Robot Contest : An approach of creativity education by manufacturing a robot machine

Abstract

We have had a long experience of creativity education by manufacturing a primary machine in the Department of Control Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
This year, the first cooperated robot contest was held at Tokyo with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The brief progress of this project is introduced, and an impression from the contest, a significance of cooperated curriculum with foreign university and personal opinion about its effect on engineering education are explained in this report.