Institute for Personal Robots in Education Blog

John Evans students build robot for competition
Greeley Tribune
JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Anita Patane, 12, of John Evans I.B. Middle School practices with the robot designed by her and her classmates during a VEX Robotics competition Saturday in Loveland. The robot was constructed during an ...

Robot patients stars of tour at Daytona State
Daytona Beach News-Journal
It could have been a scene in almost any hospital, except for one thing: This heart patient was a robot. Healthcare educators and professionals from as far away as Japan visited Daytona State College on Sunday to tour the school's patient simulation ...

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National Post
Canada's Dextre robot passes first-of-a-kind test to refuel satellites in space
National Post
Since 2011, Dextre, a two-armed mechanical robot not far removed from “Star Wars” R2-D2 has successfully performed three tests on satellites that weren't built to be repaired in space. From the Canadian Space Agency: RRM is a significant step in ...
Breakthrough for Canadian space robotSun News Network
Orbiting robot gas station gets closer to realityCNET
Robotic pump attendant successfully refuels test satelliteThe Verge
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POZ Showcase: Love, Robot
PropertyOfZack
Love, Robot's brand of emotionally strained alternative rock music pulls at your heart strings. Perhaps it is the brooding writing and strained choral attack of Alexa San Roman (as Love, Robot's music is certainly lyric-centric) or the smartly used ...

Technabob (blog)
Tiny Maid Robot Serves Awesome Dance Moves
Technabob (blog)
We've seen a lot of robots that can dance, but I've never seen one with moves as complicated and lifelike as this maid robot made by YouTuber Dr. GIY. It'll only be a matter of time before Dr. GIY makes 90 more of her and takes over the world with a ...

Robot makers spread global gospel of automation
Indian Express
The robot equipment industry has one word for the alarmist articles and television news programmes that predict a robot is about to steal your job: Fiddlesticks! Well, that wasn't actually the word used last week at the Automate 2013 trade show held in ...

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Free/Open Hardware Robot Projects
Robots.net
FreeIO.org, one of the oldest websites devoted to free and open hardware design, has posted a new article providing a good survey of robot designs under free hardware / open hardware licenses. There are 14 different robot designs dating from 1997 to ...

Examiner.com
NASA develops lunar mning robot prototype, RASSOR
Examiner.com
NASA has developed the prototype of a lunar mining robot it calls the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR), Scaled up versions of the RASSOR, according to a Jan. 27, 2013 piece in Red Orbit, could be used to collect lunar soil ...
Blue Collar Lunar Excavator Could Produce Fuel, Water On The MoonRedOrbit

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