Motoman launches new STEM platform for robotics education

Like many of the oth­er major robot­ics man­u­fac­tur­ers, Motoman Robot­ics is inter­est­ed in expand­ing the abil­i­ty for stu­dents to study robot­ics. By pro­vid­ing these oppor­tu­ni­ties, stu­dents are ensured to devel­op skills that can be used in man­u­fac­tur­ing and oth­er tech­no­log­i­cal jobs.

The STEM (Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy, Engi­neer­ing and Math­e­mat­ics) plat­form is at the fore­front of edu­ca­tion today. With the fast-paced, ever-chang­ing world of tech­nol­o­gy, stu­dents today need to learn abil­i­ties that can equip them for the work­place. Motoman wants to help.

Motoman announced recent­ly, accord­ing to a July 31 arti­cle from Robot­X­world, that it is mak­ing two new plat­forms avail­able for STEM edu­ca­tion – a gen­er­al-pur­pose plat­form and a weld­ing edu­ca­tion cell platform.

These plat­forms are able to help stu­dents prac­tice tech­nolo­gies at a high school and col­lege lev­el that are found in man­u­fac­tur­ing envi­ron­ments, the arti­cle stat­ed. With this kind of hands-on edu­ca­tion and train­ing avail­able, stu­dents are able to learn key skills required for the new robot­ic-dri­ven indus­tries of today.

One issue fac­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers now is the lack of skilled work­ers avail­able for high-tech jobs. As robot­ic man­u­fac­tur­ing moves for­ward, even more of these work­ers are going to be need­ed. The US Depart­ment of Labor esti­mates that the robot­ics engi­neer­ing field alone will rise up to 13 per­cent by 2018. Motoman’s STEM plat­form ensures that today’s youth will become tomorrow’s tech­ni­cians, design­ers and robot­ic engineers.

Robots​.com has a vest­ed inter­est in hands-on robot­ics train­ing at the high school, voca­tion­al and col­lege lev­el. Over the years, grad­u­ates from local robot­ics pro­grams have gone on to gain employ­ment in their home­town at the Robots​.com facil­i­ty in Mar­i­on, Ohio.

Robots​.com car­ries a vast array of robot­ic mod­els for weld­ing, mate­r­i­al han­dling and mate­r­i­al removal, along with sev­er­al oth­er appli­ca­tions. Our robots are ready for pur­chase and cus­tomiza­tion today. For more infor­ma­tion about automat­ing with Robots​.com, con­tact us online or at 877−762−6881.