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The City School 2021-2022

6.1. Introduction to Robotics

Robotics is becoming increasingly important at all levels of education and a variety
of educational robots have been developed. Each robotics set comes with detailed

instructions on how to set up your robot and how to program it to follow specific
commands. Then you can make changes to the robot by adding or removing parts

and can change the program to do whatever you like!

6.2. Getting Started with Edison

Edison is the perfect tool to help learn and teach
coding, robotics and STEAM (science, technology,

engineering, arts and mathematics) in a fun and
engaging way. Edison is a programmable robot. It

is suited to learning basic concepts and complex
processes as it supports block-based & Python

programming. Edison can expand its features as it
is compatible with LEGO® building blocks, providing

unique capabilities to create new robotic models. It is also equipped with different
sensors to understand its environment and interact with it.

Meet Edison

Edison robot is LEGO brick compatible on four of its sides, has a removable skid and

two removable wheels and includes a range of built-in sensors. Familiarity with your
robot will allow you to create an incredible range of robotics and coding projects.

Edison’s sensors, buttons and switches

To use Edison, you’re going

to need to know where all of
Edison’s sensors are

located and become familiar with
the robot’s three buttons.

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