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RobotLAB RobotLAB US Inc. is a Silicon Valley technology company formed in 2011 by Elad Inbar that manufactures, designs, and develops digital teaching aids and programs for robots suitable for use in schools and retail businesses.(1)

SCHOOLS

RobotLAB believes that the obvious interest and excitement generated by robots in children can be harnessed to the development of core 21st Century skills like programming and computational thinking. Using advanced robots like Aldebaran Robotics' humanoid NAO, RobotLAB makes abstract math and computer science real to students, by focusing lessons around complex problems which become intuitive through interaction and manipulation of the robots. NAO is also a valuable tool when put to work interacting with those children than interact very little with other humans, children with autism.

RobotLAB’s first product, the RobotLAB Box, launched in 2013 in partnership with Professor Peter Stone at the University of Texas, contains lesson plans and instructional videos for four robots designed as digital teaching aids for math from Algebra to Precalculus. The robots in the Box, Quadcopter, Mustached Rover, Robotic Arm and Robotic Ball, help engage students with the math they are being taught by showing them real-life applications of the math. In 2014, RobotLAB’s Box was awarded a Gold Medal in Education by the prestigious Edison Awards committee. The awards are presented to companies like RobotLAB for “Honoring excellence in new  product and service development, marketing, human-centered design and innovation.”

Math Ball was RobotLAB’s next product. Launched in 2014, Math Ball engages students in trigonometry and precalculus problems while they participate in “shooting hoops” with a “Smart Basketball.” RobotLAB’s Math Ball won a Tech Learning, Best of Show Award presented by the International Society for Technical Education (ISTE) in 2014.

In 2015 the National School Boards Association (NSBA) announced RobotLAB as a winner in the association’s Technology Innovation Showcase. RobotLAB was chosen as being one of a few “Emerging companies of note…” that “offer technology solutions that demonstrate a deep understanding of the challenges faced in K-12 education…”

RETAIL

RobotLAB robots in the retail environment allow retailers to take advantage of relatively inexpensive but highly efficient autonomous digital sales-associates capable of integrating big-data knowledge of consumer behavior with in-store individual customer service. These robots deal effectively with both simple repetitive customer-service inquiries and complex product recommendations as well as expensive labor-intensive duties such as such as inventory taking.

RobotLAB employs PEPPER robots developed by the French robotics company Aldebaran in its retail division. PEPPER, the first robot capable of sensing and responding to human emotion, is already employed as a greeter, information-service source, and sales-associate in retail outlets in Japan and Europe.

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