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Robotics for Babies: An Engineering Baby Learning Book from the #1 Science Author for Kids (Science and STEM Gift for Engineers)
Help your future genius become the smartest baby in the room by introducing them to robotics with the next installment of the Baby University board book series! Enjoy these simple explanations of complex ideas for your future genius. The perfect robot baby toy or baby engineering book for parents looking to kick start their baby's learning!
Robotics for Babies is a colorful, simple introduction to the technology behind robots. This engineering board book is full of scientific and mathematical information from experts Dr. Sarah Kaiser and Chris Ferrie. Robotics for Babies is the perfect book to teach complex robotics concepts in a simple, engaging way. It's never too early to become a scientist!
Set the children in your life on a lifelong path to learning with the next incredible installment of the Baby University board book series.
Other Baby University titles include:
Quantum Physics for Babies
Rocket Science for Babies
and many more!
Robotics for Babies is a colorful, simple introduction to the technology behind robots. This engineering board book is full of scientific and mathematical information from experts Dr. Sarah Kaiser and Chris Ferrie. Robotics for Babies is the perfect book to teach complex robotics concepts in a simple, engaging way. It's never too early to become a scientist!
Set the children in your life on a lifelong path to learning with the next incredible installment of the Baby University board book series.
Other Baby University titles include:
Quantum Physics for Babies
Rocket Science for Babies
and many more!
24 pages, Board Book
Published March 1, 2019
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Chris Ferrie
137 books401 followersI am Chris Ferrie, father of four and happy husband. My day job is academic research where I follow my curiosity through the word of quantum physics. My passion for communicating science has led from the most esoteric topics of mathematical physics to more recently writing children’s books.
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July 19, 2023
Well, generally speaking, Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaiser's featured text for their 2019 Robotics for Babies (and part of Chris Ferrie's Baby University series of board books) does a nicely decent and also adequately simple, uncomplicated job verbally tackling the concept of what robotics are by using a very simple task as an example that a board book audience, that young children from the ages of two to around five should easily be able to understand, namely cutting out circles (with circles also being a recurring theme for the Baby University books).
And basically, Ferrie and Kaiser develop the narrative of Robotics of Babies slowly and in an easily comprehended manner, demonstrating concisely and simply what makes a robot, what robots do, so that by the end of Robotics for Babies, it is no longer a human, it is no longer a person but a robot cutting out circles and supposedly according to the two authors also doing a much better and more accurate job (something, an attitude with which I must admit I personally most definitely do not really entirely agree and that I do rather find the ending of Robotics for Babies more than a bit potentially problematic).
For yes indeed, I do majorly and emotionally chafe that in Robotics for Babies there is a real and for me massively problematic tendency promoted and shown by Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaiser that robots are obviously supposed to be considered as being much superior and more productive than people are, that the attitude of human redundancy and that to and for me there is to be encountered between the lines of Robotics for Babies a very uncomfortable consideration and even celebration of employees, of human workers being rather denigrated and seen as replaceable by machines and computers, yes, that does make me a bit livid, it is something that with regard to Robotics for Babies rather majorly rubs me the wrong proverbial way (and to such and extent that I can and will for one only consider three stars for Robotics for Babies and would for two if using Robotics for Babies with young children also at least mention that robots should in my opinion not generally be used to en masse kick people out of their jobs, even though this is indeed something that is increasingly happening, is more and more occurring).
Now I do very well realise and also accept that my qualms regarding the pro machine (pro robots and computers instead of humans doing general tasks and jobs) philosophy encountered in Robotics for Babies are indeed very much personal, emotionally charged and as such perhaps also not entirely STEM either (although yes, I do indeed rather firmly stand by my objections and assertions). But yes, with regard to what is both textually and also illustratively present and achieved in and with Robotics for Babies Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaiser textually very much manage to simply and basically demonstrate what robots are to and for very young children (and with Ferrie's simplistic and colourful accompanying illustrations being integral to the the written words and visually augmenting and explaining the verbal ideas that are being featured), that I definitely do consider Robotics for Babies one of the Baby University board books most suitable and useful for the intended age group, for very young children (but definitely, that at least for me personally and emotionally speaking, I certainly tend to think that there is a much too robotics rah, rah, rah attitude shown by Ferrie and Kaiser in Robotics for Babies and that I do believe this at least warrants possible discussion and at least pointing out that humans are not to simply be callously and thoughtlessly replaced by computers and robots).
And basically, Ferrie and Kaiser develop the narrative of Robotics of Babies slowly and in an easily comprehended manner, demonstrating concisely and simply what makes a robot, what robots do, so that by the end of Robotics for Babies, it is no longer a human, it is no longer a person but a robot cutting out circles and supposedly according to the two authors also doing a much better and more accurate job (something, an attitude with which I must admit I personally most definitely do not really entirely agree and that I do rather find the ending of Robotics for Babies more than a bit potentially problematic).
For yes indeed, I do majorly and emotionally chafe that in Robotics for Babies there is a real and for me massively problematic tendency promoted and shown by Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaiser that robots are obviously supposed to be considered as being much superior and more productive than people are, that the attitude of human redundancy and that to and for me there is to be encountered between the lines of Robotics for Babies a very uncomfortable consideration and even celebration of employees, of human workers being rather denigrated and seen as replaceable by machines and computers, yes, that does make me a bit livid, it is something that with regard to Robotics for Babies rather majorly rubs me the wrong proverbial way (and to such and extent that I can and will for one only consider three stars for Robotics for Babies and would for two if using Robotics for Babies with young children also at least mention that robots should in my opinion not generally be used to en masse kick people out of their jobs, even though this is indeed something that is increasingly happening, is more and more occurring).
Now I do very well realise and also accept that my qualms regarding the pro machine (pro robots and computers instead of humans doing general tasks and jobs) philosophy encountered in Robotics for Babies are indeed very much personal, emotionally charged and as such perhaps also not entirely STEM either (although yes, I do indeed rather firmly stand by my objections and assertions). But yes, with regard to what is both textually and also illustratively present and achieved in and with Robotics for Babies Chris Ferrie and Sarah Kaiser textually very much manage to simply and basically demonstrate what robots are to and for very young children (and with Ferrie's simplistic and colourful accompanying illustrations being integral to the the written words and visually augmenting and explaining the verbal ideas that are being featured), that I definitely do consider Robotics for Babies one of the Baby University board books most suitable and useful for the intended age group, for very young children (but definitely, that at least for me personally and emotionally speaking, I certainly tend to think that there is a much too robotics rah, rah, rah attitude shown by Ferrie and Kaiser in Robotics for Babies and that I do believe this at least warrants possible discussion and at least pointing out that humans are not to simply be callously and thoughtlessly replaced by computers and robots).
October 1, 2019
3.5 stars. This really tries to simplify robotics for kids, and it does an okay job. It does a pretty good job until the part where the computer enters the picture, and then I think it just gets a bit too complex to be simplified enough. It will either not explain enough, or be too complicated. A nice intro for kids who are interested.
September 12, 2023
I really liked the progression of this one. My 9w old baby indicated through a series of coos that she understands why robots are helpful for efficiency in processes now, so that’s great!
April 10, 2021
One of too many joke gift books that do nothing to aid the child's reading or understanding of the world. The illustrations have no humans, no context, and is clearly not written by anyone with experience in children's books.
Please do not buy it for your robotics friend who has a child. Instead buy them something the child will actually enjoy.
Please do not buy it for your robotics friend who has a child. Instead buy them something the child will actually enjoy.
September 21, 2019
As an adult reading it to a baby, I enjoyed this one the most so far!
May 17, 2022
Graphic designers shouldn't write children's books, and I hate this trend of having them do so. Publishers are substituting graphics people for actual illustrators as a cost-cutting measure, that just ends up hurting their sales and making subjects totally uninspiring for children. It gets the job done, but is about as interesting as reading a dictionary definition, and the graphics hardly add anything.
June 29, 2021
A lackluster attempt at the simplified science for babies genre. The example lacks whimsy and the generalizable definition of a robot - even from a kids POV - is still unclear at the end. (Do they all need to have arms?)
October 30, 2024
This series helped introduce me to BALL! both in ASL and English, making it quite formative for me.
I have so many reading materials now and with so many more things to point at that these are not in regular rotation at the moment. However, I expect them to be tomes I return to, finding new value each time as both my library and I further develop.
The robotics book has particularly engaged with the real world feel of it. It provided opportunities for me to consider arms, eyes and articulating things generally along with the idea of machines having language, too! I'm not sure what all the fuss over scissors is about, but circles and balls are things of beauty so count me in to finding better ways to make them, every time!
I have so many reading materials now and with so many more things to point at that these are not in regular rotation at the moment. However, I expect them to be tomes I return to, finding new value each time as both my library and I further develop.
The robotics book has particularly engaged with the real world feel of it. It provided opportunities for me to consider arms, eyes and articulating things generally along with the idea of machines having language, too! I'm not sure what all the fuss over scissors is about, but circles and balls are things of beauty so count me in to finding better ways to make them, every time!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 3, 2020
To książeczka dla najmłodszych, która stara się im wytłumaczyć : czym są roboty i po co są roboty?
Pomysł świetny, a i wykonanie choć wydaje się proste, lecz w konsekwencji jest wyjątkowo efektowne - spełnia swoje zadanie i pobudza dziecięcą wyobraźnię. Może nie jest to najpiękniejsza książka, lecz zdecydowanie jest użyteczna, a o to chodziło autorom.
Pomysł świetny, a i wykonanie choć wydaje się proste, lecz w konsekwencji jest wyjątkowo efektowne - spełnia swoje zadanie i pobudza dziecięcą wyobraźnię. Może nie jest to najpiękniejsza książka, lecz zdecydowanie jest użyteczna, a o to chodziło autorom.
September 9, 2019
A preschool and up board book about machines working. Cute and nice concept.
April 14, 2020
Brilliant boek wat simpel uitlegt met simpele plaatjes hoe robotica werkt, en hoe men eigenlijk dus ook op het idee kwam.
April 20, 2025
very good description.
August 1, 2023
Really clear illustrations and high quality narrative! Very enjoyable.
May 18, 2025
parte 1 de: estoy aburrida en mi turno en la binaes y estos son los únicos libros que tengo a la mano.
October 6, 2019
Aanrader voor wetenschappers, en in het bijzonder informatici, die er al naar uit kijken om hun baby alles te leren over de magische wereld van technologie. Heerlijk geeky.
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