robotics
How 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
... 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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Women in Engineering Series: Kristen Railey
When I first met Kristen Railey, Assistant Staff at Lincoln Labs and founder of Girls Who Build Wearable Workshop, I was impressed by how much she had accomplished in just two years out of college. While focusing on her main
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS-Designed Robots Are the New Face of Some Japanese Businesses
Imagine rolling into a hotel late at night, bleary-eyed from a long day of travel, and instead of a perky hotel clerk you are greeted by an android. Sounds like something you might see on the SciFi channel, but it’s
... ContinuedDrones: Not Just for the Sky Anymore
Everyone is talking about drones. Privacy advocates are concerned that drones will become an extension of “Big Brother.” Governments are reviewing drone legislation. Amazon, most famously, is looking into drones for deliveries. Others, including Dassault Systèmes, are using tools, such
... ContinuedRecently in…Robotics
Last week, we looked at the world of robot employment. From comedians and security guards to hitchhikers, we found that robots are taking on some non-traditional trades. After conducting a bit more research, it would appear that we’ve just begun
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Futurists, like Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly, work to provide a glimpse at the world of tomorrow. In a recent interview, Kelly stated that the technology to come over the next 20 years will make the previous 20 “pale in comparison.”
... ContinuedRecently in…Small (Tech) Wonders
It’s easy to stand in awe gazing from the 163rd floor of the Burj Khalifa, atop the Hoover Dam or outside the Great Pyramid of Giza. The world’s largest man-made wonders are monuments to human ingenuity, perseverance and innovation. However,
... ContinuedRecently in…Robotics
It’s been a long week and you deserve to talk about stuff that interests you – like robots and space and Godzilla. Each Friday, our “Recently in…” series will take you into the weekend with a handful of current events
... ContinuedReThink Robotics, Formlabs, and Knapheide Manufacturing Corporation Push Design Limits at SolidWorks 2014 Press Event
My favorite time of year at SolidWorks is right around the product launch because I get to work closely with our customers and learn about all of the innovative ways that they are using our products throughout the design process
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