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Cubetto
Cubetto
Suggested Year Bands: Foundation/ Pre-Primary
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Cubetto is a wooden robot that uses wooden shapes to explore simple algorithms. The control board has a number of shapes representing directions and this is used to program the wooden robot. Cubetto comes with a series of mats for children to take on coding adventures.
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Bee-bot
TTS: Bee-bot® programmable robot
Suggested Year Bands: Foundation/ Pre-Primary
The TTS: Bee-Bot® Programmable Robot is a programmable floor robot.
Programming buttons include forward, reverse, right turn, left turn, clear pause and go. These easy to use programmable robots provide opportunities for teaching sequencing, directions and problem solving.
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Blue-bot
TTS Blue-bot® bluetooth programmable robot
Suggested Year Bands: Years 1-4
Images credit: © TTS: Blue-Bot® Bluetooth Programmable Robot
The TTS: Blue-Bot® Bluetooth Programmable Robot like the TTS: Bee-Bot® Programmable Robot is a programmable floor robot, similar to the TTS: Bee-Bot® Programmable Robot but has more built in capability including the ability to turn in increments of 45 degrees as well as being able to perform repetitions in programs. The TTS Blue-Bot® Bluetooth Programmable Robot has a clear casing to see the internal structure.
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Pro-bot
Pro-bot
Suggested Year Bands: Years 3-4
Pro-Bot is a programmable floor robot that can be used as a Bee-bot with simple forward and backward type commands but is also designed for more complex controls. You can program the robot using Logo programming language. The Pro-Bot connects to your PC or Mac with a special USB cable.
Terrapin Logo 4 contains commands to upload all procedures stored on the Pro-Bot to the Logo workspace, where you can edit these procedures, run them, and download them to the Pro-Bot again.
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Codey Rocky
Codey Rocky
Suggested Year Bands: Years 3-6
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Codey Rocky is an educational robot that teaches basic programming through an array of interactive features but can also be changed to python at the click of a button. It has programmable electronic modules including sensors, LED displays and an infrared receptor that can be used to programme a range of functions.
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Ozobot
Ozobot
Suggested Year Bands: Years 2-6
Ozobot is a tiny robot that uses a color code language to navigate. Ozobots use sensors to follow tracks which can be printed or hand drawn or constructed using the app. The OzoBlockly app is a visual programming language for the robots.
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- App:OzoBlockly (iOS or Android)
- App: Ozobot Evo companion
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Sphero
Sphero
Suggested Year Bands: Years 2-8
Sphero is a robotic ball that can be controlled and programmed (visual programming language) using a smartphone or tablet. A smaller and more affordable Sphero Mini is also available. As well as other versions such as the Sphero BB-8, and Sphero Ollie.
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- App: Sphero Edu (iOS & Android)
- App: Tynker (iOS & Android)
- App: Swift Playground (iOS)
- Sphero Sprk, BB-8
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Edison
Edison
Suggested Year Bands: Years 3-9
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Edison is a robot which is Lego compatible, easy to program and has built-in programs that are activated by driving over downloadable barcodes. Can also program in General Purpose Programming language.
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Dash & Dot
Dash & Dot
Suggested Year Bands: Years 3-6
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Dash & Dot are programmable robots. They connect via Bluetooth with built in sensors to respond to voice and navigate objects. Users can program them via Blockly and other apps. Dash and Dot also speak Chinese, English, German, and Korean for the Blockly and Wonder apps.
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Cue
Cue
Suggested Year Bands: Years 5-8
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The Cue robot is a programmable robot that includes features such as emotive AI, sensors and bluetooth capabilities that can follow multiple directions at the same time. It can be programmed using the block or JavaScript.
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Kai's Clan
Kai's Clan
Suggested Year Bands: Years 3-12
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Kai’s clan brings a variety of exciting modern technologies to your lessons, such as multiplayer coding, internet of things (sensors), augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics and so much more!
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- Kai's Clan cloud: Multi-player Blockly/Scratch style block coding, with built in projects and lesson plans. Includes Java script with Python coming soon. Built in 3D viewer.
- Kai’s Eye Robot Tracker: Smartphone app to track robots on the adventure mats. (iPhone app available November 2019)
- Kai’s Clan Virtual Viewer for IOS: Watch your code come to life in augmented or virtual reality app.
- Kai’s Clan Virtual viewer for Android: Watch your code come to life in augmented or virtual reality app.
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AR VR Adventure Mats: With Kai’s Clan you can add-on any of the following 3D, AR, VR adventure mats.
Smart City, Rescue Run, Automated Warehouse and Mars Discovery. Each mat comes with multiple lessons.
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Kai's clan have over 35 lesson plans available for teachers varying from Junior, Intermediate, Advance and Expert levels.
- Rescue Run AR/VR Adventure Mat – 4 lessons
- Mars Discovery AR/VR Adventure Mat – 12 lessons
- Automated Warehouse AR/VR Adventure Mat – 7 lessons
- Smart Cities AR/VR Adventure Mat – 5 lessons
- Busy Bee – 8 lessons
- Learn to Code – 10 lessons
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Codrone
Codrone
Suggested Year Bands: Years 4-8
Images credit: © Robolink
CoDrone is a small drone that can be programmed using Snap! or Arduino. The Pro version comes with a remote control that can be built and programmed. The CoDrone is designed to fly inside large rooms.
Check out flying regulations for your area before purchase.
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Wink
Wink
Suggested Year Bands: Years 7-10
Images credit: © Plum Geek Robotics
Wink is an Arduino-based robot designed to help transition students from graphical programming to more powerful written code languages.
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Tello
Tello
Suggested Year Bands: Years 7-8
Tello's is a lightweight drone (80grams) however despite its weight it is quite durable and has been designed with software and hardware protections.
Also available for Tello, Tello Edu is a mobile programming app that supports Scratch. Students can command Tello to perform corresponding movements by dragging coding blocks on their smart mobile device.
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