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Vestal robotics team places first in off-season competition

A local robotics team grabbed the gold medal in a recent competition. Vestal High School placed first in both qualifiers and ...
Futurism

YouTube Accidentally Removed Robot Battle Videos for “Animal Cruelty”

Popular video platform YouTube took down a number of combat robotics videos — robot vs. robot competitions popularized by the show “BattleBots” — on the grounds that they include “deliberate ...
The Hour

In Norwalk, anyone can build a robot at National Havoc Robotics League, from experts to newcomers

NORWALK — U.S. postal carrier Chris Munrow was surprised to discover last year that an international center for combat robotics is located only a mile-and-half from his home in Norwalk. “I was ...
NPR

Meet the high school sport that builds robots — and the next generation of engineers

On a Thursday night inside a NASA hangar in Mountain View, Calif., a group of teenage girls cluster around two large tables strewn with wires, hex wrenches and laptops. As they work, a machine rises ...
Ars Technica

YouTube flags robot battle videos as “animal fights”

On Monday, several YouTube users had their videos removed from the service due to YouTube’s restrictions on animal fight footage. This was confusing, because the videos in question showed no animals ...