Bellas, FranciscoNaya-Varela, M.Varela, GervasioLlamas, LuisPrieto García, AbrahamBecerra Permuy, Juan CarlosBautista, MoisesDuro, Richard J.Faíña, Andrés2024-09-272024-09-272018Bellas, F. et al. (2018). The Robobo Project: Bringing Educational Robotics Closer to Real-World Applications. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_20978-3-319-62874-52194-5357http://hdl.handle.net/2183/39256This version of the conference paper has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use (https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms), but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_20.[Abstract]: The Robobo Project is a STEM-based project that aims to bring educational robotics, in primary and high school, closer to real-world applications. It is based on the use of a smartphone-based robotic platform called Robobo, a very flexible programming environment, and a set of lessons to integrate them. The smartphone provides high-level hardware capabilities in terms of sensors, communications and processing capabilities that allow to create more practical and realistic lessons that exploit human-robot interaction, with a small investment. In this paper, we present the main elements of The Robobo Project in terms of hardware and software, and two illustrative educational projects that can be developed within it.eng©2018 Springer International Publishing AG. Subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use (https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms)Interactive educationSmartphonesComputer visionSpeech recognitionReal-World roboticsconference outputopen access10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_20