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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. |
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. |
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. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Hospodor & Hospodor |
Robo-Girls All-girl teams make their presence felt at regional high school robotics competitions. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
| 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 |
Humanoid Robots Next? The ultimate goal of RoboCup 2007 is to develop a team of fully autonomous, humanoid robots that can defeat the human world champion team in soccer by the year 2050. |
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. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
John Teresko |
I, Microsoft By providing a common development platform, Microsoft hopes to expand the potential for robotics. |
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. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. |
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. |
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? |
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 |
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 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
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 |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
We're Doomed: Robots Can Now Learn To Adapt To Injuries A new study published today in Nature explains how robots can use a sort of "evolutionary algorithm" to learn new ways of operating after being injured, according to the MIT Technology Review. |
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. |
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? |
Technology Research News
February 23, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Humanoid robots walk naturally There's a reason most movie robots have wheels in place of legs or are powered by an embedded human. Making machines walk on two legs is exceedingly difficult. |
IndustryWeek
November 18, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Panasonic Making Aggressive Robot Push Panasonic is getting serious about robots and has set its sights on sales of $1.1 billion by 2015. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Lucas Laursen |
Robot to Human: "Trust Me" Rescue robots respond to operator stress levels |
Technology Research News
May 19, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Evolution Trains Robot Teams Using evolution to teach robots complex behavior could eventually give them the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments. There's a long way to go, but researchers are laying a foundation. |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Students Hope Robot Snakes Slither Out of Lab A family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes have potential use in search-and-rescue and surveillance missions. |
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 |
| 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. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Robots, Computers And Education At Georgia Tech, students are assigned their own personal robots. |
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. |
PC Magazine
May 20, 2009
Lance Ulanoff |
The Future of Robots: Prepare to Be Underwhelmed Still waiting for that ultimate robot companion? Don't hold your breath. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown MIT debuts Nexi, a robot with facial expressions. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Safety Snake: The Construction Worker's New Best Friend? Engineers at Virginia Tech have built the HyDRAS-Ascent II robot to climb by encircling a beam and twisting its 90-degree joints in sequence. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
A Chat With Roomba Man The surprise success of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner marked the arrival of mobile robotic appliances. Yet the company's CEO and co-founder is cautious about the future of more advanced humanoid robots. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2005
Ben Ames |
Sandia researchers set sights on battlefield robots Now researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., are building systems that combine the strengths of humans and robots. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2000
Janelle Brown |
Robots "R" us Why are roboticists building machines in their own image? "Robo Sapiens" introduces a homemade population and the egos behind the bots. |
National Defense
February 2015
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA Contest Seeking Humanoid Rescue Robot The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest robotic challenge calls for a human-shaped robot to carry out a series of search-and-rescue tasks. |
PC World
May 23, 2002
Martyn Williams |
Robots Strut and Sell at Japanese Show A growing population of mechanical attendees rolls into the second Robodex exhibition... |
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. |
