robots – Lab Out Loud

The Hummingbird Robotics Kit from @birdbraintech’s Tom Lauwers

October 13, 2014

As founder of BirdBrain Technologies and maker of the Hummingbird Robotics Kit, Tom Lauwers has been busy infusing robotics into classrooms of all types. In fact, Tom hails from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute’s CREATE lab (you might remember the CREATE lab when we talked about robots with Illah Nourbakhsh) where he focused on the process of designing hardware and software to support learners and […]

Episodes, Season 8 creativity, Make, robots

Episode 109 – Thinking About Our Future With Robots

March 17, 2014

Our guest this week is Illah Nourbakhsh, author of Robot Futures. As Professor of Robotics at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Illah has been building and thinking about robotics for most of his life. Illah joins us to talk about his book, our potential future with robots and how students should be inspired to learn with purpose. Links: Illah Nourbakhsh, The […]

Episodes, Season 7 books, robots, science education, scientific method