One of the major goals of our Bionic Learning Network is to get young people interested in technology. The Bionics4Education project now brings the world of bionics together with the education sector. With the interactive educational concept, the variety of topics in bionics can now also be experienced in the classroom: It consists of a digital learning environment and a practical training kit with which the students can build bionic prototypes in a creative way.
The first training kit to be launched in 2018 under the name of Bionics Kit in Germany and the USA is aimed at students between the ages of 14 and 18. The Bionics Kit gives young people the opportunity to approach tasks in an uncomplicated and creative way using bionic methods – for example when building a practical bionic fish model, a chameleon gripper or an elephant's trunk with an adaptive gripper with Fin Ray Effect®.
As basic equipment the case contains all necessary components to be able to start with the design. These include commercially available small servo motors, electronic components or plastic elements such as Fin Ray® structures. The students' task is to combine these with materials they have selected themselves in an imaginative and meaningful way. Cable binders, sandbags, cardboard, foam rubber and much more are suitable for this, so that every young person can design his or her individual and reusable model variant.