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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.

Unitree has launched the R1 humanoid, which is smaller than its predecessor. It is available in standard and educational versions.

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

Aldebaran made the Pepper and Nao humanoid robots, which were popular in education and service uses but struggled to make money.

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.

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

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

Roybi has developed social robots to entertain and educate children and met the challenges of keeping the price point down and addressing the pandemic head on.

Lantronix, which provides edge computing, IoT, and embedded computing systems, helped Misty Robotics build the Misty II educational and open development platform with Qualcomm technologies.

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 […]

With the aim of advancing semiconductor research, Santa Clara, Calif-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment leader Applied Materials is donating more than $5 million worth of processing equipment and services to the University of California, Berkeley’s Nanofabrication Laboratory in the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), which complements equipment that the company […]

The RoboCup— now in its seventh year— is part of the “Mobile Robots & Autonomous Systems” showcase for the technology. Other robots on display offer everything from security to faster manufacturing. Some 850 robots were signed up, alongside 350 university students and computer engineers from 14 countries.   These robots come in a multitude of […]

  Students pursuing careers in machining technology and manufacturing technology will have two new scholarships available through the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation, thanks to funding from the Gene Haas Foundation.   The Gene Haas Foundation Machining Technology Scholarship and Manufacturing Technology Scholarship will be awarded to qualifying students starting in mid-2008. The […]

If mechatronics wasn’t difficult enough to define (concisely), try and get a degree in it! Interestingly, with the increased attention that mechatronics is receiving around the globe there are established degree programs in Europe and Australia. Some schools in the US are picking up on the trend. The electric car races, Darpa Challenge and battling […]