• Question: how do you programme robots?

    Asked by cw to Claire, Liad, Ruth, Ryan, Mako on 13 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 13 Jun 2015:

      We make use of programming languages which are instructions for a computer!

      Computers run in whats called binary code, bunches of 1’s and 0’s we make use of compilers to convert programs to this language to get computers to do what we want.

      A robot is simply a computer, so I would write a program to instruct the robot to do as i wanted.

      If I wanted it to talk i would write a program to run which accessed a folder with audio snippets of words and then piece them together in a sentence for my robot to talk.

      Programming is a really good skill to learn! You could be a robot programmer one day!!

      Reminds of a great joke – There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.

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