Showing posts with label outreach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outreach. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

Outreach at University of Malta

Our last day in Malta was spent doing outreach again, this time at the University of Malta. We set up on a few tables in front of a fountain at the university and deployed the ROV into the fountain. Both students and professors gradually came over to our display, curious about what we were doing. After giving a few interviews and answering questions about the research we've been doing in Malta, we let the students and professors drive the ROV a bit around the fountain. We even attached a wrench to some foam and threw it into the water for them to retrieve with the ROV -- a potentially non-trivial task. In the end the outreach was a success and we met many people who were eager to learn about robotics and the work we've been doing.