Abstract
The World Robot Summit (WRS) Junior Robot Category’s School Robot Challenge provides an opportunity for school-age children to learn to program the Pepper robot, a sociable humanoid robot offered by SoftBank Robotics, Inc. to realize their ideas for living with a social robot in school. This paper presents a preliminary investigation on the programming performance of the participating teams in the School Robot Challenge. The data for the pilot study was collected from the WRS 2018 Junior Robot Category’s School Robot Challenge held in Tokyo, Japan in October 2018. Analysis of the programming performance of the participating teams at WRS 2018 Junior School Robot Challenge indicates that having access to Pepper, the standard platform robot, does not guarantee the success of the teams in terms of achieving higher rankings. Although it is not clear what contributed to the success of the teams, there are some indications that access to the standard platform robot before the competition and the programming experience have some influence on the teams’ performances. Further investigation is needed to determine what contributes to the teams without access to the sociable robot becoming successful with its programming.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Boyd, J.: Sony unleashes new Aibo robot dog. In: IEEE Spectrum. IEEE (2017)
Carman, A.: Sony’s robot dog Aibo is headed to the US for a cool $2,899 (2018). https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/23/17773084/sony-aibo-dog-us-release-robot. Accessed 23 Dec 2018
Vogt, P., et al.: Child-robot interactions for second language tutoring to preschool children. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 11(73), 1–7 (2017)
Kennedy, J., et al.: Heart vs hard drive: children learn more from a human tutor than a social robot. In: The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016). IEEE, Christchurch (2016)
Oh, K., Kim, M.: Social attributes of robotic products: observations of child-robot interactions in a school environment. Int. J. Des. 4(1), 45–55 (2010)
Hood, D., Lemaignan, S., Dillenbourg, P.: When children teach a robot to write: an autonomous teachable humanoid which uses simulated handwriting. In: The Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, Portland (2015)
Diyas, Y., et al.: Evaluating peer versus teacher robot within educational scenario of programming learning. In: The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. IEEE Press, Christchurch (2016)
Wong, C.J., et al.: Human-robot partnership: a study on collaborative storytelling. In: The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. IEEE Press, Christchurch (2016)
Arnold, L.: Emobie™: a robot companion for children with anxiety. In: The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. IEEE Press, Christchurch (2016)
Shamsuddin, S., et al.: Initial response of autistic children in human-robot interaction therapy with humanoid robot NAO. In: IEEE 8th International Colloquium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, Melaka (2012)
Tapus, A.A., et al.: Children with autism social engagement in interaction with Nao, an imitative robot: a series of single case experiments. Interact. Stud. 13(3), 315–347 (2012)
World Robot Summit - Junior Category Competition Committee. Junior Category - School Robot Challenge: Rules and Regulations (2018). https://worldrobotsummit.org/download/rulebook-en/rulebook-School_Robot_Challenge.pdf. Accessed 12 Dec 2018
de Jong, M., et al.: Towards a robust interactive and learning social robot. In: The 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Stockholm (2018)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Eguchi, A., Okada, H. (2020). Young Roboticists’ Challenge - Future with Social Robots - World Robot Summit’s Approach: Preliminary Investigation. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_29
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_29
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-26944-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-26945-6
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)