Robot Competition In Zero-gravity

School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station. Student teams could send a single piece of instruction software to control the small robotic ‘Spheres’. The goal of the tournament was to earn points through masterful operation via guidance and navigation ...

Warren High robot squad readies for rumble

GURNEE — About 30 students at Warren Township High School are getting ready to rumble.Or, more accurately, they are building a robot to rumble on their behalf at the 2012 Rebound Rumble robotics game.“It’s huge. It’s across the nation,” said student Algis Marcinkevicius, a Warren High senior.Robot Rumble is the 2012 FIRST Robotics challenge. FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and ...

Spheres Final Robot competition in Zero-gravity

School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station.

Students demonstrate robot mastery

— Robots came to life Saturday at Ben Franklin Science Academy, and the scientists who created them were high school students. Fourteen teams of students from across Oklahoma convened at Ben Franklin on Saturday afternoon for the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Muskogee Qualifying Tournament.

Review: Voltron: Defender of the Universe

There isn't a cooler or more '80s concept for a TV show than Voltron, wherein a bunch of heavily armed robot lions fly about in outer space before connecting together to form a massive robot man in order to defeat the big bad.