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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

PNW Battery Collaborative Meetup Comes to Portland

We have partnered with PNW Battery Collaborative based in Seattle to offer a Portland hosted session of the Collaborative's bi-monthly meeting. Don’t miss it—RSVP today! The Pacific Northwest is a leader innovation in batteries, and Oregon is a critical part of this ecosystem. With global momen...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Introducing Our New Prototype Rosie

We are introducing our latest prototype: Rosie the Robot, which we are now using in our lab to collect machine learning datasets. This prototype will help us to develop a proof of concept for our autonomous disassembly system for EV batteries by demonstrating that we can collect human guided tra...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Waivolt is now a Registered NABCEP Training Provider

We are thrilled to announce that last week Waivolt received approval from NABCEP as an Accredited Training Provider, with our 0 to Solar Hero: Free 18-hour Advanced Solar PV and the NEC Training course listed in the NABCEP Course Catalog. Free 18-hour Advanced Solar PV and the NEC TrainingThis f...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

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