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The Knowledge Media Institute and the Faculty of Technology at the Open University have collaborated to produce a unique public drawing event.

RoboDoodle encouraged children of all ages to log on to a special university website to make a sketch on-line of their own design for a ‘really useful robot’. RoboDoodle was part of The Big Draw, the festival of drawing which took place throughout the UK in October, which is organised by The Campaign for Drawing.

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Darwin200 robotics project in Shrewsbury
Posted by ashley on Saturday, June 20 @ 09:57:43 BST (77 reads)
Topic Creative Robotics
Staff and pupils at three secondary schools in Shrewsbury are collaborating with DACTA to develop dance routines for the new MechRC ED-E humanoid robot to demonstrate at the Shift Time Festival of Ideas to be held in The Quarry, Shrewsbury on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July 2009.

A dance student at Meole Brace School Science College has choreographed a dance routine to the song Human by The Killers, which is being used as inspiration for the three teams of ED-E programmers at Meole Brace School Science College, Belvidere School Training and Technology College and Mary Webb School and Science College.

The three teams are also building and programming bio-inspired Naturebots using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics system, to demonstrate at the Shift Time Festival.

Darwin200 robotics project workshop at Meole Brace School

Darwin200 robotics project workshop at Belvidere School

BBC Shropshire Shift Time Festival feature

Steve Green's Naturebots blog


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The Eighth British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Competition
Posted by ashley on Saturday, June 20 @ 09:13:46 BST (78 reads)
Topic Robot Challenges and Competitions
Wednesday December 16th 2009 at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK, during the annual SGAI conference AI-2009


Closing Date for Entries: October 1st 2009


This is the eighth in an annual series of competitions for live demonstrations of 'Progress Towards Machine Intelligence' organized by the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) in association with AKRI Ltd.

The demonstration can be of either software (e.g. a question-answering system or a speech recognition system) or hardware (e.g. a mobile robot).

This competition will put on show real systems demonstrated live. It is hoped that the competition and the competitors, over several years, will provide a new interest and visible improvements in the development of machine intelligence.

Entry Fee: There is no entry fee and conference registration is not required.

Prize: A permanent trophy awarded for one year plus a ÂŁ1,000 cash prize.

Format: The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15 minute live demonstration (not a paper or a technical description). The prize will be awarded to the demonstration that in the opinion of the judges best demonstrates 'progress towards an intelligent machine'.

Judges: All registered delegates at the conference will be eligible to vote in a secret ballot.

Eligibility: The competition is open to all. A maximum of 5 entries will be presented. To control numbers, these will be selected by the organizers on the basis of information provided by the entrants.

Further information is available at www.bcs-sgai.org/micomp/

or by email from the organizers
Prof. Max Bramer (Chairman, SGAI)
Richard Ellis
Dr. John Gordon (Director, AKRI)


The AI-2009 conference website is at www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2009/


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Humanoid Robo-one competition and gathering 27th June 2009 Birmingham
Posted by ashley on Friday, June 19 @ 13:24:31 BST (95 reads)
Topic Robot Challenges and Competitions
Anonymous writes "Humanoid robot hobbyist gathering.Many builders and fans of humanoid robots, hexapods and other walking robots meet daily through online forums.

This is a physical meeting targeted at sharing information about building and hacking walking robots such as Bioloid, KHR, Robonova, Robobuilder and Home-built walkers.
Previous events included:

* Speed walking
* Stair Climbing
* Sumo fighting
* Dance and acrobatics

http://robosavvy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3313

The meeting is co-located with UK MICROMOUSE 2009
Saturday 27th June 2009 (provisional)
10.00am - 5.00pm
Millennium Point, Birmingham.
hosted by
Birmingham City University
"


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Academic Robotics Platform
Posted by ashley on Friday, May 29 @ 11:16:38 BST (174 reads)
Topic International News
Are you aware of our Academic Robotics Platform specially designed for universities to display their robotics videos and photos to the industry and public, all free of charge? You’ll find robotics projects from top universities such as MIT, CMU, Oxford, ANU, Cambridge, and many German, Canadian and Asian universities on this platform.


Visit www.expo21xx.com/automation21xx/university.htm to see these projects. I think you would appreciate our collaborations with and projects of these top robotics departments.


Best wishes,

Seth Quartey, PhD

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Newsletter Update
Posted by ashley on Friday, May 29 @ 11:04:15 BST (240 reads)
Topic STEM Outreach
steve writes "I've updated my newsletter sooner than expected.
Watch out for the closing date on the Science Museum Competition.
Robotopia, at the Leicester National Space Centre, looks good.
Follow link to Snippets.
Steve"


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Dates
Posted by ashley on Monday, May 25 @ 10:55:50 BST (239 reads)
Topic STEM Outreach
steve writes "I'm coming up to a busy spell. Check diary for any available space and contact me ASAP.
Steve
steve.thomas5@ntlworld.com"


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Newsletter
Posted by ashley on Monday, May 25 @ 10:55:34 BST (271 reads)
Topic STEM Outreach
steve writes "My next newsletter, Snippets 24, has been placed on my web site."

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Newsletter
Posted by ashley on Tuesday, May 12 @ 08:42:20 BST (312 reads)
Topic STEM Outreach
steve writes " Latest newsletter at SNIPPETS

Steve "


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Newsletter
Posted by ashley on Tuesday, May 05 @ 07:56:35 BST (324 reads)
Topic Information about RobocupJunior UK
steve writes " Latest just issued. Go to newsletter.

Steve "


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Roberta curriculum materials now available from Amazon
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, April 29 @ 10:16:29 BST (294 reads)
Topic Robotics Curricula (from schools to HE)
The "Roberta: Girls discover Robots" curriculum materials are now available (in English) from www.amazon.co.uk. (Search using the keywords "Roberta" and "Fraunhofer".)

Titles currently available:

Roberta - Basics

Roberta - Basics and experiments

Roberta - The RobertaSim Simulator

Roberta - Programming with Java and C

Roberta - Themes and Experiments

Roberta - Instructions for the training of Roberta course directors



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