STEM Day at RoboBoston 2023

The Annual MassRobotics Robotic Block Celebration has gained momentum and welcomed greater than 25,000 company over the previous six years. It has grown to be often called RoboBoston and is a celebration showcasing universities, startups, firms and scholar groups with cutting-edge robotics, AI and expertise. The celebration additionally features a profession truthful, STEM Day, and VIP robotics ecosystem networking reception.

RoboBoston STEM Day, now in its 2nd yr, is devoted to high school area journeys for grades 7-12 the place college students can go to with their trainer and consists of two hours of interactive actions and demonstrations from mini robotic autos, collaborative arms and robotic fingers to robotic canines, drones and flying bionic butterflies.

Over 200 college students from Boston Public Faculties together with New Mission Excessive College, Eliot Innovation College, Donald McKkay, Charlestown Excessive College, and a category from Lowell Excessive College loved a number of stops within the tents the place they have been capable of observe robots in motion, in addition to management them.

Thanks to collaborating firms who helped encourage these college students:

• Analog Units, a long-time accomplice of MassRobotics,  introduced their mini robotic automobiles and college students have been capable of drive them, viewing on a monitor what the robots mounted sensors have been able to seeing

• College students from Brown College’s pc science division arrange a VR demo with a robotic canine and college students go put on the goggles and turn out to be immersed in one other world!

• The MITRE Company, a MassRobotics accomplice for a few years, introduced two experiences for college kids:
  •  A water tank the place college students may drive underwater robots that have been constructed in the course of the BlueTech robotics academy we ran as a joint effort between MassRobotis and MITRE.
  • A drone internet and impediment course for college kids to fly and maneuver drones through

• The Massachusetts Nationwide Guard has participated in EVERY block social gathering since 2017 in addition to each of our STEM Days.  They at all times carry quite a lot of experiences and this yr was no completely different.  College students have been capable of drive floor robots through an impediment course.

• COR-Platform (Collaborative On-line Robotics Platform) facilitated an immersive expertise in a collaborative digital surroundings by combining bodily robots with distant SEL (Social Emotional Studying) and STEM-based instruction. Their platform combines real-world robotic platforms and collaborative problem-solving by means of on-line workshop experiences.

• Boston Dynamics introduced two robotics canines and allowed college students to regulate them with easy gaming-like controls.  They created some duties for the scholars that included choosing up gadgets and bringing them to a location within the “canine pen”

• FESTO, final however actually not least, and in addition one among MassRobotics long-time accomplice, introduced their pilots right here from Germany to showcase their flying bionic butterflies. The Bionic Studying Community takes its inspiration from nature, which solves all of the duties similar to gripping and shifting.  That they had a number of of these things readily available for college kids to the touch and play with. Study extra concerning the Bionic Studying Community right here.

Take a look at our MassRobotics 2023 STEM Influence Report right here.