Practice-Centred Robotics Education: Learning by Doing

Hear from The Construct CEO, Ricardo Téllez, about e-learning for ROS and Robotics.

The Construct is an e-learning platform for ROS and Robotics, helping engineers grow their robotics skills.

Summary: Learning robotics is a difficult matter. And teaching it so students understand it fast and well is a real challenge for the teachers. In this talk I will describe the method for teaching robotics that we apply at The Construct to make our students learn faster. The method is based on putting the robot at the center of the teaching and not as a final part of the lessons. The students start with the robot and deduce the rest of the things (maths, programs, electronics, mechanics...) based on the needs they have in order to make the robots accomplish something. This method changes the burden of the education process from the student to the teacher. The teacher is now the one that has to do the effort to provide a properly structured lesson that makes the student absorb it naturally, like the pioneers of robotics did with themselves!