Robot arm lends a hand with remote learning
Students in China and Scotland have been engaging in online learning via a new project that allows them to remotely control a robotic arm.
The collaboration is part of the international partnership between the Glasgow University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in Chengdu to deliver undergraduate degree programmes in China.
Students have the opportunity to remotely program a Panda robot arm located in the James Watt South building on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill campus. It has been made available for students on UESTC’s Circuit Analysis and Design course to use initially, with Glasgow students being given the chance to try the arm ahead of it being integrated into teaching in the near future.
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“It’s important that we try to give students as much of the experience of hands-on learning as we can, even during a pandemic where everyone is being advised to keep their hands to themselves as much as possible,” said one of the project leads, Dr Guodong Zhao, lecturer in Systems Power and Energy at Glasgow University.
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