Online Articles

The Winners of the Grant Imahara VEXPlorer Robot Challenge!
The details on the first and second place winners, who won thousands of dollars in scholarship prizes, and the amazing YouTube videos showing the creative genius of all the winning entrants.

What's Up? DOCK! Take Charge of your Scribbler Robot's IR Capabilities
Eric Ostendorff has provided a two-part article on hacking the Parallax Scribbler robot.

GRASSROOTS ROBOTICS
560 Indiana teachers receive VEX robots & training Thousands of additional students learning robotics & competing.

Robotics Summer Camps!
Great venues for robot fun and education

FIRST Robotics Competition Selects National Instruments CompactRIO for Next-Generation Robot Control System
More Than 42,000 Students in the FIRST Robotics Competition Will Develop Advanced Robotics Applications Using the NI Robotics Platform Powered by NI LabVIEW

Don't miss RoboBusiness 2008!

Speecys SPC-101C. An elegant, sophisticated humanoid for developers.

Basics of making custom robot brackets and skeletal parts,
by Matt Bauer

Corobots and Microsoft Robotics Studio at Vassar

Exclusive Robot Interview: Coroware Robotics – Behind the Scenes

Programming Solutions for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT
A rich selection of tools is available for programming LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots.

Growing an Industry: A National Priority

Congressmen Doyle and Wamp Launch Congressional Caucus on Robotics
Bipartisan Robotics caucus to help focus national attention on robotics.

RoboGames 2007
Impossible to Imagine, Impossible to Forget!

Outdoor Robotics Power Plant
A hybrid power supply using a 4-stroke engine and an alternator

RoboGames, World's Largest Open Robot Competition, in San Francisco June 15 – 17!
RoboGames is the world's largest open robot competition. The best minds from around the world are invited to compete in over 70 different events.

Vexplorer Update!
Exclusive Latest Details on the Vexplorer Robitics Design System

Robotics Competition Update 2007
Personal, up-close accounts of recent robotics competitions

Robotics Summer Camps!
Great venues for robot fun and education

Inside the Ugobe Pleo
"Organic Robot Life"

For Kids! Überbots Humanoid Sumo Fun
Überbots humanoid biped toy robots, offered by Überstix, offer kids a chance to be mechanical engineers.

Make Your Robonova-1 Speak!
Play any sound file—the voice of Homer Simpson or even Captain Picard!

Teaching With Robots
A Guide To Finding Curriculum and Resources

Solidworks Sponsors Botball with 3D Software
The Botball Educational Robotics Program sponsors one of the largest robot competitions, with over 300 teams of from two to thirty students competing in annual competitions.

The First Kyosho Athlete Humanoid Cup!
Biped Robot Competition Leaps Forward

Revell and IFI to Market Enhanced Vex System
Revell Monogram and Innovation First, Inc. (IFI) announced a global partnership for the design, marketing and distribution of the expanded Vex Robotics System

ROBO-ONE 10 – A Gallery of Humanoid Robot Competition in Japan
“Inside view” of the rapidly expanding Robo-One competition

Building The BRAT
Assembling Lynxmotion’s entry-level humanoid biped illuminates the future of hobby robotics

New MANOI Athlete Humanoid Robots
Kyosho Raises the Robo-One Bar

Maker Faire Photo Essay!
A New Technology Festival Celebrates Robotics

Maker Faire, April 22–23, San Mateo County FairgroundsIIt was a true technology celebration and DIY festival.
For an inside glimpse at how Parallax made its remarkable reputation in robotics, click here

Robotis Bioloid "Edutainment" Robot Kits
Create dogs, dinosaurs, excavators, crabs, Johnny5- like house bots, spiders, snakes,
you name it   (includes two Windows Media Videos)

Robots In The ICU
A telepresence robot enhances a cardiac surgeon's ability to provide quality care to infants

Combots Cup!
A visual tour of leading-edge robot combat event. Also includes two extended photo essays.

New Bot Receiver for Spektrum DX6!
Failsafe mode drives all channels to preprogrammed positions.

Major Southeast Robot Combat Event
Battle Beach, LLC, in partnership with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, is pleased to announce that their next robot combat event, Battle Beach 4.

HITEC Robotics New Robot Servos
New programmable robot servos outperform standard hobby servos by a wide margin.

LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Revolution!
At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in early January, LEGO Group announced LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ NXT, a new system that redefines the consumer robotics category which the company created in 1998.

Mythbusters Test The VEX Robotics Design System
In this full online article taken from the Winter 2005 issue, The Mythbusters build a model PackBot using the new VEX™ Robotics Design System. An "online only" extension to this article also appears below.

BONUS REPORT: MythBusters Test The VEX Robotics Design System
In this special online addtion to the above VEX article, Grant Imahara discusses engineering details of the VEX "PackBot" project. This online exclusive Includes many extra photos that wouldn't fit in the magazine.

How To Pick The Best Fighting Robot Design
You know they say that a pet owner ends up looking like their pet and the same thing
can be said about combat robots…each roboteer will usually end up designing and
building a robot that reflects his or her personality. So what kind of personality do you
have?