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Build a robot, draw a robot, code a robot with your friends. There are no rules other then to share the excitement of robotics with your friends, family, or community. Share with us how you will be celebrating!
Come and experience firsthand the excitement of a FIRST® Robotics Competition event! Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology, this is the ultimate Sport for the Mind™. Watch as student-built-robots compete in the 2016 challenge, FIRST STRONGHOLD. In FIRST STRONGHOLD, two Alliances of three robots each are on a Quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower. Robots score points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds of the Quest, robots may surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it.
Visit the Mid-Atlantic Robotics District - Westtown Event website
Hosted by FIRST Mid-Atlantic
957 Westtown Road West Chester, PA 19382
Washington Robotics Society and Titanium Titans Robotics want to invite families to learn about FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and watch local FLL teams kick-off National Robotics Week. Spectators can watch children from around Washington County, PA use their LEGO robots to line-follow through a taped maze.
Visit the Line Labyrinth - LEGO Robotics Line-Following Tournament website
Hosted by Washington Robotics Society and Titanium Titans Robotics
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1500 W Chestnut St Washington , PA 15301
Come and learn about microcontrollers and celebrate International Arduino Day at TechShop Pittsburgh!
Visit the International Arduino Day website
Hosted by TechShop Pittsburgh
192 Bakery Square Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Pittsburgh is well-known for robotics - Carnegie Mellon University, Astrobotics, RedZone Robotics, and more. There are lots of opportunities available for kids in grades K-12 to be involved in robotics. This session will focus on robotics programs from FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). FIRST programs are a great way to learn STEAM skills including effective presentation skills, mathematics, programming and engineering. You will learn about FIRST LEGO League Junior, FIRST LEGO League (FLL), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), and FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC). This is a hands-on workshop and kids will be able to interact with small and large robots. This event is hosted by three award-winning FIRST teams (FLL Not the Droids You Are Looking For, FTC BrainSTEM Robotics and FRC FRobotics)
Visit the Explore the Sport of the Mind - Robotics for K-12 website
Hosted by Droids Robotics
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403 Fox Chapel Road Fox Chapel, PA 15238
Ever wanted to know more about how robots work? Then come to this FREE event filled with demonstrations of different types of robots. Featuring BrainS.T.E.M. Learning, ZegoBeast, and TechShop member projects. This event is free and open to both members and non-members of TechShop.
Visit the Robotics Demos at TechShop website
SWPA BotsIQ is an educational robotics competition for high school age students. It provides these students with a unique, hands-on experience that allows them to discover the possibilities of a career in the manufacturing sector, and other science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields.
Visit the Bots IQ website
Hosted by BotsIQ
250 University Ave, California, PA 15419
http://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/industryday2016/ Industry representatives and individuals are invited to visit our facility to view demonstrations of technologies that we have developed and to learn how our staff can assist in applying cutting edge robotic capabilities to your areas of need. What Demonstration of NREC's latest robotics technology and systems Where NREC facilities, 10 40th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 When Saturday April 9, 2016 - from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Tours will last approximately 1 hour with a new group starting every 10 minutes Who Should Attend Engineering or R&D technical leads and managers who want to apply robotics to create a competitive advantage for their company or organization. Operations managers who want to explore whether robotics can solve some of their most difficult operations problems. Engineers and scientists interested in robotics in general. Registration Space is limited so register early to ensure access! Free Parking! Registration closes April 5, 2016
Visit the NREC Industry Day website
Hosted by NREC
10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201
An unsuspecting group of high school students will be introduced to BotsIQ, build and battle Sumo-bots at TechShop, and tour the Human Engineering Robotics Lab at PITT and lunch with the roboticists.
Visit the Bot-All Royale website
Hosted by Innovation Works and TechShop
192 Bakery Square Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15206
In FIRST STRONGHOLDSM, two Alliances of three robots each are on a Quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower. Robots score points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds of the Quest, robots may surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it. - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc#sthash.OB5oca5T.dpuf
Visit the FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship website
124 Goodman Drive Bethlehem, PA 18015
A meet & greet for Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics students and local robotics organizations.
Visit the Robot Ex Machina website
Hosted by Robotics Institute & the Pittsburgh Robotics Council
5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, will build a robot using the VEX IQ robotics platform to solve an engineering challenge that is presented in the form of a game. VEX IQ Challenge teams will work together scoring points in Teamwork Matches, and also display their robot’s skills individually in driver controlled and autonomous Skills Challenges.
Visit the PA-TSA MS VEX IQ Competition--National TSA Qualifier website
Hosted by VEX IQ
777 Waterwheel Drive Seven Springs, PA 15622
PA-TSA VEX HS Competition - National TSA Qualifier Nothing But Net - skills only competition National TSA Qualifier Top 3 teams will qualify to attend the National TSA VEX competition
Visit the PA-TSA VEX Competition-National TSA Qualifier website
Hosted by VEX Robotics
A School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Ivan Sutherland, Computer Graphics Pioneer Marc Robert, Co-founder and President of Boston Dynamics Inc.
Visit the Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics website
Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
To make transfer to applications in everyday domains robots require the ability to cope with novelty, incomplete information, and uncertainty. In this talk I will describe a line of work carried out over ten years that provides methods to tackle this. I will examine two problems: object search and grasping.
Visit the GRASP Special Seminar: Jeremy Wyatt, University of Birmingham, "Robots in Our World: Uncertain, Incomplete and Unfamiliar" website
Hosted by UPenn GRASP Lab
3330 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
Robots are increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, from the automated vacuum cleaners in our homes to the rovers exploring Mars. However, while recent years have seen dramatic progress in the development of affordable, general-purpose robot hardware, the capabilities of that hardware far exceed our ability to write software to adequately control.
Visit the Spring 2016 GRASP Seminar Series: George Konidaris, Duke University, "Robots, Skills, and Symbols" website
Lab stops may include: - Ballot: an omnidirectional balancing robot - CoBot and the soccer robots - Quadcopter docking - Amazon Picking Challenge
Visit the Robotics Institute Lab Tours website
Hosted by Robotics Institute
Demos will include: Snake robots Online modeling and flight adaptation by micro air vehicles to high-speed wind (via fans) Coordinated flight with a team of micro air vehicles ADA (Assistive Dextrous Arm) 3D Printing with Added-in COTS Components Girls of Steel Autonomous flight of a coaxial flying robot
Visit the Planetary Robotics Lab Demonstrations website
Participants will race autonomous vehicles ("Mobile roBOTs") they have built along a slalom-type course.
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Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science
During the NASA Space Apps Challenge teams will utilize publicly available data to design innovative solutions to a pre-determined series of global challenges focused on space exploration and social needs.The challenges will include software development, open hardware, and data visualization! During the event, participants will organize into projects focused on solving a specific, issued challenge.
Visit the NASA Space Apps Challenge Pittsburgh website
Hosted by Space Challenges
744 E WARRINGTON AVE Pittsburgh, PA 15210
SeaPerch is an innovative underwater robotics program that equips teachers and students with the resources they need to build an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in an in-school or out-of-school setting. Students build the ROV from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts, following a curriculum that teaches basic engineering and science concepts with a marine engineering theme. The SeaPerch Program provides students with the opportunity to learn about robotics, engineering, science, and mathematics (STEM) while building an underwater ROV as part of a science and engineering technology curriculum. Throughout the project, students will learn engineering concepts, problem solving, teamwork, and technical applications.
Visit the Greater Philadelphia SeaPerch Challenge website
Hosted by SeaPerch
1801 N Broad St Philadelphia, PA 19122