Education Reform and Innovation

Robotics Links

Robotics Curriculum
Educational Robotics Repository
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sklar/er/robots.html

Gary Stager Robotics resources
http://www.stager.org/lego/index.html

Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy
http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/education/index.html

NASA’s Robotics Education Program
http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/index.html

LEGO Mindstorms
http://www.lego.com/eng/education/mindstorms/default.asp

Student Robotics Competitions
Botball.org
http://www.botball.org/

Robocup Junior
http://satchmo.cs.columbia.edu/rcj/

FIRST Robotics Competition
http://www.usfirst.org

Robofest
http://www.robofest.net/

Robocup International Robotic Soccer Competition
http://www.robocup.org/

NASA list of Robotics Competitions
http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/competitions.htm

Robotics Museum Festivals
Science Museum of Minnesota – Museum Magnet School students are building RCX robots and writing journal entries about the process. They built Art Cars. Building stories with technology shows students designs for their robots to solve a problem.
http://ltc.smm.org:7780/mms

MIT Museum of Innovation – has an Invention studio where students can come to learn to build robots. They build robot with crickets instead of RCX yellow bricks.
http://www.mit.edu/~sdh/invention_studio/index.html

Building Robots
Mario Ferrari Robotics Books
http://www.marioferrari.org/lego_mindstorm.html

Philome Robotics Page
http://www.philohome.com/mindstorms.htm

JPBrown Robotics Project Lego Robot that solves a rubics cube
http://jpbrown.i8.com/index.html

Robotics Stores
Robot-Dreams
http://www.robots-dreams.com/

Robotics Learning
http://www.roboticslearning.com/

Robotics Resources
Assoc. for the Advancement in Artificial Intelligence
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/robots.html

Robot Café
http://www.robotcafe.com/

Logo Foundation
http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/

San Francisco Robotics Society of America
http://robots.org/

Robotics Clearing House
http://www.robotics.com/index.html

Robot Magazine
http://www.botmag.com/articles/lego_mindstorms_robot_news_1.shtml

How Stuff Works
http://science.howstuffworks.com/robot.htm

An Old Advanced Robots Challenge
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/lego/index.html

Museum Robotics Exhibits
The Tech Museum of Innovation
http://www.thetech.org/robotics/

Liberty Science Center Biobots – biometric robots imitate animals in nature.
http://www.lsc.org/online_science/biobot/biobot.html

Artbots Show – Robot Talent Show
http://artbots.org/

College Student Robotics Projects
Wellesley College Winter term robotics class museum of final projects
http://cs.wellesley.edu/~rds/museum.html

Oberlin Student Journal of Robotics projects with daily entries and photos of the robots the student built.
http://occs.cs.oberlin.edu/~cmaron/LEGO/
MIT Robotics projects
LifeLong Kindergarden Mitchel Resnick’s research group at MIT
http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects.php

RCX LogoBlocks Glossary – This glossary defines all of the blocks in the LogoBlocks program and shows the functions.
http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/cricket/doc/help/logoblocks/ref-rcx.html

RCX LogoBlocks Tutorial – Mini-RCX LogoBlocks programs explain how to start programming your robot.
http://cricket.media.mit.edu/doc/help/logoblocks/LBtutorialRCX.htm

MIT Beyond Black Boxes
http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/bbb/