Magician Lite, a K12 education robot, is released, and Yuejiang has completed the layout of AI education for all age groups

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Magician Lite develops children's logical thinking, hands-on skills and creativity through interactive and interesting teaching content.

Text | Guo Renxian

When we talk about robotic arms, we often think of their applications in industrial scenarios. However, with the advancement of technology, we are no longer satisfied with the fact that robotic arms can only be used in factories.

For example, in the medical field, robotic arms can be used as prosthetic limbs for patients to complete a series of daily actions such as eating and brushing teeth;

In the field of education, robotic arms can teach children to build robots or exercise their ability to build key processes in intelligent manufacturing;

In the business field, robotic arms can help businesses make coffee, make pancakes, perform 3D printing, etc., thereby improving their work efficiency.

On October 15, at a new product launch conference in Shenzhen with the theme of "Intelligence in Arms", Yuejiang Technology officially released an educational robotic arm, the DOBOT Magician Lite, an educational machine customized for K12, as well as AI education solutions for all age groups.

Magician Lite is an interactive platform specially built for AI with a friendly and intelligent design based on Magician. It cultivates children's logical thinking ability, hands-on ability and creativity through interactive and interesting teaching content. By building miniature immersive application scenarios, it helps children better understand the application of AI+robots in real work and life, thereby promoting children's thinking about real problems.

Leifeng.com learned that based on Magician Lite's software and hardware interaction methods and diversified compatible expansion interfaces, children can realize more creativity under the guidance of customized educational content. Not only can they learn about artificial intelligence, mechanical principles and other knowledge through construction and games, but they can also establish a preliminary understanding of robots and their applications in actual work and life.

According to official information, the product weighs 2.4Kg, which is light and convenient for scene setting; the repeat positioning accuracy is 0.2mm, the load is 0.25Kg, and the motion range is 340mm.

The accuracy of 0.2mm means it can meet students' basic creativity, from threading a needle to drawing;

The load weight of 0.25Kg basically meets the load weight required by teachers in teaching scenarios;

The official explanation for the 340mm range of motion is that it is based on two considerations: On the one hand, 340mm is a very comfortable interaction range for K12 students; on the other hand, the national standard for the design of Chinese desks is 40cm x 60cm. Assuming that every student has a Magician Lite, choosing 340mm can still achieve easy deployment.

In addition to the above basic parameters, this product also uses collision detection, which is mainly to provide students with a safe teaching environment. When Magician Lite encounters an obstacle, it will stop, and the magnitude of the collision force can be adjusted. Its motherboard uses ARM 32-bit Cortex, has 4 degrees of freedom, the end of the robotic arm can turn freely, and has a variety of replaceable end tools such as flexible grippers, suction cups, pen holders, etc. It is plug-and-play and can realize multiple functions such as writing, drawing, grabbing, and carrying.

In addition, Magician Lite has a more user-friendly design, which is the built-in air pump. This design can reduce the electrical wiring and management of additional accessories; and the external 12V DC battery box can provide the robot arm with a battery life of a standard teaching hour, effectively reducing the requirements for high-voltage configuration of the teaching venue, and ensuring that the power supply exposed to students during the learning process is within a safe voltage range.

The service life of Magician Lite's core components is designed to last for more than 10,000 class hours, which can reduce the cost of repeated equipment maintenance, ensure the school's one-time investment, improve the school's asset utilization rate, and ensure the sustainability of teaching activities.

Liu Peichao, founder and CEO of Yuejiang, said that by using lightweight intelligent robotic arms as a flexible and open execution platform, and through miniature immersive application scenarios and cognitive ladder-based curriculum design, practical application scenarios such as smart logistics, smart catering, and garbage classification can be used in AI education to allow learners to perceive and learn more intuitively, thereby achieving the effect of applying what they have learned.

In order to better integrate the robotic arm with AI and peripherals, Yuejiang Technology designed Magician Lite as two independent modules of robot control algorithm and task logic programming, and launched Magic Box as a carrier of AI teaching logic programming, providing students with more room to play and providing greater flexibility and pertinence for the design of teaching courses.

Liu Peichao said that Magic Box can be used as an independent open programming platform with 12 expansion interfaces, such as sensor interface, communication interface, motor drive interface, power interface, etc. It supports the construction of different teaching scenarios with other AI and sensor components during the teaching process, such as PIXY cameras, joysticks, color sensors, photoelectric sensors, conveyor belts, slide rails, etc.

On the product software side, Yuejiang Technology has launched a new graphical programming platform DOBOT Scratch based on Scratch 3.0 and the characteristics of the robotic arm. This platform connects all of Yuejiang's educational products. DOBOT Scratch combines the most representative AI technology modules in the field of artificial intelligence technology application, such as voice, face, image, and OCR text recognition, allowing teachers and students to quickly upgrade their AI capabilities through the platform.

Leifeng.com learned that Yuejiang Technology has joined hands with domestic and foreign education experts to jointly develop a teaching system for all ages from primary school to high school, building a curriculum system from the three stages of enlightenment, basics, and advanced, and combining rich teaching cases to set up AI application courses in six aspects: language understanding, image recognition, digital manufacturing, mechanical assembly, autonomous driving, and artistic creation. At present, Yuejiang Technology has established cooperative relations with Tsinghua University, China University of Mining and Technology, Shandong University Affiliated Middle School, etc., and has carried out artificial intelligence laboratory construction projects.