OAK RIDGE CONFERENCE CENTER HOLDS ORISE ADVANCED ROBOTICS ACADEMY FOR EAST TN TEENS
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) – Nearly two dozen East Tennessee students took part in the first ORISE Advanced Robotics Academy at Pollard Technology Conference Center.
Throughout the week, the students learned about advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They used this knowledge to build and program robots.
“This is the very first time that ORISE has held an Advanced Robotics Academy in the past ORAU has done a middle school robotics academy. But this is the first time we’ve been able to have high schools do an advanced type of academy where they get to program robots using AI and machine learning. So that they don’t have to sit there with a controller in their hand controlling the robot,” said Chris Nelson, education project manager for ORISE.
On Friday, the robots competed against each other to pop balloons of a specific color, while ignoring other colors. The competition tests how well each robot was programmed by its students.
