First News

• Build Skills with XRP
  November 20, 2023
  I'm thrilled to share a new opportunity for FIRST® teams to enhance their skills and engage with their peers and the wider community: the XRP (eXperiential Robotics Platform).
• 2024 Digital Animation Award is Now Open!
  November 15, 2023
  We’re excited to share that Digital Animation Award competition is now open!
• Welcome Chief Scorekeepers
  November 14, 2023
  Welcome to our two new Co-Chief Scorekeepers!
• Future Control System RFP Released
  November 10, 2023
  Information about the new control system RFP for FIRST® Robotics Competition and FIRST® Tech Challenge.
• A Potluck of Reminders
  November 9, 2023
  A few updates and reminders for the upcoming season!

• Elevating Dining Experience With the Ridgeback Waiter Bot
  November 8, 2023
• A Month of Innovation: Clearpath Exhibits at Key Robotics’ Conferences
  October 25, 2023
• Demining Robots: Jackal UGV & OutdoorNav Utilized For Advanced Landmine Detection
  October 16, 2023
• Rockwell Automation completes acquisition of autonomous robotics leader Clearpath Robotics and its industrial offering OTTO Motors
  October 2, 2023

• Interview with Dautzenberg Roman: #IROS2023 Best Paper Award on Mobile Manipulation sponsored by OMRON Sinic X Corp.
  November 19, 2023
• Robot Talk Episode 62 – Jorvon Moss
  November 17, 2023
• California is the robotics capital of the world
  November 12, 2023
• Robot Talk Episode 61 – Masoumeh Mansouri
  November 10, 2023
• The 5 levels of Sustainable Robotics
  November 8, 2023

• The Easiest Remote Control Animatronic Skull With Micro:Bit and Crazy Circuits
  October 24, 2023
• Building a String Art Robot Looks Difficult
  September 25, 2023
• Review of mBot Neo
  September 15, 2023
• How To Build A Knife Throwing Robot
  July 19, 2023
• Give Alexa a Billion Times More Personality with a New Body
  July 7, 2023

• Robots support autistic students in learning social skills
  June 29, 2022
• Kids Using Robots
  April 16, 2022
• AI Robot Helping Teach
  March 30, 2022
• Cubelts Lighthouse Robot
  February 15, 2022
• Ameca, [THE MOST REALISTIC ‘HUMAN’ ANDROID ROBOT]
  December 15, 2021

• Robotics Investment for October 2023 Totals $980 Million
  November 30, 2023
• Nominations open for 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards
  November 28, 2023
• Tangram Vision talks 3D sensing; Next Generation Robotics offers optimization service
  November 23, 2023

• Robot dogs have unnerved and angered the public. So why is this artist teaching them to paint?
  November 26, 2023
• Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre
  November 8, 2023
• Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit
  October 22, 2023
• Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses
  October 19, 2023
• ‘Social loafing’ found when working alongside robots
  October 18, 2023