Education & Training

Community colleges like Sierra College offer mechatronics programs that directly address the robotics industry’s labor shortage.

Festo, which is celebrating 100 years in business, is supporting training initiatives on Manufacturing Day and beyond.

The Jumpstart program invites all female high school juniors and seniors with a passion for robotics and technology to apply, said MassRobotics.

Festo says its EHMD gripper can turn objects in small spaces, such as in lab automation, and it is showing its learning systems at Pack Expo.

Mentoring a youth robotics team for competitions such as FIRST can be a rewarding way to help build the next generation of STEM leaders.

China is applying its electric vehicle playbook to robotics. Learn what’s real, what’s hype, and levers for U.S. competitiveness.

The ARM Institute is seeking proposals for a project to automate the updating and maintenance of its RoboticsCareer.org resource.

The RoboMasters app builds on ABB Robotics’ physical training courses to offer a convenient, easy-to-use tool.

The IFR said it hopes the list will inspire girls and young women to pursue a career in STEM subjects or robotics.

The ARM Institute’s latest project call seeks to further enable manufacturers of all sizes to use AI and robotics.

FANUC Tech Transfer is a website with free training videos to help users learn how to use and troubleshoot the company’s robots.

The Robotics Leadership Academy is the result of regional partnerships to retrain workers for careers in robotics.

With Astorino, Kawasaki aims to offer the capabilities of a modern industrial robot at a fraction of the cost of other educational robots.

Women in robotics can advance their careers with agility, curiosity, and mentorship, said Boston Dynamics staffers at a MassRobotics event.

Manufacturers want more visibility into processes and to reskill staffers to work with automation, found Zebra and Azure Knowledge.

RoboticsCareer.org has gotten a refresh to help build interest in manufacturing careers and to connect talent with companies.

Despite being a quickly growing community, the robotics industry still has a diversity problem, particularly when it comes to race.

The ARM Institute is funding a welding scholarship with the Industrial Arts Workshop in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

The Eastern Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute, or eKAMI, has been retraining coal miners to be robotics technicians. READY Robotics has offered its Forge/OS brand-neutral software to help.

Cirtronics showed off the robots it makes to high school students during Manufacturing Day to demonstrate that manufacturing careers can be rewarding.

The loneliness of the long-distance robot: A Cornell University robot named Ranger walked 14.3 miles in about 11 hours, setting an unofficial world record at Cornell’s Barton Hall early on July 6. A human – armed with nothing more than a standard remote control for toys – steered the untethered robot. Ranger navigated 108.5 times […]

The Hillman Center for Future-Generation Technologies will be one of two buildings in the 200,000-square-foot complex, which also includes the Gates Center for Computer Science, the university announced Wednesday. The Hillman Center will face Forbes Avenue and serve as the main entrance to the university’s school of computer science. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation […]