Weston Middle School

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Additional Info

Introduction:

• Solidworks-What Engineers do.....
• SuperBowl Ad- Amy Purdy
  
• 60 Minutes: The Rise of the Machines

• Promo Video
• Inside the Lego Factory

• Growth Mindset
  

Building With Lego Technics

• Types of Pegs
• Building Frames in Space
• Building Efficient Structures

EV3 Brick and Parts

• Intro to Sensors (pdf)
• Motors and Lamps (pdf)
• Servo Motor (pdf)

Building Vehicles

EV-3 Programming:

Using Gears

• Gearing Up
• Gearing Down
• Idler Gears
• Compound Gears
• Worm Gears
• Gear Basics
• Building Weapons
• MIT+K12: Using Gears

Feedback Loops

• Line Follower
• Feedback loops

ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS

Space Exploration

• Video: Spirit Lander on Mars
• Opportunity
• Mars Rover Navigation

Robotic Surgery

• DaVinci Surgical Robot
• Corindus - Cardiac Cath Stent

Military Robotics

• Overview(Interactive)
• Big Dog
• "Little Dog"
• Swords Talon
• iRobot Warrior
• Predator UAV
• Reaper UAV
• Global Hawk
• Hovering Flyer- MIT
• Bomb disposal Robot

Industry and Manufacturing

• Assembly line robot
• welding robot
• Kiva Systems-Warehouse Robot

Music

• Gibson Robo-Guitar

Sociable Robotics

• Nexi

Robotic Swarms

• Nova Science Now: Robotic Swarms -Profile of James McLurkin
• Swarms

Prosthetics

• Prosthetic Arm
• SuperBowl Ad- Amy Purdy
• Hugh Herr
• i-limb video
• Kron Bionic Hand
• Barrett Technologies
• Dragonfly TV: Rylee's Myoelectric Arm
• Nova Science Now: Bionic Limbs: Profile of Yoky Matsuoka

Local Companies

• Foster-Miller (Waltham)
• Boston Dynamics -(Waltham)
• I-Robot (Burlington)
• Kiva Systems (North Reading)
• Heartland Robotics
• Barrett Technologies
• Bluefin Robotics -Quincy

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