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Celebrating National Robotics Week: Empowering the Next Generation in Portland

At Rose City Robotics, we are proud to join the celebration of National Robotics Week, happening April 5–13, 2025! This nationwide event highlights the power of robotics to inspire students, promote STEM education, and showcase the incredible innovations shaping our future. National Robotics Wee...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

LangChain & NVIDIA NIM: AI Innovation at GTC 2025

I’m writing this from NVIDIA GTC 2025, reflecting on Jensen Huang’s keynote yesterday. As a Portland State University NVIDIA University Ambassador developing generative AI and robotics curriculum, I’m particularly interested in software advances continuing to be made by NVIDIA. With NVIDIA Infere...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Reducing the Impact of Data Centers with Mathematics

Despite the recent signs of weakness in the US economy, the data center business is booming. A combination of converging factors including AI, cloud computing and cryptocurrency have data center construction projects underway across the country. But with progress comes a challenge: what happens t...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Rose City Robotics Collaborative: Lightning Talks and Networking Event

At Rose City Robotics, we are committed to fostering a vibrant, grassroots community for robotics professionals in the Pacific Northwest. We are excited to announce that we will be hosting the Rose City edition of the Robotics Collaborative meetup on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:3...

Samantha Town

Events and Outreach

Advancing Open-Source Robotics Education Through Collaboration

We are excited to announce our we are working with RealMan Robotics to develop educational content aimed at empowering the next generation of roboticists. This collaboration focuses on creating comprehensive tutorials and courses that leverage open-source robotics hardware and software. RealMan ...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Introducing Our NVIDIA Generative AI Certification Prep Course

At Rose City Robotics, we are dedicated to providing top-tier educational opportunities in AI and robotics. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce our new certification training course designed to prepare participants for the NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI Multimodal credential. What i...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Oregon’s House Bill 2062: What It Means for PNW Battery Innovators

The Pacific Northwest has long been a hub for battery innovation, with companies, researchers, and investors working to advance energy storage solutions for everything from electric vehicles to grid-scale storage. Now, a new piece of legislation—Oregon’s House Bill 2062 (HB 2062)—is poised to res...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

A Week of Surprises and Progress in the Grant World

It’s been one wild week on the grant front! In a dramatic twist, federal grant funding was temporarily halted by executive order—though thankfully, the funding doors swung open again the very next day at least for now. At Rose City Robotics we depend on federal grants to fund our early innovative...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Rose City Robotics Acquires Waivolt Expanding Our Mission To Education

We are thrilled to announce that Rose City Robotics has officially completed a merger with Waivolt, an online training platform dedicated to using AI to provide free technical solar courses and educational tools. As an open-startup and Oregon benefit company, Waivolt has been a trailblazer in dem...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

How the Solar Industry Can Power the Robotics and Machine Learning Revolution

The world is experiencing an unprecedented demand for machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics. From autonomous vehicles to precision agriculture and advanced manufacturing, the rapid expansion of AI-enabled robotics is fueling the need for larger and more sophisticated d...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

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