Students (and you) will find this TED Talk, which blends computer science and mechanical engineering, amazing!

At the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania, flying quadrotor robots move together in eerie formation, tightening themselves into perfect battalions, even filling in the gap when one of their own drops out.

Vijay Kumar headed this lab from 1998-2004; he’s now the Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he continues his work in robotics.

The California Department of Education is currently developing the “next generation” CTE standards for the Information and Communication Technologies sector which will embrace the use of robots.