Students in Anthony Hart’s robotics classes at Benjamin Russell High School get to play with a lot of cool toys.
They get to tinker with the small Lex robot, they get to fool around with any of several drones in the classroom and soon they’ll have a miniaturized industrial-type robot to take for a spin.
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