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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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The two-legged, pill-shaped robot—upper half green, lower half white and small enough to stand on one’s palm—starts its lesson with a greeting. Designed for children ages 3 to 7, the robot, Roybi, aims to teach kids at home a range of early-childhood developmental skills. The company did not disclose their names.

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CoderZ Names Tony Oran as Chief Executive Officer

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CoderZ , the award-winning, gamified, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, has announced that Tony Oran is joining the company as its CEO in the USA. Before Festo, he served as an operations leader for various companies. CoderZ League is a groundbreaking, international online robotics tournament. DERRY, N.H.

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Cat Ears and Robot Friends: What Japan’s Educational Future Could Include

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At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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A Humanoid Robot Inspires All Students to Explore STEM, Coding, and Programming

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(Dallas, TX) June 20, 2018 — RoboKind , the creators of robots4autism and Milo , today introduced Jett , the coding and programming robot, along with the robots4STEM curriculum designed to teach all students, including those with disabilities, the skills they need to ignite a lasting interest in STEM. Also, follow Jett on Twitter or Facebook.

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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Not to mention 3D printing, AR and robots! The same principle applies to the exhibition area, where thousands of companies, NGOs and other institutions will be competing for your attention. A simple way to tackle this task is to divide products or companies into lists, according to what is more relevant.

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3 Emerging Technologies that will Reshape Education in 2019

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The goal is to merge engineering and design research happening at the city’s universities with resources and opportunities from the media and technology industry—to develop new prototypes, explore applied R&D projects, launch new companies and encourage the latest thinking.

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Judge, Jury and Education Startups: Reflections From the SXSW EDU Launch Competition

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The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. Over the years I have attended dozens of demo days and exhibitions, and slogged through what already feels like a lifetime of pitches in my inbox.