Course SPOTlight! Robots and Humans with Dr. Alexander Glaser and Dr. Ryo Morimoto

09/10/2024 21 min Episodio 27
Course SPOTlight! Robots and Humans with Dr. Alexander Glaser and Dr. Ryo Morimoto

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In this episode, Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond sits down with Dr. Alexander Glaser (MAE) and Dr. Ryo Morimoto (ANT) on their inaugural course, "Robots in Human Ecology (ANT 325/MAE 347/SPI 384)," which not only combines engineering and anthropological disciplines to shed light on technology's increasingly prevalent role in the everyday lives of humans but also allows students to work with the viral social media robot dog SPOT! Listen in to learn about the the origin of SPOT, merging STEM and non-STEM dialogues, and the future of integrating robots in our society!To learn more about their research, please visit the following links!Dr. Alexander GlaserDr. Ryo Morimoto---Credits:Writers - Noelle Kim, Lina KimAudio engineer - Noelle Kim, Senna Aldoubosh

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