robotics
Cool Robots That Inspire Future Engineers
BattleBots’ Team Witch Doctor is a fan favorite thanks to a robot with personality and a team (of humans) that encourages interest in engineering.
... ContinuedHouse of Design Brings Manufacturing Back to the USA
House of Design develops and integrates robotic systems, specializing in pick and place applications with machine vision integration.
... ContinuedFIBO Uses SOLIDWORKS to Design and Build Service Robots to Aid During COVID-19
See how this University used SOLIDWORKS to develop a line of service robots to help support healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
... ContinuedFrom Garage to Global: Creating the World’s First Automatic Flight Forming Machine with SOLIDWORKS
Find out how two Australian mechatronic engineers took their innovative idea for a flight-forming robot from a garage to the global aerospace market with SOLIDWORKS.
... ContinuedFrom Fighting Robots to Helpful Robots with Marc DeVidtz – Ep12
We’re twelve podcasts in, and I have many more inspiring stories from creators like you. In this podcast, we talk with Marc DeVidts, the CFO and co-founder of Double Robotics. As a young man Marc had an interest in creating,
... ContinuedThe Robotics Mom: Shelly Gruenig’s Passion for Working with Young People
Learn how one woman’s passion for working with young people led to her involvement in a competitive robotics team, robotics camps and more.
... ContinuedMentoring our future Entrepreneurs – Ep10
Millennials. This term can bring many things to mind. On the positive side, Millennials are often known to think outside the box and be more forward thinking. On the negative side some may say Millennials are lazy, narcissistic and prone
... ContinuedHow BattleBots SawBlaze Cuts through its Competition using SOLIDWORKS
My name is Jamison Go and I am the team captain, primary driver, and one of the engineers for the BattleBot SawBlaze Team. Currently I am a R&D engineer at an additive manufacturing startup in the Burlington, MA. My experience
... ContinuedKicking Bot and Taking Names with BattleBots Champion Paul Ventimiglia – Ep4
SPOILER ALERT! If you didn’t watch the BattleBots Championship finals this past Friday, you may want to before reading this blog… This past Friday night, I watched the BattleBots final four battle it out for the 2018 BattleBots Championship at
... ContinuedBattleBots Final – Four SOLIDWORKS-Designed Bots Duke it Out
I cannot imagine that you are not already aware, but the 2018 Season of BattleBots is coming to an end. The Final Four will be fighting it out this Friday on the Discovery Channel. I know I’m excited, as I
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Helps RoboTeam Twente Tackle RoboCup 2018
Robots taking on robots? If you thought that was the stuff of game shows, toy manufacturers or multi-million dollar film franchises, think again. Mechanoids battling against their synthetic siblings for supremacy isn’t just a reality, but a sport. Football, to
... ContinuedEducational Ubiquity: Why Engineering Competitions Work
SOLIDWORKS is used daily by students, educators and researchers worldwide. As a result, SOLIDWORKS is everywhere. Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan use SOLIDWORKS to design 21-degree-of-freedom robots to navigate through natural disasters. In the SOFIA Project scientists from
... ContinuedTalking to BattleBots Team Reckless
With BattleBots growing even more popular after Season 3 on ABC, more competitive robots are eager to enter the arena. A newcomer to the field for Season 3 (hopefully) is UTA Combat Robotics with its robot: Reckless. This is a
... ContinuedBattleBots Arms Itself with SOLIDWORKS
If you’re not familiar with BattleBots®, you may want to look into it. Its small teams of engineers, designers, robot enthusiasts who get together and build robots built to destroy other robots. ABC is now into its second season of
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Meets FIRST Ambassador Liam Fay
This year, I attended my first-ever FIRST Robotics World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. I needed a little help finding my way around and decided the best way to get started would be a guided tour. My student Ambassadors were
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