This NASA hosted site provides video clips on engineering and robotics research at the Langley Research Center for applications in outer space. […]
NASA Langley Research Center Videos
Grade Level: 9-12
NASA eClips
This NASA hosted site provides video clips, engineering design packets, and interactive lessons on STEM topics organized by grade level. Educator guides are included to provide examples for effective use of the videos. […]
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This NASA hosted site provides hands-on activites for grades K-12 that incorporate engineering design and build concepts. They can be filtered by material type, subject, grade, and topic. […]
NASA Space Place
The NASA hosted site provides videos, games, and activities related to topics such as outer space phenonmona and satellite technology. […]
NASA Robotics Alliance Project
This NASA Site hosts information for students and educators about the latest robotics platforms, events, competitions, and contests. […]
NASA STEM Resources
This site provides STEM resources for K-12 educators including videos with NASA astronuat crew members and lesson plans regarding engineering concepts organized by grade level. You can filter by resources for educators or for students, and further filter by grade level (including 5-8 or 9-12), material type, and more. […]
Autonomous Navigation with MATLAB
This video series explains what is meant by autonomy in robotic vehicles and explores the challenges in navigating unmapped or changing environments. Video topics include: path planning, object tracking, and SLAM algorithms. […]
Autonomous Cares with Marc Hoag
A podcast that discusses the world of autonomous vehicles, recent advancements, challenges, and the potential impact of this technology on our lives. […]
Medical Robotics Research
A Youtube playlist that features TED Talks, presentations, and real-world examples of medical robotics. […]
The Robot Doctor Demos
This resource includes visual demos and written explanations of robotics concepts from the educational video series, The Robot Doctor. Specifically, it covers robot localization, vision, motion, and measurement, four out of the eight lessons in the video series. Users should be familiar with The Robot Doctor, and have basic knowledge of mathematics and physics. […]
Lesson 108: Robot Controls
This video discusses how we can control a robot’s motors to have it follow straight and curved line paths. This handout covers a lesson review and questions that encourge students to apply mathematics to caluculate a robot’s tradgectory. […]
Lesson 107: Robot Sensing and Mapping
This video discusses how a robot can “see” things around it by converting polar coordinates to cartesian coordinates in order to make a map. This handout covers a lesson review and questions that encourge students to apply mathematics to keep track of position of obstacles on a map. […]