STEM and robotics

Robots in class, from age three to university.

Screen-free coding for the youngest, real robot arms for teens, industrial cobots for college and university students. At our campus or on your site.

No screen until Grade 3.

The ladder

Six rungs, one robot family.

  1. 01 · Ages 3 to 8

    Coding with blocks and floor robots

    Pre-KG and early primary

    Two children kneeling on a wooden floor, seen from above and behind, placing chunky red, yellow, green and blue coding blocks in a row beside a small domed wheeled robot on a printed picture mat

    Children place real blocks in a row to program a robot, then drive a floor robot across maps for reading, maths and science. No screen and no reading needed.

    Education robots

  2. 02 · Ages 8 to 12

    Sensors, cameras and first Python

    Upper primary

    A child seen from behind at a classroom desk facing a laptop that shows a coloured block-coding editor, with a small circuit board lit by a red LED matrix and a camera module on the desk beside it

    The move from blocks to code on screen. Sensors, an LED matrix, and a camera that spots faces, colours and tags.

    Education robots

  3. 03 · Grades 6 to 9

    AI kits and real robot arms

    Middle school

    A small white desktop robot arm on a classroom bench above a short conveyor, a camera on a stand looking down at it, a laptop to one side and a pair of hands placing a wooden block in its path

    Machine learning, speech and self-driving on a modular kit. Then a real four-axis desktop arm with a conveyor, a rail and a camera.

    Compact and desktop arms

  4. 04 · Grades 10 to 12

    Six-axis cobots and machine vision

    Secondary

    A white six-axis collaborative arm on a classroom bench beside a window, reaching over a tray of wooden blocks with a vision camera on a post alongside and a monitor of control software behind

    Python, pick and place, grippers, vision and mini assembly lines on a real six-axis cobot. Factory skills at classroom size.

    Collaborative arms

  5. 05 · Vocational

    Operator skills on industrial cobots

    Technical and TVET colleges

    A college training bench with no fencing around it, a white collaborative arm reaching over a small benchtop milling machine towards a tray of machined metal parts, and two gloved hands in the foreground holding an industrial teach pendant, with pegboards of hand tools along the wall behind

    Machine tending, palletizing, welding and screwdriving cells, taught by drag-to-teach on the same cobots used on the line. Ends with the DOBOT Certificate.

    Work cells

  6. 06 · University

    Engineering courses and research platforms

    Engineering and research

    A university research bench carrying a robot arm under a camera rig, an oscilloscope and two monitors of plotted data behind it, with cable looms running along the bench edge and no one in the room

    Cobot programming, vision and force control for engineering and computer-science degrees. Final-year projects and research on humanoids and data-collection rigs.

    Humanoids

Why the first two rungs have no screen

The screen is a change of tool, not the start of the subject.

Programming is putting steps in order, repeating them, setting a rule and finding the mistake. None of that needs a screen, and at three, four and five years old a screen gets in the way of it. So the first two rungs are blocks a child can hold and a robot that answers straight away, on the floor, in front of the class. When the screen arrives in Grade 3, drag-and-drop is the screen version of the blocks they already know, and Python is the words version of the drag-and-drop.

The argument

The same software from the coding mat to the cell.

Every rung runs on one robot family with one software family and one Python API. A child who taught a desktop arm by hand in Grade 6 is doing what an operator does on a factory floor, in the same software, using the same words for the same parts. That is why a school lab, a college cell and a production line can all be supplied, taught and serviced by one team.

Formats

Who it runs for.

For families

Weekend terms and summer camps at the Abu Dhabi campus.

Kids and teens

For schools

Robotics clubs at the school, term programmes on your site, and teacher training.

Robotics labs for schools

For colleges and universities

University short courses, operator certification, the DobotLab platform and the DOBOT Certificate.

University and vocational labs

Questions

What parents and schools ask.

Is a three-year-old really programming a robot?+

Yes, without a screen. They place physical blocks in a sequence and the robot follows it. Sequencing, cause and effect, and fixing a mistake are the whole of programming at that age.

Are the teen cobots real industrial robots?+

Yes. Six-axis collaborative robots from the same family factories run, at classroom size, with the safety that lets them work next to people.

Does the ladder lead to a qualification?+

Badges and a portfolio through school, and the DOBOT Certificate on the vocational operator track.

Can a school run this without a robotics teacher?+

Yes. We train the existing staff and co-teach the first term.

The ladder is the argument for the whole company: one robot family from the coding mat to the factory cell.

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