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New FIRST teams FTC and FRC: Unlock NASA Grant Opportunity for Your Robotics Journey

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 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

Kicking Off Portland Startup Week with the Robotics Community

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...

Samantha Town

Events and Outreach

Joe Cole, PhD’s Quest to Build Real Robots, Real Impact

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 hard...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

Bridging Classroom Theory and Real-World AI

A recap of our May 22 bootcamp with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute This week, Rose City Robotics welcomed university students and faculty to the Metro Region Innovation Hub for a hands-on Generative AI bootcamp delivered in partnership with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI). The aft...

Samantha Town

Events and Outreach

Behind the Scenes: Robotics Lunch and Learn – Startup Edition

What does it look like when entrepreneurs, engineers, and researchers come together to experiment with real-world robotics? At Rose City Robotics, we brought that vision to life with our Robotics Lunch and Learn: Startup Edition—a hands-on technical workshop focused on the cutting edge of rob...

Samantha Town

Events and Outreach

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 W...

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 Inf...

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 happen...

Duncan Miller

Learning and Impact

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