Tagged: Robotics & News
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Cork tech event to focus on robotics, cloud and big data News
13.05.2013 Not-for-profit tech industry group it@cork is hosting a technology summit in Cork this Wednesday to home in on future trends in areas such as cloud computing, robotics, big data...Tags: Cyber security, Big Data, Digital Media, Robotics, Amazon, Trend Micro, it@Cork, Cork, Cloud Computing -
RoboRugby Competition tests UCD students’ engineering skills News
24.04.2013 The 2013 Siemens RoboRugby Competition champion was decided at last night’s final held at UCD’s Belfield campus, demonstrating the engineering skills of these first-year students. -
‘Flipperbot’ robot crawls like sea turtles to conserve them (video) News
24.04.2013 Scientists in the US have designed a robot that crawls like a sea turtle and could lead to future multi-terrain robots to help with turtle conservation by providing an... -
World's first Engineering Dojo teaches robotics to 10-14-year-olds News
22.04.2013 Inspired by CoderDojo, which has spread to 16,000 children in 26 countries, Ireland’s first Engineering Dojo took place last week after enlisting the support of 15 companies in...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Science, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Media -
Dyson invests stg£50m in new manufacturing facility in Singapore News
22.02.2013 UK inventor James Dyson’s company has invested stg£50m in a new digital motor manufacturing facility in Singapore. The new facility will employ 210 people and will produce 4m... -
Sligo college scoops Google RISE award for novel approach to science teaching News
14.02.2013 St Angela’s College in Sligo has been announced as one of the global recipients in Google’s RISE awards as a result of its robotics and smartphone app camp that is geared... -
Scientists build US$1m ‘bionic man’ using artificial limbs and organs News
29.01.2013 A ‘bionic man’ built using US$1m worth of artificial limbs and organs from around the globe has raised ethical questions about the research and use of advanced prosthetics. -
Tallaght students win Irish final of LEGO competition for app innovation News
21.01.2013 Seven students from Citywise Education Youth Centre in Tallaght, Co Dublin, will be heading to the European finals of the FIRST LEGO League in this May after they won the Irish...Categories: Science, Mobile, Engineering, Education, Consumer Tech, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Students to compete in LEGO robot challenge in Galway this weekend News
18.01.2013 Up to 280 students between the ages of 9 and 16 will be heading to Galway this Saturday to take part in the Irish finals of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge, with teams being... -
The week in gadgets: CES 2013 edition, starring Samsung, LG, Nvidia and iPotty News
14.01.2013 CES 2013 packed up on Friday and now the gadget hounds have retreated from Sin City until next year we take a look at some of the new devices that stole the spotlight during the...Categories: Week in Gadgets, Games/Entertainment -
Scientists pioneer mind-controlled robotic arm (video) News
17.12.2012 A woman paralysed from the neck down has been able to grasp and move objects as well as feed herself chocolate using her thoughts to guide a robotic arm as a result of new... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 15-11 News
18.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
The robots are coming! Grishin Robotics invests US$250k in RobotAppStore News
10.12.2012 Want to know what the next big thing will be? Well, combine apps and the latest advances in internet and smartphone technology with robotics and you may have an US$18bn answer.... -
The week in gadgets: stocking fillers, an iPad amplifier and a juggling robot (video) News
10.12.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as we give you gift ideas for Christmas stockings, the humble beanie hat gets an audio add-on, the Amplifiear for the iPad comes out of Kickstarter... -
Wave-powered robot reaches Australia after Pacific Ocean crossing News
06.12.2012 A wave-powered robot has completed a 9,000 nautical mile journey from San Francisco, California, to Australia after setting off just over a year ago to collect and transmit... -
Robotics events around Ireland for EU Robotics Week News
27.11.2012 EU Robotics Week kicked off yesterday and it’s the first year Ireland is taking part to showcase what’s happening in the robotics research space in the country and to help... -
The future of STEM education is NAO (video) News
23.11.2012 NAO, a humanoid robot that is helping students learn STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, has been adopted by more than 200 secondary-education... -
ESA and NASA use ‘interplanetary internet’ to test robot from space station News
09.11.2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA have controlled a rover from the International Space Station (ISS) by using an experimental version of ‘interplanetary...Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, Research, R&D, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Development, Communications -
Cork students team up with EMC to build robots for robotics competition News
08.11.2012 Secondary school students from Cork have been working with mentors from the storage hardware solutions provider EMC to build remote-controlled robots as part of a global... -
Viral videos of the week – 28/10/2012 News
28.10.2012 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features Apple’s piano pitch for the iPad mini, an incredibly agile robot, the...Tags: Viral, Viral Video, YouTube, Apple, Advertising, DARPA, Robotics, Augmented Reality, iPad Mini, Android,