What are the common physics concepts that can be taught to high school students with application of robotics?
ANSWER from Mike Bastoni on 16 August 2006: Yes, students who involve themselves with the study of complex electro-mechanical systems can in fact gain many wonderful insights into the workings of the physical world. Often the desire to create complex machines is what drives all of us high school students to learn more so that we can construct more capable mechanisms and machines. There is an exciting learning dynamic that takes place whenever we find ourselves consumed by the joy of discovery. Discovery fuels learning, learning leads to discovery. If robots create that dynamic for you, as they have for me, then the answer to your question is yes…yes…absolutely yes. Are robots the only avenue or even the best avenue through which we might gain understanding about how the world works? I dunno. Certainly robots have great educational potential. I have fashioned a great deal of my life around this premise, but I know there are many paths to knowledge, achievement and self-satisfaction.
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