
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
January 2010
Susan Karlin |
Robotics' Wild Kingdom An engineer looks to nature to make robots that slither through pipes and climb walls. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children Robots address some of the deficits we know are present in children with autism, especially coordination and social problems. |
PC Magazine
December 28, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
My Very Own Robot Want to rig your own robot? After more than a year of development, White Box Robotics is preparing to ship its 912 series of customizable robots (shown) in the first quarter of 2005. |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
3D printing allows soft robots to rise up Although they may not be taking over the world any time soon, a 3D printed soft robot mimicking the flexible body of an invertebrate has been manufactured by a group of scientists in the US. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
National Defense
March 2010
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA to Take on Major New Robotics Initiative The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a major new initiative to create robotic autonomous manipulators that mimic the human hands, an agency program manager said. |
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. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2006
Tim Scannell |
The Next Battlefront For Robots Military robots may be at the front lines, but researchers are now looking at ways to use them to improve medicine and elder lifestyles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2009
Courtney E. Howard |
iRobis Infuses Robots with Cognition The digital battlefield of the future could be closer than we anticipated, as scientists continue to make headway in the design and development of autonomous robots. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Meet Microsoft's Mr. Roboto Will we all want to thank the Redmond giant for revolutionizing robotics someday soon? This stock might be worth a look. |
Wired
September 2000 |
At Home With The Androids Robosapiens... SIG... DB... Face Robot... Personal Robot R100... Jack... Robonaut... |
Popular Mechanics
February 2009
Emily Masamitsu |
Robots That Help The Disabled (With Video) Help for disabled people has increasingly been the domain for skilled dogs. But one robotics Lab has another solution: EI-E, a robot that can see, hear, push, pull and twist in order to perform basic household tasks for its disabled commander. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Erik Sofge |
New Military Robots to Face Off in Two Summer Contests Singapore and the United Kingdom are staging robotics competitions this August to develop their own autonomous war machines. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
David Schneider |
Robin Murphy: Roboticist to the Rescue Her intelligent robots help search for victims of disaster. |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Getting Ready for the 'Robot Revolution' As advances in technology allow for smarter, more versatile robots, they are expected to become more widely used in places such as laboratories, hospitals and food service operations. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Erico Guizzo |
A Robot in the Kitchen Roboticists in Japan and South Korea are designing the household servants of the future |
