RoboGames 2013: Looney the Robot Autonomous Weight Lifting - (watch video)

Looney the Robot, a NAO humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, demonstrates the autonomous weight lifting competition at RoboGames 2013.

NASA cycles through another Great Moonbuggy Race

It's been 40-plus years since an astronaut last drove a lunar rover on the moon, but the spirit lives on in a competition designed to inspire a new generation of youthful techies. (Credit: NASA/MSFC) It may be more than 40 years since NASA last put a man on the moon, but those Apollo missions continue to serve as a driving force for some aspiring engineers.

Security Release - CakePHP 1.2.12, 1.3.16, 2.2.8 and 2.3.4

CakePHP 1.2.12, 1.3.16, 2.2.8 and 2.3.4 have just been released to fix a critical issue with how pagination & PaginatorComponent handle sort criteria. When paginating without a sort column whiteli

MAKE and MCM Raspberry Pi Design Competition: the winners!

MAKE held a Raspberry Pi Design competition with MCM Electronics for US-based Pi owners, and have just released the results. I'm not sure what's more impressive: the outstanding quality of the entries, or the fact that even though we spend much of the day furiously googling for new Pi projects, many of the submissions were new to us here at the Foundation.

NASA's Kepler telescope and the quest for life out there

The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet. CBS Sunday Morning talks to scientists searching for clues. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) (CBS News) The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet.

Weekly Podcast 04/23/2013

A week of symfony #330 (22->28 April 2013)

A week of symfony #330 (22->28 April 2013) This week, it was announced that the Symfony 2.3 Standard Edition will only include MIT/BSD licensed libraries and bundles ( view pull request). In addition, Symfony 2.3 was declared nearly completed, with just a few important PR remaining before the first beta version.

RoboGames 2013: Robot Hockey - (watch video)

Robot Hockey is a team sport with 3 robots from each team allowed on the field at any time. The robots weigh 15 pounds and are 18" x 18". Each competition consists of three 3 minute periods.

RoboGames 2013: Korea- RnD_Eska Autonomous Weight Lifting - (watch video)

RnD_Eska, a humanoid robot from Korea, completes in the autonomous weight lifting event at RoboGames 2013.