Robotics: the art of intelligent motion

The TechCamp robotics course takes place at Polimi in Milan, and is aimed exclusively at high school students from the second year upon request for admission.

The robotics course is taught by experts in the field of robotics applications, and among the various robotics courses, it stands out in particular for its practical and experiential approach, perfectly capable of providing students with comprehensive skills and knowledge in the field.

It is one of the <a title="Go to the STEM courses page" STEM courses that prepare today's kids, children of the digital age, with fundamental skills to enrich their cultural background with notions, information and, why not, to test the study of specific technical-scientific subjects with a mostly practical approach and an interactive methodology necessary to integrate knowledge relating to innovations in the technological field which are now increasingly the order of the day.

Robotics for kids

Robots have been a source of fascination for many years, especially among young people: a robotics course for young people is also a great opportunity to pursue one of the most promising professions for the near future: the ability to program and build robots to make human life easier.

Usually, we tend to identify robots with the iconography that science fiction, and in particular the world of cinema, gives us: some examples can be provided by very well-known and successful films such as the “Terminator” saga, “I, Robot”, “Bicentennial Man” or “Transformers”.

In other words, the stereotype of robots is almost always that of humanoids who walk, run, and interact naturally with us humans. Indeed, it's worth noting that science is making enormous strides toward this stylized and stereotypical idea of ​​robots, yet today's reality sees these technological advances primarily as key players in modern industry, the home, and more recently, healthcare and education.

The application of robots in real life

We have all seen robots on production lines (for example in the automotive, textile or food industries) incessantly assembling, painting or moving parts.

In the home, food processors for kneading, chopping, and cooking, as well as the more common robot vacuum cleaners, are becoming increasingly popular and widely purchased. However, the rapid evolution of robotics makes it easy to imagine that in a few years, these domestic "helpers" will seem aging, much like the historic floor polishers used by mothers and grandmothers a few decades ago.

In the field of education, particularly in the healthcare sector, research has been underway for several years, and the first prototypes of robots capable of helping children and young people with autism have been developed.

These specific types of robots have been programmed to facilitate communication among these individuals in the hope of eliminating the feeling of isolation, a major problem with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

It is therefore undeniable that in the future we will have the opportunity to see an ever-increasing number of robots: knowing how to program a robot will be one of the technical skills that experts will most appreciate in the younger generations, so much so that in the future it will become necessary to introduce robotics into schools, resulting in an increase in demand for robotics courses for children.

The purpose of the robotics course

The Robotics TechCamp aims to familiarize participants with the general concept of robots and their programming. Several interesting and stimulating questions will be addressed:

• What is a robot? A detailed look at all the technical features of these new scientific gems.
• What movements can it perform? By studying its nature in every aspect and the movements and actions it can perform.
• How can we describe its motion? By examining the basic physical laws applied to perform certain actions.
• How can we make it move the way we want? With the right programming, robots can perform movements from the most basic to the most complex.
• And: What does it mean to program a robot?

Strictly speaking, it describes the process and method through which it is possible to fully understand the meaning of programming a robot.

An experiential robotics school

TechCamp is the only experiential robotics school that offers the expertise of Milan Polytechnic professors and researchers to high school students.

Daremo agli studenti gli strumenti di base per rispondere alle domande fondamentali legate alla robotica, ma no solo.

Participants will also have the unique opportunity to program a real robot intended for educational purposes and to observe the results of their programming, the fruit of the commitment and passion demonstrated during the robotics course.

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