First Annual National Robotics Week To Take Place In April
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 9 of February , 2010 at 4:04 am
Now, I’m totally in favor of a National Robotics Week… I just wish we’d have a National Robotics Year instead. And that it would be an annual event. But until that happens, April 10-18 of this year has been designated National Robotics Week (and a day?) by iRobot along with an “alliance of top industry, academic and non-profit organizations” that includes AUVSI, FIRST, CMU, MIT, Stanford, and a bunch of other people.
There are a number of events scheduled, from competitions to parties to factory tours all around the US. It’s a wonderful idea, having a National Robotics Week full of exciting robot-y things… Just do the industry a favor: if you decide to go to one of these events because you think robots are awesome, bring along someone you know who doesn’t think that robots are awesome, and show them what they’re missing out on. Robotics has an incredible core of devoted people, but part of our job has to be showing everybody else why, and how, robots are going to be an important part of our lives in the future. Not the forever from now flying car jetpack future, but the next few years future. It’s not something anyone needs to be scared of or intimidated by as long as they understand, and hopefully National Robotics Week can take a crack at making that happen.
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