<h3>Share your children's work</h3><p>After watching the animation, please share your children’s creative ideas with us on social media using #TechWeCan, or email them to us at <a href="mailto:info@techshecan.org"><strong>info@techshecan.org</strong></a></p>

Katie and Tex Explore Robotics and AI Tech File

Robotics and AI Tech File

<p>In simple terms, a robot is any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort. Robots come in all shapes and sizes - sometimes they look like humans and sometimes they don’t! Robots perform many different tasks and can often do these faster and with more accuracy than a human.<br><br>Robots can be guided externally by a separate device or they might have controls embedded within them. Most robots are now using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. AI refers to a machine's ability to think, learn and adapt to different situations like a human. It’s already used in many areas of our lives such as personal assistants - like Alexa and Siri - in autonomous cars, and to track our online shopping habits.&nbsp;<br><br>Robots combined with AI are known as ‘AI robots’. AI robots - such as our character, Tex - learn to perform their tasks as a result of humans coding and programming them. They then use ‘machine learning’ to adapt and change what they do to get better at it. AI robots are currently used in places like hospitals, restaurants, manufacturing and recycling.&nbsp;<br><br>There are often fears that robots will take over people’s jobs in the future. While this may be true for certain jobs, robotics will also create new jobs and free up time for people to work on more ‘value-add’ activities by making time-consuming processes more efficient. Automation and robotics will continue to advance in the years ahead so it’s important for children to understand the need for people to work in technology to design, create and control the robotics technology of the future.&nbsp;</p><h3>The challenge</h3><p>In the animation, Katie asks children to have a go at designing their own robot - especially one which can help others in some way. She asks them to create an image of their robot and label it to explain how it works.&nbsp; We’d love to see your students' or children’s creative ideas, so please do share them with us (see below) and we’ll get back to you with feedback.</p>

Katie and Tex explore robotics and AI

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