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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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The Robots Have Arrived on Campus. They Come Bearing Food.

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Robots are taking over college campuses. The University of California at Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles were two of the earliest colleges to welcome the food delivery robots, called the KiwiBot. Things are a bit more complicated for the delivery robot. They're currently only at UC Berkeley.

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Education Robot Maker Roybi Boosts Kids Speech Recognition Technology With Acquisition

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Roybi, the maker of a pill-shaped robot to teach language and math skills to young children, has acquired additional technology to power its educational features. based company has acquired the KidSense artificial intelligence engine developed by Kadho. This Roybi promo video shows how kids interact with the robot.

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AI Tools Like ChatGPT May Reshape Teaching Materials — And Possibly Substitute Teach

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The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. It’s almost like the teacher is programming the robot to do their job for them.” Hit render, and it automatically creates a video,” Sekar added. He’s not the only person thinking this way.

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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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5 Essential Resources To Teach Programming Remotely

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Online Video Courses. First, online video courses are a great resource you can use to improve your students’ virtual computer science learning experiences. Fortunately, many websites offer free videos to teach code. Like video courses, articles are typically organized by age group or reading level for easy access.

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How Robotics Competitions Close the STEM Skills Gap and Build a Diverse Workforce

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For nearly 30 years, the global non-profit FIRST has been getting kids hooked on science and technology through hands-on robotics competitions for grades K-12—complete with cheering crowds, adrenaline rushes and teams snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Robotics competitions have the same thrills and excitement every other sport has.

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