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Telepresence Robot Kit (TeRK) Head: Illah Nourbakhsh Contact: Illah Nourbakhsh (illah@ri.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated centers: VASC, MRTC, SRI, and FRC Associated labs/groups: CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment and Human-Robot Interaction Group For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The TeRK project aims to make educational robotics accessible to a large community of college and pre-college students as well as home and hobby robot enthusiasts. To this end TeRK includes the development of affordable robot designs that can be built with hand tools and commercially available off-the-shelf parts. TeRK also includes the development and evaluation of a library of curriculum to accompany these robots; development of a robot embedded electronics package; open-source software libraries; and a web community where curriculum, software, and robot designs can be readily exchanged.

Carnegie Mellon Press Release

See our official website: www.terk.ri.cmu.edu for more details.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Christopher Bartley	Senior Research Programmer	bartley@cmu.edu
	H. Benjamin Brown	Project Scientist	hbb@cs.cmu.edu
	Jason Campbell	Adjunct Staff	jasoncam+riweb@ri.cmu.edu
	Emily Hamner	Senior Research Associate	etf@andrew.cmu.edu
	Tom Lauwers	PhD Student, RI	tlauwers@andrew.cmu.edu
	Illah Nourbakhsh	Associate Professor	illah@ri.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration
  E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, I. Nourbakhsh, and C.F. DiSalvo
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, March, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [293 KB] copyrighted

• TeRK: A Flexible Tool for Science and Technology Education
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, C.F. DiSalvo, and D. Bernstein
  Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3417 KB] copyrighted

• A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, and C.F. DiSalvo
  Proceedings of IEEE RO-MAN 2006, September, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [171 KB] copyrighted