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The Knowledge Media Institute and the Faculty of Technology at the Open University have collaborated to produce a unique public drawing event.

RoboDoodle encouraged children of all ages to log on to a special university website to make a sketch on-line of their own design for a ‘really useful robot’. RoboDoodle was part of The Big Draw, the festival of drawing which took place throughout the UK in October, which is organised by The Campaign for Drawing.

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RoboFesta-UK 8th Annual Open Meeting
Posted by ashley on Friday, October 17 @ 11:12:19 BST (173 reads)
Topic General RoboFesta-UK network news
Thursday 6th November, 10.00am to 4.00pm

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

8.00 am Access for exhibitors to the Upstairs Foyer, Berrill Building
9.15 am Coffee and tea for registrants
10.00 am Welcome from Professor Jeffrey Johnson
10.10 am Jeffrey Johnson “Making the future”
10.30 am Ashley Green “Robotics outreach”
10.50 am Kate Sim “Embedding Robotics in the Curriculum for All (ERICA)”
11.10 am Emily Dawson “Talking Robots”
11.30 am Break
11.50 am Karen Bultitude & Catherine Aldridge “STEM update”
12.10 pm Ajay Sharman “After School Science and Engineering Clubs”
12.30 pm Stewart Dunn “The world's fastest electronic/robotic assembly system”
1.00 pm Lunch including "Show & Tell" in the Berrill Foyer
2.30 pm Claire Rocks & Karen Bultitude “A Festival of Robotics”
3.30 pm AOB
4.00 pm Close

To register for this free event, please email robofesta@open.ac.uk, stating: your name, your contact details, your affiliation (company, university, etc.), and any special dietary requirements.

There will be a live webcast at http://stadium.open.ac.uk/berrill of the first session from 10.00am to 1.00pm.


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Technology News
Posted by ashley on Monday, September 29 @ 08:05:37 BST (246 reads)
Topic Robot Challenges and Competitions
steve writes "SNIPPETS 2
Areas covered are robotics, technology, events, grants, competitions and other related matters.
Comments
The end of last term saw my usual involvement in the annual Science and Technology Challenge Days in London, Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool. There was over 35 events, with about 350 schools and approximately 3500 secondary youngsters.
During the summer I was involved in two summer schools. One was a week long event for the Children's University at Bedfordshire University. This was a robotic week for primary aged youngsters, using Lego's RCX system. Some excellent work was achieved by the youngsters, with a successful presentation of their models to their parents and guardians on the last day. The second event was a week long residential for the charity Generating Genius. It was a scrapyard challenge, for secondary aged youngsters and held at Brunel University. These youngsters also gave a successful presentation of their work at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Not too sure when I'll issue Snippets 3, as I'm on the Isle of Wight for a week, undertaking robot events for both youngsters and parents. This culminates in a weekend event for gifted and talented youngsters.
Steve
Royal Society's Partnership Grants
This now offers up to ÂŁ3000. Well worth a look at, with that sort of money BUT the closing date is near.
Go to http://www.royalsociety.org/partnership
Closing date is 7 November 2008.
FIRST LEGO League 2008 Climate Connections Challenge
Just launched on http://firsthandtechnology.org.uk/
Full details of the Challenge Robot Missions and Research Project now available for download.
Also, new Tournaments in Edinburgh and Birmingham open for team registration. Space still available at several other tournaments
See website Tournament map for details.
Second Annual London Schools Hydrogen Challenge
A special event is being held at City Hall on 17th September, if you register your team before 11th September.
Would seem the ideal way of getting your youngsters into the fuel of the future. Hey I run fuel cell events, as well as solar cell activities.
An ideal GREEN combination.

Go to http://www.lshc.co.uk/secondary/launch.asp to register
James May's Big Ideas on BBC TWO
I was informed of this by the Creative Robotics Research Network
James May presents a new series on BBC 2. Fully funded by the Open University, each programme looks at a specific idea – Personal Transport, Robotics and Energy. The series will go out on BBC 2 on Sunday 28th September at 9pm. This certainly seems worth viewing.
Visit http://www.open2.net/jamesmay from September 28th and have a go at James May’s Big Transport Challenge.
STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - Directories
I run Science+Technology Challenge Events, Robot Events, Green Events, Scrapyard Challenges and much more. If that is not enough, then these directories are for you.
The 2008/9 STEM Directories – one each for Science, Mathematics, Engineering & Technology - have been created in direct response to teachers’ needs. To download pdfs or to receive more hard copies of the new Directories in the future, please go to the STEM Directories website at http://www.stemdirectories.org.uk/
Deadlines
Free Roberta Training. Girls into Robotics with Lego's NXT. Bedford & Luton ebp. Contact Gerry Heather on heatherg@blebp.co.uk 17th and 18th October
Free Roberta Training. Girls into Robotics with Lego's NXT. Belvidere School Shrewsbury. Contact Dr Ashley Green at aagreen@btinternet.com 24th October
RoboFesta-UK Meeting at the Open University http://www.robofesta-europe.org/britain/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=448 6th November
Institute of Physics' Public Engagement Grant Scheme 2009 Round 1 http://www.iop.org/activity/outreach/Closing date: 7 November
National Science & Engineering Week (06 March - 15 March) School Grants http://www.the-ba.net/schoolgrants Deadline 28th November
Steve Thomas
www.steve-thomas.co.uk
steve.thomas5@ntlworld.com
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Robotics at Belvidere School, Shrewsbury
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, August 27 @ 14:22:20 BST (2984 reads)
Topic General RoboFesta-UK network news
Belvidere School is a secondary school in the picturesque Medieval Market Town of Shrewsbury, situated on the River Severn in rural Shropshire. It is located just a few kilometres from the remains of the Roman city of Wroxeter, with Ironbridge (the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution) to its east and the border with Wales to its west.

Robotics was introduced into the Design & Technology Curriculum at Belvidere School in 1999 by Assistant Headteacher Mark Walton, when he was Head of the Design & Technology (D&T) Department. Belvidere was one of the first schools in the UK to embed robotics in its curriculum. Classwork is based on the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System and ROBOLAB.

In order to establish state-of-the-art facilities for teaching Design & Technology, Mark Walton approached hundreds of local companies in the West Midlands and was successful in obtaining a large grant from the Alcoa Foundation for the construction of a purpose-built Centre comprising robotics, electronics and product design laboratories, technician's workshop, laser cutters and other facilities. The Alcoa Foundation Centre was opened in 2002. Belvidere School achieved Technology College status in 2004 and Training College status in 2008. It is one of the UK's leading providers of in-service teacher training in electronics and robotics.

In 2003, Dr Ashley Green of The Open University established an after-school Robot Club which competes in the annual RoboCupJunior and FIRST LEGO League competitions. The school sent two RoboSoccer teams to represent the UK at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany as part of an EU-funded Comenius project involving schools from the UK, Germany and Portugal. All the Comenius teams' robots had bodies fabricated using Belvidere School's laser cutting facilities. The Robot Club is now embarking on a new 2-year EU Comenius RoboSoccer project involving schools from the UK, Austria, Germany, Portugal and Sweden. Last year, Belvidere School hosted the RoboCupJunior UK Finals in its new Sports Hall. (Dr Green has helped organise and run all the annual world RoboCup events since 2003, and has been serving on the RoboCup Executive Committee since 2006.)

In October 2007, Belvidere School became the first Roberta Regional Centre (RRC) in the UK, and hosted a 2-day teacher training workshop in its Alcoa Centre. The workshop was run by computer scientists from AIS Fraunhofer and the University of Magdeburg, Germany. Dr Green will be running a one-day Roberta teacher training workshop in the Alcoa Centre on 24th October 2008, and further workshops are planned in collaboration with the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Education Business Partnership (EBP). The RRC has ten LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sets available for short-term loan to schools and colleges. Meole Brace School (a Science College) in Shrewsbury has used those sets to help establish robotics in its curriculum. When the new NXT-based Roberta curriculum materials become available in English, the Belvidere RRC will actively market its services across the central and northern regions of the UK. (Bedfordshire & Luton EBP is about to become a Roberta Regional Centre for the southern UK.) In addition to running teacher training workshops in the Alcoa Centre, Dr Green will be available to run training activities at other schools.

Belvidere School is currently involved in preparations for the Darwin Bicentennial Celebrations to be held in Shrewsbury (the birthplace of Charles Darwin) next year. The school is contributing to the robotics and animation elements of an exciting multi-disciplinary senior schools "Super Heroes" project which will culminate in a week of activities including robotics demonstrations in Shrewsbury's historic Town Square, the screening of animation shorts in the Old Market Hall, and a theatrical production in the new Theatre Severn. The RRC will be hosting a series of Masterclasses for the project this autumn, including Dr Alex Zivanovic on biomedical robots, Dr Jim Wyatt on humanoid robots, and Matthew Griffiths on computer animation. (A limited number of free places will be available to teachers interested in participating in these Masterclasses.)

For further information, contact Ashley A. Green.


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World Championship Robotic Win for Suffolk Schools
Posted by ashley on Saturday, August 23 @ 13:08:17 BST (3027 reads)
Topic Information about RobocupJunior UK
Two teams from Suffolk schools have returned with three World Championship trophies from the International RoboCup 2008 competition in Suzhou, China. The “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team is from Amberfield School and “St Trinian’s” is made up of pupils from both Amberfield School and Farlingaye High School. The aim of RoboCupJunior is to promote science and technology and to inspire young people to be involved with robotics. The teams were selected to represent the UK at RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China by winning regional and national competitions within the UK.

The teams have had to design, build and program autonomous robots that will perform a two-minute dance. The “St Trinian’s” team used as their inspiration the latest St Trinian’s film and designed a life-size humanoid robotic St Trinian’s Head Girl who danced alongside team members together with robotic ducks, computer controlled disco lights and party popper controllers. The “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team, who are all newcomers to RoboCup, based their dance on the music “The Eye of the Tiger”, creating robotic dancing tigers and exotic tropical flowers.

RoboCup is an international competition in which the best robotic teams from across the world compete for the coveted title of “World Champion”. This is the third year running that members of the “St Trinian’s” team have won this competition, which is an outstanding achievement unprecedented by any other UK team. Stephen Cameron, Reader in Computer Science at Oxford University, said “I hope that they get the recognition they deserve for this back home”. The robotic competition gets tougher each year as technology advances and more countries become involved in the competition.

Not only did the “St Trinian’s” team win first place in the Secondary Robotic Dance category but together with the “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team they also won the “Superteam Award” where teams from different continents and with different languages are given the challenge of producing a robotic dance together by re-programming their robots. This is a true test of the engineering skills of all the pupils to work together in a team to produce a new performance within 24 hours.

Dr Hughes, the team’s mentor, says “To win the World Championship title for 3 years running is an outstanding achievement for the “St Trinian’s” team. They have learnt so much about robotics, programming, engineering and teamwork. The challenge is intense when competing against the best teams from countries such as China, Japan, Australia, Germany and Portugal. I am particularly delighted with the success of the “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team. RoboCup is such a huge event it is very daunting to perform on stage being watched by an audience that comprises outstanding robotics engineers from around the world.”

It was an amazing experience for all members of the teams to be in China. The competition was hosted in the Expo Centre in the Suzhou Industrial Park alongside the Suzhou Science and Cultural and Arts Centre. Lizzie Grinnell says “Being part of this competition was an awesome experience that will remain with me for the rest of my life”. Without fail the Chinese people where so kind, helpful and welcoming.

For further details please contact: Dr Nicky Hughes (ICT teacher Amberfield School).

Team members:

St Trinians (Amberfield School, Ipswich, Suffolk and Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Josie Hughes (16), Lizzie Grinnell (16), Genevieve Hughes (14), Sophie Kennelley (16) and Tris Hughes (16)

Rock ‘n’ Roar (Amberfield School, Ipswich)
Emily-Rose Edgell (13), Abigail Lee (12), Liliuth Chamberlein (12)

RoboCup 2008 Prizes by Team:

St Trinian’s
World Champions, RoboCupJunior Dance (Secondary)
World Champions, RoboCupJunior Superteam Dance (Secondary)
Award for Best Presentation (Secondary Dance)

Rock ‘n’ Roar
World Champions, RoboCupJunior Superteam Dance (Primary)


Websites

Team Blog

RoboCup 2008

Blog by Stephen Cameron, Oxford University

Amberfield School

Farlingaye High School



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Seventh BCS Machine Intelligence Competition
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, August 20 @ 17:54:34 BST (3062 reads)
Topic
The Seventh British Computer Society Machine Intelligence Competition

Wednesday 10th December 2008 at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK, during the annual SGAI conference AI-2008

Closing Date for Entries: 1st October 2008

This is the seventh in an annual series of competitions for live demonstrations of 'Progress Towards Machine Intelligence' organized by the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) in association with AKRI Ltd.

The demonstration can be of either software (e.g. a question-answering system or a speech recognition system) or hardware (e.g. a mobile robot).

This competition will put on show real systems demonstrated live. It is hoped that the competition and the competitors, over several years, will provide a new interest and visible improvements in the development of machine intelligence.

Entry Fee: There is no entry fee and conference registration is not required.

Prize: A permanent trophy awarded for one year plus a ÂŁ1,000 cash prize.

Format: The prize will be awarded on the basis of a 10-15 minute live demonstration (not a paper or a technical description). The prize will be awarded to the demonstration that in the opinion of the judges best demonstrates 'progress towards an intelligent machine'.

Judges: All registered delegates at the conference will be eligible to vote in a secret ballot.

Eligibility: The competition is open to all. A maximum of 5 entries will be presented. To control numbers, these will be selected by the organizers on the basis of information provided by the entrants.

Further information is available at www.bcs-sgai.org/micomp/
or by email from the organizers:
Prof. Max Bramer (Chairman, SGAI)
Richard Ellis
Dr. John Gordon (Director, AKRI)


The AI-2008 conference website is at www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2008/.


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TAROS-08
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, August 20 @ 17:36:57 BST (3080 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

1st - 3rd September 2008

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh


TAROS-08 is taking place at the University of Edinburgh from Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd September 2008. We welcome robotics researchers from the UK, Europe and worldwide, to attend this conference on the principles and practice of autonomous robotics, including Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Sciences and Engineering methods.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Professor Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Lab, EPFL, Lausanne: Robotics for Real-world Environments
Professor Kasper Stoy, University of Southern Denmark: Reconfigurable Robotics.

THEMES:
TAROS-08 is the 9th conference in the TAROS (and previously TIMR - Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots) series of robotics conferences. The papers this year are based in a wide range of subject areas: robot control; learning; localisation and mapping; touch, haptics, whiskers and fingers; robot walking and artificial muscles; robot vision and face recognition; bio-robotics; sound localisation; robot architectures; multi-robot systems - and others.

SPECIAL SESSION: PERSONAL AND SERVICE ROBOTICS
A special session on Personal and Service Robotics takes place on the afternoon of Monday September 1st followed by the Annual Meeting of the Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics (http://vrcpersonalrobotics.org).

REGISTRATION:
Registration is now available via the TAROS conference website: www.taros.org.uk.

ACCOMMODATION:
Information on hotels and other accommodation is available on the conference website: www.taros.org.uk.


We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh.

Dr Gillian Hayes
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy

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FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, please see the conference website at: www.taros.org.uk
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Dr Gillian Hayes
Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ
Tel: +44-131-651-3440
Fax: +44-131-651-3435


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RoboFesta-UK 8th Annual Open Meeting
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, August 20 @ 17:11:24 BST (3067 reads)
Topic General RoboFesta-UK network news
Thursday 6th November, 10.00am to 5.00pm

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

Educators, academic researchers and industry representatives are meeting at the Open University on Thursday 6th November to discuss the development of RoboFesta-UK and Walking With Robots.

RoboFesta-UK is an exciting nationwide initiative to help children learn about science, engineering, technology and mathematics through building and experimenting with robots.

Walking with Robots is an EPSRC-funded three-year programme of events and activities designed to delight audiences with the potential of robotics research whilst encouraging them to consider both the technical challenges and ethical implications of that research.

The meeting will be designed to encourage participation from the attendees. Participants from all sectors are welcome - education (from schools to HE), museums/science centres, educational retail, and STEMNET member organisations.

The final session will explore the possibility of a UK Festival of Robotics aimed at pulling together many of the successful robotics outreach projects the community is delivering.

The RoboFesta-UK annual open meeting is unique in its scope, and in previous years has provided fertile ground for establishing new robotics related initiatives on local and national scales.

To register for this free event, please email robofesta@open.ac.uk , stating: your name, your contact details, your affiliation (company, university, etc.), and any special dietary requirements. A full program will be made available on the RoboFesta-UK website (www.robofesta-uk.org) in due course. We look forward to seeing you!

If you would like to exhibit during the lunch break or have any comments or suggestions for speakers, please email Claire.Rocks@uwe.ac.uk.


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Roberta teacher training workshop at Belvidere School in Shrewsbury
Posted by ashley on Monday, July 07 @ 09:40:39 BST (3445 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
Dr Ashley Green of the Open University Robotics Outreach Group will run a free one-day workshop for teachers and educators from 9.00am to 4.00pm on Friday 24th October, in the robotics lab in Belvidere School's Alcoa Centre (maps and directions). The workshop will introduce participants to the Roberta curriculum, the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and RCX systems which it utilizes, and the annual FIRST LEGO League and RoboCupJunior challenges. This workshop is intended for any teachers/educators who are enthusiastic and committed enough to spend a day undergoing the training to enable them to implement the Roberta curriculum in their own schools. Places on this workshop are limited and will be allocated to firstcomers. To reserve a place, please email aagreen@btinternet.com.

Belvidere School, Shrewsbury is the Roberta Regional Centre for the western and northern UK. Roberta-Goes-EU is an EU-funded educational program that takes girls and young women into the fascinating world of robots, where they can learn science, technology and IT in an exciting and realistic way - using real robots!

SETPOINT Bedfordshire & Luton will be the Roberta Regional Centre for the southern and eastern UK. Email Gerry Heather for further information.

Roberta-Goes-EU

Roberta Project Flyer (PDF)


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Armed Military Robots
Posted by ashley on Saturday, July 05 @ 23:12:49 BST (3442 reads)
Topic International News

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel/soundofscience/Prog06.mp3

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel/soundofscience/Prog07.mp3


In this two-part special on Robots of War, Professor Noel Sharkey explains the ethical issues of using military robots that are allowed to apply lethal force on their own terms. These are not terminator-style robots; they are more like tanks, trucks or fighter jets. There are over 4000 robots currently deployed on the ground in Iraq. These are mainly for explosive ordnance disposal, although some are armed. There are also many robot fighter planes, such as Predators and Reapers. For now there is always a person in the loop to decide when to kill, but this is could change soon. Find out how this ties in with the Laws of War and the international laws on discrimination.

Noel interviews experts in this field – Professor Ron Arkin, director of the mobile robotics lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr Peter Asaro, philosopher of technology at Rutgers University in New York, Matt Armstrong, an independent defence analyst in California, Rear Admiral Chris Parry who worked for the UK MoD, and Richard Moyes, policy director of Landmine action. Noel also attends the International Military Robotics conference in London and talks to military robotics people from NATO, the German and Swedish Armies, as well as the French equivalent of our MoD.

The Sound of Science


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Robots Podcast: Robot Soccer
Posted by ashley on Saturday, July 05 @ 22:49:34 BST (3374 reads)
Topic Robot Challenges and Competitions

http://www.robotspodcast.com/podcast/mp3/robots-20080704-episode3.mp3

To close this year's soccer season after Spain's victory in the EUROCUP we went to the robotic kingdom to see who was driving the game. With Prof. Manuela Veloso from Carnegie Mellon University and President-Elect of the International RoboCup Federation, we'll be looking behind the scenes of the best known competition in robot soccer. Finally, we'll be discussing the future of artificial dribblers and their odds against the human 2050 world champions with a poll and discussion on our forum.


Manuela Veloso

Manuela Veloso is Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, President-Elect of the International RoboCup Federation and leader of the Coral Research Group (Cooperate, Observe, Reason, Act, and Learn). Since the first official Robocup soccer games in 1997, she's been active in presenting teams to the Sony AIBO 4-legged league, the smallsize league, simulation league and Segway league with a great success at adding stars to the shirts of her robotic players with numerous first places in world and US championships.

In this episode we'll be focusing on CMDragons' cookie-box-like omni-wheeled robots from the small size league and their off-board perception.

We'll also be looking at how the CMDash team has tamed the AIBO robot dogs to perceive their world and cooperate in a decentralized manner. Veloso gives us some insight on the challenges related to competing against different opponents and the need for teams to adapt during the games.

Finally, since the AIBOs are no longer produced, the RoboCup Federation is now making way for the Nao humanoid as the next challenging platform in robot soccer along with other research driving leagues such as the Nanogram league.

Robots Podcasts


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