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AERobot: An affordable one-robot-per-student system for early robotics education
Abstract
There is a widely recognized need for improved STEM education and increased technological literacy. Robots represent a promising educational tool with potentially large impact, due to their broad appeal and wide relevance; however, many existing educational robot platforms have cost as a barrier to widespread use. Here we present AERobot, a simple low-cost robot that can be easily used for introductory programming and robotics teaching, starting from a primary or middle school level. The hardware is open-source and can be built for ~$10 per robot, making it possible for each student to have (and keep) their own robot, while still encompassing a rich sensor suite enabling a variety of activities. A free, open-source graphical programming environment allows students without previous programming experience to command the robot. We report on the results of three sessions of a one-week pilot course held in the summer of 2014 by STEM summer camp i2 Camp.
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Little evidence is available across studies to reach a conclusion regarding the relative effectiveness of educational robots on students' learning outcomes and professional skills.
“While some studies demonstrate the role of educational robotics to enhance student interest and engagement (Rubenstein, Cimino, Nagpal, & Werfel, 2015), little evidence is available across studies to reach a conclusion regarding the relative effectiveness of educational robots on students' learning outcomes and professional skills (e.g., communication, collaboration).”
From A Systematic Review of Studies on Educational Robotics (2019) · cites this paper as Rubenstein et al., 2015
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A Systematic Review of Studies on Educational Robotics
Anwar, S., Bascou, N. A., Menekse, M., & Kardgar, A. (2019) · Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER) · doi:10.7771/2157-9288.1223 · Cited by 419
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rubenstein, M., Cimino, B., Nagpal, R., & Werfel, J.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- South Dakota State University (US)
- Venue
- 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2015-05
- Pages
- 6107-6113
- ISSN
- 1050-4729 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1563547082
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 2.44
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Robotics and Engineering
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Arduino and IoT Applications
- Keywords
- aerobots, robotics education, introductory programming, open-source hardware, graphical programming environment, STEM education, junior high school students, STEM summer camp, sensor suite
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