This week begins your online module. We will not meet in the classroom. You will do all of your work over the Internet. You must complete the six activities below by midnight Sunday, March 25th. You should use the regular class time for meeting and rehearsing for your group projects. I will be in my office during the regular class period in case you need to meet with me. If you have any questions just email me...I'll be standing by if you need help!
All activities in red to be completed no later than midnight Sunday, March 25th.
You have until the 25th of March to complete these readings and assignments. There are six activities for you to complete. You will post your activities in the Nicenet Discussion Room. You can work on the material whenever you want but ALL activities must be completed by March 25th at midnight or you will not receive credit. Each activity must be at least 300 words (approximately 1 page).
You will have from Monday, the 26th of March to Sunday, the 1st of April at midnight to read and make comments on your classmates entries. You must read everything posted. Then add your comments, impressions, any new knowledge you can add, or experiences that relate to the topic to the discussions. You must reply to at least five students per activity. There are six activities so you will have a total of 30 responses. All discussion must be completed by April 1st at midnight.
LATE ENTRIES WILL NOT BE COUNTED
We will meet back in class on Tuesday April 3rd.
Science Daily: Activity 1:Choose anyone of the articles under the Computer Science link in the left column, summarize, and post in the discussion room labeled Activity 1.
Bomb Squad Hans Moravec is a Principal Research Scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Moravec, whose interest in robots extends back to his childhood, discusses his intriguing and personal views on robots -- from the current state of technology, to today's bomb defusing machines, to the capabilities of robots in the next century
Create your own activity Find an interesting site pertaining to robotics and use that site to create an activity. Explain how your activity fulfulls the principles of constructivism. Include what you expect to be learned from your activity. Post your activity and analysis in the discussion room under the label for Activity 2.
Robots Will machines become conscious? There are links to many ideas and theories that you may not have heard of before and I encourage you to follow the links and explore, especially concerning cultural differences.
Rise of the Cyborgs by Sherry Miller
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Completely explore this site. Activity
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 Welcome to the World Famous MIT Robotics Lab. Activity 4: Choose one of the living breathing robots, describe it, and discuss the purpose of the current research for the robot.
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 weRobot- Robotics and Community for Learning and Exploration
42 minutes - Google TechTalks January 06, 2006 Illah R. Nourbakhsh Illah R. Nourbakhsh is an Associate Professor of Robotics in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was on leave for the 2004 calendar year and was at NASA/Ames Research Center serving as Robotics Group lead. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1996. He is co-founder of the Toy Robots Initiative at The Robotics Institute. His current research projects include educational and social robotics, electric wheelchair sensing devices, believable robot personality, visual navigation and robot locomotion. His past research has included protein structure prediction under the GENOME project, software reuse, interleaving planning and execution and planning and scheduling algorithms. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory he was a member of the New Millenium Rapid Prototyping Team for the design of autonomous spacecraft. He is a founder and chief scientist of Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc., which was recently acquired by Witness Systems, Inc. Illah recently co-authored the MIT Press textbook, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots.
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Future Peak Report- Robotics at the Consumer Electronics Show 4 minutes |
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| Weird Robots Recent news stories |
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| Interesting Robot Statistics Look who is leading! |
| Looking for a wife or girlfriend? Meet Aiko! Check out the videos! |
| International Study Ever want to study in London? Take this mini-course from the Open University in Great Britain. Activity 5: Post your evaluation of the course and your quiz score in the discussion room. |
| Robotic Exhibits - Activity 6: Choose one of the news items and describe in the Discussion Area. |
Just when you think you've seen it all!
YouTube - When Robot Programmers get bored
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/virtual_robotics_lab/lab.html