Mission
Our mission is to make the world excited about the beauty, the fun, the importance, and the challenges of robotics and AI, through learning experiences that are tangible, accessible, and inclusive.
We achieve this mission by designing freely-available robotics platforms and curricula for all levels of education, and promoting their use in the world.
Robotics and AI
Beauty
Fun
Importance
Challenges
The beauty and the fun
AI and robotics are the most beautiful disciplines – it is mankind’s attempt at creating artificial creatures that think and act like us.
And it is fun to see robots go!
The importance and the challenges
AI and robotics will change our world. Everybody should understand the possibilities, the current status and how much is left to do.
Learning experiences
Tangible
Accessible
Inclusive
Experiences
Although we organize activities, coordinate donations, and develop tutorials for the Duckietown platform, this is just a means to an end: we care about the experience it enables.
Tangible
We believe that to learn robotics you have to be able to touch a robot. We learn by handling and doing.
We join the maker spirit with the academic spirit: the experiences are fun, but there is also a path of academic learning.
Accessible
We strive to promote access to the Duckietown platform by organizing free educational and scientific events and activities such as the Duckietown massive open online course and the AI Driving Olympics.
Inclusive
We promote a broad understanding of the effects of robotics and AI in society, and we want to reach previously underserved geographies and demographics.
We use donations from benefactors to bring the Duckietown experience to communities that could not otherwise engage with it.
