Robots in education

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Robots in education



Robotics engineering promises to extend humanity's physical and intellectual reach to remote areas of our universe, enabling exploration and excavation of far-removed places. Such capabilities are the focus of a number of current educational projects in robotics.

Consider the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million privately funded competition among design teams hoping to send a robot to the moon, where the winning bot will travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to Earth. To get the next generation interested in both robotics and space, the X Prize Foundation has teamed with Google, Lego Systems and National Instruments on MoonBots, a competition inspired by the Google Lunar X Prize. Under the program, small teams of children and adults will use Lego Mindstorms kits to design, program and construct robots that perform simulated lunar missions similar to those targeted by the Google Lunar X competition.


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