[chbot] Robotic Talk Thursday - March 13 - 5:00pm Technology Room at Science Alive

[Richard Jones]

Here are the details for Thursdays talk:

Thursday - March 13 - 5:00pm - Technology room at Science Alive 
(education entrance).
Duration approx 1 hour.

Chris Rogers is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at Tufts
University in Boston. He is the inventor and developer of the RoboLab 
programming language
that is used worldwide to program robots using LEGO Mindstorms.

Chris spent 12 months during 2006-2007 working at a research institute in
Switzerland, playing with very small robots and working with some rather 
novel data
acquisition environments.

The talk is for a general audience who are interested in
robotics and will include the following:
- micron-sized robots swimming, sub-millimeter robots driving through an
eyeball, and their
award-winning sub-millimeter "soccer player"
- a fruit fly to drive a robot around and avoidobstacles
- some new innovations being developed at Tufts to increase the use of
robotics in the college classroom as a way to teach engineering.