How to Train Your Robot: The Ozobot Evo

June 18,2024

So here's my childhood: Get up. Watch cartoons. Play. Go to school. Watch after school cartoons. Play. Go to bed, safe in the assurance that when I grew up, I woudln't have to work because we'd have jetpacks, flying cars, cooked food on demand, and robots. Now that I've left 50 in the taillights, and ponder the weight the advent of microwaves and Uber Eats has put on me, I finally get one more step closer to the future that I was promised in comic books and LOST IN SPACE. The robots are here! Yes, they've been here for a while, I suppose. But for the most part, consumer-obtainable robots have been pretty much RC cars with special effects. The Evo from Ozobot is a few steps beyond that. While it's still not quite capable of going to the fridge and delivering a beer so I don't have to get my lazy butt off the couch, it is quite programmable. In fact, that's it's major feature -- programmability, and the way it teaches kids to understand rudimentary coding concepts.