Robots for kids missing school

: Published: Saturday, 25 November 2017

It’s so exciting seeing our robots make a difference in the lives of others. Six-year-old Freyja has a suppressed immune system, so coming into contact with other kids puts her life at risk. Our robot, Teleport, appeared on ABC News and the Project recently, showcasing Freyja going to school remotely, to give her the social experience, without making her sick.

freyja robot teacher
(ABC News: Jon Healy)

If you know a child with cancer, longterm illness or disability missing school, get in touch and we may be able to supply them with a robot to go to school remotely, free of charge, with the robots generously provided by Missing School.

Here are the media mentions for you to see the robots in action:

The ABC’s Facebook post is here (over 130k views):
https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au/videos/10157645132279988/

The ABC online article (with embedded social media piece) is here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-21/robo-classroom-helping-educate-seriously-ill-canberra-girl/9176204

Channel 10’s The Project (Thursday night). It starts at 1’45:
https://www.facebook.com/TheProjectTV/videos/10155114988643441/

Well done, Missing School, on your amazing mission, work, and for making this happen!

freyja robot class
(ABC News: Jon Healy)

About Me

Marita Cheng Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.

I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.

Subscribe

Random Articles

Australian of the Year Awards 60th anniversary
My last, large, in-person networking event I went to in Australia since before the pandemic was the 60th anniversary celebrations for the Australian of the...
Insights from another student entrepreneur…
Kieran O’Neill started up holylemon.com, a sight that shows funny videos, funny movies and funny videoclips when he was 14, and sold it for US$1.25...
One meeting can change your life
Go out and make those connections, meet people, have conversations. It may land you a dream job. My friend got an engineering internship in China by...
Delegating to not go crazy
If you're delegating tasks and then pulling your hair out over it, then you're probably not doing it right. Anything that's insanely great requires a team...
Ogilvy
A lot of successful entrepreneurs dropped out of school (Richard Branson) or university (Bill Gates). But Ogilvy, who went on to become a famous ad...
Do what's hard
In Robogals, I always looked for the hardest possible thing to do. And then I did it. Because I knew that if I could achieve that, then I would...
Losing focus
From an organisational point of view, it's better to focus on doing a small number of things right, than a large number of things wrong. In...
10 million
My goal with my blog wasn't to reach 10 million views. (And it hasn't.) My goal was to learn discipline: making myself contribute to the world each...
The stars won't align
I was thinking and plotting and planning my startup. When to begin. Was it too early? Was the market ready? Would I waste my time? Would I waste my...
Shell Eco-marathon Asia Wrap-up
It was a whirlwind of a week in Malaysia at Shell Eco-marathon Asia. The air was constantly buzzing with intense excitement and anticipation, mixed...