Teaching Oriented Bio-Inspired Robotics
ABOUT US
Teaching Oriented Bioinspired Robotics was started by two UPenn graduate students looking to improve STEM Education and retention through the use of legged robots.
Teaching Oriented Bioinspired (TOBI) Robotics provides teachers with a low-cost robot and curriculum package designed to create fun and tangible links between subjects learned in class and real world applications. TOBI Robotics addresses the issue of a growing divide between the number of jobs being created in STEM fields and the number of students prepared to fill these jobs. By providing concrete examples of how subjects like math, physics, biology and computer science fit into daily life, we posit that TOBI can grab students’ interest and excite them to pursue STEM interests through high school and college.
Emily Plumb
Gavin Kenneally
Emily is pursuing her MS in mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to returning for her masters she worked for two years in the consumer products industry and gained experience in high volume manufacturing. She has been interested in STEM outreach since high school and in getting more students excited and engaged in engineering.
Gavin is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in robotics (specifically in Kod*lab). Gavin has been designing and making robots for the best part of a decade and has experience teaching robotics to elementary school students.