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Is Your Automation Vendor Actually Building for You, or for Their Next Investor?

Last week the Rose City Robotics team was in Las Vegas. You know that place where everything that happens there stays there? You know what we did on our big night out? We got VIP tickets to BattleBots Destruct-a-thon. Yes we are robot nerds. If you are in manufacturing, you have likely been inun...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development

Robotics Collaborative Rookie Team Takes Flight in FIRST (FTC) Competition

Congratulations Robotics Collaborative rookie FTC team! Our 7th-and-8th grade team 30603-Vikings just competed in our rookie season for the 2025-2026 FIRST Tech Challenge Decode , a global robotics competition for 7th-12th graders —and crushed the rookie goal. In August 2025, our nonprofit Rob...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development

How Joseph Cole Builds Vision Systems That Survive Variance

When people say “computer vision“ or “machine vision“ they usually picture a camera pointed at a part, a neural network, and a bounding box. Joseph Cole, PhD doesn’t start there. Joe starts one layer deeper: how the signal is formed in the first place, what constraints the hardware imposes, and...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development

My Definition of “Full Stack Engineer” Is Changing Fast

I no longer believe a junior web developer is a viable career path. Senior web developer is next on the chopping block. I manage my AI agent like it's a junior dev. I only provide prompt engineering, then submit PR code reviews and change requests. The exact same way I used to work with a human j...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development

Why Everyone Should Learn Robotics

Forget the hype. Robotics isn’t about humanoids or sci-fi futures. It’s a discipline grounded in mathematics, physics, software, and hardware. Tools used to solve real problems. At its core, robotics is about building systems that sense the world, make decisions, and act with purpose. Anyone can...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development

Why Robotics In-Person with a Cohort Beats Going Solo

By the time you've SSH’d into your robot for the fifth time in one day, zip ties in one hand and a battery cable in the other, you start to realize: robotics isn’t just software. And it’s definitely not just simulation. As a software engineer coming into robotics, I didn’t fully get it either. I...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development

Rose City Robotics Is Now a NABCEP-Accredited Training Provider

Real Credentials. Real Solar. Real Impact. We’re excited to share a major milestone in our mission to build tools—and careers—that matter. The North American Board of Certified Energy Professionals (NABCEP) has approved Waivolt Trade School by Rose City Robotics as an Accredited Training Provide...

Duncan Miller

Operations / Business Development