Computer Vision News - January 2022

35 Mahdieh (Madi) Babaiasl kinematics! Supposemy arm is a robot arm. It has 3 degrees of freedom formy shoulder, 1 degree of freedom for my elbow, and 3 degrees of freedom for the wrist. Degrees of freedom mean that it can rotate or translate easily. My arm has 7 degrees of freedom in total: 3 for the shoulder, 1 for the elbow, and 3 for the wrist. Overall, 7 degrees of freedom. An object in 3D space, like my cell phone, has 6 degrees of freedom because you can rotate it about the X axis. You can rotate it about the Y axis. What skills do you have that make you particularly well suited for robotics?  Duringmy PhD at Washington State University, I was the lab instructor for the Mechatronics course. The professor was teaching the course. As lab instructors, my colleague and I were making these kits for students. At the end of that course, the students were really happy with the outcome. They learned with their hands. This is what I want to do. I have apps for teaching that make things simpler for them to understand. Some of my viewers said that I make complex things very easy to understand. That’s something that I want to convey through my company. I think that I’m good at it! I challenge you to show that now! Can you explain one complicated thing about robotics in a simple way? [ laughs ] A lot of people think that robotics as a whole is complex. We can start with Robots are the future workers!