Sthymuli: a Static Educational Robot. Leveraging the Thymio II Platform

TL;DR

This paper introduces Sthymuli, a static educational robot built on the Thymio II platform, aimed at enhancing classroom interactions and providing a new approach to robot-assisted education.

Contribution

It presents the design and development of a static educational robot using Thymio II, offering a novel platform for exploring classroom interactions beyond traditional wheeled robots.

Findings

Sthymuli is designed to facilitate new classroom interactions.

The Thymio II platform provides a robust benchmark for comparison.

Future work includes further development and testing.

Abstract

The use of robots in education represents a challenge for teachers and a fixed vision of what robots can do for students. This paper presents the development of Sthymuli, a static educational robot designed to explore new classroom interactions between robots, students and teachers. We propose the use of the Thymio II educational platform as a base, ensuring a robust benchmark for a fair comparison of the commonly available wheeled robots and our exploratory approach with Sthymuli. This paper outlines the constraints and requirements for developing such a robot, the current state of development and future work.