Robot Arena

Children use a kit to create a robot. This is geared to students from the third to sixth years of elementary school. By assembling the kit, participants learn how a robot works. Put the robot you have made in a maze and enjoy an obstacle race. Participants can take their finished kit home.
The contents of the kit are regularly changed.

Using "Lego Mind Storm," children make a simple robot and move it with a program of their own design. This is geared to fifth-year elementary school students to junior high school students. The staff’s instructions are easy to follow, even for computer novices. Try making various programs and your own original Lego robot!

Get hands-on experience in making a robot during the summer or winter holidays. This is geared to children from the first to the fourth year of elementary school. You’ll use a simple kit powered by a motor. Learn how the motor moves the robot.

Participants make a robot with an electric kit that includes solder. The robot is activated by optical sensor and sound sensor. This is geared to students for the fifth year of elementary school to junior high. It takes about three hours to finish. Participants assemble a robot after some training in how to solder parts to a board.

Soccer robot category
We hold a robot-making class that prepares you for Class A (the wired control robot division) at Muroran Institute of Technology President Robot Soccer Contest. Participants complete a soccer-playing robot in a four-day course during the summer holidays.

Lego/robot category
Geared to elementary school children who are too small to make a complicated robot, this class aims to get them interested in robots and provide them with base for making a more complicated robot. Participants make a simple soccer robot with Lego bricks in a four-day course during the summer holidays.

Participants learn the basic theory behind the acceleration sensor installed in the Nintendo Wii home video game console and Apple’s iPhone, and apply that theory to making a light baton equipped with an acceleration sensor and an LED.

Participants learn about how robots are controlled by sensors that are indispensable for robots, and how computers receive signals from sensors.