WILMINGTON, DE—Dickinson High School’s Robotics Laboratory is an incubator where kids learn and use engineering and software skills to work with Lego and Erector Set-like creations they design and build. An outgrowth of the school’s STEM program, the robotics course began in 2010. Only a handful of kids enrolled the first year, but now about 100 of Dickinson’s 600 kids take a robotics class.
Walking through the school, one can’t help but notice the two fluorescent yellow mechanical creatures, reports Cris Barrish for the public media organization WHYY. The creatures are two high-speed FANUC Robots designed for an increasingly automated present and future.