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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Robolink.The webinar recording can be accessed here.Are you looking for ways to bring real-world relevance and career readiness into your classrooms? Join Dr. Beth Green, leader of the Advanced Career initiative at the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), and the Robolink team for this edWebinar to explore how hands-on learning with drones can help educators transform traditional instruction into high-impact, career-connected learning.Discover how SREB's project-based learning curricula and Robolink's classroom-ready drones equip students with technical and academic critical-thinking, communication, and collaboration skills that align with future workforce needs. In this edWeb podcast, you learn how to:Integrate drones into Advanced Career pathways to boost student engagement and skill developmentUse hands-on, project-based learning in middle school and high school classroomsStrengthen workforce connections across industries like aerospace engineering, aviation, agriculture, transportation and logistics, construction trades, law enforcement, and moreAccess resources for teacher training in all of the aboveThis edWeb podcast is of interest to middle and high school teachers, instructional coaches, school leaders, and district decision makers.RobolinkRobolink creates robotics and edtech solutions that equip students with skills for STEM careers.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.
This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Robolink. You can access the webinar recording here.Want to give your students a hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology? This edWeb podcast focuses on how CoDrone EDU and similar STEM drones can be used to teach students the basics of drone piloting and introduce them to the exciting world of coding. We explore the step-by-step process of learning to fly, from pre-flight checks and basic maneuvers to advanced flight techniques. We also delve into how to leverage drones' programmable features to teach students coding concepts, enabling them to create autonomous flight patterns and complete complex tasks. Discover how leading drones' intuitive controls, safety features, and coding capabilities create a supportive learning environment!This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers for upper elementary through high school, as well as librarians, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders.RobolinkRobolink creates robotics and edtech solutions that equip students with skills for STEM careers.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.
This episode is sponsored by Brisk Teaching. To learn more and get started, visit www.briskteaching.com. After a whirlwind of edtech, learning strategies, and the hustle of the expo hall at TCEA 2025, we decided to mix things up with a fun, lighthearted challenge—EdTech & Food Trivia!
Hansol Hong, CEO and Founder of Robolink, talks about his company's impact in the nation's largest K-12 drone competition. Hong chats about Robolink's focus on STEM education and future job creation.
HIGHLIGHTSFounding Robolink to make technology fun and approachableTesting in an after school program and perfecting product market fitMarketing with Kickstarter and winning the 2019 CES Innovation Award Fostering community, online camps, and robotics clubsQUOTESHansol: "We were testing our product every single day with our students, so that's why when we actually released our janky product prototype, and then when that went to the market, it had a really good product market fit."Hansol: "We think about the marketing as, okay, how do we actually make the most impact? And then actually create the social responsibility for our company too because we're an educational company."You can connect with Hansol in the links below:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansolhong/Website - www.robolink.comKickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robolink/buildy-bots-zero-screen-time-coding-and-robots-for-kids-5
How can a five-year-old program a robot? Very easily--as long as they're having fun. And that's exactly what San Diego-based educational startup Robolink has just made possible, with their new robotics kit, Buildy Bots! As Robolink CEO Hansol Hong explains in our current episode, Buildy Bots allow young creatives to build ten different robots. And then--without a computer screen--kids five to eight years old can use an ingenious "block" system to get their creations to move, light up and make sounds. Since 2012, Robolink has been creating highly imaginative robotics kits for students. Over time, their operation has grown to include robotics classes, robot camps and a virtual community. Over the years, we've had the pleasure of learning about the Rokit Smart, Robolink's first product. Then about the CoDrone, their programmable drone. And, in 2019, Robolink introduced "Zumi"--the first educational self-driving car robotics kit! Buildy Bots represents another exciting innovation: Robolink's first robotics kit for younger students, ages five to eight. At the time of our conversation, Robolink was completing a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for Buildy Bots. Ultimately, the campaign garnered five times their stated goal amount. While Robolink will currently be humming with activity, fulfilling the promised Kickstarter orders by Christmas, 2021, Hansol says that the next batch of kits should be available in early 2022. Hansol shared the story of Buildy Bots, explained how young students can make the new creation work and offered his perspectives on the current educational robotics market. On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover: The story of Buildy Bots; How Buildy Bots work; How Robolink's summer-camp students tested the Buildy Bots prototypes; The story of Robolink, which celebrates its tenth anniversary next year!; A closer look at Robolink's other educational robots, including CoDrone and Zumi; An exciting award which Robolink received; What Hansol and his team find most rewarding, in their creative journey as innovators!
An Over Coffee® special-edition podcast Robots used to be the stars of sci-fi. Today they show up all over the place. They can be fun, educational, or literally lifesaving. Over the years of producing Over Coffee®, we've had the privilege of seeing some incredibly cool robots. Here are just a few personal favorites--and the ways you can get involved with them. In this week's podcast, we take a look at the Robotics Society of Southern California. One of the world's first robotics societies, RSSC started in the 1970s! Boardmembers Alan Timm and Walter Martinez talk about their projects, which include the InMoov robot, the world's first life-sized 3D printable robot. There's an exciting enhancement: Walter created one which he could move through brain waves. And heads-up: nonprofit RSSC is having free virtual meetings, the second and fourth Friday of every month! You're invited: here's the link for more information. Next, we explore the Zumi robot, which is a kit created by multiple award-winning educational software startup Robolink. Robolink CEO Hansol Hong and his team have designed Zumi to teach students--middle-school to high-school age--how to work with artificial intelligence. Last, but certainly not least, is a look at sustainable robot P.E.T.E.R., which Pleasant Robotics CEO and Founder Gabriella Pleasant created. P.E.T.E.R. is a biodegradable robot which purifies water! On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: What two boardmembers of Robotics Society of Southern California created with 3D printers; Factors that enable RSSC to create more fun robots inexpensively; How brain waves moved a robot!; What a conversation with a humanoid robot could be like; How Robolink came to create an AI robot for students; How Robolink's latest educational robot, Zumi, works; Why Zumi is effective (hint: she's had some very tough critics!); The story of the P.E.T.E.R. robot; How Gabriella designed P.E.T.E.R. to help create a more sustainable planet.
Over Coffee® is headed for CES® 2020! Here is one of our top podcast episodes from CES® 2019. What if you could teach a child how to program an autonomous vehicle? Thanks to San Diego-based educational technology company Robolink, that was not a hypothetical question. At CES® 2019, in Las Vegas, we saw Robolink CEO Hansol Hong. Robolink creates educational robot platforms for students, grades K through 12. For CES® 2019, they had just launched another brand-new robotics kit: Zumi. And Zumi, which is an autonomous-vehicle robot kit, is designed to teach kids of all ages how to program a self-driving vehicle! Hansol and his staff have designed the kit to make artificial intelligence understandable for kids, and us "bigger kids". When we spoke at CES® 2019, Robolink had just launched their Kickstarter campaign for Zumi. Hansol said they raised $20,000 during the first day of the campaign! (They would go on to raise $150,000, according to Robolink's website--tripling their Kickstarter goal of $50,000.) And--Zumi had also won a "Best of CES®" award! Zumi shipped in mid-2019. According to Robolink's Facebook page, Purdue University listed her in their "Engineering Gift Guide" for the Christmas season. But no matter how many other honors Robolink receives for excellent (and fun!) products, they may never have a better accolade than when we first met at the 2015 Orange County Mini Maker Faire. At the time, Hansol and Sebastian Sanchez were exhibiting Robolink's twelve-robot kit, Rokit Smart. A small boy, near the display, began to wail. He was crying so loudly that we turned to see what disaster had occurred. The problem? It was time to go home, his father was taking him to the car--and he didn't want to leave the robots! Our previous conversations with Hansol include a look at the Rokit Smart kit--and at Robolink's innovation for CES® 2016, the CoDrone. We can only hope Robolink may be exhibiting at CES® 2020--because we can't wait to see what they'll come up with next! On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: What the new educational kit, Zumi, can do for students; Why Zumi is a female robot!; How Hansol and his crew found out about the Innovation Award; How Zumi works, for two different groups of students; The development process which Hansol and his team employ, prior to marketing any robot; What Hansol considers to be the most important lesson he has learned, as an educator and innovator, while creating his robotics kits.
Robolink 홍한솔 대표 인터뷰는 2019년 3월 7일 미국 동부시간 10시, 서부시간 7시에 진행하였습니다.
이번주 진행 쪼박 1. 조강의 4 cents - Haven (Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan), and Voice Assistants 2. 이주의 픽! Robolink의 홍한솔 대표 인터뷰 2부는 목요일에 업로드 됩니다. 의견 dr.chogang@gmail.com 만세!
Robolink 홍한솔 대표 인터뷰는 2019년 3월 7일 미국 동부시간 10시, 서부시간 7시에 진행하였습니다.
이번주 진행 강박 개편!!! 공지를 참조해 주세요 :) 1. 조강의 4 cents - Fedex Sameday bot, Lyft(Uber), and Tesla 2. 이주의 픽! 이번주 Robolink의 홍한솔 대표 인터뷰는 목요일에 업로드 됩니다. 이번주 Digital Healthcare Partners의 최윤섭 대표님과의 인터뷰가 예정되어 있으니 질문은 저희 이메일이나 페이스북 페이지에 남겨주시구요. 조강의 4 cents 의견은 dr.chogang@gmail.com / facebook page 로 부탁드립니다. 만세!
이번주 진행 쪼박 1. 조강의 4 cents - Mobility, Foldable Smartphone 2. 조강의 한놈만 팬다 인터뷰 - 클래스 101 공대선 2부 3. 이주의 픽! 다음주는 Robolink의 홍한솔 대표의 인터뷰가 기다리고 있습니다. 미국 샌디에고 기반의 로봇기반 교육기업 홍한솔 대표에게 궁금하신 점 있으시거나 조강의 4 cents 의견은 dr.chogang@gmail.com / facebook page 로 부탁드립니다. 만세!
In this special San Diego Startup Week 2019 Series Episode Darin Andersen and guest host Eric Westreich (creator of The Big Story Studio) speak with Dr. Henrik Christiansen, Director the UCSD Contextual Robotics Institute and Hansol Hong, CEO and CoFounder of Robolink and organizer on the San Diego Robotics Club. We discuss San Diego as a robotics powerhouse and organizing “Autonomous Vehicle Valley” and efforts to put together the Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle ecosystem in Southern California. There are lot of interesting historical facts about the autonomous vehicle market in the region as well as ideas about how to bring regional organizations such as SANDAG, the City of San Diego, and other cities from Los Angeles and Orange County into the discussion.
The educational technology company Robolink is coming out with a new robotics platform for teaching kids the fundamentals of programming artificial intelligence (AI). Hansol Hong is the CEO and Founder of San Diego-based Robolink. Hansol discusses their latest AI education product Zümi, which won an award at the 2019 International Consumer Electronics Show for innovation. Hansol also talks about their Kickstarter campaigns, the ethics of AI in self-driving cars, drones, and more. Related to this episode: • Robolink: https://www.robolink.com/ • Kickstarter for Robolink's Zümi: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robolink/driving-into-the-world-of-ai-zumi • Rokit Smart Robot kit” https://www.robolink.com/rokit-smart/ • Arduino microcontroller: https://www.arduino.cc/ • CoDrone: https://robolink.myshopify.com/products/codrone • Erector Sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set • UC San Diego: https://ucsd.edu/ • OLED screens: https://www.oled-info.com/oled-introduction • Herbie the Love Bug: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083428/ • Raspberry Pi computer: https://www.raspberrypi.org/ • TensorFlow Keras for training learning models: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/keras • Three Laws of Robotics from Isaac Asimov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics • “The truth behind Facebook AI inventing a new language,” an article written by AI CTO Roman Kucera: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-truth-behind-facebook-ai-inventing-a-new-language-37c5d680e5a7 • OpenCV for machine vision: https://opencv.org/ • NGSS = Next Generation Science Standards: https://www.nextgenscience.org/ • Common Core Standards: http://www.corestandards.org/ • Udacity courses on AI: https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-artificial-intelligence-nanodegree--nd898 • MOOC = Massive open online course • CES convention: https://www.ces.tech/ • Best of Innovation Award at CES 2019: https://www.ces.tech/News/Press-Releases/CES-Press-Release.aspx?NodeID=df3a115a-ef2a-4aa5-bde1-333397b96973 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.
San Diego-based educational robotics firm Robolink is looking ahead. With a sense of fun and play, CEO Hansol Hong keeps coming up with new robotics kits to educate tomorrow's generation of roboticists. His latest? A robot called "Zumi", which is a female robot and geared towards young girls! And she's designed to teach her users to code autonomous vehicles through AI! Routing algorithms, ethics and deep learning are all a part of the skills Zumi teaches. Zumi's Kickstarter program launched at the start of CES® 2019, and will continue through March 9th. Zumi's Kickstarter program reached its $50,000 goal within the first week, according to their Kickstarter page. At this point, pledges received have more than doubled that goal--and counting. We've had the pleasure of covering Robolink's previous innovations since the 2015 Orange County Mini Maker Faire. So far, we've seen the Rokit Smart kit--which enabled future roboticists to build a dozen robots... ...and the CoDrone, a 2016 kit which allowed users to program their own drones in about ten minutes. As we walked into CES® 2019's Robotics and AI pavilion, Hansol was the first exhibitor we saw, at his Zumi booth. And he was displaying another new award, for his latest creation! (The CoDrone, in 2016, won a finalist award in CES®' "Last Gadget Standing" competition.) "How cool is that," was our initial reaction. Even more so, when we learned that the goal is to teach the young creators how to program self-driving vehicles! Hansol's newest innovation won a "Best of CES® Innovation" 2019 award at the Las Vegas show in January. From the floor of the "Robotics and AI" hall, Hansol shared the story of Robolink's newest robot, his goals for the future and how Zumi works. On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: What the new educational kit, Zumi, can do for students; Why Zumi is a female robot!; Hansol's experiences with Kickstarter for Zumi, and when the kit will be available; How Hansol and his crew found out about the Innovation Award; How Zumi works, for two different groups of students; The development process which Hansol and his team employ, prior to marketing any robot; What Hansol considers to be the most important lesson he has learned, as an educator and innovator, while creating his robotics kits.
At ShowStoppers in Las Vegas, we catch up with CEO Hansol Hong of Robolink, who demonstrates Zumi, their CES Innovation Award-winning product that helps kids learn about things like programming, artificial intelligence, and self driving cars. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
At ShowStoppers in Las Vegas, we catch up with CEO Hansol Hong of Robolink, who demonstrates Zumi, their CES Innovation Award-winning product that helps kids learn about things like programming, artificial intelligence, and self driving cars. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen and PDFpenPro, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone, PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac and TextExpander for iPhone and iPad, as well as the new TextExpander for Windows. Great software to help you get more done. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he's doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
Techstination interview: Robolink will add autonomous car to STEM kits for kids: CEO Hansol Hong