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

Francesco Mondada, Léa Marie Pereyre, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Fanny Riedo, Manon Aline Briod

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 ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Gordana Gerber

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 ...

Roboptics Edition2015

Thymio

Fanny Riedo

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 ...

EPFL2015

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

Francesco Mondada, Fanny Riedo

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 ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Teaching a Core CS Concept through Robotics

Roland Siegwart, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

We implemented single-session workshops using the Thymio- II—a small, self-contained robot designed for young stu- dents, and VPL—a graphical software development envi- ronment based upon event handling. Our goal was to in- vestigate if the students could ...

ACM2014

Thymio II, a robot that grows wiser with children

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Thymio II is a small robot developed for education. It aims at offering a wide public the possibility to understand the basics of robotics and programming. To achieve this, it aims at being appealing to a large age range and serve as a medium for several t ...

IEEE2013

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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 ...

IEEE2012

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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 ...

Springer2012

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

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

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 ...

IEEE2012

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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 ...

2012