Robotics Tour

Unfortunately, I was unable to make it to Friday’s Human Geography class. This wasn’t because of a fatal disease or a luxury cruise liner, I was absent from class due to the STEM academy field trip. Yes, that’s right I was missing class to go see robots. Upon arrival at Johns Hopkins we found our way to the robotics laboratory where we met up with our first tour guide. For the first part of our tour we were told about what goes on in the hydro-lab and the work they have done with underwater robots, which could be cleverly renamed fish-bots (I just made this up this name on the spot). After hearing about these aquatic machines, we continued on our way back to where we met tour guide #1 and switched to tour guide #2. This tour guide took us into a different laboratory and informed us about a robot call the Da Vinci robot (why it got that name I have no idea considering that Da Vinci most definitely did NOT have the materials to make this kind of advanced robot). Then after that we got play with it!!! YAY!!! Now, if you were there you may be thinking why in his right mind would he let us toy around with a $2,000,000 robot that we have never used in our life? The answer is: I have no idea. Well in any case, the robot operated by sitting in a chair with a machine in front of you. Then, you look into the binoculars after inserting your thumb and fore-finger into loops. Then you pinch your fingers together. Finally you move your hands around as the robot hands follow your motions. Once everyone got a turn we went back to the bus ate our lunch then returned to school and went to mod ten (once mod ten began).