RIE2026: ROBOTICS IN EDUCATION 2026
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, April 15th Thursday, April 16th Friday, April 17th

Wednesday, April 15th

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10:10-11:20 Session 1.1: Education Objectives
10:10
Curiosity-Eliciting Questioning Strategies in Robot-Assisted Pitch Training: An Experimental Study (abstract)
10:30
Robo4Ever - an interdisciplinary Approach to integrating Future Skills into Higher Education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Christine Roch
10:50
Reflections and Recommendations on Design, Implementation of Learning Activities and Assessment of Target Competences in Educational Robotics Contexts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Brigitte Denis
11:30-12:50 Session 1.2: Early Robotics Education
11:30
Educational Robotics in a STEAM Laboratory: Pre-Adolescent Students’ Perceptions of Science (abstract)
PRESENTER: Maria Brembilla
11:50
Design and Assessment of Activity-Based Educational Robotics for Skill Development in Pre-School Children (abstract)
12:10
From Control to Strategy: Navigation Skill Emphases in FIRST LEGO League (abstract)
12:30
Content validation of an observation-based tool embedded in robotics workshops to support early alert of learning difficulties in primary school children (abstract)
13:50-15:00 Session 1.3, Track A: Off Topic?
13:50
A LEGO-based Robotic Harmonograph for Visualising Lissajous Curves (abstract)
PRESENTER: Attila Körei
14:10
Automated Task Analysis and Visual Robot Programming for Education of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (abstract)
14:30
Educational Robotics in Rural Education: The Impact of Insect-Inspired Robot Competitions in a Quasi-Experimental Study (abstract)
13:50-15:00 Session 1.3, Track B: Audiences
13:50
From Novice to Practitioner in Two Weeks: A Qualitative Study of Intensive Industrial Robotics Education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Haris Mashood
14:10
One Workshop, Three Contexts: Assessing Advanced Software Robotics Training across General, Professional, and Academic Audiences (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jorge Beltrán
14:30
EduRob: Teaching Mobile Robots at Universities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Heß
15:10-16:20 Session 1.4: Remote Robotics Education
15:10
RoboEdu: A Remote Robotics Education Environment for Learning ROS 2 (abstract)
15:20
Telepresence Robot-Mediated Teaching in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Student Perceptions Across Two Cohorts (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tiina Kasuk
15:40
Global Virtual Classroom for Robotics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Beate Baltes
16:00
Evaluating Student Engagement in Telepresence-Based Remote Teaching (abstract)
Thursday, April 16th

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09:50-11:20 Session 2.1, Track A: Competitions & Challenges
09:50
From Competition to Classroom and Back: Integrating robotics competitions into university robotics education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aron Lapp
10:10
Unpacking Problem-Solving Strategies of Proficient Teams in the Robotics Competition (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kavi Arya
10:30
Aerial Robotics with AI Vision: Promoting Engineering through STEAM Challenges (abstract)
10:50
A Crossed Arm Voxel Network for Humanoid Robot-Human Interaction in Magic Performances (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jacky Baltes
09:50-11:20 Session 2.1, Track B: Frameworks
09:50
Intelligent Tutoring System at Unibotics web framework for teaching robotics engineering (abstract)
10:10
Learning with pyCub: A Simulation and Exercise Framework for Humanoid Robotics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lukas Rustler
10:30
A Generic Reinforcement Learning Framework to Map Human to Robot Motions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xuzhe Dang
10:50
Teaching AI to Middle School Students: A Qualitative Analysis of Hands-On Robotics Workshops (abstract)
PRESENTER: Clément Lavenu
11:30-13:00 Session 2.2, Track A: Projects
11:30
Bots and Blocks: Presenting a project-based approach for robotics education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tobias Geger
11:40
From Assembly to Engagement: Improving Open-Source Robots to Inspire Early STEM Interest (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mark Suppelt
12:00
Coordinated Swarm of Drones in Indoor Environment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pavel Petrovič
12:10
Rusty Flying Robots: Learning a Full Robotics Stack with Real-Time Operation on an STM32 Microcontroller in a 9 ECTS MS Course (abstract)
12:20
Robotics and Robots: A Paradigm-based MOOC Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Robotics Education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mario Selvaggio
11:30-13:00 Session 2.2, Track B: Platforms
11:30
Teaching Computer Vision for Robotics in Higher Education with Unibotics Web Platform (abstract)
11:40
Smart Cameras for Educational Robots (abstract)
PRESENTER: Richard Balogh
12:00
Emio: A New reconfigurable parallel continuum platform for sharing, teaching and hands-on activities on soft robotics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Manuela Otti
12:20
Pico4Drive: A novel development board customized for small robot prototyping (abstract)
PRESENTER: José Gonçalves
14:00-14:30 Session Messages: Messages and Teasers
14:00
STEM Education Initiatives of the Teacher Education Institution: An Institutional model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jwala Thomas
14:09
On the Multidisciplinary Process in Robotics in Precision Agriculture (abstract)
PRESENTER: Uzi Rosen
Friday, April 17th

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09:50-11:20 Session 3.1, Track A: Machine Learning
09:50
Teaching Machine Learning Fundamentals with LEGO Robotics (abstract)
10:00
Introducing Machine Learning to Middle-school students with Edge-AI in an educational robot (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laura Cesaro
10:20
Hands-on Robotics and AI: A School-Integrated Internship (abstract)
10:40
Integrating Institutional AI in Higher Education: A Case Study for First-Year Students. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Richard Balogh
09:50-11:20 Session 3.1, Track B: Assessment
09:50
Assessment for Learning, Quality Interactions, Feedback and Educational Robots (abstract)
10:10
From Sensors to Optimization: Evaluating a Progressive AI-Robotics Curriculum for Vocational Education (abstract)
10:30
A Chronological Assessment of Educational Robotics Research in Pre-Kindergarten Settings: Advancing Early Literacy and Numeracy Skills Through STEM (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fredrick Hicks
10:50
Introducing Robotics with a Cobot Digital Twin: Evaluation of a teaching unit for secondary education in pilot status. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marcus Kotte
11:30-12:40 Session 3.2, Track A: Course Design
11:30
Developing a Flipped, Interactive Mobile Robotics Course for Computer Science Students (abstract)
11:50
Construction-Based Robotics-The Next Generation- Learning From the Past to Support Future Success in the Elementary Robotics Classroom (abstract)
12:10
Integration of Robotics Education in Non-Robotics Curricula (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jens Lüssem
11:30-12:40 Session 3.2, Track B: Going Beyond
11:30
What Do Teachers Need? A Mixed-Methods Study on Robotics and AI Integration in European Secondary Schools (abstract)
11:50
μ-Learn: A Lightweight, On-Device Machine Learning Library for Educational Robotics Platforms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Fusaro
13:40-14:40 Session 3.3: Human-Robot Interaction
13:40
Welcome to the Machine: Experiences From a Hands-On HRI Course (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jakob Suchan
13:50
Anticipating breakdowns with Kaspar: can children predict potential problems when interacting with a humanoid social robot? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sílvia Moros
14:10
Toward a Didactic Framework on Scientific Teaching in HRI: The Scientific HRI Didactic Framework (SHRI-DiF) (abstract)