El Círculo Familiar: Programming Robots is a Family Activity

Read in Spanish First- and second-graders were the computer science experts at University of Southern California when 35 families gathered last weekend to face two dozen robotics challenges. Over 225 children have been learning all year to code and program robots in the classrooms of nine Boyle Heights teachers involved in USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering program called BOTS… [Read more]

What Will Robots Do Next?

The future of robotics is on display every year at USC Viterbi School of Engineering during National Robotics Week. That’s when about 1,100 visitors came to campus to see research advances made over the past year by robotics professors and their graduate students. Fifteen research labs, four student robotics organizations, two USC Viterbi K-12 outreach programs, plus several discussions (on autonomous cars, stereotypes about who is a computer scientist, and trends on manufac-turing robotics) made for a … Read More