Robot Film Festival

“There doesn’t exist a person who makes robots today that wasn’t inspired by characters like those in Star Wars or Astro Boy. And it works both ways. What motion graphics or 3D artist doesn’t have a robot on their reel? There is so much creative energy in these fields. I want to foster that connection between design and robots. It’s these connections that give meaning to work.”
-Heather Knight

The 3LD Art & Technology Center in NYC hosted the second annual Robot Film Festival earlier this month. This year’s theme was: “Are Robots Man’s New Best Friend?” The day started with a screening of the Sundance Film Festival winner Robot and Frank. and ended with a robot red carpet and awards.

The festival was the brainchild of roboticist Heather Knight, who is currently running Marilyn Monrobot Labs in NYC while working on doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute. Knight started the festival with the desire to intertwine traditional science and engineering with amusement and celebration.

Nurture Your Child’s Creativity with Robot Toys

Everyone is creative.  Some are born with creativity that is easily seen - dancing, painting or singing. According to Webster’s Dictionary creativity can be defined as the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations.

We cannot teach our children to be creative but we can provide them with the tools to nurture their creativity.  Robot toys and construction sets are a wonderful example of tools to nurture creativity.

Encourage your child to explore their environment through play. The toys of today help to stimulate minds and make learning fun.

Follow Me Robot

Talk about a little shadow following you? Follow Me Robot is exactly that! This little robot is a sound detecting robot. He has four built in microphones that detect the sound source and then he moves towards it! Clap and he’ll come! For ages 14 and up, this is a great summer project.
For Robot Kits in Minnesota visit Midwestern Robotics