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Immersive robotics experience inspires future engineers
Science NationCollege students from across the U.S. are getting an opportunity that is unavailable to many of them on their own campuses--the chance to program robots. The students are taking part in a 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, or SURE for short. This particular SURE program is at Georgia Tech's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). It's an immersive robotics research experience that is designed to attract underrepresented students into graduate school in the fields of engineering and science. IRIM associate director of research Ayanna Howard says the projects--such as programming a robot to serve food to a person with a disability--are also meant to enlighten the students about the various applications of robotics and the multidisciplinary aspects of the research. She says the students also develop more confidence.
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