Robotics at the BTU Children's University

Pupils from third to sixth grade are invited to attend the event on Wednesday, 11 March at 5 pm in lecture theatre 11.301of the Konrad Zuse Media Centre on the university's Campus Senftenberg .
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On Thursday, 12 March,this 45-minute children's university lecture will take place at 3 and 5 p.m. in the Central Lecture Hall Building, Audimax 2, on the main campus of BTU Cottbus.
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The speakers are Nina Schneider, teaching and research fellow at the Chair of Tool Making Machines headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sylvio Simon, and Alexander Elsner, teaching and research fellow at the Chair of Education Sciences headed by Prof. Dr. Juliane Noack Napoles.

About the lecture

Together with the children, the scientists want to find out how robots can help people in everyday life, for example how delivery robots work that bring food home to grandparents. They will look at how people work together with robots and what skills a robot needs to have in order to be safe and helpful. What does it need to see or hear? How does it know where to go? And how can we tell it what to do?

The children's university lectures are designed to awaken an interest in solving scientific problems at an early age and give children the opportunity to experience the flair of a university.
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg gives schoolchildren from the third to sixth grades the opportunity to get a taste of university life and teaches them how to solve everyday scientific phenomena in a child-friendly, exciting way. This encourages formative experiences that awaken the youngest children's interest in science and reduce their inhibitions about university.

Outlook:

The next children's university lectures will take place on Wednesday, 15 April, at 5 p.m. at Campus Senftenberg and on Thursday, 16 April, at 3 and 5 p.m. at BTU's Cottbus main campus on the topic of "Life by a thread: Why spiders are so fascinating?". The officer will be Prof. Dr Klaus Birkhofer,head of the Chair of Ecology at BTU.

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