Inspire Robotics now offers their brand new innovative Robot Automation course, brought to you by highly experienced University of Melbourne mechatronics students. This program seeks to prepare students for the dawn of the robotics age through a hands-on approach. This program involves getting students to work in teams, paralleling the industry in the real world, to design a robot to automate a task in their home. This could range from creating a self watering plant to a robot that takes the trash out for you.
This program really strives to reveal the real life application of STEM for students, why these skills they learn in their regular classes are important, and how they could see themselves using them after pursuing a career in STEM. By providing students with this complex, yet highly achievable and fun hands-on engineering task, we can effectively cement the importance of STEM and give them highly valuable practical skills in the process. We believe that many of the abstract concepts taught in mathematics and physics classes in particular, don’t do themselves justice with their importance without the proper real world application this project provides. So rather than just getting your students to mindlessly recite and memorise formulas, give them the passion for an exciting experience in STEM they deserve!
Students will gain valuable skills and expertise in the foundations of designing with acknowledgement and appreciation of physics. This will be achieved through the robot design process, where they will be taught to grapple and account for many important concepts such as center of gravity, Newtonian physics, sensors layout and purposes and artificial intelligence! Students will therefore become much more capable with real world designing engineering projects from scratch whilst strengthening their skills in maths and physics.
Students will gain valuable skills and expertise in sketching, 3D modelling, working with electronics, programming & constructing small scale engineering projects. They will also learn many important fundamental physics and mathematical concepts.
Equipment Needed: No equipment is needed
Prerequire Skills: No background or experience with mathematics, physics or programming is necessary, but this program can effectively scale for those who excel in these areas.