ROBAI 101 - Intro to Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

5 CR

This course provides an overview of robotics. Topics include an interactive review of statistics, machine learning, AI, a review of python programming, security, and data. Students apply techniques learned to robotic devices and utilize 3D printing concepts.

Prerequisite(s): Placement by assessment into MATH 141 or completion of MATH 099 with a C or better, or the equivalent course from another college, and PROG 110 (with Python) with a C or better.

Course Outcomes

Discuss the history, challenges, ethics, and security of robotics.
Describe the role of deep machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing as it applies to robotics.
Apply basic statistical methods in the context of robotics with an emphasis on opinion and emotion AI
Explore the basics of time series analysis and forecasting to extract meaningful statistics and other characteristics of the data
Apply malware and security principles to artificial intelligence
Use 3D printing techniques to build simple models and prototypes
Operate the basics of Python programming language to solve analytical and statistical problems and to develop commands to control a robotic device

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