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Pbs Learning Media: Robot Race
NOVA follows two teams as they push their engineering design skills to the limit to develop systems that allow cars to drive themselves. [5:52]
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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: Technology Dissection
What happens when you combine "technology" and "dissection?" At the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, AL, kids find out, by taking apart electronic gadgets to learn how they work. Kids can then put them back together or make new...
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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: 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: 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)...