The Stokes Hank Advanced Robotics System provides an advanced platform for robotics education, programming, systems integration, research, and application-based learning.
Hank can support programs that want students to move beyond basic robot operation and begin exploring how software, computing, sensors, controls, and robotic hardware work together in a complete system.
Because Stokes develops customizable robotic packages for education and other real-world applications, Hank can also serve as a platform for advanced projects tied to engineering, computer science, automation, and robotics research.
Explore robotic operation, system behavior, controls, and the interaction between mechanical and electronic systems.
Develop programs that connect software concepts to physical robotic behavior and system control.
Investigate how robotic systems collect information from sensors and use that data to interact with their environment.
Connect computing, software, sensors, communications, and robotic hardware into working systems.
Develop projects that apply robotics and programming skills to practical challenges and career-based applications.
Use an advanced robotics platform for experimentation, prototyping, programming, and robotics research.
Stokes Robotics currently lists both Hank and Hank-2 as active robotic platforms.
The original Hank platform can support advanced robotics instruction, programming, systems integration, and application development.
Hank-2 represents an additional Stokes robotics platform for programs requiring advanced robotic capabilities and customization.
Because current public Stokes documentation does not provide a detailed comparison between Hank and Hank-2, available configurations should be selected based on the specific instructional, research, and application goals of the program.
Stokes Robotics education programs emphasize programming and engineering through hands-on application-based learning. Advanced robotic platforms can help students connect software development with real robotic hardware.
Stokes Robotics has provided STEM curriculum and education packages since 2005 and robotics curriculum since 2013. Its current education model emphasizes programming and engineering through application-based objectives that help students understand how classroom skills connect to real work environments.
Advanced Hank projects may support learning in areas such as:
Stokes Robotics education packages combine robotic platforms with U.S.-configured computing and connectivity, curriculum, training, programming resources, testing, and U.S.-based support.
Stokes states that its education packages are designed to give schools a supported environment for robotics programming and engineering while allowing the robot and development tools to operate on an isolated network if desired.
Stokes Robotics education packages include custom curriculum, robotics and curriculum training, and access to customer support. Training may be delivered in person or virtually.
Programs can work with Stokes and Tech-Labs to select an appropriate Hank configuration based on their instructional, research, programming, or application-development goals.
