One of the significant sectors affected by this pandemic is Education. At the height of this, schools were forced to close their physical doors, and most had to change to online classes. There was no way to know for sure when schools could reopen. However, after a long wait, schools are slowly reopening and allowing students to return to school. While the circumstances are different now, every precaution is being taken to ensure students’ and teachers’ safety. With all these uncertainties lurking, we still hope for the education community and especially the robotics community, to flourish and spearhead new technological innovations that will shape the future. To make our contributions, we want to support the Robotics education community by providing our humanoids robots with rental services to support all your project needs and our robots at a special price.
Our two flagship humanoid robots, NAO and Pepper, have received numerous accolades since their inception such as IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation, and are being used in the top universities, including the University of Hertfordshire and their Bold Hearts RoboCup Team, The University of Tokyo, The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, University of South Wales and Montana State University to name a few.
NAO is a specialized education tool, designed to be extremely user friendly, easy to program, and has infinite possibilities. On the other hand, Pepper, because of his versatility and technological breakthroughs, not only has applications and use in Education but also in Ph.D. research such as cognitive sciences, A.I., Human-Robot interaction, and so forth.
Our robots help integrate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) into the curriculum at the earliest stages possible. STEM is often regarded as the future of education and its early inclusion in curriculums is proving to be revolutionary. Adding robots to the classrooms provides students with opportunities to learn more about STEM subjects in a fun way, guide their own learning, and discover many possible career paths they may have perhaps never considered. The inclusion of robots in the classroom has proven to have many positive psychological effects on both students and teachers as observed by a study done by The Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA).
Our robots form the basis of a cross-curriculum activity. This ideal resource can be used to teach: Mathematics, Scientific principles, Design, Technology, Computer programming languages, over 20+ spoken languages such as English, French, Spanish, etc. The list goes on. In short, there are endless possibilities for what one can achieve from our autonomous robots.
To better help integrate more STEM in the curriculum and allow more schools to try our robots, we are pleased to inform you that we have launched our first-ever Back to School offer! This offer consists of specially crafted packages for Academia.
Highlights of SoftBank Robotics Europe Back to School offers are:
1. Rental Services: Meet your project/research requirements with our new rental services.
- Explore our rental options from 1 month up to 12 months.
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Pepper Starting from as low as €700/Month.
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NAO Starting from as low as €570/Month.
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Software Suites and Pedagogical Content Included.
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Premium Repair and Swap services provided.
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Discover STEM education from early levels of learning with the AskNAO solution.
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Get a special discount when purchasing the robot after the completion of the rental period.
2. AcadeMIX Bundle: Get both Pepper and NAO at the price of one Pepper.
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Kickstart your Robotics Journey with the most technologically advanced pair of robots.
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Get both NAO V6 & Reconditioned Pepper1.8a at a price of €14400.
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Both robots come with 2 years of extended warranty.
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Software and Educational materials included.
That’s not all! We would like to reward our existing customers with a special offer.
3. Get Pepper at a flat 40% discount.
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Offer only available for current NAO or Pepper owners.
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Reconditioned Pepper 1.8a with 2 years warranty.
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Available From September 1st to October 31st.
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Comes with NAOqi 2.5, the Python-based OS, programmable with Choregraphe, highly demanded by academic institutions for its robustness.
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NAOqi 2.9, the latest Android version of our OS, also available upon request if students prefer using Android Studio.
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Benefit from the most advanced, all-in-one development platform combining components such as computer vision, voice interactions, proximity sensors, motors, and tablet.
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Take your A.I. and Robotics projects to the next level with Pepper’s state-of-the-art performance.
Our robots offer many benefits and possibilities for both students and teachers. Working with NAO and Pepper enhances creative problem-solving skills, encourages the development of basic communication and interpersonal skills, and motivates students to collaborate with and convey complex ideas to fellow students or colleagues. They invoke empathy in children and have proven to increase the computational tendencies of children. We believe that our robots can make a huge difference in Education and we invite you to check out these offers and try our robots out!
