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Strategic Partnerships for school education 2019-1-PL01-KA201-065137
Project: Teacher4.0 - comprehensive method of implementation of Industry 4.0
concept into didactic practice in primary and secondary schools

Collaborative Robots do not have to be expensive
Learning outcomes

This module aims to develop basic skills for the construction of mechanisms that can give rise to
collaborative robots. The purpose of these robots is to facilitate teachers in their educational
practice, in turn also facilitating the motivation of students in their learning process, in the context of
Industry

• 4.0. The specific objectives of this module are the following:
• Develop competences of project work in group;
• Self-regulate the students' learning process;
• Identify the difference between the concept’s robots and collaborative robots;
• Know the purpose and function of algorithms;
• Understand and apply basic block programming language;
• Develop programmed robotic mechanisms.

Introduction

Robots and Industry 4.0

The theoretical part will focus on two important aspects. The first refers to the concept of what is
meant by collaborative robots in industry 4.0 learning. The second refers to the possibility of using
and building collaborative robots in an inexpensive way.

Robots are starting to enter our daily life and are present in several activities that were previously
performed by people. For example, nowadays, when we travel on motorways, payment management
is done by robots. Other examples can be found in banks or hospitals, where people's routing can
also be performed by robots. In other words, there is an increasing proximity between these
sophisticated electronic entities and people, and there is a need to introduce a broader
understanding of how this communication takes place. When that communication and interface
takes place directly between robots and people, when performing shared tasks, we are talking about
collaborative robots. This is the theme we will address, where robotic collaboration fits into the
mediation that these mechanisms have in facilitating Industry 4.0 learning in primary and secondary
education. Let's start this subject by going a little deeper into what we mean by Industry 4.0.
According to Wikipedia (https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ind%C3%BAstria_4.0), industry 4.0 refers to
the concept of "intelligent factories" which operate with interconnected systems, in the form of an
increasingly holistic network, only possible with the globalization of communication systems, through
the Internet and Artificial Intelligence. Industry 4.0, also known as the fourth industrial revolution
(see figure 1), was only possible with the so-called digital revolution (industry 3.0), which emerged

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