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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and companies hosting them, are sprouting up left and right.
Examples are Coursera, edX, Udemy, and Udacity. So far, courses are free, but there are many
speculations on whether these companies are out to make money (except Udemy, which lets teachers
charge for content) and whether they [...]
The first GoldShirt Electronics class will be held on January 19, 2012 in the BOLD center. More information here.
iRRT is a simple java program for simulating the widely used robotics path planning algorithm known as Rapidly-exploring Random Tree or RRT. The algorithm was originally developed by Steven M. LaValle and James Kuffner. iRRT also implements a variant of RRT called RRT*, an algorithm developed by Sertac Karaman and Emilio Frazzoli. Another variant which [...]
Sam Pottinger has rigged up a beautiful website for the “Andrews Robotics Initiative”, an after-school activity in Andrews Hall, home of the Engineering Honors Program and BOLD Center students.
The Andrews Robotics Initiative is open to all CU students. Contact Sam Pottinger or myself to get involved, or sign up for [...]
Dr. Dustin Reishus will be teaching a course entitled Swarm Intelligence and Self-Assembly this fall. The course look at large-scale distributed systems in chemistry, biology, and robotics through the lens of mathematics and computer science. It will address such questions as
How do ant colonies forage for food? Why do cockroaches tend to aggregate in [...]
I gave a talk today to a group of 1st to 3rd graders at the IBM Camp Innovation for a Smarter Planet. My goal was to show the kids that a) engineering is a career in which an individual can address our nations grand challenges (e.g. “Managing the Nitrogen Cycle“), and b) that [...]
The ASPIRE Engineering Summer Bridge program is an offering of CU’s BOLD Center to incoming freshman to get ready for their freshman year by taking introductory classes and to become acclimated to Campus life.
We host four cohorts of ASPIRE students for a 30-min “crash course” in robotics today and tomorrow. We first [...]
Our cubelets finally arrived and I had a couple of kids (4 and 5) give them a go. The bottom-line is that the toy got them fully absorbed for 2h straight, and this could have gone on.
At first, both kids started to construct simple structures without caring about the functionality of the modules. They [...]
We are getting ready for the Fall iteration of “Introduction to Robotics” putting the final touches on our Ratslife arena, which serves as arena for the class’ final project.
Nikolaus, Charles, Dustin and Erik assembling the Ratslife test-bed
Students will work in teams to design a controller that keep an [...]
I first came across using debates in the class room to stimulate reflection over technical content in the class Robotics: Science and Systems taught at MIT by Daniela Rus, Seth Teller, Nick Roy and others. In these debates, student teams prepare pro and contra arguments for a statement of current technical or societal concern.
I adopted [...]
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