WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — There is no avoiding robots. With increasing autonomy, satellites span the skies; vacuums vroom underfoot; and bots conduct surgery, deliver packages and explore the solar system.
Robot expert Sooyeon Jeong, an assistant professor of computer science in Purdue University’s College of Science, works in artificial intelligence to ensure that those robots are more friendly helpers to humans and less inscrutable interlopers, more R2-D2 than HAL, more Baymax than Terminator. AI is a foundational component of the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence, a Purdue Computes initiative.
“My goal, and the goal of my research group, is to design robots and AI that can have socially and emotionally natural interactions with people,” Jeong said. “I want anything I make or design to have a measurable positive impact on people’s lives.”
To that end, she
Claire Montegut (second from right), 16, and Anika Zhou (right), 17, are members of the Space Cookies, a FIRST Robotics Competition team composed of all Girl Scouts. Here they fix their robot’s roller “claw” designed to pick up cones and cubes to score points.
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Claire Montegut (second from right), 16, and Anika Zhou (right), 17, are members of the Space Cookies, a FIRST Robotics Competition team composed of all Girl Scouts. Here they fix their robot’s roller “claw” designed to pick up cones and cubes to score points.
Mark Leong for NPR
On a Thursday night inside a NASA hangar in Mountain View, Calif., a group of teenage girls cluster around two large tables strewn with wires, hex wrenches and laptops. As they work, a machine rises in their midst — a black aluminum frame loaded with advanced
Coding and robots are equally organic resources for encouraging collaboration in the classroom. At Sewickley Academy, we have taken that collaboration to the upcoming amount by having Quality 5 pupils action into mentoring roles for our kindergarteners who are just staying released to computer system science. Here’s how we did it.
From Looking at to Robotics
A short while ago, our PreK by means of Grade 12 impartial faculty has been operating to include things like much more laptop or computer science prospects across all quality amounts. These courses are a distinguishing factor of a Sewickley Academy education and learning.
When college students, specially our youngest learners, do the job with robotics, they are studying coding capabilities as a result of what they see as exciting perform. With the enjoyment of bringing these little robots to daily life, they typically really don’t know that they are learning foundational principles
