Robots in the News:

Future Technologies: Robotics Into The 21st Century
National Robotics Week is in April. There should be a lot of different demos and displays during the week around the area.
Boss, CMU's winning entry in the 2007 DARPA urban challenge
CubeSolver, A Lego Mindstorms robot to manipulate and solve a Rubik's Cube. There's also a lot of other cool Lego stuff on his webpage.
Predictions by Isaac Asimov in 1964, a prolific science fiction writer, about the world in 2014.
AI Hype in the media
Google's acquisition of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company famous for the BigDog quadrapedal robot.

NXT and Robot C

Robot C homepage. The homepage for RobotC with lots of help and sample files (look under the NXT section).

Short C Tutorial C tutorial found on the CMU domain.
C Language TutorialBasic tutorial featured by Drexel University is well organized and has excellent information on it.

Ldraw.org has 3D Lego modeling software you can download, as well as libraries of virtually every Lego part ever made. Very cool.
The Art of LEGO Design An article by Fred Martin, originally written for the magazine, The Robotics Practitioner. This article contains a lot of low-level LEGO tricks and explanations that may help you in your designs. Also, please visit Fred's web site.
Lego User Group Network (LUGNET)This is a web-based message board of all kinds of Lego users and enthusiasts. Some are collectors, some are into particular product lines like the Lego train sets, and some are into Lego robotics. The site is very well organized and well archived.

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