How to support teachers to carry out educational robotics activities in school? The case of Roteco, the Swiss robotic teacher community
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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023
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Stories from the future of intelligent machines—from rescue drones to robot spouses—and accounts of cutting-edge research that could make it all possible. Tech prognosticators promised us robots—autonomous humanoids that could carry out any number of tasks ...
MIT Press2022
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