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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
In earlier days, this was the nation's watercress king. Then Huntsville became the Rocket City. On Monday, Gov. Bob Riley announced that the Huntsville-Decatur metropolitan area will soon be "the robotics capital of the world."
Allowing for hyperbole, Riley appears to be on target. A 53-acre site on U.S. 31 across ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
MANASSAS, VA.- Employees from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently mentored more than 1,000 students from Prince William County and surrounding area schools during the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition and Tech Challenge events.
The FIRST program is designed to inspire young people to pursue ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
In the past few years industrial processes have monopolised practically all robotic developments and applications. However, the current tendency is marked by new robotics which will have a great impact in various spheres – from the industrial to services and including entertainment and care assistance for persons, amongst other applications. ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Yarmouth - Scientific thinking combining problem solving, math, physics, the Internet and Legos produces directed, creative learning in Kris Hansen’s Robotics I class at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. At the close of a semester-long course, members of the all-male class have created, individually and in groups, a robotic hand, forklift, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
TM Robotics (Europe) Ltd, the European robot sales partner of Toshiba Machine, has announced a new machine vision partnership agreement with UK firm PCS Industries.
The arrangement offers customers an array of vision equipment and software products as well as the integration skills of PCS.
PCS Industries is an accredited Cognex partner. ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Without strong public interest, Legislature could hold upper hand on project’s location
MONTGOMERY — If Alabama’s rumored tight finances let Gov. Bob Riley move forward with his dream robotics campus in 2008, an economist says a campus closest to Huntsville makes financial sense.
But political experts say you can’t leave the Legislature ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- A small green and tan dinosaur slowly wandered across the table in an airy Emeryville, Calif., office space. As it plodded to the end of the table, one plastic hoof started to step off the ledge and instead it felt thin air. It slowly backed ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Advances in technology have been astounding over the last decade. Electronics are starting to be built into everything from vacuums to toothbrushes and slowly, but surely, computers will become an invaluable part of every aspect of daily living. Someday, you’ll be able to take a shower and the bathroom will ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Someday the robots will rise up and kill us all. They'll record our lives, obliterate our privacy, set off nuclear war, and eventually turn on us and eat our brains. If any of this ever did happen, it would serve us right. We, at least American consumers, don't deserve the ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Today’s schoolchildren are getting a healthy dose of robotics — the newest of the three Rs — in an effort to inspire more American students to pursue careers in engineering, science, technology and math.
In Galveston County, schoolchildren as young as 6 and as old as 18 are meeting after school ...
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