L&S News & Notes is a monthly blog and e-newsletter for faculty,
staff, graduate students and alumni and friends of the UW-Madison 
to expand. | Bucky meets social robots for first National Robotics Week |
Bucky shakes hand with a robot on campus during the first National Robotics Week.A team of UW-Madison researchers recently brought robots right into the hands of K-12 students and parents.
The Computer Sciences Department's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory partnered with the UW-Madison IEEE Robot Team and iRobot Corporation’s SPARK Educational Initiative to contribute to the 1st National Robotics Week with a daylong educational experience for K-12 students and parents.
Students show off robotics to young learners and parents on campus.The event, organized by Bilge Mutlu, an assistant professor of computer sciences, psychology, and industrial engineering, and an interdisciplinary team of students, attracted students and parents from the Madison area interested in science and technology, particularly computer science and robotics.
Mutlu and his students plan to offer daylong educational events annually in conjunction with the National Robotics Week as well as daylong summer camps starting the summer of 2010.
Category: Biological & Physical Sciences
|
Tags:
, ,