Cool Jobs: Roboticist, Chad Jenkins

250816 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Gamer kids, rejoice: Brown University computer scientist and roboticist Chad Jenkins' career path started when he got the Atari 2600 video game system and was inspired to tinker with games and programs of us own. Want to know how to get from dominating your friends at Mario Kart to programming your own robots? In this snippet from the 2014 World Science Festival program "Cool Jobs," Jenkins talks about all the things he had to learn along the way, and demonstrates some of the amazing automatons that are easier than ever to program.

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Imagine exploring the Amazon river to dig up a rare breed of leeches, or heading into space to repair the famed Hubble Space Telescope, or crawling through a tiny crevice in the Earth in search of remains of our earliest ancestors. Well, you don’t have to just imagine these spectacular feats. The World Science Festival has assembled the coolest group of scientists with the most interesting jobs on the planet, who’ll tell you first hand about these explorations and much more. Join us to start your own quest to find a Cool Job in science.

Original Program Date: June 1, 2014

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