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WEROB - Workshop on Educational Robotics
(an event co-located with the RoboCup Symposium 2025)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. July 21st 2025
The use of robotics for educational purposes has been pursued for a long time and has become a trend that continues to gain popularity each year. Several factors have contributed to such a situation, including the availability of developmentally appropriate and less expensive robotics kits and individual components as well as the proliferation of robotics competitions for the pre-university levels. As a consequence, robotics started to be incorporated into classrooms and lessons and has become an educational tool for teaching concepts in a broad range of areas, from electricity and mechanics to programming, mathematics, physics, etc.
In this workshop, we aim at bringing together teachers, mentors, and students from schools, clubs, community centers, and educational institutions offering formal and informal educational robotics learning opportunities, to discuss their experiences and current practices using robotics. This workshop hopes to also provide a place to share relevant projects and discuss specific technical issues that may arise in different learning settings as well as the impact of robotics in education.
Topics of particular interest to this workshop
- Impact of educational robotics on student learning
- Impact of educational robotics in the community
- School projects involving robotics
- Specific use of robots to promote the understanding of STEM concepts
- Techniques to build robots
- Innovative use of sensors or new technology
- Science of mentoring/facilitating robotic teams/learning
- Integration of AI including machine learning into educational robotics
- Showcase of students (teams) accomplishment with robotics, especially in RoboCupJunior leagues (selected by the League Committees)
Types of presentation
- Mentor/teacher presentation of their research and/or practice (20 min)
- Students/team presentation of their accomplishment (showcase, 15 min)
- Hands-on workshop to introduce or teach new robotics ideas/tools (1 hr)
Important dates
Submissions
Papers to WEROB can be submitted HERE. The paper size can be from a single page (extended abstract) to a maximum of 6 pages, containing text, figures, tables, references, acknowledgments, etc.
All submitted papers must be in PDF, written in English, in a single column and following the template that you find under “Important downloads for authors” in Springer/conference-proceedings-guidelines. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the program committee.
Final submission should be minimum 3 pages and maximum 6 pages. We will post all accepted papers and their presentations on the RoboCupJunior website under the resources page (https://junior.robocup.org/resources/).
Registration
- Participants registered in the RoboCup competitions can attend the Symposium and WEROB free of charge.
- For those interested in attending the Symposium (and co-located events) only, we offer the following registration fees:
- Faculty and Staff: 380 USD
- Students: 245 USD
Schedule
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Title |
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8:00 – 8:45 |
Registration |
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8:45 – 9:00 |
Plenary Welcome |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote |
Dra. Iolanda Leite (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Robots (Still) Need Humans in the Loop |
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10:00 – 10:45 |
Coffee break + Poster (session 1) |
• RCJ Soccer Open – ZG 24 Robotics • RCJ Soccer Lightweight – Lovbot Legends • RCJ Rescue Line – Airborne • RCJ Rescue Maze – B.Robots • RCJ Rescue Simulation – Caeti UAI • RCJ Rescue Simulation – Speshari |
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10:45 – 12:00 |
Workshop – MathWorks |
MathWorks Hands-on Workshop Modeling and Simulating Robots in Simscape – Batteries and motors: Learn how to accurately represent real-world batteries and motors in your simulations. – Designing the Powertrain: Discover how to model wheels, gears, and robot kinematics for precise motion and control. – Simulating Realistic Behavior: Observe how your robot’s battery performs and analyze the robot’s overall behavior as it follows a predefined route using Stateflow. – Advanced techniques implementation: Real-time parameter tuning, data logging, and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Panel |
The future of RoboCup |
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14:30 – 15:15 |
Oral presentation |
• The impact of cognitive, affective, and social aspects on students using robotics in the classroom • Omnidirectional drive in Junior leagues: Asymmetric Configuration |
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15:15 – 16:00 |
Coffee break + Poster (session 2) |
• RCJ Soccer Open – Team Faabs • RCJ Soccer Open – LNX Robots • RCJ Rescue Maze – MakerLab Elite |
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16:00 – 17:40 |
Oral presentation |
• MakerLab Rescue Robot Debugger: Enhancing Robot Development with Visual Odometry and Debugging • Teacher Education and Strengthening of School Robotics Teams in Paraíba • A Methodology to Introduce Robotics to High School Students • Brazilian Robotics Olympiad (OBR): Scaling STEAM Education as the World’s Largest Robotics Contest • Promoting Computational Thinking by Teaching Robotics |
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17:45 – 18:00 |
Closing notes |
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Venue
The Workshop on Educational Robotics will be held on 21 July 2025, in conjunction with the 28th RoboCup International Symposium and RoboCup25 (July 15 to 20, 2025) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
The event will take place at Salvador Convention Center (CCS), room 107A
5490 Av. Octávio Mangabeira
We are looking forward to seeing you at WEROB!
Program Committee
- Adam Pinto
- Amaury Castro Junior
- Amy Eguchi
- Andrique Amorim
- Carla Fernandes
- Cintia Aihara
- Kelen Teixeira Vivaldini
- Lidia Rocha
- Roseli Aparecida Francelin Romero
- Sarah Rossiter
- Shaun Callender
Organization
- Luis José López – Federación Mexicana de Robótica, Mexico, llopez@tecnovanguardia.com
- Marek Suppa – Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, marek@suppa.sk
- Tatiana Pazelli – Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, tatianapazelli@ufscar.br
