Parallax Inc, a leading manufacturer of microcontrollers and robotics, announced the release of a new learning system for electronics hobbyists and students designed to simplify learning multi-core programming using the C language. Based around [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” The history of computers is the history of abstraction. Early calculating machines, like Leibniz’s Stepped Reckoner, hid the calculating process from [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” While they don’t yet have on-board sensors, processors, or power, these tiny flying robots are nevertheless a dramatic step forward in [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” This edition of best robot photos of the week includes an Officer Mac robot from the Computer History Museum, Colin Angle’s [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” Ornithopers have been around for many years and robots based on the concept are not new. But, according to a UMD [...]

Mechanical Engineering for Kids www.pitsco.com/store The PITSCO T-BOT II was a breeze to assemble. I used a block of wood as a base for the project. The instructions are simple and clear, with photographs showing each [...]

This approximately one minute film shows an action-packed sequence in a game of Sack Attack at the 2013 VEX Robotics World Championship. The event was hosted by the Robotics Education Foundation, www.roboticseducation.org, and was [...]

In the July-August 2013 issue of Robot, page 66, we published Part 2 of a series on building and programming the Hovis Eco humanoid from Dongbu Robotics. Check out this video to see the [...]

To see the versatility of the DJI Phantom in flight, please scroll about 40% into this 17-minute compilation of multirotor flights (filmed by Tom Atwood at the recent 2013 Multirotor Challenge held at the [...]

The recent 2013 Multirotor Challenge held at the Palomar RC Flyers field in Fallbrook, CT) was an exciting event with more multirotors gathered in one place than ever before. The event was the subject [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” Given our current understanding of how mirror neurons and human emotion works, a new study from the University of Duisburg Essen [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” You may recall our 2012 story, The Universe, The Internet, and the Brain about a paper identifying similarities between the structure [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” I returned from a few days at the VEX Robotics World Championship to find our inbox full of news, so let’s [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” In Robots Podcast episode #128, interviewer Per talks with Pericle Salvini from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna about his work with social, ethical, [...]

The latest competition news courtesy of: “All the news that’s fit to assimilate” Researchers at the University of Virginia are testing UAVs as potential replacements for weather balloons which could simplify some types of [...]