Doodlebot, a mobile social robot for hands-on AI education. An age-appropriate programmable artifact and pedagogical agent that supports students' learning.
Publications
Williams, R., Ali, Safinah., Alcantara, R., Burghleh, T., Alghowinem, S., & Breazeal, C. (2024). Doodlebot: An educational robot for creativity and AI literacy. Manuscript submitted for publication.
We crafted Doodlebot as an educational robot for classroom use by primary and middle school teachers and students (ages 6 to 14). To enhance its cost-effectiveness, we equipped it to serve multiple use cases and to support teaching several AI topics.
Doodlebot is a personified agent capable of perceiving and expressing social behavior as it interacts with users. Its onboard camera allows it to engage in first-person interactions with users, leveraging object recognition, affective computing, and speech recognition models processed on its host device. Doodlebot can also perform autonomous navigation. When used with overhead cameras, it is capable of multi-agent coordination.
Finally, Doodlebot is as a drawing robot. It is capable of drawing simple shapes and engaging in interactive drawing activities with users.
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