Category Archives: Robot News

Robot Moves In Any Direction On Ball Wheels | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2021/05/29/robot-moves-in-any-direction-on-ball-wheels/

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Mate Underwater Robotics Competition

It’s official!  The West TN STEM Hub will host the MATE Mid-South Regional ROV Competition in May 2021!  The competition is open to elementary-high school students, and no robotics experience is required.  For more info on the local competition see: https://westtnstemhub.org/mate-rov-midsouth … Continue reading

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Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover’s entry, descent, and … Continue reading

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LEGO-based robotic McDonald’s Machines

Also found this one:

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Video Friday: New Entertainment Robot Sings and Does Impressions

These videos were included in the article Video Friday: New Entertainment Robot Sings and Does Impressions on the IEEE Spectrum Website Engineered Arts’ latest Mesmer entertainment robot is Cleo….personally I think she is a little creepy (with her skin on … Continue reading

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Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish

For more info read Meet Blueswarm, a Smart School of Robotic Fish from the IEEE Spectrum Website

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Watch “Introducing Stretch” on YouTube

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Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

This is so neat! They got video of the Perseverance Rover landing on Mars….. Full News Conference: Also check out all the pictures coming back at: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/ and https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ Oh, just heard the rover’s cameras are running off of an … Continue reading

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MATE ROV Competition 2021

The MATE ROV Competition is a global student underwater robotics (remotely operated vehicle or ROV) competition that consists of World Championship and a network of 41 (and growing!) regional contests that take place across North America, Asia, North Africa, the … Continue reading

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Watch “Samsung’s CES 2021 keynote in under 9 minutes” on YouTube

Robotics portion starts about 3:30 in.

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