Seattle Robotics Society

Welcome to the Seattle Robotics Society!

The Seattle Robotics Society was formed in 1982 to serve those interested in learning about and building robots. We are a non-profit corporation comprised of a diverse group of professionals and amateurs, high school students and college professors, engineers and tinkerers. Our passion is the creation of cybernetic creatures that challenge the old definitions of life, intelligence, and practicality.

See the SRS Programs page for information on the activities that the SRS does to help promote robotics. There is also information there on getting started in robotics.

Announcements

January Meeting CANCELED because Renton Tech's campus will be closed.
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.

January 16, 2010 - CANCELED because Renton Tech's campus will be closed this weekend.
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.