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What makes something a robot? Simple, true robots and ai facts for young children, each with a fun fact, a tiny activity and a question to talk about together.

Tap a question to reveal the answer, share the fun fact, try the tiny activity, then talk about it together.

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What makes something a robot? Revealexpand_more

A robot is a machine that can sense the world around it, decide what to do, and then move or act on its own. It follows a program written by people, but it can react to what it detects, like a robot vacuum turning when it bumps a wall. Not every machine is a robot, only ones that sense and act.

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Talk about itWhat helpful job would you want a robot to do?

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Did you know?There are robots exploring other planets, deep oceans and even inside volcanoes.

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Try itGive a friend three robot rules, like walk forward, turn at a wall, stop at a clap, and watch them act like a robot.

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🤖👁️How do robots sense the world?🧠What is artificial intelligence?📈How do machines learn?

🤖Still curious?What is the difference between a robot and a remote-control toy?arrow_forward

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How do robots sense the world? Revealexpand_more

Robots use sensors, which are like electronic senses, to find out what is around them. Cameras act as eyes, microphones as ears, and touch sensors feel bumps, while some robots even measure distance with beams of light. The robot turns all these signals into information it can act on.

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Talk about itIf you could give a robot one extra super-sense, what would it be?

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Did you know?A self-driving car uses many sensors at once to watch every direction all the time.

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Try itClose your eyes and find a doorway using only touch and sound. That is a bit like a robot leaning on its sensors.

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🤖Still curious?How does a robot know how far away something is?arrow_forward

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What is artificial intelligence? Revealexpand_more

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a computer program that can do tasks that usually need human-like thinking, such as recognising a face or understanding a question. It does not truly think or feel, but it spots patterns from huge amounts of examples and uses them to make smart guesses. People build it and decide how it is used.

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Talk about itWhat is one helpful thing and one tricky thing about clever computer helpers?

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Did you know?The same kind of AI can help doctors spot illness and help you finish a drawing.

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Try itAsk a voice assistant a simple question and notice how it answers. It matched your words to patterns it learned.

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🤖📈How do machines learn?🤖What makes something a robot?👁️How do robots sense the world?

🤖Still curious?Can artificial intelligence make mistakes?arrow_forward

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How do machines learn? Revealexpand_more

Some computer programs learn by looking at thousands of examples instead of being told every rule. To learn what a cat looks like, a program studies many cat pictures until it spots the patterns they share. Then it can guess whether a new picture shows a cat. The more good examples it sees, the better it gets.

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Talk about itWhat is something you got better at just by practising with lots of examples?

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Did you know?This is how a phone can sort your photos into people, pets and places.

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Try itShow a friend five pictures of one animal, then a new one, and see how fast their brain learned the pattern too.

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🤖Still curious?What happens if a learning program only sees bad examples?arrow_forward

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