Category Archives: Robot News

Barbie’s latest career path is robotics engineering

From: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/26/mattel-barbie-robotics-engineer/ Earlier this year, Mattel announced that it was partnering with Tynker to bring Barbie-themed coding lessons to young kids. As of today, six free coding experiences are now available as is a new STEM-themed doll — Robotics Engineer … Continue reading

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Article: A Burger Joint Where Robots Make Your Food

A Burger Joint Where Robots Make Your Food http://flip.it/7zrgfe

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Article: A Security Robot Found Beaten Up and Covered in BBQ Sauce Had it Coming

From: Nerdist Under normal circumstances we would never encourage or endorse slathering someone in BBQ sauce, beating them up, and leaving them lying on the side of the road, and that goes for both humans and robots. But we’re not … Continue reading

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Summer Camps

Looking for summer camps. Here are some you might be interested in: CodeCrew has a number of programming and robotics summer camps at various times and locations for grades 1-12. See there website: https://www.code-crew.org/events/ for more information. Programs include coding, … Continue reading

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Festo’s New Bionic Robotis

From: IEEE Specturm Festo’s New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox The latest in weird and potentially useful robots from German automation giant Festo By Evan Ackerman We love Festo because every year they invest an entirely appropriate amount … Continue reading

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Teachers Try Science

Here is a neat page with lesson plans to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). It is done by IBM and it is call TEACHERSTRYSCIENCE.ORG

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Move over soccer moms: Robotics moms take over

By ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG The Naples Daily News Mar 11, 2018 LINK IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) — Christy Kobes jumps to her sock-and-sandal feet, sending a vibration rippling down the metal bleachers. “Let’s go! Let’s go! Think destructive thoughts!” she yells to … Continue reading

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Nissan Embeds Self-Parking Tech in Pillows and Slippers

I never knew how badly I needed a self-parking slipper until now! By Evan Ackerman from IEEE Specturm Nissan, like every other car manufacturer that doesn’t want to be rendered mostly obsolete within the next few decades, has been gradually … Continue reading

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Article: Robby Robot Kit Helps Learn About Robots And Robotics

Robby Robot Kit Helps Learn About Robots And Robotics 11:51 am February 13, 2018 By Julian Horsey from Geeky Gadgets Anyone interested in learning more about robots or robotics may be interested in a new educational robot created by the … Continue reading

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Updated Links

I didn’t realize how out of date some of my links were on the right hand side….just updated them!

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