Northeastern in Seattle: Future Skills Series
Free hands-on workshops exploring emerging technologies and their industry applications, led by Northeastern University faculty experts.
In-person at Seattle Campus
About the Series:
Join Seattle-area professionals for free, master's-level workshops led by Northeastern University faculty and experts at the Seattle campus. Explore emerging technologies, industry trends, and in-demand skills through engaging sessions on topics such as AI, robotics, machine learning, and more.
Each workshop combines expert insights with hands-on learning, giving you practical knowledge and skills you can apply right away in your career. Browse the upcoming workshops below and register for those that interest you.
Where's the Hand? An Introduction to Robot Arm Kinematics
Saturday, August 8 | 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PT
Nivii Kalavakonda, Assistant Teaching Professor, College of Engineering
Discover how a robotic arm translates joint positions into the location of its "hand" in space—and tackle the more challenging reverse problem of determining which joint positions will reach a desired target. You'll also have the opportunity to command a real robotic arm, testing these concepts firsthand and exploring both the power and limitations of the underlying mathematics.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.