TEAM DUCT TAPE

[ September 11, 2010; ] Just one more week!

A group of Italian engineers from the University of Parma’s Vislab are testing sensory technology that allow unmanned vehicles to avoid obstacles on the longest-ever roadtrip of driverless technology.
” One month into the three-month journey, most errors have been human.    “We were trapped in customs for one long day. We had a small accident — [...]

[ August 28, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Hard to believe the new season kicks off in just a couple of weeks!  The summer just flew by; it seemed we were doing something every month since our return from Atlanta in April.

Wait!  We WERE doing something every month since our return for the World Championship in April!  There was:

IEEE-Robotics and Automation Society [...]

Team Duct Tape with Robrady Engineers
Team Duct Tape members enjoyed a remarkable afternoon at Robrady Design on Friday.   Lead Graphic Designer Dave Prager kicked off our tour with a look at the many aspects of Robrady product development, from inception to modeling and prototyping.   Senior Industrial Designer Erik Holmen gave us a look at graphic [...]

[ August 20, 2010; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_2133" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="TDT members checking out Robrady's revolutionary bike"][/caption]

Team Duct Tape members are heading south to Sarasota on Friday, to visit Robrady, a product design and development studio that “combines progressive industrial design, mechanical design, graphics / packaging design, rapid prototyping, and production program management to deliver profitable product solutions for our multinational client [...]

Robots may not exactly be taking over the world, but developments in the field of robotics may be heading us toward a better world. Check out these recent stories:
Robotics Trends: Robot Speaks the Language of Kids
Two researchers with the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention (CHIP) at the University of Connecticut are studying whether [...]

We wrapped up our LEGO Robotics camp at the Bob Sierra YMCA with an exhibition event for campers’ families.  Campers’ LEGO
TDT members, enjoying the calm before the robot storm
 art, rubberband cars, LEGO robots and more were on display. Families learned more about FIRST, while they watched campers’ robot runs, and campers got to try out our [...]

It rained most of the morning so ALL the campers, from ALL the camps were indoors, one of our classrooms was flooded when a cooler was allowed to drain in the room, the other classroom had to be used by another camp group for more than an hour, and we had to resort to duct [...]