Researcher wants to teach children to program robots
Robots will not replace people's jobs in the future, rather, they will play supporting roles, says Stefano Nichele Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He would like to see elementary level children learn how to program robots school.
Recently he took along two of his students, MSC student Haakon Haraldsen Roen and PhD candidate Vako Varankian, to show 10-year-old Eskil Selmer-Torgersen how to program a robot.
"In the car we talked that maybe I could take one home," says Eskil, looking at his father. "Well, they are a little on the pricy side," says Eskil's Dad, Espen Selmer-Torgersen. Nichele's robots resemble swarming bees and cost about a hundred euros. They are designed to be programmed by children as young as seven.
