My Robotic Friend

We have practiced using simple robotics via the activity 'My Robotic Friend'. This allowed pupils to play around with simple algorithms used to control a human robot.

Pupils were divided into programmers and robots. The programmers were given a set of instruction codes and patterns to attempt to write a programme or algorithm to give to their robot. The robot, not having seen the pattern, then had to follow the code and make a pattern whilst stacking cups, which hopefully matched that of their programmers.