The Best Sites To Learn About Robots

Oct 18 2009

Posted at 7:50 pm under best of the year, reading, science, writing

I’ve found that students of all ages are interested in robots. Given that interest, I thought it would be a good idea to bring together a number of resources about them that are accessible to English Language Learners. They make for high interest reading material, and provide good images to write about, too. The videos provide good listening practice.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Robots:

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture has a nice series of photos of Robots.

The Big Picture also has another series of similar images called More Robots.

The Tech Museum has a nice group of robot-related activities.

LIFE has a slideshow on Japanese Robotics.

LIFE also has a slideshow of famous robots from television and the movies.

Robots, Robots Everywhere is an online CBS News video on Japanese robots.

Here’s another CBS News video — this one on soccer games between robotic dogs.

Robots can help when disaster strikes, according to this video news report.

The Robot Hall of Fame has a slideshow.

ABC News has a slideshow on robots replacing human teachers in the classroom.

CNN has several interesting videos, including ones on:

A Home Robot

A Robotics Competition

The First Robotics Championship

Robotic Suits To Help The Disabled

The Robo-Penguin is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.

Curious Robotic Animals is a slideshow from LIFE about robots designed to look and act like animals.

I’d certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.

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One Response to “The Best Sites To Learn About Robots”

Janet Bianchinion 19 Oct 2009 at 3:01 pm 1

Hi Larry
Thank you for the very useful list of robot sites. I have had dealings of a sensitve nature with robots this past week and your excellent list has come at an opportune moment.

I am very glad the “captcha” for this comment was easy for me to read! I have become a bit averse towards them recently…..

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