Building Machines That Emulate Humans
Instructions provide a step-by-step guide for building the Sensorized Glove and the Robotic Hand. Includes templates, a list of things you need and detailed instructions. A customized Excel workbook visualizes real-time biomechanical data from sensor equipped gloves.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 7-8, 9-10 |
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Content type | Lesson ideas |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Design thinking, Specification (decomposing problems) |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8P02
Analyse and visualise data using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends
AC9TDI8P04
Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
AC9TDI10P02
Analyse and visualise data interactively using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends and outliers
AC9TDI10P03
Model and query entities and their relationships using structured data
AC9TDI10P04
Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by interviewing stakeholders to create user stories
AC9TDI10P07
Design and prototype the user experience of a digital system |
Technologies & Programming Languages | Robotics and drones |
Keywords | STEM, Design, Problem solving, Ideate, Robotic hand, Microsoft, Data, Excel, Spreadsheet, Anatomy Biomechanics |
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Science, STEM |
Organisation | Microsoft |
Copyright | Microsoft 2017 May be subject to Copyright Act statutory licence. |
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