Robotics Engineer

Robotics Engineer — page 1

Robotics Engineer — page 2 — STEAM is the acronym for Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics In this book you will read about how each of these study areas is connected to a career in robotics engineering CHAPTER 1 The Future Is Now 4 CHAPTER 2 Getting the Job 10 CHAPTER 3 Doing the Job 16 CHAPTER 4 Good Days Bad Days 22 CHAPTER 5 The Future 26 THINK ABOUT IT 30 LEARN MORE 31 GLOSSARY 32 INDEX 32 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Robotics Engineer — page 3 — 21st century skills library 4 chapter 1 Michael was watching a documentary on television It was about a musician who had lost his hand in an accident but was able to relearn piano after he was ﬁtted with a prosthesis That’s amazing he said to his older brother It’s like his whole arm has turned into a robot Kind of his brother said My friend at college is studying how to design those He wants to be a robotics engineer When you hear the word robot you probably think of The Future Is Now

Robotics Engineer — page 4 — cool steam careers 5 things like science ﬁction movies and aliens in spaceships You might imagine metal machines that look kind of like people and talk in funny computerized voices The simplest deﬁnition of a robot is a device that can make changes to the world around us That is not a new idea A prosthesis is designed to work like the body part it replaces

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