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Robots in the library: it’s a Georgia Tech thing

December 3, 2007, 3:49 pm

Everyone has space for students to prepare and practice for their end of the semester presentations, but do you have room for their robots?

Today I ran into a pair of computer science students finalizing a dance routine for their robots. Do you remember back in the day when the teacher made you keep an egg to demonstrate parenting skills? Well here at Georgia Tech everyone gets a personal robot. The basic premise is that coding is boring, but programming robots is cool. So everyone learns basic skills which develop along with the curriculum. These things include sound, web cams, light sensors, and tons of programmable/hackable stuff.

This is Robot Performance week, so it should be interesting. Here is some raw footage from last semester. And here is the book used for the class. (free & online)

I might try and work with the College of Computing toward sponsoring a robot race in the library. I figure since they have to buy these robots why not give them some extracurricular activities with an opportunity to win a big prize… or to make it part of a class assignment.

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http://www.gocollege.com Giovanna

Did you watch the South Park episode about the boys partnering with girls to parent an egg? Funny as hell. Yeah, MIT offers a program for a small group of freshmen to build a robot as an intro to CS.
http://funnyquestions7.blogspot.com jhun

ertz Foundation fellowship and by the Georgia. Institute of Technology … things are not proceeding well, the system at- … ample, if the robot has been in an open area for ….. with the adequacy of the cases in its library
http://www.rbcs-us.com software testing services

It’s sure a great first step for a better future. We can see clearly that every technology advance started in the US in the army and the universities, so I hope that GT will spread to word to the world for using robots in each segment of life.