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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.

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.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Christopher Bartley - Senior Research Programmer <bartley@cmu.edu>
• [Home] H. Benjamin Brown - Project Scientist <hbb@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Illah Nourbakhsh - Associate Professor <illah@ri.cmu.edu>

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 Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls
  E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, K. Stubbs, K. Crowley, and I. Nourbakhsh
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1691 KB] copyrighted

• 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