My Statement For Robotics Engineering

Unbeknownst to most people, technology has been around much longer than we expect and the rate of these innovations actually coming to grips with the community is a slow one. While many scientists and engineers may be in the lab as we speak creating a robot, we

1. Nowadays, with the advancing technologies, robots can perform like humans. Robots can “see”, “hear”, “touch” and “smell” like humans. Also, robots can “think” like humans, including solving problems, studying new things and adapting to new environments. (American Ceramic Society Bulletin 5) Robots, such as rovers, landers and orbiters have done almost all the recent space explorations in the solar system. And they gained a big success in exploring every planet in the solar system and many of their moos. (Mann 1)

While participating in the robotics competitions, I discovered my passion for robotics. Even after the initial team separated, I continued helping new members, based on my previous experience and new-found knowledge. In the future, I want to continue the legacy my grandmother and mother have given me and continue to strive for excellence, helping my country and the rest of the world by the hand of technology and

Engineering is the life-line of this fast developing world, and I have always dreamt to be a part of it. Over the years, this dream has developed into a passion. Fuelled by the rapid strides made in this field, I sincerely hope to contribute significantly to the efforts that are under way to meet the ever-increasing demands of mankind.

I remember stepping through the door into the robotics room, I didn't know what I was getting into and what impact it would have on my life. Robotics became my life for the next 4 years, constantly spending every moment of my free time investing it in robotics. I found my passion; to learn, with a desire to make the team better by passing my knowledge down to them. Robotics taught me countless valuable lessons and skills that shaped my life. Every day I acquired new skills and techniques to improve the robot, exponentially increasing my comprehension of engineering. Learning how to use tools, create mechanisms, and basic fundamentals of engineering; I began to work up the ranks of the team. Starting once as a clueless freshman I earned the

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As a child, my favorite movie was Robots. It seems an odd choice—I otherwise conformed to stereotypical “girl” things—but the emphasis on mechanics and the central slogan of the film: See a need, fill a need, resonated with me. Eleven years later, I have come to embrace both the science and the motto fully. Thanks to Penn’s unique dedication to academics and service, and its location in my beloved hometown of Philadelphia, it tops my list.

Team 2470 may not be the most organized team: the robot’s main components may go on in the last hours, tape drawers hold everything from pliers to saws, and metric-sized bolts may cause everlasting annoyance in their perennial placement on the robot. Still, this team has the right combination of quirks and science to ignite the fire of inspiration in its students and mentors. Team 2470’s fight to create and keep robotics as a sport for everyone has lasted through the years. They have not weathered the years completely alone, as they have grown a large community of support. Traversing outside of their cozy robotics room, this team has gone out to the community to shine. While this team cannot boast an assembly-line process, they can boast their inspiring influence.

I walked into the gym at Florissant Valley Community College eager with anticipation for our first Robotics tournament of the year. My hands shook as I held “Curtis the Robit ,” but it wasn’t because of the weight. To me, Curtis the Robit was more than just a fifteen-pound amalgamation of cables, steel, and aluminum; he was the culmination of months of systematic building and testing. In my hands was the physical representation of countless hours spent. As the leader of my team, I became engulfed by the furor of competition, desperate to prove what we were capable of.

Big companies like “Google” are signing a 60 year, $1.16 billion lease Moffett Naval Airfield in San Francisco the historic Hangar One as part of its expansion into robotics, aviation and space exploration. Kyrre Glette, Associate Professor at Oslo University’s Department of Informatics states “In the future, robots must be able to solve tasks in deep mines on distant planets, in radioactive disaster areas, in hazardous landslip areas and on the sea bed beneath the Antarctic. These environments are so extreme that no human being can cope. Everything needs to be automatically controlled. For an example a robot is entering the wreckage of a nuclear power plant. It finds a staircase that no-one has thought of. The robot takes a picture. The picture is analyzed. The arms of one of the robots is fitted with a printer. This produces a new robot, or a new part for the existing robot, which enables it to negotiate the stairs.” This is the primary example of what the future could hold with robotic technology.

Years of robotics has also given me invaluable experience. I am friends with many teams and their members. I can also handle a variety of tasks, such as building, programming, scouting, contacting sponsors, and much more. After being the Programming Head for three years, and Co-Captain for two years, I am able to step up to a leadership position if necessary. Having both programming and mechanical experience can help make the robot more integrated, as I understand how to build and design mechanisms for autonomous objectives. In addition, my understanding of how mechanical

In order to avoid accidently meddling with the robot while retaining some semblance of usefulness, I created a technical journal, a written documentation of the team’s thought process to be judged in competition. I detailed revisions, prototypes, and organized data. A heavy binder of sketches emerged, full of research, thoroughly-explained trail-and-error, and reasoning .

Intellectually, my curiosity drives my desire to learn, most commonly by voracious reading, ranging from learning how muscles work, to reading about ancient battle strategy in addition to fiction. I am fully engaged in robot challenges and research projects, pursuing novel areas and overcoming thorny technical

Landsberger approaches the door with the keys on his hands. “Professor, we figured out how to fix the problem. I think spring would do the trick-remember how you were describing springs as an anti-moment mechanism? How about we use springs to counter the momentum of the weight?” Dr. Landsberger smiled as he opened the door and a sense of excitement and engagement filled the air again. The professor sat at his work station seeming busy, while his students paced across the room to fetch supplies and write on the board. As months past, the students could see the compilation of failures built to a physical form. All of their compilation of failures had allowed them to construct a fully functional robot that not only can lift objects of different shapes and sizes, but can move autonomously without the guidance or control of another person. Now it was time to test if all their work was worth the amount of effort they put into the

The industrial robots are applied in all branches of the industry. The highest level of application is in the automobile industry, but the number of installed robots is increasing in other industries as well (Karabegovic, Dolecec, Husak, 2011).