PopBots: Early AI Education

Team

Randi Williams Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab

Hae Won Park Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab

Cynthia Breazeal Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab

Publications

R. Williams, HW. Park, C. Breazeal, "A Is For Artificial Intelligence" In Proceedings Of The CHI Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (2019).

R. Williams, HW. Park, L. Oh, C. Breazeal, "PopBots: Designing An Artificial Intelligence Curriculum For Early Childhood Education", In EAAI Symposium (2019).

PopBots: An Early AI Curriculum for Young Children

The PopBots Platform is a tool to introduce young children to programming, robotics, and artificial intelligence by allowing them to build and program their own robots. Children teach and learn from an interactive social robot to explore three AI topics: rule-based expert systems, supervise machine learning, and generative music algorithms.