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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 ...

As a former computer engineer with a background in applied math, I’m a firm proponent of STEM education. As a math teacher with 14 years of experience facilitating robotics clubs for students, I’m ...

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 ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots — a startup dedicated to making it easier for non-programmers to “teach” industrial robots how to do specific tasks — has raised a $30 million Series B funding round ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

“A growing shortage of skilled labor requires the further simplification of automation and programming, especially among small and medium-size enterprises where complexity is seen as a major barrier ...

K-12 teachers and administrators have been listening to policy makers and industry leaders warn of the need for computer science instruction, such as a coding or robotics program, in U.S. schools for ...

Hawaii is trying to prepare its K-12 students to fill the massive shortages of jobs in STEM-related fields. The Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, a community educational program supported by the National ...