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Educational robotics (January 2019)
Melany Hernandez de los Santos, 2014-5969
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Saint Thomas Aquinas Campus. Faculty of science
and engineering. Santo Domingo, Rep. Sun.
Summary — In this report we are going to discuss the topic of critical thinking, and this is achieved with children from initial
educational robotics, its concept and how it is applied to students education, which is why we must emphasize educating
of different levels in our country. We will also talk about what children by emphasizing this mentality.
robotics is in the industrial area, how it can be applied to various
industrial processes and various subjects of industrial As future educators, whether we dedicate ourselves to the
engineering. area of teaching or simply to parenting, we must understand
that children do not benefit from information when they are
Keywords — Robotics, education, modernization, automation, simply encouraged to memorize concepts, numbers and
industry, engineering, processes. formulas. And we as educators should not simply be content
with children learning information without putting it into
practice and without processing it.
I. ROBOTICS
We must encourage children to be thinking people capable
BEFORE IMMEDIATELY DELVING INTO WHAT EDUCATIONAL of solving daily challenges and projects, that is, we must
ROBOTICS IS, WE MUST FIRST KNOW WHAT ROBOTICS ITSELF prepare them for a future with a changing society like ours,
IS, AND THIS IS A CONCEPT THAT EVERY PERSON WHO IS which is updated day after day, this is where robotics comes
LIVING IN THE 21ST CENTURY SHOULD KNOW, BECAUSE WE into play. educational.
ARE IN THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGY. AND TECHNOLOGICAL We must also take into account that increasingly in our
DEVELOPMENT, THEREFORE, CONCEPTS LIKE THIS ARE country the number of children who choose to learn activities
IMPORTANT FOR OUR OWN DEVELOPMENT SINCE WE ARE IN that have to do with science and technology is decreasing, and
THE AGE OF AUTOMATION. I think this must be because the majority of children do not
Robotics is a technique that is used to design and develop have the proper exposure to these types of topics from a young
robots or objects that are dedicated to carrying out operations. age.
These devices are generally used in industrial facilities, thus Educational robotics can help children discover their talent
replacing human labor. in the area of robotics technology from an early age so that
they can take advantage of it and acquire basic knowledge
A. Educational Robotics
before entering directly into a career.
According to the high school educational page[1] ,
educational robotics is a discipline that aims to foster an
innovative learning environment for students, where they can B. Robotics at intermediate levels of education
design, develop, program small educational robots and It is assumed that high school students are preparing for
implement different projects that allow them to solve practical what university will be like, therefore, we must equip these
problems and facilitate time at the same time. some learning. students with the ability to face the demands of modern times,
which is why educational robotics is so important for these
II. IMPACT OF THE APPLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL students. They are preparing to launch into the world
ROBOTICS AT THE BASIC AND MIDDLE LEVELS OF tomorrow.
SCHOOLS. According to the high school page[1] , students who
participate in the educational robotics environment present
We can see that educational robotics is a technique that
achievements such as:
allows the student to get to work, that is, the student has to
create something and make this something work.
1) They develop strategies for solving problems.
In our country there is a culture that classes must be a lot of They use the scientific method to test and generate new
theory and that is why there is a culture among students of hypotheses about the solution, experimentally and naturally.
''bottling'' things, that is, simply memorizing the class and 2) Build a technical vocabulary
depositing all this knowledge in an exam or test. and They build a vocabulary related to new technologies and
immediately after the test, forget all this knowledge. construct their own conceptions about the meaning of each
With educational robotics it is impossible for the student to object they manipulate.
simply memorize the class because to put robotics into 3) They develop the capacity for collaborative work
practice a quantity of prior knowledge is needed that the It is taught so that students learn to work as a team and
student must know completely so that their product works in make decisions, clarifying, discussing and respecting the ideas
the end. of others.
A. Robotics at basic levels of education
In our country it must We must encourage creative and
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C. Educational robotics in the country carry out a more exact process than human labor. It also helps
Consequently, we can realize that educational robotics in us reduce the times of these processes, that is, if we integrate
the country brings many benefits for the generations that are robotics into our production we will have a shorter production
ascending, we will have students who are more prepared not time than if we have human labor.
only in knowledge but also in the ability to face day-to-day We can highlight that production costs would also be
considerably reduced, because human labor must be paid
situations.
continuously, while robotic machinery must only be
maintained within a set time.
Different ways in which robotics can be used in industrial
III.IMPACT OF ROBOTICS IN THE FOURTH processes are robotic handling of products, picking, process
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION verification, robotic extraction, pick and place, polishing,
According to Costantini[2] Robotics will enter the modern packaging and palletizing, quality control, assembly,
era with the same force as the steam engine did in pre- machinery supervision, screwdriving , laboratory tests and
industrial times. analysis, gluing and welding.
Artificial intelligence is something relatively new for us, but
it has had a very strong exponential growth in recent years. V. PUCMM INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PENSUM
We can see technological developments such as 3D printers SUBJECTS AND HOW THE EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS
and drones that are booming in the world and are becoming PROCESS WOULD BE USED.
objects. even for daily use or personal use for many people. A. Algorithms and programming
We are in a society that advances a lot and quickly, which is
In robotics, everything that is programming is used, it is one
why we see things changing drastically in even less than a
of the essential parts of robotics because a robot frame without
decade. the internal part that would be all the software would not
According to Costantini[2] At the last World Economic really have much use, therefore, programming is a subject
Forum in Davos, a study was presented that estimated that the important for educational robotics.
so-called fourth industrial revolution, after steam energy,
electricity and electronics, would end more than 5 million jobs B. Electricity and magnetism
in the 15 largest countries. industrialized countries of the This subject is very important for robotics since robots
world. obviously work with electrical energy, therefore, this must
Many people understand that all this industrialization is also be taken into account for educational robotics.
going to end absolutely every type of employment that exists, C. Newtonian mechanics
but if we look around us there are still people working,
This subject focuses on what movement is, so obviously
because we are still needing service. Most services can never
movement is an important part of robotics.
be replaced by robots, although there are some that can.
What this gives us to understand is that each of us needs D. Statistical quality control
another type of education to be able to counteract the wave of As we saw previously, robots can be part of quality control,
unemployment that will occur when this fourth industrial therefore, it is also important.
revolution is at its peak.
E. Industrial processes
How do we prepare them? Well, by educating ourselves
beyond the machines, instead of wanting to be the people who As we saw previously, robotics is an important part of
operate them, we must want to be the people who build them industrial processes, which is why it is also important because
and provide maintenance to them, and in this way our jobs it brings us many benefits.
will never be affected in this new era.
We must also train ourselves in planning the use of these F. Manufacturing engineering
machines, how, when, where and why they should be used. This subject focuses on how to design parts and this is an
Learn from these machines so that the knowledge we have is important part of robotics.
beneficial both in the sense of the company itself and its
planning, and also for what robotic labor is. G. Design and development of products
When we are going to design a product we must be clear
IV. INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES IN ROBOTICS about how we are going to carry it out and whether we are
going to use labor or we are going to use robotics to support
We know that industrial processes are increasingly more
us.
automated, therefore we as industrial engineers must know
this more than anyone else, therefore, we must not only worry
about robotics being taught in basic and secondary education
in schools and schools, but we as professionals must also train
ourselves in this area.
Robotics contributes a lot to industrial processes, it can help
us have much more efficient industrial processes, since robots
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VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
[1] Bachillere, «Bachillere,» 01 Septiembre 2010. [En línea]. Available: http://www.bachillere.com/2010/09/%C2%BFque-es-la-robotica-
educativa/. [Último acceso: 24 Enero 2019].
[2] L. Costantini, «Los robots, la cuarta revolucion industrial,» El Pais, 08 Febrero 2016.
