******************************************************************* Leslie Kaelbling's "Building Intelligent Robots" class Kwun Han "Building Intelligent Robots" is a course on mobile robotics taught by Leslie Kaelbling. It is an upper-level undergraduate, introductory graduate course offered in Brown University. Students learn about mobile robotics via the following: - Read research papers on different aspects of mobile robotics - In pair, they build their own autonomous Lego robot - Programming their robot with the Rex robot programming language. Tasks were simple goal seeking and obstacle avoidance and a fairly involved final project. I was involved in setting up the course when it was first offered in 1993/4 and have been the TA a couple of times. In this informal-ish talk, I will describe the outline of the course and show a video of the Lego robots students have built. Here is the official course description: "CS/0148 -- Sem. II Building Intelligent Robots This course addresses the problem of controlling physical systems that operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Students in pairs build their own mobile robot and program it to perform a variety of simple tasks. In addition, the course covers the major paradigms of robot programming and studies architectures for building perception and control systems for intelligent robots."