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A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Henrik I. Christensenarticle

A robotics professor, researcher, and entrepreneur whose career spans labs, startups, and industry—all with the goal of building robots that genuinely help people

A smiling bespectacled man with silver hair stands in front of multiple rugged ground vehicles.

A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Kate Darlingarticle

This researcher explores the social and ethical implications of robots

Kate Darling, a smiling woman with shoulder length dirty blonde hair and bangs, poses with Pleo, a robot dinosaur.

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Types of Robots

Categories frequently used to classify robots

Aquanaut, an orange humanoid transforming robot, shines a light and floats underwater.

How to Get Started in Robotics

Learn how you can start building robots and explore careers in robotics

A girl and a boy play with a Lego robot.

Robotics Questions

Experts answer your questions about robots

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What Is a Robot?

Top roboticists explain their definition of robot

Illustration of a quadruped robot.

When Will Robots Do Our Chores?

Humanoid robots powered by AI may finally be able to do our housework

Rosie, the robot maid from the Jetsons, stands next to 6 humanoid robots including Neo, Apollo, Figure, Phoenix, Optimus and Atlas.

A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Annaleah Ernst

This Amazon engineer helps build fully autonomous, safe warehouse robots

A blonde woman in a yellow shirt and black jeans stands in a warehouse. Three wide, low to the ground green and black Amazon warehouse robots are in front of her.

A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Bhavana Chandrashekhar

This engineer helps Amazon build AI-powered robots

A woman with dark curly hair and a black shirt kneels in front of a robotic system at Amazon.

A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Kate Darling

This researcher explores the social and ethical implications of robots

Kate Darling, a smiling woman with shoulder length dirty blonde hair and bangs, poses with Pleo, a robot dinosaur.

A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Henrik I. Christensen

A robotics professor, researcher, and entrepreneur whose career spans labs, startups, and industry—all with the goal of building robots that genuinely help people

A smiling bespectacled man with silver hair stands in front of multiple rugged ground vehicles.

Resources

STEM Resources

IEEE sites that support STEM education

Two kids, a boy in a blue shirt and a girl in a red dress, sit on the floor and use an iPad to operate a little orange and blue mobile robot called Dash through a maze of cardboard bricks.

Robot Activity Sheets

Fun activities to keep kids entertained while they learn about robots

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Robotics Glossary

Learn the meaning of common robotics terms from A to Z

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