See that happy look on Volkan Isler's face? That's because he has the career every kid dreams of, but very few achieve: he spends his entire day playing with robots. The one student who's gone online to leave feedback about his teaching complains that he's a little unwilling to interact with students, but perhaps that can be explained by the fact that every minute he spends with them, he has to be away from the robots . . . I mean, how can a student compete? Right now, working partially from an eighty thousand dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, he's studying how to program robots to chase other robots; this doubtless has many potential applications for transportation, the military, and countless other sectors - mainly, though, it's just fun.
See that happy look on Volkan Isler's face? That's because he has the career every kid dreams of, but very few achieve: he spends his entire day playing with robots. The one student who's gone online to leave feedback about his teaching complains that he's a little unwilling to interact with students, but perhaps that can be explained by the fact that every minute he spends with them, he has to be away from the robots . . . I mean, how can a student compete? Right now, working partially from an eighty thousand dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, he's studying how to program robots to chase other robots; this doubtless has many potential applications for transportation, the military, and countless other sectors - mainly, though, it's just fun.