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Company Continues Life-Long Commitment to Youth Programs

07-Feb-08

Inspired by the excitement of last year’s event, Bishop-Wisecarver, the manufacturer of the original DualVee guide wheel, has returned as a sponsor of the 2008 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC).
Since 1989, FIRST has brought the excitement of a sporting event to science and technology via robotics competitions. At [...]

A New Direction For Vietnamese Science and Technology

07-Feb-08

(Nanowerk News) We are now living in an era of global competition, which is based on scientific and technological strength. Growth of a country is driven by technological renewal and creativity. To follow this situation, Vietnam’s science and technology service should make complete changes.
Global tendencies
According to top the World Bank’s scientific and educational experts, [...]

Adept Technology to Host Automation Industry Conference

06-Feb-08

Adept Technology, Inc , the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, today announced it will host its Adept Global Conference 2008 event at its corporate offices in Livermore, CA April 2-4, 2008. The automation conference will feature industry leaders, real-world case studies, live automation demonstrations and a chance to network with [...]

PS 21 Best in Toy Robotics Contest

06-Feb-08

Six months after being introduced to robotics, the kids at Public School 21 in Bedford-Stuyvesant have scored big.
They were named the top team in Brooklyn during the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition at Brooklyn Tech last month.
FIRST - For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology - is a group that creates innovative ways to [...]

Line Follower Robot

22-Nov-07

Line Follower ROBOT
Plermjai Inchuay, plermjai@loxinfo.co.th
Award winner from VingPeaw Competition 2543, the robot built with 2051, L293D, and four IR sensors. Simple circuit and platform, quick tracking and easy-understand program using C language.
I designed my Robot, which use two motors control rear wheels and the single front wheel is free. It has 4-infrared sensors [...]

WowWee Roboreptile Robotic Reptile

22-Nov-07

Wowwee’s Roboreptile is an often startling robotic toy that, once you get the hang of its wonky controls, is actually pretty fun. Like other Wowwee robots, there’s a preprogrammed animation that goes off when it is first powered up. It’s impressive: growling, snapping jaws and a whipping tail. In short, Roboreptile looks like something out [...]

Future Of Consumer Robotics May Rest On Toy Dinosaur

22-Nov-07

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 up and murmured a little [...]

Robots - the Future of Eldercare

20-Nov-07

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 not only detect you, it [...]

Why can’t American consumers handle the future that robotics is willing to offer?

11-Nov-07

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 future that robots really have [...]

Line Follower Sensor

09-Nov-07

The circuit diagram for the Line Follow Sensor board is shown below:

The board is connected directly to the Light IO board via PL4.
This circuit is very simple. +5V is applied via PL4 pin 4 to the circuit, and 0V is connected to pin 1 [...]