List of Robotics Organizations

[Pavan Dave]

I was wondering if there was a list somewhere of the robotics organizations in the US. If there isn't could we possibly start one by writing down the organization and what it participates in (including stuff outside of first like Botball...)?

Clarification: I am not wondering about links to programs, but I am asking about links to local organizations that promote robotics outreach and robotics education line Houston Robotics, Indiana FIRST, Florida FIRST, etc. I am also wondering if you could list what they help promote or participate in too.

1)Indiana FIRST - FLL, FRC
2)Houston Robotics - EARLY, FLL, BEST, VEX, Botball, FRC
3)Connecticut FIRST (http://www.ctfirst.org/) - JFLL, FLL, FTC, FRC
4)Rochester FIRST - ???
5)Florida FIRST - ????
6)Mount Olive Roboics Education Association - FRC, FTC (FVC), FLL, JFLL, BotBall
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(If you could copy the list and paste it and add onto it I would really appreciate it. Thanks)

Thanks,
Pavan

[Stuart]

Ahh ok thanks for the clarfication

[artdutra04]

Connecticut FIRST (http://www.ctfirst.org/) - JFLL, FLL, FTC, FRC

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Stuart

BEST www.bestinc.org
GEAR www.gearrobotics.org

I updated what I meant by "Robotics Organizations." Thanks though!

[Tim Delles]

Did you get Rocherster FIRST??

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Tim Delles

Did you get Rocherster FIRST??

You just put it on the list. I need one more thing though, the programs it helps out with.

[AdamHeard]

SCRRF - FRC, FTC, FLL

and cmon, who could forget toronto FIRST.

[Madison]

Up in these parts, we've got FIRSTWA (http://firstwa.org/) organizing the state's FIRST LEGO League events.

[Kristian Calhoun]

New Jersey/New York City FIRST - FRC, FTC, FLL

Pst, Sara, you need to update the FVC page.

[DCA Fan]

Team San Diego - FTC, FLL, FRC

[Rosiebotboss]

There used to be a NEFIRST up here in New England.....what happened to it, Brad?

[Andy Baker]

Indiana FIRST has integration with local VEX-based competitions.

AB

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Pavan

I was wondering if there was a list somewhere of the robotics organizations in the US. If there isn't could we possibly start one by writing down the organization and what it participates in (including stuff outside of first like Botball...)?

Just to be clear, are you asking for information about "robotics organizations" or are you really asking for information about what might be called "robotics education / competition organizations"?

If you are serious about generating a list of the former, then you need to start with groups like the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the Robotics Industries Association and Robotics and Remote Systems Division of the American Nuclear Society. To get a start on this list, you might check the NASA Internet Robotics Resources Index. This list is severely out of date, but many of the links are still live and the index is a reasonable starting point. If these are the types of resources you are trying to identify, then recognize that few of the "robotics education / competition" programs (including FIRST) have much to do with what might be considered hard-core robotics technology. They probably don't belong on this list.

Conversely, if you really want to just focus on the "robotics education / competition organizations" then I would strongly recommend two things:

1) recognize that the community is MUCH larger than just FIRST. To be brutally honest about it, FIRST is still a minority player in that community, one among many. So you have to be willing to put aside any mis-perceptions of FIRST global dominance, and actively seek out the other programs that exist (and in some cases, have existed for much longer than FIRST). And,

2) I would suggest that you start by going through all the presentations from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium. This symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence focused on robotics competitions in artificial intellgence and computer science education. The presentations list many (but certainly not all) of the competition robotics programs that are linked to various education activities. This will be a great starting resource for your list.

-dave

[Rich Kressly]

there is also another listing of many of the competition organizations here:
http://tsarobotics.org/roboticsframework.html
-download the famework document and scroll down to the resources section

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by dlavery

"robotics education / competition organizations"?

...
Conversely, if you really want to just focus on the "robotics education / competition organizations" then I would strongly recommend two things:

1) recognize that the community is MUCH larger than just FIRST. To be brutally honest about it, FIRST is still a minority player in that community, one among many. So you have to be willing to put aside any mis-perceptions of FIRST global dominance, and actively seek out the other programs that exist (and in some cases, have existed for much longer than FIRST). And,


-dave

Thanks. I thought I clarified it earlier but I didn't. Anyways, yes I am looking for the bigger picture. Pretty much any organization involved with "robotics education".

Also I thought I had recognized the existence of everything besides FIRST by not saying "List of FIRST Robotics Organizations" and by asking for organizations that participate in other activities such as BEST, EARLY, Botball, the list just goes on.

Thanks for your help Dave.
Pavan.