Hudson Valley Community College is partnering with Rensselaer to offer a unique four-credit course, Introduction to Robotics, to begin during the fall semester. The hands-on course (CISS 180) will be co-taught by professors from both institutions (Dean O'Dell and Linda Lim from HVCC, Kimberly Oakes and Glenn Saunders from RPI) and introduce students to the multi-disciplinary field of robotics, using state-of-the-art industrial robots from FANUC and Universal Robots.