The mOway robot to attend Education Show in Birmingham

The mOway robot will attend the Education Show 2012, the UK's leading education event for the promotion and development of all learning and teaching, with Data Harvest, its exclusive distributor in the country from 15th to 17th March.

Education Show receives over 12,000 education professionals, all looking for the resources and ideas they need to help pupils to develop and to raise standards within their schools. The event offers a selection of free seminars, workshops and training; practical and engaging content, over 400 leading suppliers and plenty of exclusive show special offers, so you can pick up the latest resources for your learning environment.

The mOway robot will be there with Data Harvest in the G71 stand with atractive and didactic exercises which help to promote learning and development in the area of robotics and programming.

Place: NEC Birmingham, UK
Date: 15-17 March 2012

First mOway Tutorial

The first tutorial of mOway! Discover the first exercise resolved step by step with the new Mowayworld software.

Robots Look Themselves in the Mirror

Nowadays robots look more and more like human beings. This is shown by Qbo robot, which is able to recognize its own image reflected in a mirror.

Qbo robot has a computer vision system that makes possible for Qbo to recognize either another robot or its own reflected image. In order to distinguish between both cases, the robot emits a blinking sequence with a light placed over its “nose”: if the robot identifies its own sequence, this means that it is in front of a mirror.



Otherwise, it is in front of another Qbo robot and then they start a conversation through synthesized voice, microphone and speakers.

Source: Thecorpora

Flying Robots Will Construct Buildings

Dr. Raffaello D’Andrea from ETH Zurich has developed a flying robot for constructing buildings. This robot is able to locate, carry and drop the blocks that forms the structure to be built.

The robot is a quadricopter, which means that it has four propellers to travel. The position control of the robot is achieved through a motion capture system with a group of cameras. This system checks the position of the robot, modifies its trajectory and indicates the robot where to drop the block that is carrying.

A demonstration was made with four of these robots, which built a 1:100 scale model of a building with polystyrene bricks.

Source: LaFlecha

Video by Park Road Primary School Students

The Park Road Primary Schools students in the UK have sent us a video in which they explain how to use the mOway robot. They are 9 and 10 years old and confess that they really enjoy using and learning to programme with the mOway robot.

Her teacher tells us that they spent a lot of time making this tutorial so we wish to thank them for their efforts and good work. The video takes a minute to load but the wait is worthwhile.

Back from BETT 2012 in London

The mOway team returned from London last week where they attended BETT 2012, the best showcase of products and didactic resources. Accompanied by our distributor in UK, Data Harvest, we showed off the new MowayWorld software and the latest accessories through original and innovative practices.

BETT welcomed over 30,000 visitors from January 11 th to 14 th who were perplexed by the diversity of educational products. Among them, mOway stood out as the best, most complete educational tool for learning robotics and programming.

You can see stand Q40 shared by the mOway team and Data Harvest below.

mOway at BETT 2012, London

The mOway team will fly to London to take part in the BETT exhibition from January 11th to 14th at the Olympia Exhibition Centre. We will take part together with our exclusive distributor in the UK, Data Harvest, a leading company in the UK education sector.

Two mOway robot experts will share the Q40 stand with Data Harvest to present the new Mowayworld software through new practices and demonstrations.

We have reserved a space on the stand for the mOway robot, which this year has a new feature, the new Moway Camera Board and Moway Wifi Board accessories, which will allow you to develop more complex projects.

BETT attracts more than 600 educational suppliers and around 30,000 visitors. It brings together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations.

Place: Olympia, London
Stand: Data Harvest, Q40
Days: 11-14 January 2012