22nd of October 2010, Milan - Conference SIe-L 2010. Here we present the paper "From reality to abstraction and from abstraction to reality: Educational robotics, a a cognitive tool". It underlines the project Pinocchio 2.0. (Read More)

Two weeks ago the course on robotics for the International School in Genoa was began. Here robotics is emploied both for teaching student science and technology and to improve their communication skill. (Read More)

In the frame of Genoa Science Festival 2010, School of Robotics is involved in five differents events/exhibition, related to the following topics: Educational Robotics classes for children; Roboethics; the Exhibition "From animal's mimetism to robotics"; Robot Wars; and Educational robotics classes in Hospital Schools. (Read More)

Hosted and co-organized by the Technical Institute "Giordani" of Caserta, Italy, and by the Italian Ministry for Education, 18th-21st of October: four days Conference-seminar about Science&Automation: the Robotics Course. Among the many Speakers, School of Robotics' Fiorella Operto, and some of our Colleagues involved in Educational Robotics: Open Doors to Robotics, Schoolnet; Paolo Torda of the Institute "von Neumann", Roma, and the Digital World Foundation. (Read More)

Kids patients in the Hospital School "G. Gaslini" of Genoa (Ped. IV) have agreed on a new challeng: To mechanize their artifacts, inspired by robotics. Here a gallery of pictures showing that they pointed in the right direction. (Read More)

Maurizo Garbati is a Professor of Technology in an Italian middle school. He is one of the first teacher who introduced in Italy microrobotics as technological tool, and wrote a first book, "Laboratorio di Microrobotica". Now, in this new manual, "Robotica Educativa" (Boopen Publisher), which embraces his - and his students' - experiences over the last five years, he works especially on the educational value of the interaction robot-environment. (Read More)

9th of October, 2010: In the Reading Tour 2010, organized by the International Library "De Amicis" of Genoa, Italy, the School of Robotics reads.. robotics stories. What else? :-) At Tensioned Structure, Old Port, Genoa (Read More)

In the frame of BIMU 2010 (5th-9th of October, Fieramilano, Rho, Milan) , School of Robotics introduces participants of Pianeta Giovani to the novelties and benefits of Educational Robotics. Pavillon 9. (Read More)

The Researchers's Night is an important initiative of the European Community, promoting among general public the value of scientific research. This year, 2010, the Night of conferences, seminar, scientific demos will be held simultaneously in over 260 cities in 31 European and Mediterranean countries. The School of Robotics takes part in it in Roma (in collabvoration with the CNR) and Bolzano. (Read More)

17t-19th of September, Cantalupa (Turin, Italy). Donatella Merlo, coordinator of the "Roberta" Network in Piedmont, speaks about some educational robotics applications during her lecture on "New educational technologies". (Read More)