AGI American Grippers Inc in Trumbull, CT, a loyal supporter of Manufacturing, Robotic Engineering and Industrial Automation related discipline programs in Universities throughout the USA, donated pneumatic automation equipment to WPI student Corey Stevens on April of 2012 for use in a project required for the completion of his Robotics Engineering undergraduate degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.  WPI is ranked among the best Engineering schools in the country, and “is the first university in the United States to offer a bachelor’s degree program in Robotics Engineering” according to Professor Michael A. Gennert, Director of Robotics at WPI. WPI is committed to providing hands-on, practical education to tomorrow’s robotics engineers” said Professor Gennert, and companies like AGI who partner with WPI to support the advancement of Robotic Engineering studies are invaluable in the process of training tomorrow’s Engineers and Scientists.

Corey…

"...BMW is testing a 5 series sedan equipped with advanced autonomous technology..."

"The system uses a combination of radar, LIDAR, ultrasound, video and highly detailed GPS maps to sense the vehicle’s own position in relation to its surroundings, including oncoming traffic."
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/08/bmw-tests-an-autonomous-vehicle/ 

"What do you get when you cross a dj with a Canadian roboticist? An almost true-to-fiction Wall-E, that's what."

"For 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environment and understand its place within it. Roboticists have developed tools to accomplish this task, known as simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM. But the sensors required to build that map have traditionally been either expensive and bulky or cheap and inaccurate. Laser arrays cost a few thousand dollars and weigh several pounds, and the images they capture are only two-dimensional. Stereo cameras are less expensive, lighter, and can construct 3-D maps, but they require a massive amount of computing power. Until a reasonably priced, easier method could be designed, autonomous robots were trapped in the lab..."

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"It seems impossible, but apparently nobody has ever made a chocolate-laying 3-D printer before now. Thankfully, that oversight has been remedied by Dr Liang Hao and his team, of the University of Exeter in England..."

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/chocolate-3-d-printer-arrives-at-last/