Robots at schools: telerobotics, coding and teaching embodied artificial intelligence
Michela Ponticorvo, Elena Dell’Aquila · 2024
Robots have entered schools and are currently used to achieve different educational goals, as supporting computational thinking, and improving interaction between peers. In this paper we describe 3 uses of robots at schools from European projects practice: we start from telerobotics, where robots are used to support interaction at distance, if students cannot attend lesson. The second example describes how to build an educational pathway with robots to favor inclusion. Then we describe how to use robotics to introduce young students to Embodied Artificial Intelligence. These examples show that robots can be a flexible and effective tool in education as they exploit embodiment.