It’s the weekend here at Kidobotikz and most of students are back to doing what they know best. 

All corners of the makerspace reverberate with roboting, roboting, roboting. . . .

Students are here to work on new and interesting ideas, churning out ever interesting projects. They’ve been hard at work since morning with their laptops and tools dotting the every corner of the makerspace. Meanwhile, we are here to pick up here and we pick up from where we left with last week’s geek speak. We meet up with someone who’s here week on week to just keep himself distracted from the regular ordeals of the school week. He joined here 2 years ago and has managed to do his course with earnest. He’s just a 6th Grader, but has already logged in 2 yrs worth of robotics. Meet Anirudh, a robotics enthusiast and our geek for the day. 

Hi Anirudh ! Can you tell us about about yourself? Introduce yourself to our readers.

Hi everyone! I’m Anirudh S.  Raghavan. I study in Class 6 of SBOA matriculation senior secondary school. Back here at Kidobotikz, I just completed Advance level and am moving to the expert level.

Can you tell us how your association with Kidobotikz happened ?

I joined Kidobotikz a couple of years ago, in the year 2014. It happened by coincidence. I don’t consider myself an avid newspaper enthusiast. The one time I actually happened to pick up the newspaper, I found the leaflets from Kidobotikz in them. I was quite curious as to what they meant by robotics. I then came with my parents, who were equally keen on knowing about it, to the Kidobotikz  office. I got enrolled here on that day itself.

Were you curious about robotics before joining Kidobotikz? And how has it changed your perspective? 

Even as a kid, I had always been curious about knowing about things and building new things. However, I thought robotics was only about Humanoid robots. But coming to Kidobotikz changed it all. I expected Kidobotikz to be a place where I would be taught something about humanoids and robots. However, Kidobotikz turned out to be a lot cooler than I had expected.

I had no idea as to what kinds of robots existed. I learnt about the existence of some amazing concepts like hexapods and drones only after joining Kidobotikz. Kidobotikz helped expand my perspective of the field of robotics.   

What are your favourite robots? Is there any type of robot that you would like to develop?

I am fascinated by all kinds of robots. Robots that particularly interest me are the line tracer robots. Looking at it from a developer point of view, Line tracers are by far the hardest robots to develop. They involve a lot of algorithm and programming which makes it both challenging and fulfilling to get them right.

What are your future plans? What do you intend to with roboting skills you’ve gained at Kidobotikz? 

My plan is to pursue robotics at an esteemed university abroad. I dream of doing Robotics at MIT or Harvard. But i guess it’s a long way to think that far. So, let’s wait for it.

Kidobotikz is a leading EdTech startup offering Robotics Courses for students. Moving from a Robotics training Institute which conducted Robotics classes to a “Learn Robotics Online”, Kidobotikz today has 4 levels of Kits which offer Robotics for Kids. If the question on your mind is “How to learn robotics”, then the answer is Kidobotikz.