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Supporting Teachers' Orchestration in Robot-mediated Classrooms

To bring educational robots to classrooms, we need to consider teachers' self-efficacy and challenges in managing a robot-mediated classroom, and how to support them in overcoming these challenges. Orchestration tools are designed to support teachers by pr ...

EPFL2023

Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform

Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Over the past few decades, the debates have shifted from whether to how Computer Science (CS) should be introduced into formal education. Given the diverse ways to introduce CS into formal education, and the struggles many countries have faced, considerabl ...

EPFL2023

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Francesco Stella, Egidio Falotico

Elephants and other animals heavily rely on the sense of smell to operate. Soft robots would also benefit from an artificial sense of smell, which could be helpful in typical soft robotic tasks such as search and rescue, pipe inspection, and all the tasks ...

IEEE2023

Self-Correcting Quadratic Programming-Based Robot Control

Aude Billard, Farshad Khadivar, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis

Quadratic Programming (QP)-based controllers allow many robotic systems, such as humanoids, to successfully undertake complex motions and interactions. However, these approaches rely heavily on adequately capturing the underlying model of the environment a ...

2023

How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Background Early exposure to Computer Science (CS) and Computational Thinking (CT) for all is critical to broaden participation and promote equity in the field. But how does the introduction of CS and CT into primary school curricula impact learning, perce ...

2023

The science of soft robot design: A review of motivations, methods and enabling technologies

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Francesco Stella

Novel technologies, fabrication methods, controllers and computational methods are rapidly advancing the capabilities of soft robotics. This is creating the need for design techniques and methodologies that are suited for the multi-disciplinary nature of s ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

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Order, regularities, and patterns are ubiquitous around us. A flock of birds maneuvering in the sky, the self-organization of social insects, a global pandemic or a traffic jam are examples of complex systems where the macroscopic patterns arise from the m ...

EPFL2023

Morphological flexibility in robotic systems through physical polygon meshing

Jamie Paik, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Alexander Thomas Sigrist

Shape-changing robots adapt their own morphology to address a wider range of functions or environments than is possible with a fixed or rigid structure. Akin to biological organisms, the ability to alter shape or configuration emerges from the underlying m ...

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Exploration-based model learning with self-attention for risk-sensitive robot control

Sudong Lee

Model-based reinforcement learning for robot control offers the advantages of overcoming concerns on data collection and iterative processes for policy improvement in model-free methods. However, both methods use exploration strategy relying on heuristics ...

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”Roteco” - a Swiss teacher community for educational robotics

Supporting Teachers' Orchestration in Robot-mediated Classrooms

Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control

Self-Correcting Quadratic Programming-Based Robot Control

How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps

The science of soft robot design: A review of motivations, methods and enabling technologies

Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

Morphological flexibility in robotic systems through physical polygon meshing

Exploration-based model learning with self-attention for risk-sensitive robot control

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Supporting Teachers' Orchestration in Robot-mediated Classrooms

Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control

Self-Correcting Quadratic Programming-Based Robot Control

How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps

The science of soft robot design: A review of motivations, methods and enabling technologies

Human-Robot Swarm Interaction: An Explorative Path to Foster Complex Systems Understanding

Morphological flexibility in robotic systems through physical polygon meshing

Exploration-based model learning with self-attention for risk-sensitive robot control

Sensorless force and displacement estimation in soft actuators

Sensorless force and displacement estimation in soft actuators