When Sofya Akhmametyeva (MSR ‘17) arrived at Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program in 2015, her goal was straightforward. She wanted to apply machine learning to ...

A career in robotics is one of the most coveted things for those interested in engineering and automation. Presently, there is an explosion in the number of companies seeking innovative robotics ...

Professor Brenna Argall talks about the importance of her Northwestern course and how her students will be able to implement the lessons they learn. When Professor Brenna Argall talks about the ...

RobotProg is a fun, free educational program that teaches the basic concepts of programming and robotics. You program a virtual robot using a flowchart: draw the flowchart, run it and watch the robot ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...

The recent announcement of Microsoft implementing ChatGPT (based on the upgraded GPT-4) into the company’s search engine Bing took the world by surprise and attracted many users to join in on the AI ...

Hawaii is trying to prepare its K-12 students to fill the massive shortages of jobs in STEM-related fields. The Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, a community educational program supported by the National ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The FIRST Robotics program is one that ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...