Articles about Robotics – Page 3 of 6

Kids re-enact moon landing in robot challenge at Univ. of Washington — and win trips to NASA sites

Middle and high school students from across Washington state competed in a robotics challenge last week at the University of… Read More

Olis Robotics and Tethers Unlimited join forces on remote-controlled space robots

Two space tech companies that are headquartered in the Seattle area, Olis Robotics and Tethers Unlimited, are joining forces to… Read More

Amazon commits $700M to retrain 100k employees, acknowledging impact of tech on jobs

Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact… Read More

Amazon teams with Seattle schools to inspire underserved students to pursue STEM and robotics

It was already pajama day in Sae Kang’s third grade class at John Muir Elementary School in Seattle on Tuesday.… Read More

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Robots, drones, satellites, and Amazon’s vision for the future of automation and humanity

Amazon gave a detailed look at its new warehouse robots and delivery drones, discussed its plans for a satellite constellation,… Read More

Univ. of Washington’s Husky Robotics is on a roll, as Mars rover offers students a big engineering project

A team from the University of Washington just returned from a competition on Mars. Or, Utah’s version of the Red… Read More

Amazon rolling out package-packing machines that could automate warehouse jobs

Amazon is rolling out machines that could automate boxing up orders across the company’s network of warehouses and phase out … Read More

Apple-picking robots gear up for U.S. debut in Washington state

Next fall, as you browse the produce section at your local grocery store, pay close attention to the apples. You… Read More

LEGO unveils new city-focused sets for kids who compete in FIRST robotics competitions

Kids who have caught on to the world of FIRST LEGO League competitions will have something new to build with… Read More

Amazon acquires Canvas Technology to bolster warehouse robotics capabilities

Amazon has acquired Canvas Technology, a Boulder, Colo., robotics company that powers autonomous vehicles in industrial settings. Amazon for years… Read More

‘The hardest fun’: A high school robotics competitor shares why it’s such a big deal in the Seattle area

Editor’s note: Aedan Henry is an Issaquah (Wash.) High School junior and co-president of the Issaquah Robotics Society. GeekWire asked… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Bezos and the bots, DNA data storage, and Seattle startups learn to co-exist with Silicon Valley giants

Every year, Amazon and Jeff Bezos hold an elite, invitation-only conference called MARS, for Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space, which doubles as an… Read More

LEGO Lassies, a team of girls from Seattle suburb, ride robotics success to world championships

The LEGO Lassies, a team of sixth-grade girls from Kirkland, Wash., just keep racking up wins in FIRST Washington robotics… Read More

Jeff Bezos puts that robotic dragonfly at center stage in video clip from Amazon’s MARS conference

Find someone who looks at you the way Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looks at the robotic dragonfly that’s buzzing around… Read More

Amazon should pick up on this robot featuring an origami-inspired gripper with a special touch

It can sometimes be tough to grasp just how quickly advances are happening in robotics, whether it’s taking place on… Read More

Can a robot spice up the retail banking experience? HSBC’s ‘Pepper’ is now on the job at Seattle branch

Bank customers who have already embraced technology as a way of handling their transaction needs could be lured offline and… Read More

‘Feed me, Alexa.’ University of Washington team creates voice-controlled robot to help people eat

Robotics researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a robotic system that can feed pieces of fruit… Read More

In first GeekWire Robotics Cup, school kids engineer a spirited and inspiring competition

“We love STEM! We love STEM!” There wasn’t a more spirited chant to be heard at Thursday night’s GeekWire Bash… Read More

Native American robotics team from rural reservation chases tech dreams at GeekWire Bash

The town of Nespelem, Wash., located on the Colville Tribal Reservation about 4 1/2 hours northeast of Seattle, is home… Read More

Bill Gates lists 10 breakthrough technologies that address ‘important challenges’ of our time

In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates… Read More

UW researchers and Florida middle school students form unusual bond over cosmic kidney stones

Eight students from a low-income sugarcane town in South Florida spent months on a robotics project tackling kidney stones in… Read More

Artificial intelligence — and a few jokes — will help keep future Mars crews sane

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the first human explorers head for Mars, they’re likely to have a non-human judging their performance… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Hacking education, comic books, artificial intelligence and robotics

It seems like we’ve moved to the Midwest or East Coast with Seattle weather lately. And days like these make… Read More

Geek of the Week: Air Force and Blue Origin vet Katherine Pratt aims high as a PhD candidate with an eye on data privacy

Katherine Pratt has a degree from MIT, she interned at Blue Origin, worked on fighter jets in the Air Force,… Read More

Super surgeons: Proprio aims to bring computer vision and AI to the operating room

Seattle startup Proprio Vision wants to overhaul how surgeons see. At least, that’s the admittedly ambitious first step toward its… Read More

Introducing the GeekWire Robotics Cup and Junior Geek Zone at our (now) family-friendly annual Bash

Many of you already know and love the GeekWire Bash — our annual geek festival that includes everything from competitive… Read More

Here’s what’s cooking inside Nvidia’s new AI robotics research lab in Seattle

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interacted with a sensitive robotic hand at today’s open house for his company’s robotics research lab… Read More

One of Seattle’s most successful startup founders leaves Uber to launch secretive robotics startup

Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who co-founded storage giant Isilon Systems in 2001, has left Uber… Read More

Fake moves: Dancing Russian robot that wowed state media turns out to be a human in a costume

Oh, great, more Russian propaganda. Only this time it appears it was the Russians who were fooled by some fake… Read More

Robotics manufacturing firm Bright Machines expands to Seattle, hires senior Amazon engineering leader

San Francisco-based Bright Machines is coming to Seattle. The maker of software and robotics systems for manufacturing plans to open… Read More