Kickstarter is collecting money for a robot for children, teaching the basics of programming

The American company Dexter Industries from the city of Reston (Virginia) has developed a system for teaching programming for children, called “GoBox”. Training takes place with the help of the GoPiGo modular mini robot and open source code for it.

“ Today, every parent wants his child to learn programming. However, the learning process is often tedious and tedious. We want to change that. Therefore, we decided to develop a fun and exciting method of studying robotics , ”said in the welcome video of this crowdfunding campaign.


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The emphasis in training is on the gradual improvement of the provided robot through monthly missions. Every month during the year, the GoBox owners will receive assignments designed as interesting stories from the life of the robot. In addition, a new device for improvement (for example, a motion sensor or a video camera) and instructions for changing the program code will be added. However, the developers promise not to stop at twelve tasks, further training will be available on an inexpensive subscription. Thus, the child must be involved in the learning process at all times.



Scratch is used to program the robot, a language developed by MIT specifically for small programmers. The authors of the project insist that even parents who are absolutely not familiar with the basics of programming can work with their child with the help of GoBox.



10 days before the end of the campaign, GoBox has already collected more than one hundred thousand dollars with the requested thirty. So, most likely, the next innovative method in school education is to be!