Yelm robotics team heading to state
YELM – It was designed to climb mountains, balance on teetering bridges and stop at the edge of a cliff.
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CT utilities offer robotics grants
High school students in Connecticut Light & Power and Yankee Gas service territories competing in the upcoming 2011 Connecticut FIRST Robotics Competition can now apply for grants to help fund their
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Holiday Fund: Gunn promotes green goals
by Karla Kane The Gunn High School Robotics Team, 50 students strong, works tirelessly January through March, meeting frequently to create award-winning robots. Hardworking high schoolers get awfully thirsty and hungry, and those frequent meetings equal a lot of thrown-out plates, cutlery and plastic water bottles — at least in seasons past.
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The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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