Category: Robotics
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5 Ways Children Can Benefit From AI
ROYBI Blog – 11.8.19 Many parents are skeptical of artificial intelligence interacting with their children. They are wary of robots “having minds of their own.” However, kids interacting with social robots can bring about positive implications that they probably haven’t considered. Here are five ways AI can benefit your children. Source: 5 Ways Children Can…
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Windows expands support for robots
Microsoft Blogs – 10.31.19 (10.30.19) Robotics technology is moving fast. A lot has happened since Microsoft announced an experimental release of Robot Operating System (ROS™)[1] for Windows at last year’s ROSCON in Madrid. ROS support became generally available in May 2019, which enabled robots to take advantage of the worldwide Windows ecosystem—a rich device platform, world-class…
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JIMU Robot | MeeBot 2.0 Kit Speed Build
UBTECH Robotics – 10.29.19 (10.28.19) Check out how awesome it is to build MeeBot 2.0! MeeBot 2.0 is the newest member of the JIMU Robot family. Source: JIMU Robot | MeeBot 2.0 Kit Speed Build
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Grow with Sphero – Alarm Clock
Sphero YouTube Channel – 10.25.19 (10.23.19) How many times do you hit the “snooze” button in the morning? Once? Twice? Five or more times?! Don’t worry, we won’t judge you for it. But if you do find that you need to make sure you ACTUALLY wake up after catching some zzz’s, we’ll show you…
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Teach Coding with the Create with Cubelets Video Series
Modular Robotics – 10.23.19 A best practice when teaching computer science is to emphasize the thinking behind coding more than fluency in a specific programming language. This may be one of the reasons Cubelets first caught your eye. Out of the box, Cubelets are a computational thinking platform that inspire all sorts of engineering design challenges for…
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Nodebots Day: Misty in the House
Misty Robotics Blog – 8.9.19 (8.8.19) Saturday, July 27th was International Nodebots Day, a day to celebrate programming robots with Javascript (for more info about Nodebots, check out http://www.nodebots.io). Because Misty’s first language is Javascript, we thought it’d be an ideal day for us to host a four-hour workshop at Galvanize, one of our favorite developer…
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Grow with Sphero: Spoon Race
Sphero YouTube Channel – 7.19.19 (7.18.19) Got high cholesterol? Swap out eggs for robots! On this week’s #ThursdayLearnDay, we’re Spoon Racing with BOLT robots. Check out this doctor-recommended episode now. Source: Grow with Sphero: Spoon Race
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Reconstructing the Narrative of Personal Robotics
temi Robot – 6.21.19 (6.18.19) Aside from creating the world’s best long-distance communication tool, we have another main focus here at temi HQ: building a responsible narrative for what it means to be a personal robot in the world today and tomorrow. What does that mean? How are we going about this momentous task? Read…
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RVR Launchpad Episode 1: Flamethrower
Sphero YouTube Channel – 6.20.19 (6.19.19) We strapped a flamethrower to our newest robot, RVR. Why? Because we can. Grab some marshmallows and watch the first episode of our new series, Launchpad. Source: RVR Launchpad Episode 1: Flamethrower
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On-boarding Video – temi
temi Robot YouTube Channel – 6.19.19 (6.17.19) temi The Personal Robot Source: On-boarding Video – temi