{"id":250,"date":"2015-10-02T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/?p=250"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:33:33","slug":"robot-books-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/2015\/10\/robot-books-for-kids","title":{"rendered":"Robot Books for Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0545833450\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0545833450&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=being0d6-20&amp;linkId=CO43Z4Q3Q5BL5RBU\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0545833450&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=being0d6-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wow, so many things to share!\u00a0 Five months ago our son was born, and now our research is showing up in kids books everywhere! I&#8217;m really excited about this, and the opportunity to inspire future generations of robotics engineers and researchers!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially pleased by the newest book published by Scholastic: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/books\/really-robots-by-susan-hayes\/\">Really? Robots<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; I contributed a section on our robots, helped edit the overall book, and wrote the forward. It is a fun and inspirational book with an overview of many different types of robots and how they function. Besides the joy of inspiring future generations of robot builders, I&#8217;m also honored by the credit they have given me:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-251 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ReallyRobots_cropped-1024x267.jpeg\" alt=\"ReallyRobots_cropped\" width=\"450\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ReallyRobots_cropped-1024x267.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ReallyRobots_cropped-300x78.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ReallyRobots_cropped.jpeg 1828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=being0d6-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0545833450\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And before I even had my own copy of the book I got a request for an autograph from my first fan!\u00a0 I ended up inviting Lilly to visit our lab so that she could see the robots in person.\u00a0 It was delightful to see how excited she was from the experience, and I hope it inspires her to think more about robots and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-253 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3606-e1646893913193-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/quest\/2015\/10\/01\/engineering-is-exploring-space-with-shape-shifting-robots\/\">KQED published a blog post about our research and our collaboration with UC Berkeley.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a great article, and is geared at inspiring elementary school kids. They are working on an e-book for science teachers to include in classroom education, and so I&#8217;m excited to see that coming out soon.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the blog post, they made this really excellent video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YtHrcmZoXsc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1457183633\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1457183633&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=being0d6-20&amp;linkId=3YWBP3B247L6YFRG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1457183633&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=being0d6-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=being0d6-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1457183633\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAnd finally, if all this inspirational content is enough to excite a young engineer into action, another book was recently published on Making Simple Robots! This is a great book with simple instructions and includes a project for making a tensegrity robot!<\/p>\n<p>So, all together, it is really joyful to be finding ways to share the inspiration of our robotics research with students from all age groups &#8212; from post-docs to pre-school! Enjoy, and please share these resources with the young engineers and curious learners in your life!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Update: There is another kids book that I helped with that has been published, this one on Space Exploration and the Solar System.\u00a0 In this case my role was a fact checker for the primary author, Susan Hayes, verifying that the facts she included were correct.\u00a0 It is a really fun book called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.red-bird.co.uk\/publishing\/detail\/space-adventure\">Space Adventure<\/a>&#8221; and is a bit of an activity book too, with tear out pages to make things, stickers, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/space.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-361 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/space.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/space.jpeg 322w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/space-228x300.jpeg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, so many things to share!\u00a0 Five months ago our son was born, and now our research is showing up in kids books everywhere! 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