ANN ARBOR - Registration closes April 6 for the 2017 Michigan Robotics Day at the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex April 11, an event celebrating National Robotics Week. It is co-hosted by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and the U-M College of Engineering. Keynote - Paul Snyder, Designing for Advanced Urban Mobility
EAST LANSING – Around 500 of Michigan’s youngest robotic masters are coming to Michigan State University in East Lansing for the Michigan VEX Robotics State Championships, Sunday, Feb. 19. Competitors from 48 high school and 28 middle school teams will gather in Jenison Field House during the tournament that runs from 9 a.m. to 5
ANN ARBOR — The Robotic Industries Association, the Ann Arbor-based advocate for the robotics industry, announced an all-time record in 2016 for North American robot orders and shipments. During the year, 34,606 robots valued at approximately $1.9 billion were ordered in North America, representing growth of 10 percent in units over 2015. The automotive industry
SOUTHFIELD - Auto supplier Denso has again announced a 2017 commitment to FIRST Robotics, to which it has donated more than $800,000 since 2002. Detroit will host the FIRST Robotics Championship at Cobo Center and Ford Field in April 2018, 2019 and 2020. Denso is a Silver Level Supplier Sponsor of FIRST, and teamed up
WINDSOR, Ontario - The FCA Foundation, the charitable arm of North American automaker FCA US LLC, Thursday awarded more than $65,000 in grants to 13 Ontario robotics teams and programs to compete in STEM-building First Robotics Competition programs. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen
SANTA BARBARA, CA. - It was a busy and abundant year for seed, crowd, series A,B,C,D and VC funding of robotics-related startups. 128 companies got funded, some multiple times. $1.95 billion, 50% more than 2015 which was also a phenomenal year with over $1.32 billion funded. Velodyne LiDAR got the most money in 2016, $150
DETROIT - The Workforce Intelligence Network has been awarded a $6 million, four-year grant to train 900 southeast Michigan workers in robotics and automation careers through the Advance Michigan Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Education Collaborative. The funding aligns with southeast Michigan’s White House designation as an Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership area, which prioritizes
SHENZHEN, China - University of Michigan leaders are entering into several agreements with Chinese institutions in hopes, as the world’s population grows, of solving pressing global issues such as clean and safe water and next-generation transportation. S. Jack Hu, U-M vice president for research, is in China in November along with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder,
DETROIT - The ancient art of blacksmithing and the digital age have combined to create Robotic Blacksmithing, a $50,000 student competition announced by Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, and the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence at The Ohio State University. Launching this fall, and running through the 2016-17 school year, the LIFT Prize in Robotic
FERNDALE - Joe Veryser, the campus architect for Lawrence Technological University, describes a new $16.9 million Taubman Complex on campus that will house biomedical engineering, combining biomedical and engineering disciplines, architecture, life sciences and more. The 39,000 square feet building also will become the new home for LTU's Robotics program. When it is completed, the
