by Emily Winter | Jan 8, 2018 | Curriculum, Research, teleoperated robots, UVA
Nicola Bezzo is using robots to map the past. Bezzo, a University of Virginia assistant professor in the departments of Systems and Information Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and two of his graduate students, Esen Yel and Tony Lin, have had a...
by Emily Winter | Dec 4, 2017 | Autonomous Vehicles, Curriculum, General Robotics, Research, Robotics Competitions
The challenges of coaxing a small, quirky robot along a ping-pong-table-sized course were readily apparent at Saturday’s Worker Bots contest. Held at Virginia Western Community College, Worker Bots was the 11th annual autonomous robot competition put on by the School...
by Emily Winter | Nov 27, 2017 | Curriculum, General Robotics
The Norton school system has been awarded a $5,000 STEM Competition Team Grant from the Virginia Department of Education. John I. Burton High School science teacher Diane Kinser said city schools will implement the Virginia STEM Competition Team initiative beginning...
by Emily Winter | Nov 13, 2017 | Autonomous Vehicles, Curriculum, Industry, UVA
Manta rays swim through the water with a flying motion, allowing them to travel quickly with little effort, while also being quite agile. These are qualities that would likewise be desirable in an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV. To that end, scientists from the...
by Emily Winter | Apr 28, 2017 | Curriculum, ODU, Research, UAV, underwater teleoperated robots, Virginia Tech
(TNS) — Society currently has better maps of the moon, Mars and Venus than of the ocean, says Dan Stilwell with Virginia Tech’s marine robotics research. But he and others are attempting to paint a better picture of the sea floor, which may involve dropping...
by Emily Winter | Apr 17, 2017 | Curriculum, Industry, Research, UAV, Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG – Nestor Folta’s drone sounded like a mosquito as it buzzed around an empty field on a recent afternoon, flying around 60 mph through a homemade obstacle course of PVC pipes. The practice course was designed to be identical to what Folta, 21, and two other...
