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High school students in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) will soon be participating in the FIRST International Robotics Competition. For the occasion, Fusion Jeunesse has launched an invitation to the public for February 20 from 11:15 am to 2:00 pm at the Loyola High School located at 7272, rue Sherbro…
Voix du Nord reports that teacher Olivier Cassez is going to participate in the Open International Championship in Taiwan with 8 of his students. This is the First Lego League which gathers participants from 60 countries and is an international contest where the aim is to present useful and cutt…
The 2010 Robogames will take place from April 23 to 25. Robogames is the largest international robot competition. It's a family event with over 70 robotics competitions. Many categories are represented, from major combat robots, to the kung-fu and Sumo androids, gymnast robots, miniature autonomo…
The 30th competition of robotic laboratory rats took place in Japan at Micromouse 2009. A rat or mouse capable of finding their way in a maze is impressive, but what you are about to see in this video has - kind of - nothing to do with speed. Incredible! Initially, the mouse assesses and scans t…
The new generation of bolts-and-computer-chip fighter is born. In the future, fighter robots may replace men in extreme fighting, wrestling or boxing. It is amazing how they move, fight and fall at all times and with so much ease. Below, the lighter than 1 kg category, also known as U1K. A great…
The First Robotics Competition is an international robotics event organized by FIRST for High School students with their mentors. Students come from all corners of the globe, mainly from Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel, the United States, United Kingdom, and Mexico. The goal is to build a…
Planet-Science's Robotics Trophies have been held annually in France since 1993 (except in 2006 when they were held in Belgium). Participants are aged between 7 and 18 years, in teams of two (driver and co-driver), and their mission is to build wire-controlled play robots. The focus and learnin…
A french company, named Parrot, unveiled an iPhone controlled, wifi-enabled, quadrocopter at CES 2010. The robot, called the AR.Drone, is a sophisticated and snazzy quadrocopter that is controlled via an iPhone or iPod Touch over a wifi connection. The AR.Drone has two onboard cameras, one of wh
As we say goodbye to the 200x's and welcome the 201x's it's good to pause a bit and think about the world as it was ten years ago. There was no Wikipedia, no YouTube, internet access was still dialup for a huge portion of the population, and we didn't have a whole heap of really cool robots. To hig…
  A couple of weeks ago we reported on Jon Hyland's NanoSeeker Micro AUV project. Today Jon posted some more details on his project and he seems to be making rapid progress. With the help of a rapid prototype machine there are now working prototypes of the vehicles in the water. The NanoSeeker
Jon Hylands, on his blog this week, posted a link to his NanoSeeker Micro AUV project. The vehicle is 6 inches long and 1.25 inches in diameter. That's tiny! Jon plans to outfit the AUV with a 6 DOF IMU, a compass, depth sensor and an ARM based microcontroller. You can see some pictures of the
Cornell University has won the 12th annual AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. And, according to Cornell's tweet, second place goes to University of Victoria and 3rd to University of Rhode Island. Interestingly, these three teams weren't even in the top 5 of last year's compeitors (pd…
A few weeks ago, the most excellent company, SparkFun hosted an autonomous vehicle competition at their building in Builder Colorado. The competition was open to all forms of autonomous vehicles and was race around the peremeter of the buildings. Chris Anderson from DIY Drones entered a flying veh…
Here's a fantastic walking robot costume for a small child. Check out the "build notes" after the jump. Just add some water or nerf guns and your kid will be the ultimate ruler of the neighborhood! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9v0EdhwlM L's chicken walking robot costume http://www.youtube.c…
After ten yeras, the array of creations made with the LEGO's Mindstorms kit is pretty impressive. One of the latest things to amaze me is this NXT 3D scanner created by Philo. The device uses several motors and linear actuators to probe the surface of an object and precisely record its shape. The …
Shown below is a video of a robot that uses the perceived vanishing point of an image to navigate through a corridor. The robot, based on an iRobot Create, uses a standard webcam and video processing to locate the vanishing point of what it sees, and navigates towards that point. Such navigation wo…
