Book Club for Kids
Finding Purpose in "The Wild Robot"
A robot is a machine programmed for a purpose—to perform a human task. But can a robot survive on its own? That’s the existential question in The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, in which a robotic heroine, Roz, breaks during a tornado and...
Curated Video
Robotic Process Automation - UiPath RPA Developer Masterclass - Robot #6 Solution Walkthrough
This video demonstrates the solution walkthrough for the preceding case study. This clip is from the chapter "Robot #6 - Amazon Data Scraping (Medium)" of the series "Robotic Process Automation - UiPath RPA Developer Masterclass".This...
Curated Video
Robotic Process Automation - UiPath RPA Developer Masterclass - Robot #6 Case Introduction
This video provides an introduction to the case that you will be working on. This clip is from the chapter "Robot #6 - Amazon Data Scraping (Medium)" of the series "Robotic Process Automation - UiPath RPA Developer Masterclass".This...
Curated Video
Developing an understanding of 'The Wild Robot' through rich discussions
Pupil outcome: I can discuss the main ideas of ‘The Wild Robot’. Key learning points: - ‘The Wild Robot’ follows the unexpected arrival of a robot on an island after its crate is washed ashore during a storm. - The robot, called Roz,...
Guinness World Records
Farthest Distance Covered by a Quadruped Robot
The farthest distance covered by a quadruped robot is 134.03 km (83.28 miles). Use this clip to prompt a discussion about how robots can be used in situations that would be dangerous for humans. Think about the design of this robot, and...
Guinness World Records
Creating Basketball Robots: Challenging the Norms of the Automotive Industry
This video is about a group of individuals who created basketball-playing robots inspired by the popular manga series "Slam Dunk." They hold the record for most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted). They...
Guinness World Records
Introduction to Sakakibara Machinery: Creating Anime-Inspired Robots
The video is a conversation about the development of a humanoid robot by the Sakakibara Kikai Corporation. The speaker discusses the company's aim to create an amusement business based on anime-inspired robots and the challenges they...
Guinness World Records
Sub1 Reloaded: The Fastest Robot to Solve a Rubik's Cube
Gerrit explains how the Sub1 robot uses on-board cameras to enable it to solve a Rubik's Cube in record-breaking time. Use to consider what information the cameras must capture and pass on in order for the cube to be solved.
TED Talks
The value of your humanity in an automated future | Kevin Roose
To futureproof your job against robots and AI, you should learn how to code, brush up on your math skills and crack open an engineering textbook, right? Wrong. In this surprisingly comforting talk, tech journalist Kevin Roose makes the...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How will AI change the world? | TED-Ed
In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life— and likely the entire world. But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how AI will affect our society. Can we build AI systems that help us fix the...
SciShow
A Brief History of Robotics
Why don’t we have robots taking care of our every need by now? A little history of the field of robotics might help you understand how hard it is to get machines to perform tasks, and how far we’ve come in just a few decades. Hosted by:...
Schooling Online
Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Plot Summary
Enter a world of television screens, robotic dogs and burning books! Join us for an amazing animated journey into the scary futuristic society of Fahrenheit 451. Freedom of thought is censored and all books are destroyed in the world of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Can AI Free Humans from ‘Routine’ Work?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace routine jobs, says Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. But done right, that process could allow us to “pursue dreams, spend time with our loved ones and find out why we exist as humans” Dr. Lee talks with...
Big Think
Will robots have rights in the future? | Peter Singer | Big Think
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World Science Festival
Cool Jobs: Robot Talent Agent
What's it like to build a giant Rube Goldberg machine? How do you book comedy gigs when your only client is a robot? Working in the areas between art and science, social roboticist Heather Knight builds interactive robotic experiences....
One Minute Economics
Will Robots Take Our Jobs? Technological Unemployment Defined & Explained (+ Examples) in One Minute
Technological unemployment has been a highly debated issue for a fairly long time. For example, back in the days of the First Industrial Revolution, the so-called Luddites feared that industrialization will bring about chronic/long-term...
Hay Levels
COMPUTER SCIENCE - Humanoid Robots - Ben Russell
We interact with robots almost every day, from self-service checkouts to booking a holiday online. Robot expert Ben Russell looks back at the earliest examples and discusses the future of humanoid robotics.
Tom Scott
Why Helsinki's Library Robots Aren't Important
Oodi, the new Helsinki Library, has robots to help reshelve books. They get a lot of press attention. But they're not the important part of the library: here's why. Thanks to all the team at Oodi: https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/ Edited by...
Curated Video
Welder Underground unveils ‘Rappin' Max Robot’ through apprenticeship program
Artist and designer Eric Orr says he first got involved in the designing process when Levin reached out after seeing his 1986 "Rappin' Max Robot" cartoons in the first ever hip-hop comic book.
World Science Festival
Jonathan Coulton on Science, Crying, and Comic Books
Jonathan Coulton doesn't write your typical songs about pain and heartbreak — instead he brings us inside the hearts and minds of robots, zombies, squid, and sentient monkeys. You may even accidentally learn something about DNA and math....
Curated Video
The robot-proof job men aren't taking
Nursing is the job of the future. So why have men stayed away? Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO It’s easy to imagine that the jobs of the future, if they even exist, will all revolve around technology. But it turns out, the...
Dom Burgess
Why Aliens Will Probably Be Robots
Is there other life out there in the universe? Do aliens really exist? If so, then where are they all?! In this most epic of episodes, Dom has his favourite film (Aliens) interrupted by an extraterrestrial visitor - how very...
SciShow
The Truth About the Five Stages of Grief
The Five Stages of Grief show up in media everywhere from The Simpsons to Robot Chicken, but scientists have long been working on better ways to think about grief.