In Ganei Tikva, teams of students built their robotic arms from scratch and watched them run their first automation.
The students worked in teams of three, and each team built its own robot: twelve students, four robots.
The Ganei Tikva workshop started with tables full of parts and ended with a room of working robotic arms. Each team assembled its base, joints, links, and gripper piece by piece, then wired its own stepper motors.
Once the arms came alive, every team used the SamaraBot Control app to home each axis and teach its robot the positions. Then the teams gave their robots a job: each one ran its first pick-and-place sequence, an automation the students had set up with their own hands.
Watching the robots repeat a task exactly, again and again, showed the kids how real factories automate their work, and that they can be the ones who teach a robot to do it.