FIRST Robotics Competition

Over spring break I was helping out at a FIRST Robotics competition being hosted at my high school when I ran into my old chemistry teacher from 10th grade. After catching up some he mentioned that some of the students on the current Robotics team were doing an internship with a software company in Horsham roughly fifteen minutes away from my house. The next day I had an email from him with the details of how to get in touch with one of his good friends who happened to be the CFO of the company Aegis Software. Aegis is the leading provider of innovative software solutions to improve speed, control and visibility throughout manufacturing operations. They provide software to over 1700 factory sites across the electronics, medical, automotive,…

During the Event Follow the listed procedure for unbagging your robot at competition. If you have any questions, ask a robot inspector in a neon yellow hat to be sure before you unbag. Make sure you don’t wait until the last minute to inspect your robot at competition. Your robot can’t compete without being inspected, and any additions or modifications made to the robot need to be re-inspected. Check the manual for more information Students should be the only ones talking to judges; the mentors…

It was my first time working with my new Robotics team since I had changed schools after sophomore year. Immediately after the event Recycle Rush was announced at FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) Kick Offs, discussions and ideas started flowing. Several students collected in the school auditorium started sharing their ideas. “Have arms that can move the totes,” suggested one kid. I decided to voice my idea and proposed a lift mechanism on a robot with Mecanum drive terrain, as Mecanum drive…

begun to recognize robotics as a sport at the high school level, the argument of whether robotics is truly a sport or not is being debated. Robotics is an activity that requires hard work and commitment, and all those who participate in robotics should be able to say that robotics is a recognized high school sport. The definition of the word sport describes robotics perfectly. Robotics also parallels other official sports, and much like other sports, robotics requires a great deal of skill and…

Comparing Spare Parts and La Vida Robot both of them is the truth and really happen in the book and the movie. Contrast Spare Parts and La Vida Robot. The movie explain more than the book from the backstory, showing how made it, and how they got together in their lives in a robotics club and they didn’t have a lot of money to get the right pieces so they recycle some things into parts. La Vida Robot had some pieces that their was two main teachers both male and Spare Parts their two main…

In the EV3 Robotics Project 1, the very first task was forming a team and obtaining a Mindstorm kit. Thanks to my kind team mate, I could develop a good relationship among my team even though my first language is not English. The next task given to my team was to build a Lego robot. The assembling instruction was so simple and easy to understand that we could work together and made it without any errors. To enhance work efficiency, our team decided to facilitate to share an assembling work,…

world continue to adopt robotics and automation. The two sister technologies have enabled manufacturers to operate more efficiently, as well as cut costs significantly. Robots can perform several sets of operations at once while automation only focuses on a single set of operation at any given time. This report has discovered that robotics and automation affected manufacturers in the Auto sector in varying ways. GM has reduced its number of workers since 2009. On the contrary, Toyota and…

Cristian, Oscar, and Luis, had a challenge to win a Robotics Competition. This wasn’t the only challenge they faced, they had to go through a bumpy road to get to the other end. Money was easily one of the most difficult problems for these teenagers. The school was not only short on money, but these students were already use to this type of struggle at home. The student's teachers were unhopeful of the outcome to this project. The author, Joshua Davis, illustrated the type of life Lorenzo…

When a Japanese nuclear power plant was damaged in 2011, robots were sent to monitor the situation and save people the risk of radiation poisoning (Moss). There are also some robots in development that are meant to do more than monitor situations. The Atlas robot is perhaps the most advanced of these (Zissou). Atlas was developed at MIT as part of a competition sponsored by the Department of Defense and can drive a car, break through walls, and navigate through debris (Zissou). Atlas was…

III. Discussion Robotic technology, in general, brings both opportunities and challenges. Some people are optimistic about them while others are skeptic – some are even fearful of how they will affect humanity’s future. Broadly speaking, robots aid in industries to make jobs faster and easier. Nowadays, one can find robots working in factories to aid in the manufacturing process like in car plants or in warehouses like that of Amazon’s Kiva robots. The military also utilizes robots for…