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Pbs Learning Media: Are Computers Intelligent?
Learn how computers can be programmed to beat the greatest human chess masters. Computers can use their understanding of the rules of chess to plan many more moves ahead than humans can. But when computers bring that kind of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Magnetic Microbots
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue visits the Institute of Robotics at ETH Zurich, where materials scientists are designing a microbot that can travel into a human eye to treat a type of blindness. [2:49]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Intelligent Robot
Find out how robots are viewed as machines that perform tasks that humans can't (or won't) undertake. [4:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nova: What Will the Future Be Like?: Wearable Robots
Learn about in advances in powered exoskeletons, a kind of wearable robot. [5:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Building Curiosity: Rover Rocks Rocker Bogie
This NASA video showcases Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover that will, over a 23-month mission, collect and analyze Martian soil and rock samples while traversing a targeted area of the planet testing for evidence of current or past life. [1:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls: Robots to the Rescue! 01: Mentor Moment
The SciGirls talk with their mentor about the robots that she works with in her lab and how they test their robots. Seeing women who have succeeded in STEM helps inspire and motivate girls, especially when they can relate to these...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sci Girls: High Tech Fashion 01: Brainstorm & Research
The SciGirls decide to brainstorm what their favorite dress would look like and work together to design a dress that is totally outrageous and features technology. They reach out to a mentor to see what they can learn from her about...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Design Process
Engineers use a series of steps called the design process to solve a problem. In this resource, featuring video segments excerpted from DESIGN SQUAD, watch teams of kids work through each of the five steps of the design process: 1)...