Bring your robots to life on a big screen

We love robots at Tinybop and know kids do, too. If you ask kids about robots they will sometimes refer to them as both friendly and scary (and sometimes in the same sentence!). Robots are vehicles for kids’ imaginations. Many kids see robots as versions of themselves. Researchers have even concluded that kids’ feelings about robots can inspire learning.

In our exploration of the subject we found hundreds of existing robot apps, but in playing these apps with kids we couldn’t find any that allowed kids to do the two things they really wanted to do: to build their own unique robots and bring them to life. Kids wanted to put arms and legs and heads wherever they wanted, in mad configurations. A kid’s robot might have a dozen arms, two tentacles, and an eyeball. Kids wanted these weirdly configured robots to walk or fly or jump. It turns out that accomplishing these tasks in an app is a meaty and fun problem to untangle.