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New Version of the 3D Printable Humanoid Robot  pib To Be Released in August

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At the last Robotics Meetup Nuremberg, significant updates about the humanoid robot pib were announced: a new version is set to be released in August. 


Changes from Last Year’s Version: 

• Stylish Design: The upper body has been redesigned to be more stylish, with hidden screws and motors, and no loose cables. 

• Easier Assembly: The new version offers simpler assembly. 

• Enhanced Motors: The shoulders are now equipped with stronger motors.

• Improved Imitation Feature: Previously, pib could only follow horizontal  movements. The updated version can also follow vertical movements.

• Upgraded Electronics: The electronics have been upgraded to a Raspberry  Pi 5. 

• Dockerization: pib is now dockerized, allowing installation on various  software systems. This was a community effort, especially during the last  hackathon. 

• Digital Twin: A digital twin has been developed, enabling simulations and  machine learning. 

Continuity and Compatibility 

Not everything has changed. The camera and display remain the same, and efforts  have been made to maintain compatibility with the previous version. Updated tutorials  are being prepared to ensure easy assembly. 

The meetup also featured a guest speaker from EduArt Robotik, who introduced EduArt, the robot. After the presentations and discussions, everyone enjoyed pizza and drinks while networking with fellow robotics enthusiasts. 

At The Bleeding Edge Of Robotics: 2 Year Milestone For pib

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2 years ago, the open source robotics project pib was launched. The goal of pib, the printable intelligent bot anyone can build themselves, is to lower the barriers and make robotics and AI accessible to anyone who is interested. Over the past two years, pib has built an active and dedicated community that supports the project in moving forward. Therefore, a lot has happened since the project launch – time to look back on how far pib has come.

Milestones, Challenges and What Comes Next

It’s not every day that a robot turns two years old, so the team celebrated with a big party. The all new pib documentary was streamed to kick off the event, followed by different stations for guests to experience pib’s newest features hands-on.

pib started out as an idea that slowly took shape in the form of a master thesis and a robotic arm. From there, a humanoid robot was created that can easily be 3D printed with the free 3D print files on the website and then built with the help of the building manuals online. pib offers many ways to implement AI trainings such as voice assistant technology, object detection, imitation and more.

For starters, the pib team and the community have optimized pib’s mobility in a joint effort. The result is impressive: In its newest version, pib can now move its arms at basically all angles.  Another rapidly progressing topic is pib’s digital twin which received a birthday present by the community members that took on this project: The camera now works in the virtual environment, enabling the camera stream to be transmitted to the outside world to be analyzed there and then become the base of control processes.

Talk To Me, pib!

Aside from that, there has been some significant progress in the field of human-machine interaction, particularly focusing on enabling voice-based communication with pib through advanced voice assistant technology. Exploring the potential of natural speech interaction has become a significant area of the team’s current efforts and the project is committed to advancing pib’s capabilities in this direction.

One of the newest features that were revealed at the pib party is communication in a multimodal world. The robot captures an image, analyzes it, and then answers questions in relation to the image. For example, when asking pib “where are we right now?” it interprets the room and its setting and will answer something like “we are in an office space”.

With this new feature, pib was also able to play its first round of Tic Tac Toe. The team drew the gameboard on a whiteboard so that pib was able to analyze the current state of the game and determine the next move with commands such as “place the next X in the top right corner”.

Join The Community

The pib community is rapidly growing and consists of 3D printing, robotics and AI enthusiasts. Whether you’re a rookie or an expert, anyone is invited to join, share their ideas and work on exciting projects together.

MAKER LEARN FESTIVAL

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FREE E-LEARNING ARRIVES TO YOUR HOME OR OFFICE FROM 8 TO 12 NOVEMBER BY MAKER FAIRE ROME

Over 50 webinars, talks, online and free workshops about all the innovation topics offered by our makers and partners: check out the complete list of webinars and choose the one that suits you the most!

Participating is simple: you just need to register for the event of your choosing and then you will receive an alert just before it starts. All webinars are held on Zoom: make sure you got the app on your device.


MAKER LEARN FESTIVAL: E-LEARNING FOR EVERYBODY

Maker Learn Festival is truly for everyone.

A few examples? If you are a professional, an entrepreneur, a startupper, take look at the webinars dedicated to the world of entrepreneurship with specific focus on digital and robotics, artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing and 3D printing, transition 4.0, PNRR and incentives for SMEs . Eg check the selection for the fabrication topic here.

And that’s not all, an entire section is dedicated to innovation born within the Italian universities and there is no shortage of webinars and specific workshops for students and young people!

„Academic“ events: select the „Universities“ tag and discover all the workshops and talks organized by some of the most important Italian universities, including the University of Pisa, La Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Studies Roma Tre, the Polytechnic of Bari.

Appointments for students and teenagers: dedicated contents from robotics to experiments to be done in the classroom or at home along with the parents.


And if you want to, you can specifically select the topics of your interest, browse by topics such as art, robotics, artificial intelligence … the offer is very wide!

Come and discover all the innovation you need on the Maker Learn Festival, from 8 to 12 November!

WHAT IS MAKER LEARN FESTIVAL

Maker Learn is the project of Maker Faire Rome and PID Punto Impresa Digitale, for continuous training, a web gateway in which you can find free training opportunities throughout the year covering the most diverse topics. Maker Learn Festival is the natural continuation of Maker Faire Rome, the event that was held from 8 to 10 October. With Maker Learn Festival we celebrate the continuous training by concentrating over 50 different courses in one week. By participating in the Maker Learn Festival, you can experience firsthand the benefits that “life long learning” can offer you.

Create, Share, & Teach with SnapCAD

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Information about SnapCAD just appeared on the VEX Robotics website. You can now sign up with your email to get informed as soon as SnapCAD is available for download.

So, sign up and while you wait for the download to become available, read the information that is on their official website:

Create, Share, & Teach with One Easy-to-Use Program

SnapCAD is a community-built solution for designing virtual VEX IQ models and creating printable, shareable instructions for them. Use SnapCAD to test out a novel idea in the virtual world before building it physically, or to share your creations with the world in the form of step-by-step build instructions!

Transform your VEX IQ Classroom

SnapCAD is a FREE download and available to anyone with a PC running Windows 95 or newer (see below for full system requirements). Students can even install it on their home computers and bring their models (saved in the lightweight .ldr or .mpd file formats) into class the next day.

A Community Effort

The SnapCAD vision began when some members of the VEX IQ community began converting VEX IQ CAD files into the popular open-source LDraw format. This made them available for use in a number of publicly available LDraw editors.

Built for VEX IQ

Drawing from community expertise, SnapCAD is a new LDraw editor designed specifically for VEX IQ. Students can use SnapCAD to learn the fundamentals of computer aided design (CAD) and create new VEX IQ robots!

  • Comes pre-loaded with the entire VEX IQ part library
  • Supports colored VEX IQ parts
  • Includes pre-built models of the Autopilot, the Clawbot IQ, and V-Rex
  • Adapts to new products ported into SnapCAD soon after public release
  • Creates step-by-step instructions for your custom builds

And feel free to join our VEX IQ discussions in our VEX IQ Robotics Fangroup on Facebook

VEX IQ SnapCAD Screenshot

 

Wonder Workshop launches FREE digital magazine for kids

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Wonder Magazine brings hundreds of hours of play with activities, challenges and updates for robots Dash & Dot

Las Vegas, NV—January 5, 2014 – Wonder Workshop (www.makewonder.com), a company building delightful robots for children to learn to code, today announced the launch of Wonder Magazine, a free bi-weekly digital magazine for children and their families. As children around the world start their exploring coding and play with robots Dash & Dot, Wonder Magazine will provide the ongoing challenges and activities to extend the play experience to hundreds of hours.

Children will love the magazine for the new activities that bring open-ended play experiences, and challenge them to explore creative problem solving with the robots. Parents will find topics to engage their children in conversations about the robots and coding. Wonder Magazine intends to keep the fun going forever in every home with Dash & Dot.

The first edition of Wonder Magazine will be released in English to customers on January 15, 2015, and customers can sign up for the magazine at makewonder.com/magazine. It will be delivered on a bi-weekly basis directly to the Wonder Workshop mobile applications and customer email inboxes. The magazine’s content will focus on creative news ideas for playing with Wonder Workshop’s robots, Dot and Dash. Sections of the magazine will include:

• Making Wonder series (featured play idea with video)
• Ask Dash, Ask Dot
• Wonderful projects (featured projects from kids around the world)
• Adventures of Dash & Dot
• Hello World (coding lesson)
• Build-a-Bot (building and crafts with Dash & Dot)
• Wonder Labs (engage with the Wonder Workshop team)
• Funny Corner, Events and Announcements

“Now that Dash & Dot are arriving into homes around the world, we’re excited to offer new and engaging ways for children to play and learn with them,” said Vikas Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Wonder Workshop. “Our team is excited to introduce Wonder Magazine to help kids and families explore more activities with the robots every week.”

Last year, Wonder Workshop delivered over 30,000 robots to 20 countries in one month in December 2014. At $4M in pre-orders, Wonder Workshop is the largest crowdfunded consumer robotics product ever. All pre-orders were delivered to customers in time for the holidays of 2014. Dash & Dot are now available for purchase and immediate delivery exclusively on makewonder.com and Amazon.com.

Wonder Workshop’s developer API is live in the hands of early developers building apps and fun experiences for the robots. Wonder Workshop ships to 20 countries including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, European countries, India, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Wonder Workshop was founded in 2012 by veterans from Amazon, Apple and Google to create robots that can be friends of children around the world, and help every child learn to code at a young age. Dash & Dot were used by schools around the United States for “Hour of Code,” and were invited to the White House for the launch of the program in 2014. Dash & Dot can be found on makewonder.com and on Amazon.com. Dash & Dot are programmed using applications provided by Wonder Workshop on iPad 3 and up, iPad mini and iPad Air. Developers looking to build applications for Dash & Dot on both iOS and Android are welcome to visit Wonder Workshop at developer.makewonder.com for more details.