Registration for ROBOTIX 2015 are now open For all the event details of Robotix 2015, visit: www.robotix.in Note : _**_All Team members are required to register at the Kshitij website before team formation. One of the team members should act as captain and invite all other members to his team from the Team Management section as explained below... continue reading
Now participating in our events has become even easier. Presenting the do-it-yourself sheets for 3 of our events including a first-ever autonomous event DIY for ‘Minefield’. For more information regarding the event rules, bot specifications, tutorial, etc. for minefield go to robotix.in/minefield For more information regarding the event ... continue reading
Continuing its tradition of spreading the culture of robotics throughout the country, Technology Robotix Society, in collaboration with Kshitij, IIT Kharagpur, conducted workshops in 6 cities, with the total attendance exceeding 2000 students. These workshops are part of our continuing effort to increase the knowledge of robotics throughout the ... continue reading
It’s time once again for the enlightening and fun filled Annual Kolkata workshop organised by Technology Robotix Society in collaboration with Kshitij, IIT Kharagpur . The workshop is our first pit-stop as we kickstart our journey towards Robotix 2015! Date : 19th October,2014 (Sunday) Time :** 9 A.M. onwards** Venue : G. D. Birla Sabhagha... continue reading
Author : Vraj Parikh Kraig 103 and Kraig 104 were mainly hands on sessions for the skills required to make a robosoccer robot i.e. soldering and control box. The classes also dealt with the important concept of rectifiers. Kraig 103 started off where Kraig 102 had left i.e. control box circuit. The doubts that many students had pertaining to t... continue reading
The second iteration of the KRAIG (Kharagpur Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group) robotics introductory sessions, christened KRAIG 102 was organized by the Technology Robotix Society (TRS) yesterday in the evening in V1 seminar hall at 6:30 PM. Despite rains outside, students turned up in a respectable number to learn the basics of roboti... continue reading
As it does every year, Technology Robotix Society organised a grand introductory workshop for the enthusiastic freshers of IIT Kharagpur who turned out in huge numbers, occupying every nook and cranny of Kalidas Auditorium to witness the magic of robotics. The workshop began with a look into the work done by the society all through the years.Th... continue reading
Most robots are rigid. Rigid is easy to design, easy to construct, easy to calibrate, and more reliable for all of those dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks that robots excel at. When robots make fundamental structural compromises to rigidity, they do it in complicated ways, like with series elastic actuators or hydraulics. It’s worth it, though,... continue reading
A robotic minesweeper aims to defuse lethal roadside bombs that represented the signature weapon killed or wounded thousands of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. The all-terrain vehicle developed by Oshkosh Defense resembles an ordinary military vehicle equipped with a mine roller that can clear the way ahead of convoys without a human driver. ... continue reading
It’s possible, even probable, that if you’re reading this article, you either know how to program a robot or could figure it out if you really put your mind to it. But for the rest (indeed for most people), programming is not necessarily a skill that they have at their fingertips. And even if you’re comfortable with writing code in general, wr... continue reading