Announcements

• In even-numbered months (Feb, Apr, Jun, etc.), the meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.) in room K-111.

Upcoming Events

Meetings

Our regular meetings are at 10am on the third Saturday of each month at Renton Technical College. After the meetings we typically head out for lunch; details will be announced at the meeting.

Below are the planned presentations for upcoming meetings. The Presentations page contains an archive of presenters and their topics.

• November 21, 2009
  • Autonomous Robotic Buoys - Professor Steve Riser, UW oceanographer, will present on autonomous robotic buoys (Argo Floats) that swim the earth's oceans gathering temperature, salinity, and current flow data giving scientists a view of the global ecosystem and effects of climate change around the world.
• December 19, 2009
  • Grab Bag - Tyler Folsom will be presenting several topics: plug-in hybrid electric / human-powered light vehicle; video clips from the DARPA Grand Challenge and concept presentation; robotics class project that is a form of indoor Robo-Magellan using RFID and other technologies.
  • The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just hang out and see what others are working on.
• January 16, 2010
  • Robotic Interface in Performance Measurement and Assessment - Professor Mika N. Sinanan, MD, PhD, (President, University of Washington Physicians Professor of Surgery) will present on the role of a robotic interface in performance measurement and assessment.
• February 20, 2010
  • SMART / LEGO Mindstorms - Gus Jansson and David Schilling will show us their latest LEGO Mindstorms NXT (and RCX) creations and show us options for programming them as well as uses of and sources for cool sensors. They will also host a SMART (Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies) workshop in the afternoon concurrently with the robot work session.
  • The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just hang out and see what others are working on.
• March 20, 2010
  • Wireless power and personal robotics - Josh Smith of Intel Research Seattle will be presenting on "Wireless power and personal robotics: a sampling of Intel Labs Seattle research."
• April 17, 2010
  • Contact Lenses for Superhuman Vision - Professor Professor Babak Pariz will present on Contact Lenses for Superhuman Vision. Imagine a contact lens that displays active content directly on the wearer's eye, enabling useful facts or information to pop into their field of view, the creation of virtual crosshairs, or virtually any kind of information content. This technology could help vision-impaired people, provide holographic driving control panels, or open a unique way to surf the Web on the go. Come hear about the latest on this fascinating technology.
  • The meeting will be followed by an afternoon robot work session (until 5 p.m.) in room K-111. Bring a project to work on, questions to ask, or just hang out and see what others are working on.
• May 15, 2010
  • Alchemy Project - Professor Pedro Domingos will talk about the Alchemy Project. Alchemy is a software package providing a series of algorithms for statistical relational learning and probabilistic logic inference, based on the Markov logic representation. Alchemy allows you to easily develop a wide range of AI applications, including collective classification, link prediction, entity resolution, social network modeling, and information extraction.
• June 19, 2010
  • Brain-Robot Interfaces - Professor Rajesh Rao, Associate Professor at UW (CS department) will talk about brain-robot interfaces.

Monday Night Chat

The Seattle Robotics Society hosts a "Monday Night Chat" each week at 7pm Pacific Time. Details are on the Contact Us page.