Pleo Progress Lizz Brooks

Overview  Easiest, Coolest, Hardest  Plug and play, programming, sensors  Resources  Secret Weapon  Capabilities & Limitations

Easiest  Easiest: plug and play, documentation  Connecting to the robots and giving basic commands

Coolest  Coolest: programming these robots and their individual sensors to do the tasks we want them to do, also publishing our findings  Going beyond the plug and play functionality  Using them in education and tracking their success  Really interested in publishing work

Hardest  Hardest: using each individual sensor and accomplishing what we want the Pleo to do  Programming the Pleo to do the tasks we want and reach our goal of improving education  Identifying which sensors to use and when

Resources  Even though there may be challenges in this process, there are resources such as  Team mates  Professors  Online resources  Previous researchers

Pleo Outputs  Sensor  Joint  Motion  Sound  Utilizing each of these outputs in an educational tool

Capabilities & Limitations  Capabilities  Durable  Lots of possibilities  Lot of room for research in education  Limitations  Slow moving  Battery life  Getting set up

Secret Weapon  Experience with kids  Creative  Working with teams

Conclusion  Introduction  Easiest, Coolest, Hardest  Secret Weapon  Capabilities & Limitations