Who's Following the Aerial Robotics Competition?


Robert Michelson and Alan Alda discuss aerial robotics on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1995 International Aerial Robotics Competition


The media has covered the ultimate collegiate challenge since its inception. Each year inquiries from the electronic and tabloid media flood the desk of the competition's organizer, Rob Michelson. The following is an abbreviated list of media sources that have covered the event:

o TELEVISION

  1. Scientific American Frontiers
  2. Discovery Channel: "Next Step"
  3. Discovery Channel: "World of Wonder"
  4. Cable Network News
  5. CNN's "Technology Week"
  6. CNN "Futurewatch"
  7. BBC's "Tomorrow's World"
  8. AM Canada (Syndicated)
  9. First Look (Syndicated)
  10. Various independent, and ABC-CBS-NBC-FOX affiliates**

o RADIO

  1. National Public Radio "Technovation" (uplinked via Galaxy 6 satellite)
  2. Armed Forces Radio (400 stations reaching 127 countries)
  3. American Association for the Advancement of Science (Radio Syndicate)
  4. Various independent and national affiliates

o PRINT MEDIA

  1. Business Week
  2. Popular Mechanics
  3. Scientific American
  4. Discover
  5. Mechanica Popular (Latin America)
  6. London Daily Telegraph
  7. Computer World
  8. Omni Magazine
  9. The Australian
  10. The Sciences
  11. IEEE Computer Society "Expert Systems Magazine"
  12. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  13. Chronicle of Higher Education
  14. Design News
  15. PC Novice
  16. Military & Aerospace Electronics
  17. Engineering Horizons Magazine
  18. Government Product News
  19. Unmanned Systems
  20. Military Robotics Magazine
  21. The Futurist
  22. Washington Technology News
  23. AHS Magazine
  24. Model Airplane News
  25. Engineering Times
  26. Various regional and city newspapers such as
    the Atlanta Journal, Chicago Tribune, and the Edmonton Journal

o INTERNET MEDIA

  1. Popular Mechanics Zone
  2. Scientific American Frontiers "Ask the Scientists" (AOL)
  3. Hot Wired

**(for example, in 1993 the competition was seen by an estimated audience of 3,080,000 viewers as compiled from information provided by the Georgia Tech Research Communications Office, Nielsen SIGMA electronic encoding, Burrelle's monitoring reports, a random callback survey conducted by N/BN, and hard copy recieved from individuals around the world. It is suspected that this audience has increased since 1993, but detailed statistics have not been computed.)

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Past President, AUVSI
Principal Research Engineer Emeritus
     Georgia Tech Research Institute
Adj. Associate Professor (ret)
     Georgia Institute of Technology
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