VEX Robotics World Championship is a premier event in the amateur robotics community. Toted as the largest robotics competition in the world, VEX is one of Brian Lederer’s all-time favorite events. This year, the Championship will take place at The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, TX in April and May 2024. April 25-27, […]
Amateur Robotics
2024 CRESCENDO FIRST Robotics Competition
CRESCENDO is the premier robotics competition. Longtime Amateur Robotics Enthusiast Brian Lederer features the upcoming event that fosters engineering skills and utilizes the sport of robotics to harness creative power: Robotics is the ultimate sport of creativity and problem solving. Few people would use “sport” and “robotics” in the same sentence, but Information Technology (IT) […]
MassRobotics Accelerator Powered by MassTech
MassRobotics, the premier global independent robotics hub, has launched its inaugural MassRobotics Accelerator. Amateur Robotics Enthusiast and Information Technology (IT) Professional Brian Lederer shares the details: The MassRobotics Accelerator is a zero-equity robotics program. Entrepreneurs, startups and ventures who are accepted into this year’s program will receive $100,000 in non-dilutive funding. It is the intention […]
NASA Lunabotics Challenge
NASA is currently hosting a Lunabotics Challenge which will take place in the Spring of 2024. Proposals are due by the end of this month. But what is lunabotics? Amateur Robotics Enthusiast Brian Lederer explains: What is Lunabotics? Brian Lederer explains that lunabotics is a study of robots and/or robotic systems that acn be utilized […]
SJTU Robotics Team Dominates at VEX 2023
The 2022-2023 VEX Robotics World Championship took place across ten days in April of this year. Brian Lederer, Amateur Robotics Enthusiast, shines the spotlight on the team who caught his eye the most at VEX: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). The VEX Robotics World Championship invites competitors from all around the world, every single year. […]