Workshops Robots are engaging and captivate the young generation’s imagination. Robots also provide a valuable educational tool and a hands-on-fun way of learning STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)… Read more
Educational Robots (Cellulo)
While the use of technology is omnipresent in most jobs, our society need to move towards better education in technology in general and robotics in particular. As the two… Read more
Press Pack
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R2t2 Mars Mission
The year is 2032 and a meteorite has damaged a power station on Mars. 16 teams of school aged children spread across the world have each been given control… Read more
Teaching Other Subjects (Cellulo)
The robot Cellulo is being specifically developed within NCCR Robotics to be the pencils of the future in classrooms. The idea behind the robot is to make it cheap… Read more
Teaching Resources (Thymio)
Tweets by ThymioII NCCR Robotics promotes robotics in schools and amongst teachers, we work with teachers in Switzerland to prepare them to be able to confidently and effectively educate students… Read more
Over 1000 teachers trained to use Thymio in Switzerland
Over the past 4 years over 1000 teachers in Switzerland have been trained to use Thymio in the classroom, more than half of them were trained last year alone, showing the rapid growth in interest.
A robot to help visually impaired schoolchildren find their way
Alexandre Foucqueteau has taught Cellulo, a little hand-sized robot, how to help visually impaired children find their bearings and avoid obstacles in the classroom. Read the full story on EPFL media.
Meet the Dillenbourg Lab
Welcome to the third of our Lab videos section where we introduce the NCCR Robotics lab, PI, NCCR Robotics members and their work. On this occasion we present Dillenbourg Lab.
EPFL- STI Interdisciplinary Robot competition
June 12th, five groups of three STI master students competed in this year’s robot competition. Team 2 (Cyrill Baumann, Julien Di Tria and Shupeng Wei) won the competition with the RoBat robot.
Approved Education Committee
The NCCR Robotics Steering Committee has officially validated the new members of the Education and Society Committee led by Francesco Mondada.
Dillenbourg and Mondada Labs win Best Paper Award at HRI 2017
Congratulations to the team from the Dillenbourg and Mondada Labs who received the Best Paper Award at the Human-Robot Interaction (HRi) 2017 conference in Vienna, Austria for their work on the Cellulo Educational Robot. The award was presented for the paper “Cellulo: Versatile handheld robots for education” authored by Ayberk Ozgür, Séverin Lemaignan, Wafa Johal, …
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R2T2americaraibe
Using the robot Thymio created out of NCCR Robotics, on 24th January a special edition of the R2t2 event took place in America and the Caribbean with 100 kids and teenagers competing.
Call for papers: R4L @HRI 2017
23.01.17 – Submission deadline: 31st January 2017.An increasing amount of HRI research focuses on the development of social robots acting as tutors. While robots have been popular as a focus for STEM teaching (see Lego Mindstorms or Thymio), the use of robots as tutors is novel. The field of HRI has started reporting on how …
Call for papers: International Journal of Social Robotics
23.01.17 – Special Issue in International Journal of Social Robotics: Please submit the journal manuscripts by 01 March 2017.Research in Human-Robot interaction is being vastly applied to assist humans in their everyday lives. Pertaining to this context is the application of robots for educational purposes, which has been emerging these past few years. Some robotic platforms …
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The future of space rescue – watch the R2t2 event live
02.11.16 – Today, the Swiss Robotics Industry Day will play host to the R2t2 rescue mission and we are heading straight for the future! The year is 2032 and a meteorite has damaged a power station on Mars. 16 teams of school aged children spread across the world have each been given control of a …
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Past Events
| Date/Time | Event | Description |
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18 Mar – 19 Mar 2017 All Day |
CoWriter project presented at GES, Dubai
Atlantis The Palm, Dubai |
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6 Mar – 9 Mar 2017 All Day |
R4L @HRI2017
Aula der Wissenschaft – Hall of Science, Vienna |
http://r4l.epfl.ch/HRI2017 |
Swiss Robotics Industry Day 2017
Posted on: November 21, 2017
A robot to help visually impaired schoolchildren find their way
Posted on: July 3, 2017
Meet the Labs of NCCR Robotics – Dillenbourg Lab
Posted on: June 19, 2017
Esplora il significato del termine: «Missione Marte», con il robot Thymio alla scoperta della robotica educativa«Missione Marte», con il robot Thymio alla scoperta della robotica educativa
Learn how robots will be used in the classrooms of tomorrow
Posted on: April 16, 2016
The child engineers solving space scenarios
https://play.swissinfo.ch/play/tv/sci-amp-tech/video/the-child-engineers-solving-space-scenarios?id=41843144
Posted on: December 27, 2015
Neue Technologien für die Bildung in der Schweiz
Publication date: June 25, 2018
Published in: Die Volkswirtschaft
Vaud: journée de réflexion autour de l’éducation numérique
Publication date: December 2, 2017
Published in: RTS
À quoi ressemblera l’école du futur?
Publication date: December 2, 2017
Published in: 24 Heures
Summerschool robotique: des gymnasiens s’initient au machine learning
Publication date: July 18, 2017
Published in: EPFL
Public Engagement with Research Award winner
Publication date: July 18, 2017
Published in: Wellcome Trust
Schweizer Roboter hilft sehbehinderten Kindern
Un petit robot pour les écoliers malvoyants
Publication date: July 4, 2017
Published in: 30 Minutes
Robot per bimbi ciechi ideato da uno studente
«Cellulo» le petit robot pour les écoliers malvoyants
Publication date: July 4, 2017
Published in: L'Agefi
«Cellulo» hilft Sehbehinderten
Publication date: July 4, 2017
Published in: Thurgauer Zeitung
Prof. Robert Riener NCCR Co-Director & Professor Management Team and Sensory-Motor Systems Lab (SMS), ETH Zurich riener@hest.ethz.ch +41 44 632 66 79
Dr. Wafa Johal Postdoctoral Researcher Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction (CHILI) and Robotic Systems Lab (LSRO), EPFL wafa.johal@epfl.ch +41 21 693 26 11
Min Liu Doctoral Student Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), UZH minliu@ini.uzh.ch +41 44 635 30 41
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A low-cost, actuated passive dynamic walker kit for accessible research and education
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A low-cost bipedal walking robot kit with limited actuation and sensing capabilities was designed and built to achieve actively powered, passive dynamic walking locomotion over level ground. The walking system is composed of readily available parts and materials totaling less than $50 and can be assembled either from plans or pre-fabricated parts in less than a day. Indeed, the very first (and only) prototype was conceived and built in one day, and capable of walking within two more. In place of components utilized for the prototype shown and demonstrated, alternative parts and materials can be substituted and accommodated by relatively simple design changes, allowing this robot construction to be adapted to different resource availability, in some cases key to the success of research or education.
Posted on: October 16, 2017