Thymio meets ECAL – A workshop with 50 Thymio Robots

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Earlier this year at ECAL (Lausanne/Switzerland), students were asked to develop projects using the Thymio robot during a one week workshop. 50 Robots were available and the week began with an introduction to Thymio and its secrets by Prof. Francesco Mondada from EPFL. Students worked then in group with the task to make Thymio(s) write a word, all those words was then put together to form a sentences that you can discover in the video below.

The good thing about robots is that they do what you tell them to do. And, the bad thing about robots is that they do what you tell them to do.

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