{"id":12884,"date":"2025-11-19T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:57:31","slug":"two-singapore-primary-schoolers-invent-robot-to-help-kids-keep-a-safe-distance-from-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12884","title":{"rendered":"Two Singapore primary schoolers invent robot to help kids keep a safe distance from screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>INSPIRING YOUNG INNOVATORS<\/h2>\n<p>WRO\u2019s chairman Eugene Zhang said the competition aims to give young innovators like Skylar and Elon opportunities for hands-on learning and problem-solving, and to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Its first edition was held in 2004 at the Singapore Science Centre, with about a dozen nations and territories taking part, Mr Zhang said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, the WRO has expanded into a global event involving more than 90 countries and over 70,000 young participants each year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of participating countries from Africa, for instance, has grown from five in 2020 to 14 this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s Future Innovators category encourages students to design robots with a meaningful impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the entries was one Zimbabwean team that developed an AI-powered voice assistant to support visually impaired users.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zhang pointed to RoboBuddy as another example, as it helps children build healthier screen habits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/primary-school-students-invent-robot-safe-screen-distance-robobuddy-5476851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSPIRING YOUNG INNOVATORS WRO\u2019s chairman Eugene Zhang said the competition aims to give young innovators like Skylar and Elon opportunities for hands-on learning and problem-solving,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--fhLfgxWz--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/11\/19\/robot_2.png?itok=4B5SIqMD","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10085,10084,232,9275,4331,1086,10083,6199,22],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-distance","tag-invent","tag-kids","tag-primary","tag-robot","tag-safe","tag-schoolers","tag-screens","tag-singapore","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}