February 7, 2008
Video Report: Students Use Dancing Robots to Show Lighter Side of Computer Science
A robotics team at Spelman College, called the Spelbots, has programmed robot dogs to dance, in hopes of attracting new students to study computer science. The students on the team are clearly enjoying their technology education, as evidenced in our video report about the team.
The team’s coach, Andrew B. Williams, an associate professor of computer science at Spelman College, talked about the importance of attracting more women and minority students to computer science in an interview in this week’s Chronicle. —Jeffrey R. Young
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Spelman students should take their Spelbots to elementary classrooms too. My K4 grandson (turned five last November) loves to watch dancing robots on You-Tube and already wants to build them!
— Renee Feb 11, 01:27 PM #
I have been used your Video to show and to encourage my students to become a part of The Robotics Project at School
— Luis Durand Feb 26, 05:23 PM #
The women working with robots aren’t robots but they are kawai…
— bit Feb 29, 07:09 PM #
These people , it seems, do not really take their work seriously enough. We have enough toys to last the world another 5 billion years!!!
— Leo B. Jackson Mar 5, 09:23 PM #