Ethics of Robotics – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html
Robotics Timeline – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/timeline/index.html
History of robotics – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/universal/index.html
Ethics of Robotics – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/ethics/index.html
Robotics Timeline – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/timeline/index.html
History of robotics – http://www.thetech.org/robotics/universal/index.html
A short video showing a robotics activity kids could do.
http://www.wearyparent.com/video-my-sons-lego-mindstorms-robot-in-action/
More classroom activities: http://www.thetech.org/robotics/activities/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms
List Of Open-source Programs (LOOP) for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
What is the LOOP list?
This is a list of the best open-source applications that run on Windows. Feel free to edit this list and add any programs that meet the criteria below. The purpose of this list is to demonstrate the quality of open-source applications and advocate the open source software development model.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.
http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=3357483
What science careers are available today? Watch five rising stars as they use science to do everything from building robots, to cleaning up the environment, to solving crimes.
http://home.comcast.net/~dplau/nxt_python/index.html
NXT_Python is a package for controlling a LEGO NXT robot using the Python programming language. It can communicate using either USB or Bluetooth. It is available under the Free Software Foundation’s GPL license. It was developed on Fedora Core (Linux), but it has been reported to work on Windows XP and Mac OS X as well.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19526111.600
New Scientist has a feature about the ‘worlds first’ programmable robot, dating from 60AD. It was designed by a Greek inventor called Hero.