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Here is the second part of our interview with Didier Roy. To read the first half, it’s over here ! Génération Robots : Why do you think the Thymio 2 has been so successful among children and the Dessine-moi un robot site with teachers and coordinators? Didier Roy : As far as the Thymio robot is[…]
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Schools in the 21st century are gradually incorporating new technologies into their curricula and educational tools. Digital and robotics do have a great deal to offer in the classroom, as they increase pupils’ motivation and help reduce inequalities and academic failure. We interviewed Didier Roy , a researcher in the INRIA Flowers team and maths[…]
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More and more, robots play a role in the performances arts . Off course, some types of robots are used more frequently than others, because of their shapes or functionalities. “Medical” and “consultations” are not the first words that come to mind when we think about the double telepresence robot, but some ingenious people decided to show[…]
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State education in France is on the brink of a major revolution. Increasing numbers of work groups, proposals and initiatives are today contributing to the creation of more innovative schools. Innovative schools: the new government flagship In early November, François Hollande launched the Plan pour le numérique à l’école ( Plan for Digital Technology in Schools[…]
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As you’ll have already gathered from reading our earlier postings, Thymio II is quite a versatile mobile robot . You can of course use it to teach people about programming, but that’s not all! This mobile robot, created by the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, can also serve as a digital paintbrush. For[…]
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Wie bereits bekannt, ist der Thymio II ein recht wendiger mobiler Roboter , der sich gut zum Erlernen der Programmierung eignet. Er kann jedoch noch weit mehr! Denn der vom renommierten Polytechnikum von Lausanne (EPFL) entwickelte , mobile Roboter kann auch als digitaler Pinsel zum „Malen“ digitaler Bilder eingesetzt werden. So lassen sich mit Thymio 2[…]
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1.4 metres tall, weighing 36 kg, capable of recognising faces, walking and grasping objects – please meet Romeo, the Nao robot’s cousin! The Romeo robot was unveiled in a world exclusive at the Innorobo 2014 event , in which Génération Robots has participated since 2011. For the moment it is still only a research prototype[…]
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Humans have always turned to nature in search of the inspiration they needed to create new inventions and make technological progress. From the Shinkansen, that famous Japanese high-speed train whose design was inspired by the kingfisher, to the new Speedo swimsuits made of a material imitating shark skin, not forgetting the aeroplane and Velcro®, our[…]
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Generation Robots , who will be presenting the Baxter collaborative robot by Rethink Robotics is one of the 200 bâtisseurs pour demain who are going to assemble from 4 au 7 décembre 2014 in the central concourse of the Grand Palais. This event, organised at the initiative of Osons la France (France, let’s be daring!), will[…]
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Génération Robots gets new Twitter profiles: English, German and French As the European specialist for service robots, and already having a trilingual website, we decided to take it a step further and go the extra mile for our English-speaking and German-speaking communities ! We just created two new Twitter accounts : one in English ([…]
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