Grad students test their metal in 'BattleBots' (University of Alberta)
(Source: University of Alberta) MBS Robotics team members Andrew Mair, Graham Jordan, David Sloan and Lucas Sloan enter the BattleBots arena. David Sloan and Mair are UAlberta computer engineering...
View ArticleSee the first poster for ABC's BattleBots season 2
ABC did the reality TV world a solid when it revived Comedy Central’s dueling robot program BattleBots in 2015; now, the competition series is back for more, and EW has an exclusive look at the new...
View ArticleSABIC Debuts New Portfolio of High-performance Filaments for Fused Deposition...
SABIC, a global leader in thermoplastic technology, unveiled today at RAPID + TCT 2017 a new portfolio of high-performance filament grades for fused deposition modeling. The new products, being...
View ArticleSABIC HIGHLIGHTS LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY AT...
Guangzhou, China, May 17, 2017 - With environmental protection and energy efficiency as prominent issues for China's automotive sector, global petrochemicals maker SABIC is taking advantage of...
View ArticleThe best free Android games in 2017: try these out now
What's better than a free game? Well, pretty much nothing. Except when it's just terrible and you've wasted your sweet time to download it. Sure, it's not going to cost you anything, but that doesn't...
View ArticleBest iPad games: the top free and paid-for titles around
No-one predicted the meteoric rise of gaming on iOS, and we're not sure anyone knew what the iPad was for at all when it first appeared. However, Apple's tablet has become a very able gaming platform....
View ArticleScience Channel Grabs Off-Network ‘BattleBots’
Science Channel has worked out a deal for off-network cable rights to ABC’s BattleBots, with the first of 16 episodes to debut July 12. As Science Channel puts it,...
View ArticleScience Channel Steps Into The Ring This Summer With Battlebots
Epic Robot Fighting Series Premieres on July 12 at 10pm ET/PT (New York) - Let the robot shrapnel fly. Science Channel has licensed the off-network cable rights to air 16 episodes of ABC's epic...
View ArticleFirst Look: ABC's BattleBots Poster Has Some Real 'Teeth' To It
ABC’s BattleBots promises to be equal parts Real Steel and… Jurassic Park (?), at least based on the...
View ArticleRatings: NFL Games Inflate ‘BattleBots’ Season Finale
“Battlebots” hauled in some big numbers on Thursday, but those come with an equally large asterisk. Each of the Big 4 broadcast networks were inflated last night by local NFL preseason preemptions. In...
View Article‘China’s BattleBots’ tournament eyes global domination
Bam! Two metallic painted chariots brandishing spinning gears ram into each other with a thud. Wheels fly off, hitting the bulletproof window shield; metal armor is torn open, setting off a shower of...
View ArticleRobot Sports bring man and machine together
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. From cage matches to laser tag, artificially intelligent machines are opening a new world of sports competition. The finale of the Syfy...
View ArticleMIT team joins robot battle on TV
The hulking, heavily armed remote control robots that battle to the death, sending sparks, flames, and pieces of metal flying around the ring were the inspiration for a local engineer who recently put...
View ArticleMiami’s 220-pound robot goes prime time
South Floridians will have a robot to root for if they tune into Thursday night’s episode of BattleBots, an ABC series in which homemade remote-controlled combat robots rumble against each other for...
View Article'Battlebots' reboot will air on ABC June 21st
We knew the Battlebots TV show would crawl out of its early 2000s grave for another six episode run on ABC, and now the network has announced when. Sunday April 21st at 9PM, Battlebots will once again...
View ArticleUS will fight Japan in battle for gigantic fighting robot supremacy
OAKLAND, Calif. — They’ve been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc., an...
View ArticleMegabots v Kuratas: US and Japan battle it out for robot supremacy
California startup’s robot isn’t quite ready to take on Kuratas but founders confident ‘Team USA’ can win as Japanese firm accepts challenge...
View ArticleWPI-Sponsored Team Wins ABC's BattleBots (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
(Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute) WPI-Sponsored Team Wins ABC's BattleBots The team, which includes two WPI graduates, proves it has the strongest robot in a nationally televised competition....
View ArticleDoes ABC's 'BattleBots' live up to the memory of the original TV series? 0
Now that the new version of "BattleBots" has premiered, it's time to see how it stacks up to the original. While it's been 15 years since the first incarnation of the robot fighting series debuted, it...
View ArticleU.S. startup challenges Japan to giant robot battle
Oakland, Calif. — They’ve been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change. Megabots Inc., an...
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