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Schultz, Charles P. – 1986
This paper presents the results of a project in robotics education that included: (1) designing a mobile robot--the Personal Instructional Robot-1 (PIR-1); (2) providing a guide to the purchase and assembly of necessary parts; (3) providing a way to interface the robot with common classroom microcomputers; and (4) providing a language by which the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Diagrams, Higher Education
DeVore, Paul W. – 1983
A new industrial era based on electronics and the microprocessor has arrived, an era that is being called intelligent automation. Intelligent automation, in the form of robots, replaces workers, and the new products, using microelectronic devices, require significantly less labor to produce than the goods they replace. The microprocessor thus…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Employment Patterns
Download full textLasley, Paul; Bultena, Gordon – 1985
The opinions of 1,585 Iowa farmers about 8 emergent agricultural technologies (energy production from feed grains and oils; energy production from livestock waste; genetic engineering research on plants, livestock, and humans; robotics for on-farm use; confinement livestock facilities; and personal computers for farm families) were found to be…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Alternative Energy Sources, Animal Husbandry, Farmers
