York Robothon Week 3 In Review

The third week of York Robothon is in the books. One final week remains before the Capstone Event on August 2. Participants from the Edgar Fahs Smith STEAM Academy and York YMCA have been at Asbury United Methodist Church on East Market Street learning about robotics from Freelance York’s Daniel Kemper and York Exponential’s Daniel […]

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Prepping For York Robothon With Nicely Done Sites

Recently Freelance York and Nicely Done Sites hosted a robotics event in partnership with local robotics leader York Exponential, who provided one of their collaborative robots as well as robot tech Daniel Heckert. Heckert is one of the primary organizers of the upcoming York Robothon program, which this event was preparing for. The York Robothon […]

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Are Robot Valets the Next Big Thing?

If you follow tech news you know that robots are taking more jobs away from humans. From flipping burgers to package delivery robots have the chance to eliminate many of the mundane jobs from our life. Not everyone is happy about that but another group of people now have their jobs threatened. Robots are now […]

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Can You Fire Robots?

When we think of robots and AI we think of them aiding us in our tasks. Many people shutter though at the thought of being out of work when they do more than just aiding us in our tasks and as technology advances at Nicely Done Sites we wonder about that as well. For now […]

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Ever need a Third Hand?

We have all been in a place where having a third or even fourth hand would come in handy. Our human hands can only hold so much which leads us to hold things lets say very creatively. For us humans our only hope is a pair of robotic hands and we may be very close […]

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A Robot farmer?

When you think a robot farmer what do you think of? Perhaps it is Bender being chased around the Moon in Futurama running from the Crushinator and its vengeful farmer father. While that episode is set in the year 3000 robot farmers may be closer to reality than we think, and we do not need […]

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Ransomeware targeting robots

If you have never been hit with a ransomware attack consider yourself lucky. These attacks cost the victim a great deal of time, money and frustration as they deal with it and in some cases there is no resolution. This has hit many people’s computers and has also spread to people’s phones and now it […]

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How close is Star Wars tech from reality?

1977 was a memorable year. The first all-in-one home computer was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Computers is founded, snow falls in Miami for the only time in recorded history, the space shuttle has its first test flight and Elvis Presley performs his final concert before dying later that year. All of that […]

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What is a bot?

We’ve all had to go through a CAPTCHA test at some point while on the Internet. You’ve probably figured out why you have to do this (to make sure that it is a human entering in information) and you’ve gotten used to it. Some even have a box to click that says “I am not […]

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