The Business Review Lisa DiBella, a teacher at Duanesburg Central School District, finds her students pay a lot more attention when she gives them hands-on opportunities in the classroom. It is one reason she attended today’s education and workforce development initiative at Tech Valley High School in Rensselaer, NY. “Students are 10 times more attentive, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Albany, NY – The final slate of presenting companies has been chosen for the 13th Annual SmartStart UNYTECH Venture Forum, presented by the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) in Albany, NY. A total of 23 high-growth early stage companies will be featured, including ten from the Capital Region. This year’s list includes [...]

Times Union Troy – In a robotics lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dan Kruse kicked up one leg, like a quarterback taking a snap, and a two-armed industrial robot holding a cardboard box a few feet away began mirroring the movement of his arms. Watching this glimpse of the possible future of U.S. manufacturing as the [...]

The Business Review Patrick Gallagher stared through his safety glasses and into an Xbox Kinect. He began moving his arms, holding and moving an imaginary cardboard box in the air. About eight feet away, in the same lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a robot named Motoman mirrored all of Gallagher’s motions—actually gripping a real cardboard [...]

The Business Review The Business Review publishes its Tech Pages, a comprehensive directory of the region’s tech-minded companies, today. Both in print and online, the annual guide is a joint project with the Albany-based Center for Economic Growth. It tracks the players who make up the Tech Valley business community. Both web and print editions [...]