Manipulation Course
Introduction to robot manipulation. First taught at TTIC, Summer 2024.
During Summer 2024, I led a six-week, hands-on robotic manipulation course for high school students from TTIC’s neighboring community. The course covered Python, robot kinematics, computer vision, and robot learning. I taught students to build their own low-cost arm (adapted from Alexander Koch’s design) and program it to pick-and-place pieces in a game of tic-tac-toe.
I am currently working on refining the course materials, including code, slides, and robot and game hardware, which will be open-sourced. Stay tuned for updates! In the meantime, here is a video of the robot in action.