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Robots Alive! Mazes and Squiggles
activity is based on one of the events you'll see in this episode. For both, the objective is to understand a programmer's job by writing instructions for a robot to perform specific tasks. ACTIVITY 1: PICKING UP A CUP Work in teams of...
Robots Alive! Almost Human
Building a robot that will mimic a human being is the ambitious goal of Rodney Brooks, MIT professor and artificial intelligence guru. For two years, Brooks has been working on Cog, a robot capable of learning from its experiences, the way people do. If Broo...
The Frontiers Decade: CyberDecade
The Frontiers Decade: CyberDecade The last decade of the 20th century gave us some amazing innovations from the cyber world: virtual reality therapy, long-distance robotic surgery, wearable computers, robotic spacecraft, robots that paint pictures and play soccer -- even a digital Alan Alda....
Natural Born Robots: Go, Team!
autonomous robot, including vision, cognitive skills, walking, grasping, learning, neural networks and, for groups, knowledge-based collaboration webs. What other kinds of group efforts are being made in robotics? For example, Ullanta is a theatre troupe ...
The World�s Smallest Robot
and controllable robot ever. CREDIT: Donald Laboratory. Researchers have built an inchworm-like robot so small you need a microscope just to see it. In fact about 200 hundred of them could line up and do the conga across a plain M&M. The tiny bot measur...
Robots Alive! Look, No Hands!
four equal slices. The timer gives the operator three minutes to complete the objective. At the end of three minutes, team members should exchange places, making sure everyone has a chance to perform each of the four roles. QUESTIONS What limitations in performing the ten...
Incredible New Military Robot
Article: Incredible New Military Robot Preston Lerner Date: 09 April 2006 Time: 09:14 AM ET Big Dog poses for the camera in Boston
The Great Robot Race
High School in Massachusetts and has participated in a Tufts University School of Engineering program. Great Robot Race, The Original broadcast: March 28, 2006 Robot Race Follow two teams in this Teachers' Domain video segment (5m 51s) as they develop s...
Life's Really Big Questions: Self Propelled Learning
of only one planet. Your job is to design a self-propelled craft that can send back data about this alien world. Since cost control is essential, design one craft with special modules that can be adapted for each environment. The three planetary environments are: Planet covere...
NOVA scienceNOW - Profile: Cynthia Breazeal
been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: That's because the living room is not an easy place for...
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