HIPROBOT
Humanoid robots in education
Humanoid robots in education
The gap between what pupils and students are taught and what the economy actually needs.
Do you know the feeling?
A lecture on robotics and automation is delivered through slides and video clips. Pupils or students may never have seen a robot in person, let alone programmed or operated one.
Enrolment in technical programmes, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and automation, is lower than employers’ needs would dictate. Young people do not see these occupations as attractive; they picture their future elsewhere.
Slovenia lags behind the European average in digital skills: 50 % of the population has basic digital skills, the EU average is 54 %, while only 20 % has advanced ones, where the EU average is 26 %.
Meanwhile industry already needs new occupations today: robot programmers, service technicians, operators and trainers of artificial intelligence, and there is a shortage of people able to fill them.
And so your institution stays caught between two pressures that are not easing: young people who are ever harder to enthuse about technical occupations, and an economy already looking for people for a technology that is not yet in the classroom.
Is a humanoid robot even a sensible investment for a school or a faculty?
You see the solution in a humanoid robot. And then the questions come:
Can a school or a faculty even afford such advanced technology?
What if the robot ends up in a corner, unused, after one event or presentation?
Who will actually know how to use it in the classroom or the laboratory, pedagogically and not only technically?
What if it breaks down in the middle of a semester or a research project?
Those doubts are a sign that you care about the investment making sense, not only about it looking effective in marketing. We understand.
That is why we work differently.
An institution that shows young people the future instead of only lecturing about it
Imagine a course or a laboratory where pupils and students programme and operate advanced humanoid robots in person for the first time. Interest in technical programmes grows, and the institution becomes known as the one that teaches the future rather than the past.
For faculties and research institutions it also means access to robots and robot dogs for real research and development projects: analysing the effect on productivity, on the ergonomics of the work, testing new approaches. The young people who go through it leave the institution with the skills for occupations industry is already looking for: programming, servicing, operating and upgrading robots.
Because this is often a larger investment, we also offer a three-year rent-to-own arrangement. That way an institution can try the robot and bring it into teaching or research without the full outlay at once.
RentalA team with more than 20 years of experience in automation and integration into demanding environments
Most institutions that try a robot run into the same trap: they get a device, not a solution. The robot arrives for an event, delights everyone for a day, and then stands unused because nobody knows how to bring it into teaching or research.
At HIPROJECT it is different.
First we get to know your programme and your goals
Whether it is about attracting pupils, practical teaching, a research project or a combination. We adapt the solution to that, not the other way round.
We design the content and the use around your programme
Adapted to age, level of knowledge and goals: from a primary-school presentation to a university research project.
The security and independence of data are not a compromise
The robots run on local, European servers, separate from the manufacturer’s systems.
Training the lecturers and mentors, not only delivering equipment
Your teachers and mentors learn to really use the robot, pedagogically and technically, so that the solution lives on after the first enthusiasm.
We stay, long after delivery
Service, upgrades and new content as the robots gain new abilities. We are not a supplier who disappears once the contract is signed. We are a partner for the long road.
Robots suited to education and research
We are the exclusive distributor for UBTECH in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia. UBTECH humanoid robots are among the most advanced in the world. In Slovenske Konjice we are also building a research and service centre for robotisation, which includes an educational meeting point for visits by schools and faculties.
We also represent and integrate the other leading manufacturers of humanoid robots in the world. We choose each model according to your programme and your goals, not according to what happens to be in stock.
