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Montgomery County ends security robot pilot program amid community concerns about surveillance

A pilot program using a security robot to patrol Montgomery County parking garages has been scraped. The county has decided ...
Wisconsin Watch

Milwaukee high school’s robotics teams help students break down barriers and build skills — and confidence

Once a five-person team, the robotics program has grown to 32 students and two teams, including a newly formed all-girls team.
OnMilwaukee

Audubon robotics teams help students break down barriers and build skills

Once a five-person team, the robotics program has grown to 32 students and two teams, including a newly formed all-girls team ...
New Atlas

Vortex robot plays with kids, teaches them to program

There's no shortage of robot-based toys out there which are claimed to be both fun, and teach your budding young roboticist the basics of programming. Following in the digital footsteps of Play-i, ...
Daily Reporter

Robotics program prepares students beyond the classroom

Team Exothermic works on a robot at Greenfield-Central High School this winter. Team Exothermic works on a robot at Greenfield-Central High School this winter. GREENFIELD — Team Exothermic loves a ...
CBS News

Students Learn To Program Robot At Brooklyn Middle School

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Students at a Brooklyn middle school now have a robot in the class, and they've been learning how to program it. As 1010 WINS' Carol D'Auria reported, the new student at the ...
Bethesda Magazine

MoCo Department of Transportation scraps plan to use security robot in downtown Silver Spring

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is scrapping a pilot program for a 420-pound robot on wheels that ...
New Atlas

Robo Wunderkind is a modular robot even a five-year-old can program

Minecraft has partly replaced Lego bricks as a creative platform for young tinkerers, but while it is a fantastic avenue for training computer and block-building skills, Mojang's hit videogame also ...
Los Angeles Times

Robotics program piques students’ interest in science

It was down to the wire for Team Smash Brothers and Lightning Kill. Their robots had survived shoves and claws to emerge as finalists over 22 others in a Pomona competition last week. Now, the ...

Montgomery County halts surveillance robot program, citing minority community concerns

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation will not move forward with plans to use a surveillance bot to monitor and ...
The Oakland Press

Robotics technician program provides career avenue into automation

Hunter Main was hooked immediately on robotics. The 25-year-old from Lake Orion was taking classes at Oakland Community College, unsure about his future. When told of the school’s robotics program, he ...
HUB

Robot programming for everyday people

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...