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
Learning and Impact
When Boston Dynamics released its latest demo of the Atlas humanoid robot last week—this time under the joint stewardship of Hyundai and Toyota—it wasn’t just a showcase of robotics flair. It was a subtle but significant shift in what we expect from autonomous systems: not just balance and mobili...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
As robots become more capable and autonomous, a major challenge remains: enabling real-time decision-making at the edge. NVIDIA's latest innovation, Jetson Thor, tackles that challenge head-on. Launched as part of NVIDIA’s broader push into Physical AI, Jetson Thor is a compact, high-performance...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
At Rose City Robotics, we believe your tools should reflect your values. That’s why we created an open-source portfolio and blog site template along with a course and step-by-step guide to help you through the process. Our new free course Build Your Professional Portfolio Website: From Code to ...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
Most robotics courses are simulations dressed up as skill-building. They keep you watching, not doing. You don’t deploy code, you press “play.” You don’t train a robot, you follow a slide. At Rose City Robotics, we created Engineer Boldly for those who are ready to break that loop — and build r...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
High Schoolers Are Publishing Robotics Research. Here's How.In 2025, publishing a robotics paper isn't a flex. Instead, it's proof of curiosity, capability, and a real-world impact shaped by advanced technologies. If you're a student, parent, or mentor wondering how to turn a robot project into...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
At Rose City Robotics, we believe ambition deserves the best tools — and that includes knowing where to find funding. If you’re leading or supporting a high school FRC robotics team, NASA’s Robotics Alliance Project (RAP) may be one of the most powerful resources you’re not yet using. Every year...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
Startupedition luncheon • June 24 • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM • Metro Region Innovation Hub Why this event mattersGenerative AI has upended the software world—now it’s coming for robots. The automation industry is racing toward its own “ChatGPT moment,” where transformer models, real-time perception, a...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
To help launch Portland Startup Week, the Rose City Robotics Collaborative (RCR) hosted a community networking lunch in partnership with Electron Robotics. Held at the Metro Region Innovation Hub, the gathering welcomed members of the robotics community from across the Pacific Northwest for an af...
Samantha Town
Events and Outreach
When Joe Cole, PhD gives his talk this weekend to the Portland Area RoboTics Society (P.A.R.T.S.), it won't be a formal lecture hall moment, but an intimate gathering of passionate hackers in a local hackerspace, a place where real ideas spark and technical minds connect to build physical hardwar...
Duncan Miller
Learning and Impact
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