{"id":206012,"date":"2018-06-18T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/computer-science\/?p=206012"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T21:46:50","slug":"professor-discusses-robotics-and-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/2018\/06\/18\/professor-discusses-robotics-and-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Aparna Varde discusses robotics and our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from local schools are poising themselves at the forefront of a robotic future, one that is surely coming in one form or another!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"red\"><p>In the future, we are also likely to see more robots perform routine tasks, thus giving humans the potential to focus their time and effort on more challenging activities,&#8221; Varde said. &#8220;For example, if robots perform many simple routine surgeries, that would provide a cost-effective option, giving human doctors the opportunity to conduct more intensive procedures, and devote more time to medical research.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Dr. Aparna Varde<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Competitions like the one put on Wednesday March 28 help introduce students to collaboration and are skill-building, Varde said. Many professors today focus on project-based methods \u2013 working with your peers and combining team members\u2019 talents to produce good outcomes, she said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/bergen\/carlstadt\/2018\/04\/01\/bergen-robotics-competition-prepares-kids-tech-future\/460343002\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article on NorthJersey.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Varde spoke with NorthJersey.com as they reported on the Vex IQ Robotics Tournament in Carlstadt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}