Kickstarter is in full swing collecting money for a "robocostructor" for children, compatible with the usual Lego

Recently, we already wrote about the robot designer from the company "Dexter Industries", teaching children the basics of programming. And now - a new startup. Inventors from San Francisco have developed an advanced designer for children, called "Robo Wunderkind", consisting of a set of robotic modules that can be connected in any order. Thus, scientists want to instill in children a love of robotics in a fun way.

The developers present their project as “Lego of the Future”, focusing on an infinite number of possible combinations in the process of building structures using their offspring.


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The basis of the invention are replaceable modules, which are of various types. For example: a module with a built-in drive for the movement of the designer, a module with a camera, a module with a sound sensor or movement, and much more. The basis of the design is a dual module, equipped with a 1500 milliamp \ hour battery, Wi-Fi, a speaker and a microphone.



The developers offer two tools for programming your robot. The first is designed for younger children who are still too early to delve into programming. For them, the company has developed a ready application for smartphones or tablets, which will allow you to program the chain of interaction between the blocks by simply dragging the elements on the screen. The application will work on devices for IOS and Android, the development of a PC version is planned to be completed by September 2016.



For older users, the kit will be accompanied by an open source code carrier for the designer, in which they themselves can make all the desired changes to achieve the desired result.



To heighten the effect, the companies have developed a kind of adapter - to integrate their offspring with the details of a famous designer from the company Lego.



For 10 days of the campaign, developers have already raised almost 190 thousand dollars with seventy requested. The first "robots-geeks" should find their owners in July next year. We hope that this project will have a positive impact on the education of the young generation in the field of new technologies.