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Introducing Robotics: Robotics and Society
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9 h
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- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on 27 августа 2017
- Ends on 17 сентября 2017
Course details
Syllabus
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Explain what robots are and what they can do
- Discuss the ethical considerations of using robots to help solve societal challenges
- Reflect on the future role and development of robotics in human society
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone interested in discovering how our society currently uses robots and how we might use them to solve big challenges in the future. You don’t need any robotics knowledge or experience to join in this course.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Peter Corke
Professor of Robotic Vision at QUT and Director of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV). Peter is also an IEEE fellow and on the editorial board of several robotics research journals.
James Sergeant
PhD Candidate with the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision researching towards robust visual object recognition to facilitate useful robotic tasks.
Edward Pepperell
Dr Pepperell completed his PhD in robotic vision at QUT in 2016, with a research focus in vision-based place recognition.
Obadiah Lam
Hello! I'm Obadiah, a sessional academic at Queensland University of Technology. I've taught robotics and control engineering courses and MOOCs, and have worked as a robotic vision researcher at QUT.
Editor
L’université de technologie du Queensland (en anglais, Queensland University of Technology, acronyme, QUT) est une université australienne, basée à Brisbane, au Queensland. L'université possède 47 229 étudiants, dont presque 7 982 sont étudiants internationaux. Presque 13 000 salariés y travaillent et son budget annuel dépasse AU$900 million.
Platform
FutureLearn est une plate-forme d'apprentissage proposant des formations en ligne ouvertes à tous (MOOC)
Fondée en Décembre 2012, la société est entièrement détenue par l'Open University à Milton Keynes, en Angleterre.
Elle est la 1ère plateforme offrant des MOOC au Royaume-Uni, avec à son actif plus d'une cinquantaine d'universités partenaires provenant du Royaume Uni mais aussi du reste du monde.
FutureLearn se différencie également par des partenariats avec des entités non-universitaires comme le British Museum, le British Council, la British Library et la national Film and Television School.
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