Category: robotics

Robotics | About our Tech Toy | OZOBOT

Hi, I’m Ozobot

Your Game Piece with Brains

I provide kids and techies an expressive way to learn and play with robotics in a variety of social and interactive settings. I come to life when you create mazes, tracks and playgrounds on paper, game boards and digital screens. I also come with free downloadable apps and become your physical avatar for some truly one of a kind augmented reality games.

I teach you code language, robotic behavior and deductive reasoning while effortlessly playing on multi-dimensional environments. Expand your imagination and gain skills for life through my ability to play creative, strategic and competitive games with you.

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About the Project | Dronecode

The Dronecode Project is an open source, collaborative project that brings together existing and future open source drone projects under a nonprofit structure governed by The Linux Foundation. The result will be a common, shared open source platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs.

Dronecode will encourage the development of open source consumer and commercial UAV software by building and supporting a community of developers and providing them the resources and tools to help them innovate. The ultimate goal is to maximize adoption of the project’s code for the benefit of users with cheaper, better, and more reliable UAV software. The platform has already been adopted by many of the organizations on the forefront of drone technology, including HobbyKing, PrecisionHawk, Walkera, among others.

Dronecode creates a neutral and transparent body that will leverage a contribution-based meritocracy that allows other parties and developers to influence and participate in the development and direction of the software. The project will provide coordination and prioritize funding for initiatives. Dronecode serves as a trusted and neutral home to become the de facto standard platform for drone/robotics open projects. By partnering with The Linux Foundation, the Dronecode community will have access to collaboration best practices and resources to spread the reach of collaboratively-developed and open software.

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Kinderlab Robotics

KinderLab Robotics creates toys and educational tools that enable young children to learn technical, problem solving and cognitive skills in a developmentally appropriate and playful way.

KinderLab takes a whole-child approach to bringing robotics into early childhood. While other STEM education products exist for middle and high school students, KinderLab uniquely fills a need for a critical population: children under the age of seven.

Our products meet the intellectual, social, behavioral, and emotional needs of young children.

KinderLab products are based on over 20 of academic and field research into how children learn  programming and engineering. They include multidisciplinary curricula that integrate technical skills with literacy, the expressive arts, and cultural studies.​

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Robots Lab: Robots for Education

RobotsLAB is the specialist in robotics and education.

Our team of roboticists, engineers, teachers and professors developed the RobotsLAB BOX, an all-in-one tailored solution featuring the best robots; A STEM curriculum aligned with TEKS, STAAR and Common Core Standards; and a tablet allowing teachers to control the robots, and run exercises and lessons in the palm of their hand without any prior experience with robotics.

At RobotsLAB it is our goal to make STEM teaching fun and engaging for teachers and students.

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primo.io

Primo is a physical programming interface designed to teach children age 4 to 7 basic programming logic without the need for literacy.

The goal of the game is to guide a smiling robot called cubetto to his destination by creating instruction sequences using colourful and intuitive instruction blocks.

By creating these simple algorithms children learn the logical foundations of programming, necessary for more advanced coding later on in life.

Primo is an intuitive and tactile product, designed with natural materials that hide all the electronic parts, providing children with a magical and playful learning experience

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This Robot Can Teach Programming to Your 5-Year-Old

BY DANI FANKHAUSER

A friend of mine, well into his thirties, remembers going to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Penn., while growing up. There, he and his brothers would play a type of real-life video game — instead of playing with controllers and screens, they had to program robots to navigate through a course to win. Some 30 years later, this kind of technology is no longer reserved for institutions — soon, youll be able to take it home.

Play-i launched a crowdfunding campaign on Monday. The company will make two robots, Bo and Yana, which can be used individually or together (both have Bluetooth 4.0). Along with an iPad app, kids as young as 5 years old can learn programming concepts while playing with the robots

 

via This Robot Can Teach Programming to Your 5-Year-Old.