The issue of a robotics special by the journal Revista Educación y Pedagogía served as the motive for GMV to host on 15 November an event organized by the Spanish Robotics Technology Platform, Hisparob. As well as presenting the robotics special, the event also staged a debate from various viewpoints about robotics, society and education.

The day kicked off with a presentation by GMV’s business development manager, Juan Carlos Llorente, who stressed the importance of phasing technology into education from the very first stages as well as the new job opportunities that robotics technologies will generate.

This was followed by a panel discussion around the theme “The Present of Robotics and Education”, which, from various points of view, weighed up developments since last year’s European Robotics Week. Next came another panel discussion dealing with “The Future of Educational Robotics”, which stressed the importance of instructing teachers about the best ways of phasing technology into the elementary-school syllabus.

In the last part of the day the companies of Hisparob’s Educational Robotics Thematic Group gave a small sample of the materials they work with, displaying the vast potential of this material as adapted to different activities and educational levels. To round things off GMV took the visitors on a brief guided tour of its site, explaining the robotics projects currently underway.

This encounter revolved around a clear idea: the need of all robotics stakeholders to raise public awareness of the importance of robotics, stressing the new job opportunities driven by robotics technology.

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