Digitization has practically revolutionized almost all domains of human life and necessitates reinvention of the existing pedagogy of education. Advances in technology have been used to further enhance the sectors like healthcare, travel, communication, and education. Education has been one of the sectors that demand engaging processes that can enhance the curiosity of children and in this robotics has played a crucial role in recent times. In the arena of robotics, children get into a whole new world of opportunity where there is a need for out of the box thinking combined with problem-solving, critical thinking, logical reasoning, and programming. Students can develop their algorithms and programs and test them practically. Learning with experimentation can help in understanding concepts better and retaining them.

Technology and gadgets have been the core attraction of kids these days and robotics fuels their interest and keep them engaged while improving their ability to learn things since it has been a known fact that learning with practical models and skills improves the output. Apart from keeping kids interested in learning, engagement with robotics can help students in higher levels of education to decide their interest and inclination towards Sci & Tech and programming and help them to improve their skills and aptitude in it.

It helps in building computational thinking and also promotes an interdisciplinary approach by strengthening STEM education. In addition to all of these sectors where robotics can be a boon, it has also been seen that robotics has played an immensely important role in special education wherein chronically or terminally kids can’t have access to classroom education and thus robots help them to attend classes. There have been instances where kids have a normal interaction with fellow mates and learn whatever is taught in the class by operating a robot from wherever they are.

Apart from early education, higher education or special education robotics also enables students to develop skills that help them to integrate better with society, in that, it develops their interpersonal communication skills while inculcating in them values like perseverance, determination, and discipline. It enables independent thinking and builds confidence to attempt innovations and learn from subsequent attempts at improving. 

For instance, Kaspar, a doll-like humanoid helps teachers and parents support kids who have autism or other communication difficulties. VEX Robotics aims to interest students in STEM by teaching them to build and program robots. Tega is a social robot and social robots are meant to promote interaction between humans and robots. 

While human intelligence can’t be substituted with anything it has been a great achievement that artificial intelligence can be used in lessening the manual work and performing it with greater accuracy and precision. Robotics is one of the many means that enable education for the future. The inclusion of robotics in education can bring in a plethora of educational benefits ranging from cognitive abilities to soft skills. Moreover, it would also prepare the next generation for taking technological advancements to an even higher level.