Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These ...

Bradley Gartner is a senior at Miami University majoring in Robotics Engineering. He completed an internship this summer with NASA at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

A group of students huddles around their project: a motor, popsicle sticks and rubber bands. Their goal? Build a car. But there are no step-by-step instructions. No safety net. “They need to figure it ...