# Manufacturing training for high-tech high schools. > A robotic manufacturing lab for high-tech high schools: students learn welding, metrology, metallurgy, robotics, and evidence-driven problem solving on an industrial AMR welding cell with game-like controls. URL: https://advancedmetalresearch.com/schools School lab CTE pathways · Welding Metrology Metallurgy School manufacturing lab A robotic manufacturing lab for CTE pathways, with game-like controls, industry vocabulary, measurable outcomes, and digital portfolios. [Contact AMR](https://advancedmetalresearch.com/schools#contact) [See the lab tracks](https://advancedmetalresearch.com/schools#tracks) *Figure: Hidden-line drawing of the Rosie 1400 six-axis robot from the rear left, running a five-point program taught from the pendant.* Lesson sequence · Specify Control Run · Measure Adapt Pendant · Steam Deck · Teacher-set process limits Why schools ## Train students on modern automated manufacturing. Students need more than arc time. They need a way to connect fit-up, parameters, robot motion, inspection, material behavior, and evidence. AMR brings that loop into a classroom-ready cell for high-tech high schools, CTE centers, and engineering academies. ### CTE-ready manufacturing A modern lab platform for welding, robotics, mechatronics, CAD and CAM, inspection, and materials-science pathways. ### High-tech high school fit Students work from readable tasks, digital evidence, controller inputs, and capstone-style projects instead of watching a closed robot demo. ### Weld data on every run Students see how parameters, geometry, material, and inspection connect, because the cell records all of it. ### Teacher-governed safety Instructor approval, locked process limits, safety gates, and review checkpoints keep the machine inside approved training envelopes. Game-like controls · Steam Deck teach pendant ## Familiar controls on an industrial robot. The controls follow gamepad conventions students know from robotics competitions and simulators, with clear inputs, immediate feedback, and staged levels of responsibility. - **Gamepad-style control** · Students learn jog, aim, confirm, run, pause, and review through familiar controller behavior before they touch advanced settings. - **Guided lesson modes** · Each lesson follows a production sequence: scan the part, set the path, choose the recipe, run the weld, inspect the result. - **Fast feedback** · The cell shows geometry, fit-up, process signals, and inspection results during and immediately after each run. - **Instructor dashboard** · Teachers bound what students control, reset exercises, review evidence, and guide the class through safe procedure changes. Video (https://advancedmetalresearch.com/assets/video/handheld-control.mp4) *Starting a weld from the handheld pendant in the AMR R&D lab.* Lesson sequence ## Specify, control, run, measure, adapt. Define the problem, control the machine, run the approved process, measure what happened, and explain how the next attempt should improve. 1. **Specify.** Define the part, joint, material, safety envelope, and quality goal. 2. **Control.** Use guided, game-like controller inputs to set up motion and confirm the weld plan. 3. **Run.** Execute the approved weld inside teacher-controlled process limits. 4. **Measure.** Capture scans, process signals, inspection images, and material-test evidence. 5. **Adapt.** Compare results, explain what changed, and improve the next attempt. Lab tracks ## One cell for welding, metrology, metallurgy, robotics, and AI. Students see the full chain from CAD and GD&T to weld execution, inspection, metallurgical evidence, and data-driven improvement. ### Welding lab Travel speed, power, torch angle, seam path, heat input, bead shape, and WPS-style thinking made visible. ### Metrology and GD&T Students scan parts, compare geometry to intent, read tolerance stackups, and learn why measurement drives manufacturing quality. ### Metallurgy Heat, material, distortion, hardness, bend tests, macrographs, and failure analysis in the same classroom workflow. ### Robotics and AI RosieOS, AMR's controller software, is open source under Apache 2.0. It connects motion, sensing, safety gates, logging, and machine-learning ideas in a way students can inspect. CTE pathway ## From first lab to a complete learning path. Students finish with portfolios that show they can read prints, control a machine, inspect parts, and explain material behavior. 1. **Foundation manufacturing lab.** Safety habits, coordinated motion, weld vocabulary, measurement basics, and digital shop discipline. 2. **Advanced CTE pathway.** Welding, metrology, metallurgy, robotics, and data analysis through production-style projects. 3. **Capstone and employer projects.** Portfolios with part files, scan data, weld records, inspection evidence, and presentations local manufacturers understand. Video (https://advancedmetalresearch.com/assets/video/hand-welding.mp4) *Manual welding on the same table as the robot.* ![A mounted weld coupon labeled Test 01, ready for sectioning](https://advancedmetalresearch.com/assets/img/coupon-mount.webp) *A weld coupon, mounted for sectioning.* ![Etched weld cross-section with the fusion zone highlighted by the inspection model](https://advancedmetalresearch.com/assets/img/weld-macro-ml.webp) *After etching, with penetration measured by the inspection model.* School districts and CTE programs ## Bring AMR your welding, robotics, or advanced manufacturing pathway. Tell us about the school, the space, the students, and the pathway you want to build. We reply with a site package and a first-semester plan. [Contact AMR](mailto:generalcontact@advancedmetalresearch.com?subject=Schools%20manufacturing%20lab) Send us a part. Drawing · material · volume We'll tell you what Rosie and War Machine can do with it.