When I was working at Texas Instruments in Austin some 45 years ago the company had 'line-following robots' deployed to deliver the mail. A similar technology is being employed her to study gamification in learning. It might not seem significant, but I link to it to point to what will probably be the growing importance of robotics in learning - not as 'robot teachers', but as tools that can be created and used by students to develop a more meaningful, and as the article (19 page PDF) suggests, constructivist form of learning.
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