Recent Press:
May 14, 2008 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: At CMU, Building Fun Toys That Also Teach
Feb 26, 2008 WTAE Plugged In: CMU's Robotic Toys
April 3, 2008 O'Reilly Radar
April 7, 2008 The Tartan: Children Experiment with roBlocks
April 1, 2008 Mumbai Mirror: roBlocks Ahead
Academic Papers:
2008 Schweikardt, E. and M. D. Gross, "The Robot is the Program: Interacting with roBlocks" TEI 2008: Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Bonn, Germany, ACM Press.
2007 Schweikardt, E. and M. D. Gross, "roBlocks: Understanding Emergent Complexity from the Bottom Up" RSS 2007: Robotics Science and Systems Workshop on Research in Robots for Education, June 27-30, 2007, Atlanta, GA.
2007 Schweikardt, E. and M. D. Gross, "A Brief Survey of Distributed Computational Toys" DIGITEL 2007: The First IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, Jhongli, Taiwan.
2007 Schweikardt, E., "Envisioning the Robot Design Studio" CHI 2007 Workshop: Supporting Design Studio Culture in HCI, San Jose, CA.
2007 Schweikardt, E., "Modular Robotics as Tools for Design" in Creativity and Cognition 2007, June 13-15, Washington, DC.
2006 Schweikardt, E. and Gross, M.D. roBlocks: A Robotic Construction Kit for Mathematics and Science Education. in International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2006.
