{"id":160,"date":"2016-10-07T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtarobotics.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-10-07T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:30:10","slug":"robotics-clusters-upcoming-events-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gtarobotics.com\/robotics-clusters-upcoming-events-self-driving-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics clusters, our September and upcoming events, and Self Driving Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we reached an important milestone 500 members<\/a>, and this happened in just over 5 months since this group inception.<\/p>\n

I’m very impressed and I think this is a great start for our group initiatives.<\/p>\n

This would have not been possible without our members involvement and initiatives. I only hope we can grow this community further and inspire as many people as possible to get started and contribute to GTA (and beyond) robotics hubs (clusters) for robotics education, DIY, and industry.<\/p>\n

Robotics knowledge becomes more important every day and the domain grows very fast and continuously.<\/p>\n

September was our most active so far, we had amazing and inspiring presentations\/demos by Rahul<\/strong> (Project Eva – moonshots.ca<\/a>), Frank<\/strong> (Step-E www.quantumroboticsystems.com<\/a>), Alex<\/strong> (X-Drive project<\/a>) and I also showcased several times my on-going STEMCA Inventor<\/a> and SPARK<\/a> (personal assistant\/service robots) projects.<\/p>\n

We participated to Maker Expo<\/a> and Science Literacy Week<\/a> to make people aware about GTA Robotics initiatives and inspire them.<\/p>\n

We also had some young roboticists showcase their cool projects, like Farius<\/strong> and Keith<\/strong> sons.<\/p>\n

I also cannot reiterate enough the help we got and still get from organizations like NewMakeIt<\/a> (Ryan<\/strong>), Markham Public Library<\/a> (Ben<\/strong>), HackLabTO<\/a> (Eric<\/strong>), Ryerson DME Lab<\/a> (Namir<\/strong>) and Adventure Capitalism<\/a> (Stephan<\/strong>, who is hosting for free this website), thank you all for your contribution to our group.<\/p>\n

Going forward our next event is on Oct 13, this is a great opportunity to see how students are building robots for competitions and learn from their experience, also a great way to learn how we can contribute and help the teams in our areas:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/GTA-Robotics\/events\/234590101\/<\/p>\n

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Recently I read a great article on RoboHub, about how Danish Robotics Clusters have helped Denmark excel in robotics, would be amazing if we could bridge robotics education (schools), industry (robotics and related) and DIY robotics communities to achieve part of what they did, a great example to follow:<\/p>\n

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"Generosity is a mental health principle: it is therapeutic." Our events are the effect of people generosity! I hope we reach Danish levels! https:\/\/t.co\/5XYVN8BcKC<\/a><\/p>\n

— Marius Slavescu (@GTARobotics) October 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n