Initiatives aim at getting children and young people interested in robots
It all starts with the notion of building a robot according to your own ideas. What should it be able to do, what should it look like and what is needed to make it work? "The robot is just there for me and can do all that needs to be done in my room: clearing up, watering the flowers and taking care of the terrarium. It should be social and a bit like a pet. It must not harm people. It needs to do anything I say and look after itself." This is how 12-year-old Ronja from Vienna imagines her own, personal high-tech companion. Ronja is one of the pupils who participated in a project by the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) that started in the autumn of 2014. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the research group "Vision for Robotics" developed the educational project "Crazy...