Ashling Cruz talks about her experience with the Thunder Mountain High School robotics team at TMHS on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
Junior Remington Wiley, left, freshman Jaman Goh, center, and junior Keelan Cunningham, of the team Chain Reaction, watch their robot stack blocks during practice for the Thunder Mountain High School robotics team at TMHS on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)
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Robotics competition puts students to the test
HAMPTON, Neb. (KSNB) - Robots designed with strategy, metal, rubber bands, and a plan to be the best in the NPPD robotics competition took to the ring in Hampton Saturday. Students from Holdrege to Omaha began their robots over the summer and each team has to work together to figure out how it'll complete this year's challenge.
"Well it's actually kind of surprising. in the beginning it looked nothing like what I have now," Hampton Robotics Junior Melinda Montoya said. "We went through so many design changes as if it grew up from being a child or something."
How to design and control robots with stretchy, flexible bodies: Optimizing soft robots to
MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally been a monumental undertaking in computation.
Soft robots have springy, flexible, stretchy bodies that can essentially move an infinite number of ways at any given moment. Computationally, this represents a highly complex "state representation," which describes how each part of the robot is moving. State representations for soft robots can have potentially millions of dimensions, making it difficult to calculate the optimal way to make a robot complete complex tasks.
Manitowoc Lutheran: James Siedschlag finds inspiration in robotics
What extracurricular activities have you been involved with during high school? FIRST Robotics, Future Business Leaders of America, Forensics, Drama Club, Khairo, student council, New Friends, Junior Leadership, Youth Apprentice
What is one academic accomplishment about which you feel particularly good? I am most proud of my nomination as a National Merit Scholarship semi-finalist.
Which class or extracurricular activity influenced your decision regarding the career you plan to pursue? FIRST Robotics Competition is what had the most influence on my career plans. Designing and building competition robots is incredibly satisfying — it has shown me what I am capable of and has inspired me to pursue a career in robotics and engineering.
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For this reason, on the release of almost every new Boston Dynamics video, the internet lights up with commentary about how we're all doomed, how the robot apocalypse is nigh. The parody videos made by the LA production leveraged this reaction and indulged the fantasy: the series ends with the CGI robot replicas holding humans at gun point.
The purpose of these narratives has been to use the robot as humanity's mirroring other, similar enough to force us to reflect, with some productive distance, on issues of exploitation, labor, slavery, bigotry, revolution. In other words, the robot apocalypse narrative speaks to our deepest fears about ourselves.
Security robots are mobile surveillance devices, not human replacements - The Verge
Security robots are slowly becoming a more common sight in malls, offices, and public spaces. But while these bots are often presented as replacements for human security guards — friendly robots on patrol — they're collecting far more data than humans could, suggesting they're more like mobile surveillance machines than conventional guards.
A new report from OneZero sheds some light on the scope of the data collection, featuring marketing material and contracts between Knightscope and various city councils. Both show that the main purpose of these robots is gathering data, including license plates, facial recognition scans, and the presence of nearby mobile devices. It's the sort of constant low-level surveillance that only a machine can perform.
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Students from 24 Catholic elementary schools gathered Saturday at St. Mary Catholic Secondary School for the fifth annual First Lego League Hamilton qualifier robotics competition.
Students in grades 6-8 constructed and programed Lego robots to compete in time trials that saw drivers calculate trajectories to deliver payloads to points on a map and mount a ramp.
For each task completed in the prescribed time, the team won points. The team with the most points at the end of three runs won.
Fort Leonard Wood Robotics University develops new robot
The Robotics University at Fort Leonard Wood, Training Area 211, is ready to field a new robot — the Man Transportation Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc II) — to be used by the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy for multiple purposes, including explosive ordnance disposal and detection of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
According to the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center, "The MTRS Inc II provides the warfighter with an ability to locate, identify and clear landmines, unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices in the path of maneuvering forces. It also provides CBRN Soldiers with the capability to employ CBRN sensors from a distance."
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