Category Archives: Robot News

Planet Green show aims to inspire kids with science

Posted on October 21, 2010 by dkohn96

Since Dean Kamen is the founder of US-First, I thought I would pass along this news story: Planet Green show aims to inspire kids with science From USA Today (Oct 21, 2010) What if tiny “nano-bots” could autonomously travel though … Continue reading →

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Humanoids2010 – IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference

Posted on October 19, 2010 by dkohn96

Taken from: http://www.humanoids2010.org/index.php The 2010 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots will be held on December 6-8, 2010 at Nashville, TN, USA. The conference theme is “Intelligent and Dependable Humanoid Robots,” reflecting growing interests in developing intelligent and dependable humanoid … Continue reading →

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BEST Announces 2010 Contest

Posted on September 28, 2010 by dkohn96

Boosting Engineering Science and Technology (B.E.S.T.) announced the contest for 2010 just recently. This years contest is called “Total Recall”. See full RULES or goto the 2010 Competition website for more details. See Hub Map to find a contest near … Continue reading →

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Raytheon XOS 2 exoskeleton

Posted on September 28, 2010 by dkohn96
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Festo Turns Elephant’s Trunk into Awesome Robot Arm

Posted on September 28, 2010 by dkohn96

From: Festo, Deutscher-Zukunftspreis Smart engineers copy ideas. Great engineers copy from nature. Festo’s Bionic Handling Assistant is a robot arm modeled on an elephant’s trunk, and it has all the supple flexibility of the original. Using hollow plastic chambers that … Continue reading →

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Google’s Project 10 to the 100 Winners – USFirst Wins!

Posted on September 27, 2010 by dkohn96

From: HULIQ Submitted by Anissa Ford on 2010-09-25 Nearly 12 months ago, Google asked people and institutions around the world to submit ideas that could change the world. Google’s mission was to help make those ideas reality with financial support. … Continue reading →

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Extra Credit: Houston High Robotics

Posted on September 27, 2010 by dkohn96

By Kym Clark from: WMC_TV MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) – Houston High school started the new school year with a brand new Scientific Research & Robotics course that has captured the imagination of students. The school calls it high tech tinkering, … Continue reading →

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SoutheastCon 2011 Robot Compeition Rules

Posted on September 16, 2010 by dkohn96

The rules for this years IEEE SoutheastCon Robot (Hardware) Competition have been posted. See: LINK. Both the University of Memphis and Christian Brothers University usually compete in this totally autonomous robot competition each year. This year the contest is to … Continue reading →

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USFirst News

Posted on September 12, 2010 by dkohn96

It has not been officially announced yet, but I have it on good authority that UT Knoxville will be holding a USFirst Regional this coming year. The first “Smokey Mountain Regional” USFirst competition is tentatively set for March 30-April 2, … Continue reading →

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Red Rover – Google Lunar X Prize

Posted on September 12, 2010 by dkohn96

If you don’t know, Google has a contest call the Lunar X Prize which “is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and … Continue reading →

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