This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Dec 31, ...

Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to understand how it works and the math behind its movements. It ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

RobotProg is a fun, free educational program that teaches the basic concepts of programming and robotics. You program a virtual robot using a flowchart: draw the flowchart, run it and watch the robot ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Focus on One Area: Robotics is broad. You could focus on programming first, then move to electronics, or vice versa. Trying ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...