Robotics · lesson 6 of 30 · free

Robots in factories — Robotics for kids

Factories use robot arms for jobs that must be done many times, exactly the same way: welding car bodies, spraying paint, placing tiny chips on boards, packing boxes and checking parts with cameras. Conveyor belts carry the parts from one robot to the next, and fences keep people out of the arms’ reach. Because robots work at a steady rate, factory sums are simple: boxes packed = boxes per minute × minutes.

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Robot tip

Per minute × minutes — “a robot that repeats a job at a steady rate: total = rate × time”

  1. Total = rate × time (6 boxes a minute for 5 minutes = 30 boxes).
  2. Time = total ÷ rate (60 bottles at 10 a minute = 6 minutes).
  3. Change minutes to seconds when the rate is per second: 2 minutes = 120 seconds.

Use it for: Lessons on factories and industry, understanding how cars and phones are made, and multiplication word problems.

Worked example: 🏭 A robot arm packs 6 boxes every minute. How many boxes does it pack in 5 minutes? → 30

  1. It packs 6 boxes in each of the 5 minutes.
  2. 6 × 5 = 30 boxes.

Check: 30 ÷ 6 = 5 minutes ✓

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