Engineering

Alan Wagner: Helping Robots and Humans Communicate [Inventor Interview]

February 3, 2011
Robots, Humans, and Decepticons

Can you give us some background on yourself, who you are, what you currently do, etc? My name is Alan Wagner. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, an MS from Boston University in Computer Science and BA from Northwestern University in Psychology. [...]

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Girls in Robotics

January 12, 2011
Girls in Robotics

One of the biggest elements in Bots High is featuring girls build robots and involved in fields that statistically you don’t usually see them in – science and engineering. Two of the three featured teams are all-girls teams (My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits), and girls play important roles on the other teams as well. [...]

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Robot Building – Time Lapse Montage

April 5, 2010
Timelapse Montage

Robot Building Time – Time Lapse Montage from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. For the past few weeks I’ve been filming time lapse shots of teams building their robots. I set the camera to take one picture every second and when you play it back you get a lot of time condensed. It’s cool to watch [...]

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137 Years of Popular Science for Free!

March 30, 2010

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Underwater Robot Testing

March 13, 2010

Underwater Robot Test Run from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. Today 16 of the above underwater robots are going to be built by 6th graders, mentored by seniors. The robots have a waterproof camera that goes up to a laptop, so you can explore the ocean. The robots are being built in preparation for BioBlitz in Biscayne National [...]

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Score a Free Robot (Looks Like Spawn of WALL-E and Eve)

January 26, 2010

PR2 Beta Program: The Call for Proposals is Out! | Willow Garage Don’t really know much about this PR2 Beta robot, but if you can prove that your institution would put it to good use, you can apply to get one for free. Personally if WALL-E and Eve had a baby, I think it would [...]

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How BattleBots could help Haiti (And How You Can Too)

January 15, 2010

In talking to people about my project, and in talking to Nola, the director of BattleBotsIQ, a fair number of responses we get when we describe kids building BattleBots is something along the lines of “it’s violent.” Now I could go off on a whole other post comparing BattleBots injuries to football, boxing, or even cheerleading (all sanctioned sports), [...]

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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time

December 21, 2009

I think my favorite part is the quote. But these devices are really entertaining. For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all… – but does it float.

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Rethinking Computer Interactions

October 13, 2009

One thing that Nola, the head of the BattleBots high school program, tells all the kids is engineering is about solving problems. Here’s one that may not necessarily be a problem, mostly because we’ve all become so used to it, but it can definitely use improvement, and that’s how we interact with computers. The mouse [...]

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