BeatBots creates robots for research, therapy, and entertainment.
This article shares an activity that engages students.
Edutopia Magazine's (George Lucas Educational Foundation)predictions about future "hot" trends in public education. Includes moral education, gaming, netiquette, wikis, robots, and more! Hot links and sidebars included. August/September, 2008 issue.
Elementary and middle schoolers came together in Virginia yesterday in a competition for Lego robots designed, built, and programmed by the students.
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Imagine a bicycle seat connected by mechanical frames to a pair of shoes for an idea of how the new wearable assisted-walking gadget from Honda works.
"Lego introducing a robotics program designed to teach children as
young as age 7 how to make simple machines and write software
programs to solve problems." Teaches "critical thinking in math and the
writing, storytelling, and presenting that students are encouraged to do
as part of the program incorporate language arts skills."
A remarkable, intense portrait of the robotic subculture and the challenging quest for robot autonomy.
Lego robotics product designed to teach thinking skills to young children -- but for what percentage of kids is this developmentally appropriate?
Thousands of students from around the world gathered over the weekend for two grand competitions for contraptions. And although there are winners to report, the biggest payoff from the FIRST robotics championship and NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race may well come in the form of future waves of exploration and innovation.
This page describes the brain-computer interface project at the Neural Systems Lab at the University of Washington. We are working towards enabling sophisticated control and interaction with the environment, using very simple selection-based interfaces th