I'm curious if anyone on BNet is interested in STEM (science/technology/engineering/math) fields. Please share about STEM fields you're interested in, the work you're doing in them, interesting news, thoughts, questions, stories, etc. Feel free to explain a field that interests you or comment on STEM education ideas. It's okay to be broad or talk about various subjects, goals, ideas, etc.
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Among many other things, I'm very interested in robotics engineering. I'm especially interested in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems– typically groups of autonomous robots that work together to achieve a task. I think that providing dynamic placement of multiple sensors allows for different perspectives and can increase the amount of data available to entire systems. For instance, a ground robot may be able to plan paths based on sensor data from an aerial robot. Using the same philosophy, items that wouldn't traditionally be considered robots (such as smartphones, street cameras, etc) could become sensor packages for robots. Networking sensors and robots is a really interesting goal to me.
What are you interested in?
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I'm in my Junior year of Nuclear Engineering. I'm interested in any space-faring nuclear technology, such as RTG's, or even the crazier stuff like project Orion.