Austin Mini Maker Faire Returns to Blow Your Mind This Weekend

Palmer Events Center sets the stage for techies and makers.

"...days of everything from rockets to lace making, from robotics to custom poetry – it’s show and tell time..."

May 15, 2015 Design Post by Anne Harris

Second Annual Robot Fashion Show

"...members of the Anderson & Eastside Memorial High School Robotics Teams programmed the bots to show off their handcrafted..."

April 6, 2015 Photo Gallery

Big Ideas Behind Tiny Town

High school students use STEM skills to create a miniature wonderland at Zilker

"...group had previously worked with the Westlake students on robotics projects under Coach Norman Morgan. Woolsey said, "Coach said..."

Dec. 19, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Declaration of Independence

Zavala Elementary and Principal Sean Fox are succeeding at going their own way

"...in grades 3-5 will learn fundamentals of programming and robotics. (Fox noted, "Communities in Schools is housed in our..."

May 9, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: The Sadness That Stays

When the world inside you is no longer the world around you, that's called aging

"...strive to link the human body to computers and robotics, as though we're not monstrous enough as mere mammals...."

April 18, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

How to Run a Very Successful Crowdfunding Scam

Or epically fail at launching a tech product

"...a marketplace for completed goods ranging from jewelry to robotics. Most vendors on the site have spent less than..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

The Future of Food Is Now

From drones to cricket flour to apps designed to make food deserts extinct, social justice is at the intersection of food and technology

"...agriculture at the University of Idaho, is to incorporate robotics into the work of farming. Shrestha, along with a..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Heart of the Community

SXSWedu gathers voices on schools in communities, communities in schools

"...there's a seven-week immersion program, a summer internship tackling robotics, Web design and mobile app development, with female professionals..."

Feb. 28, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

New Intelligent Briggo Coffee Haus Debuts

Visible robotics + Smartphone technology = good coffee every time

"...The newly-designed machines allow customers to view the robotics in action and to check the status of their..."

Aug. 1, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

'Fighting For, Not Against' Eastside

Now the turnaround work begins on troubled campus

"...enrichment programs like the Panther Band and the award-winning robotics club. Moreover, he argued that the feeder program is..."

June 14, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: The Future Loose Amongst Us

Digitalized fabrication changes everything we know about work and government

"...Times, which published a piece tut-tutting the impact of robotics: "In hindsight, historical fears of technological change look foolish"..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Revolution Will Be Printed

Digital fabrication will change the course of the future

"...That figure sounds light to me. Factor in robotics, and 80% could be unemployed. Yet everyone could have..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

FF2012: 'Doomsday Book'

Two bangs, one whimper on Fantastic Fest apocalypse anthology

"...by the wondrous 'Heaven's Creation.' Kang-woo Kim plays a robotics engineer sent to a Buddhist temple to examine a..."

Sept. 22, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

People are being replaced by robots who don't take coffee breaks

Sept. 21, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

To Serve Man

Briggo: an Austin company at the crossroads of taste, technology, and social interaction

"...for a system that ultimately brought together good coffee, robotics, cloud technology, and social-media interaction. But with a nod..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Food Feature by MM Pack

Changing Course

AISD shifts to community-based model for prepping younger kids for college

"...in Round Rock and another $50,000 split between a robotics program in Del Valle and computer gaming programming for..."

Sept. 9, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hand Inside the Puppet Head

Connor Hopkins and his friends are pleased to meat you

"...AC: There's a concept in robotics, the Uncanny Valley, that Trouble Puppet doesn't get anywhere..."

March 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hedda Games

Two productions take a new look at Ibsen's troubled and troubling heroine

"...chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Robotics and Automation Society, are awfully charming and, as voiced..."

March 4, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...wildlife by reanimating the skeletal remains with servomotors and robotics. He breeds these new species in a 400-year-old monastery..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

McCallum Fine Arts Academy

The high school theatre crafts a bilingual take on the Webber-Rice musical

"...they lived with local families while taking classes in robotics, Spanish, and lighting technology. And last fall, the department..."

March 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Unmanned Weapons Part of War's Brutality

"...cowardly as that of a suicide bomber. Drones and robotics can't discern friend from foe. They kill indiscriminately. Any..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Postmarks

Page Two: Tales of the Pioneers

Hanging with Roller Derby queens and pulp fiction masters

"...by Otto's work, as were Asimov's three laws of robotics. All Asimov's robot stories were collected and published in..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Column by Louis Black

What the Bleep

Circuits get bent, Furbys are forced to sing - take that, robotpocalypse

"...the Friendly Ghost takes a more user-friendly approach to robotics at Salvage Vanguard Theater on Sunday. The night offers..."

July 28, 2009 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Starts World War III

A Cold War classic turns 25

"...known) belonged to a whole decade consumed with man-made robotics with a mind of their own (see also: Space..."

July 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Everything Should be Made of Brass

There's a new contender for weirdest SXSW party so far.

"...Tart, tumblers, theremin concerts, mad creations from the Austin Robotics Group and a frickin' Tesla coil (Coolest. Piece. Of...."

March 13, 2007 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Camp Guide

"...exciting field trips; and courses in logic, physics, statistics, robotics, and more. Grades six through nine. Huston-Tillotson University, 900..."

April 28, 2006 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

University Co-op Presents the 2005 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival

"...energy that can entertain, relax, and captivate an audience. Robotics Lab, Saturday, April 9, 2pm; Sunday, April 10, 7pm;..."

April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...only the elite and the chosen are vaccinated. Perfect robotics and nanotechnology. Exterminate 90% of the world's population, leaving..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...only the elite and the chosen are vaccinated. Perfect robotics and nanotechnology. Exterminate 90% of the world's population, leaving..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

Really Rad Rachel

Media darling Rachel Muir and her nonprofit Girlstart earn the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award.

"...in math and science and technology." In addition to robotics, girls here learn Web page design and how to..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

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