Robot workshop

Work from all around the UK was presented at a recent workshop,  Robotics Workshop: Bot Shop! 28th October 2011 at the University of Derby.

Examples included

•  Lego Robots to support the learning of Neural Networks on an artificial intelligence module at the University of Northampton.The aim being to use the advantages of using robots, their visual and physical nature, as a way of making the slightly abstract nature of the neurons and multi-layer perceptrons more concrete by examples.
• Use of robots with school outreach activities from the Open University and SIGMA centre 
• Use of physical computing including Lego NXT robots and open source electronics at Edge Hill University.
• Robots developed at the University of Essex for teaching hardware and work done at the Birmingham City University on micromice.
• Work done at the University of Derby and simulated robots in a first year course.

For more details on the Workshop go to: http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/displayevent.php?id=260