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  • Swarming Nano Quadrotors from GRASP Lab
    Thursday, February 02, 2012
    Using hardware developed by KMel Robotics, Alex Kushleyev and Daniel Mellinger, of UPenn's GRASP Lab, working under the direction of Professor Vijay Kumar, and with assistance...
  • David Anderson on Subsumption-based Robots
    Wednesday, February 01, 2012
    David Anderson, a long time member of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group, did an interesting presentation recently in which he distills down what he's learned about building...
  • Political Pundits Discover the Uncanny Valley
    Tuesday, January 31, 2012
    The Uncanny Valley has been called upon to explain why Mitt Romney's persona disturbs so many people despite general agreement that he's a "successful, good-looking family man". Like Democrat Al Gore...
  • Robots Podcast: Advances in Bipedal Locomotion
    Friday, January 27, 2012
    In the new episode of Robots Podcast we talk to Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the University of Edinburgh about the recent progress in walking robotics. We then speak with Felipe...

Welcome to the National Robotics Education Foundation

This website is one of several  initiatives being offered by this non-profit organization dedicated to advancing robotics education in junior, senior high schools and colleges. It will be responsive to the needs of all robotics educators through information exchanges, seminars, conferences and free curriculum exchange efforts.  
Robotics educators, mentors, students and professionals are being offered the opportunity to exchange ideas and concepts through the National Robotics Education Foundation.
To do this, we need advance information about robotics initiatives, milestones and in particular, education trends. To facilitate this, the National Robotics Education Foundation offers a monthly newsletter, online communities at state and national levels and a frequently updated website covering the vast, growing world of robotics.

This website features the latest information on the following topics:

  • FIRST, BEST, Botball, TSA, MATE, Trinity Fire Fighting, FIRST LEGO League and numerous other robot compeitions held on local and national levels.
  • Robotics Curriculum offered commercially and robotics lesson programs available as freeware

Featured Robots

Robotic Mule
Blog post by George Goula
 BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline...
The $50. robot
Blog post by George Goula
Ever wanted to build your own robot but didn't know where to start? Here is your chance! I will outline step by step exactly what to do to build a robot for under $50. Here is a video...

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