Robotics Studio project
How can my kid design their own robot pet?
Your kid designs a robot dog on paper, then builds it in Kubrio's Robotics Studio: four legs, sensors, a battery, and their own paint and ears. They program it with command tiles to find the ball and bring it home, and the finished robot gets its own page.
The robot's job
Play fetch: chase the ball and bring it back.
What your kid actually makes
A four-legged robot pet in 3D that walks, trots, and plays fetch. The design starts on paper: ears, a tail, horns, lights, or a screen face, and the photo of the drawing picks matching parts from the kit. The robot walks with a real gait, and it only stands if its weight sits over its feet.
How a sitting goes
Your kid sees the job (play fetch), picks a name, and draws the robot. In Build, every part gets its own screen with one line on what it does, so your kid chooses legs, feet, and sensors knowing why. In Program, they line up the tiles, press play, and watch the robot run each line. If the program is wrong, the robot says what went wrong.
A first robot pet takes one or two sittings.
What AI does, and what your kid does
Your kid draws the robot, picks every part and the paint, and writes every line of its program. The AI checks the drawing photo is safe and reads it to suggest parts from the kit, so the 3D robot looks like the drawing. Your kid can change every suggestion.
What they're really learning
Robot design is choices with trade-offs: longer legs are faster but less steady, and a heavy battery has to sit in the middle. Your kid also learns the core loop of programming, find, act, repeat, by watching the robot follow their steps.
How it goes, step by step
- 1
Design it
Your kid learns the job, names the robot, and draws it on paper, then snaps a photo.
- 2
Build it
Four legs, feet, sensors, the battery, the look parts, and the paint, one screen at a time.
- 3
Program it
Three jobs with tiles like Find the ball, Bring it home, and Again.
- 4
Test and premiere it
Your kid watches it play fetch, drives it, and premieres it to its own page.
Draw it first
Learn more about robots
Parent questions
Does my kid need to know how to code?
No. Programs are big command tiles in the robot's own words, a few lines long. Your kid drags them into order and watches the robot do each one.
Who sees my kid's drawing?
The photo of the paper drawing stays private: it never appears on the robot's public page, on share cards, or to visitors. The premiered 3D robot gets its own page, where visitors can watch it work and drive it.