Student Robotics Presentation R.O.C.K.S

Robotics is said to be the next technological revolution. Many agree that robots have the potential to make a tremendous impact. In April, a presentation from the R.O.C.K.S. Robotics Team was sponsored by TEKsystems. R.O.C.K.S Robotics is a community FIRST Tech Challenge robotics team from Louisville, KY. The team consists of local Louisville, Kentucky-area high school students that design, operate and showcase their robotic creations. In addition to showcasing their robot and its abilities, the students educated the audience on how robots can improve the future and explained how R.O.C.K.S came about and what the team does. The students created finance plans and engineering CAD documents for the designs. It was refreshing to see this amount of ingenuity, creativity and discipline in high school students and hear their future goals. The students were well-prepared for the event, and it was evident that they enjoyed putting on an exhibition. The chapter wishes them luck at the World Championship in Detroit later this month. How important is the wave of young expertise in robotics? Consider this, HistoSonics just raised $54 million for its robotic-assisted platform that uses sound energy to liquefy and destroy cancerous tumors without affecting surrounding tissue. That is just one example of the coming medical robotics craze that will likely revolutionize health care. If high school students are comfortable with advanced calculus and engineering diagrams, then the future of mankind is in for a real treat.

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