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Ethical guidelines on war robots

19-Dec-08

Robots can be used for 2 purposes, for good purposes or bad purposes. With the ethics of robotics, robots can be expected to be used for good purposes only. Here the article about ethical guidelines on war robots.
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International guidelines are needed for the ethical and safe use of robots “for care and for war”, according [...]

Lego Competition: A Learning Experience

14-Dec-08

Dressed in matching black team T-shirts boasting a futuristic robot on a gray background, ROAM teammates were among more than 100 children ages 9-14 who went head-to-head with their robots, built and programmed with the Lego Mindstorms system.

Robotics in the Future

20-Nov-08

From vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers to military landmine detectors, robots are becoming increasingly present in our daily lives. May be obots will be found everywhere in future…
Robots may soon be everywhere, in homes and at work. They could change the way humans live. If this happens, it will most likely raise many philosophical, social, and [...]

A Lego Lesson in robotics

18-Nov-08

An education news from glendalenewspress.com:
GLENDALE — Student Boris Aguilar adjusted a robot’s movement using computer codes in preparation for a competition Saturday at the FIRST Lego Robotics Tournament at Roosevelt Middle School.

His team programmed the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot’s movements on a laptop computer, which through a wireless signal sent codes to the robot made [...]

Austin College receives Microsoft Research grant for robotics

21-Oct-08

This news come from www.ntxe-news.com
Austin College became one of 28 high schools, colleges and universities in the nation to receive a grant to enhance computer science curriculum with robotics technology. The grant was provided by the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) and a gift from Microsoft Research.
“Implementing robotics into computer science and other [...]

MHS Robotics Team to study hydrogen fuel

04-Oct-08

A News for MHS Robotics:
The team — one of 50 in the nation and only four in South Carolina — was chosen to participate in a Green Machine competition to retrofit a robotic vehicle engine with a hydrogen fuel cell.
Nancy Zende, the Mauldin High team adviser, said the team’s acceptance into the competition is “a [...]

New Robotics Center Will Strengthen High Tech Workforce

18-Sep-08

Robotics news from Alabama, i think robotics center is great idea…
NewsChannel 19’s Barry Hiett Reports:
Planning ahead for the future. It won’t be long before a new Robotics Center will be calling the Calhoun Community College campus home.
And faculty members here want to make sure that students who participate in the program are well trained before [...]

Three Laws Of Robotics by Isaac Asimov

13-Sep-08

These laws is well known in robotics education.
Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround”, although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:

A robot may not injure [...]

Ant Robots Tutorial

13-Sep-08

Ant robots are simple and cheap robots with limited sensing and computational capabilities. This makes it feasible to deploy teams of ant robots and take advantage of the resulting fault tolerance and parallelism. Ant robots cannot use conventional planning methods due to their limited sensing and computational capabilities. Rather, their behavior is driven by local [...]

Robotics for Kids

08-Aug-08

www.roboticslearning.com, this site provide good robotics learning and practice for your children. Look at the gallery preview, the children are happy with their practice..

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