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Technology is now an important part of our lives. We often see robots cited as the future of education, and reports of their imminent entrance in schools. New projects create buzz in the media and online, but when we look at the actual situation, very few ...

Mobile robots are valuable tools for education because of both the enthusiasm they raise and the multidisciplinary nature of robotics technology. Mobile robots give access to a wide range of fields, such as complex mechanics, sensors, wireless transmission ...

The Thymio II robot was designed to be used by teachers in their classrooms for a wide range of activities and at all levels of the curriculum, from very young children to the end of high school. Although the educationally oriented design of this innovativ ...

We present the IniRobot pedagogical kit, conceived and deployed within French and Swiss primary schools for the initiation to robotics and computer science. It provides a microworld for learning, and takes an enquiry-based educational approach, where kids ...

For four years a robotics festival has taken place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. As the number of visitors has rapidly grown from a few thousands to a dozen thousands, it gives an opportunity to investigate who is ...

The introduction of technology in the public school teaching process could help increasing the weak motivation we can observe toward engineering studies. To achieve this goal, one main obstacle is motivating public school teachers to use technological tool ...

Robots are both fascinating objects for the general public and devices whose conception, understanding and pro- gramming involve many fields. This unique combination makes them an ideal tool for introducing science and technology to children. This paper pr ...

Technology is playing an increasing role in our society. Therefore it becomes important to educate the general public, and young generations in particular, about the most common technologies. In this context, robots are excellent education tools, for many ...

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Thymio : a holistic approach to designing accessible educational robots

Bringing robotics into formal education using the Thymio open source hardware robot

A sociological contribution to understanding the use of robots in schools: the Thymio robot

IniRobot : a pedagogical kit to initiate children to concepts of robotics and computer science

Analysis of Impact of an Annual Robotics Festival

Involving and training public school teachers in using robotics for education

Pedagogical Uses of Thymio II: How Do Teachers Perceive Educational Robots in Formal Education?

A Programming Workshop using the Robot "Thymio II": The Effect on the Understanding by Children

A two years informal learning experience using the Thymio robot

Seamless Multi-Robot Programming for the People: ASEBA and the Wireless Thymio II Robot