Robotics · lesson 7 of 30 · free

Robots in space and medicine — Robotics for kids

Robots explore places that are too far or too harsh for people. Planet rovers drive slowly over rocks, taking pictures and testing soil; radio messages take minutes to reach them, so they drive themselves between commands. Under the sea, robots map reefs and check pipes in the dark. In hospitals, a surgeon controls a surgery robot that turns big hand moves into tiny, steady tool moves, and delivery robots carry medicines from room to room.

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Robot tip

Where people cannot go — “robots go where it is too far, deep or delicate — with people in charge”

  1. Distance = speed × time: 5 cm every second for 60 seconds = 300 cm.
  2. A message there and back takes 2 × the one-way time.
  3. A surgery robot that scales moves by 3 turns a 12 mm hand move into 12 ÷ 3 = 4 mm.

Use it for: Science lessons on space and the human body, news about planet missions and speed–distance–time sums.

Worked example: 🚀 A planet rover drives 5 cm every second. How far does it go in 60 seconds (in cm)? → 300

  1. Distance = speed × time.
  2. 5 × 60 = 300 cm.

Check: 300 cm = 3 m — slow, but safe on rocky ground ✓

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