Wot u do!

Over the last three months we’ve invited IT professionals to submit their designs for computer systems that demonstrate creativity as well as tackling real social, human interest problems experienced by charities large and small: such as contributing to the battle to reduce carbon emissions; bringing...

One of the disappointments of being a competition or challenge organiser is that you can never take part in the competition you have created :-( Now we have a number of other robots in the I Love Robots competition (go vote!!) I have removed A1DW's profile from the database. I'm still working...

If you read this blog at all you'll know I enjoy building and dreaming of robots. So to co-inside with the Robots Supplement that is available this month we're running another competition - yes another one, that's three if you include the one in the robots supplement!!!! - where you can win...

I was able to attend the First Lego League 'Power Puzzle' challenge tournament at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford last weekend. Duxford, an old WWII fighter air base, has an enormous collection of commercial and military planes. The FLL tournament took place nestled amongst some of the exhibits...

Having seen the broad news coverage of the DARPA Grand Challenge I was keen to see if the UK or Europe was running similar things. I soon discovered a number of interesting robotic challenges organised by the UK Ministry of Defense (MOD). The most recent challenge just completed this July, was SAUC-E...

A quick cross post to highlight to you all the DARPA Grand Challenge. This time around the autonomous vehicle developers must provide a vehicle that can drive safely in the urban environment - filtering in with traffic flow, working correctly at junctions, overtaking and avoiding obsticles! It all sounds...