Technology taking over at NAS Pensacola for National Robotics Week – WEAR

Technology taking over at NAS Pensacola for National Robotics Week

It's National Robotics Week and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is giving an inside look for those interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

You can see different robots that researchers are working on and watch demonstrations from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m..

Matthew Johnson, IHMC Research Scientist, said, "We'll have some new AVs, some small drones flying around, as well. We'll have a fast-running bipedal robot on the treadmill over there, we'll have our exoskeletons up and running in the back there. We'll also have a slew of sensors that our robots use and we'll have some demonstrations of what those different sensing technologies look like."

Robotic competitors from local schools are participating to show off their work, as well.

The future is here and IHMC will show it to you!

Johnson said, "Every project you see is a future project, so we're working on this stuff. Every table will talk to you about what is coming next. We're pretty open about what we're doing here, so you're going to hear it all."

If you miss out on Friday, there's still an opportunity to check it out.

On Saturday, IHMC & the Naval Aviation Museum will host the Robotics Week festivities.

Some of the robots from the IHMC lab will be on display from noon to 5 p.m. and a special screening of National Geographic's "Robots" will held.

Johnson encourages those to "bring curiosity" to these FREE events.

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