Educational Robotics and the Linuxverse: Top 2025 Useful Programs
Continuing with our great Top of the year 2025, and taking advantage of the fact that the Linuxverse is a field of human knowledge and technology, which is multidisciplinary and transversal, that is, it can be applicable and useful for many spheres of human life, today for the first time in depth, we will address its contribution to the world of Educational Robotics. Since, on past occasions, individually and very punctually, we have addressed a few examples of contribution. Such as when we talked about the Webots Software, which is a software used to simulate mobile robots, in order to facilitate learning and teaching in the field of Robotics.
And since, as in other cases, the list of desktop applications and online tools It can be very extensive, we will only mention a small «Top 2025 with 10 Linuxverse programs useful for the field of educational robotics», which we consider to be the most well-known, used and useful. And finally, some special mentions of other important projects to know about in the field of robotics and educational robotics. So, without further ado, keep reading to find out the name of each of those mentioned and a brief description of each one.
But, before starting this post about this «Top 2025 with 10 Linuxverse programs useful for the field of educational robotics», we recommend that you explore the previous publication related to another Top of this year, after finishing reading this one:
The Webots project was initiated in 1996 by Dr. Oliver Michel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL in Lausanne. One of its main advantages is that it allows the user to interact with the model during the simulation. The program is based on the Open Dynamics Engine physics engine and the OpenGL rendering engine. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Educational Robotics and the Linuxverse: Top 2025 with 10 useful programs
What is educational robotics?
Before explaining What is educational robotics about?, as is logical and reasonable, it is best to explain and be clear, What is Robotics?And to start, there is nothing better than knowing the definition of this word and concept from the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy):
Robotics is the technique that ceiling lamp la computers al design y employment de appliances that, en substitution de people, realize operations o work, by lo general en facilities Industrial.
However, for a broader understanding, it is worth adding that, Robotics can also be defined in a more extensive and detailed manner as follows:
Robotics is the field of science and technology that deals with the study, design, operation, manufacturing and implementation of automatic machines (with or without human and animal form), also known as Robots, for commercial, industrial, scientific and military purposes, mainly. To achieve this, it combines mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science and information technology, as well as other specific disciplines, such as programming (software development) and artificial intelligence.
Keeping this in mind, We can define educational robotics as follows:
Educational Robotics is the field of education that makes use of robotic learning tools in order to allow and facilitate students to acquire and develop certain scientific and technological skills. Therefore, this form of education groups or makes use of different disciplines and knowledge that are taught in a transversal way, with the aim of stimulating students' logical and computational thinking, as well as creativity (to strengthen the ability to solve problems) and other technical skills (hard skills) and soft (soft skills). Finally, this branch of educational technology is usually used essentially when seeking active learning by students, within what is known as STEM Education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Top 10 Linuxverse programs for 2025 on Educational Robotics
When we talk about Educational Robotics, the first thing that may come to mind is the use of programs such as Scratch and others similar or based on it or its operating logic (visual and block programming). However, the truth is that the above mentioned ones usually, or should be better, within the category of Educational tools to learn or teach programming or software development. For this reason, we will not include them in this Top, but rather in a future publication that we will offer you about Linuxverse Tools to learn and teach Programming to children, adolescents, and even adults.
So, below we will briefly mention and describe, 10 interesting and useful programs or tools from the Linuxverse to learn and teach Educational Robotics, with the aim that you get to know them, explore them, test them and implement them, if you have any need or project within this area of education:
Ardublock
Ardublock It is an old, but functional graphical and multi-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created under the Java language, which is ideal for working with Arduino boards, with the aim of being easy and useful for beginners in robotics and technology students in the early stages of learning.
Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE is an open source programming suite for creating software for Arduino boards. Therefore, it is a tool that includes a text editor for writing code, a message area, a text console, a toolbar with buttons for common functions and a set of menus. The program can be connected to any Arduino board to load and communicate with the programs, so that the device or robot meets the designed and programmed objectives.
Arduino Blocks
Arduino Blocks Arduino is a free online platform that uses Scratch-style blocks. It is also very useful for anyone of any age to successfully get started in the world of electronics, robotics and the “maker” world in a simple and intuitive way, with little or no knowledge of programming, electricity and electronics. Therefore, it is considered a perfect tool for children, young people and not so young people who want to get started in the Arduino world. It offers native support in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
Hello Blocks!
Hello Blocks! It is an online tool very similar to the one previously mentioned (ArduinoBlocks), although with the difference and addition that, in addition to the English language, it offers support in Spanish, Catalan and Basque.
Microblocks
Microblocks is a free, Scratch-like block programming language for learning physical computing with educational microcontroller boards like micro:bit, Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, and many others. It works both online and as a cross-platform, installable app. It stands out from other similar ones for its combination of live programming and standalone operation, as other block languages support one or the other of those features, but not both. It also offers support for many languages, including Spanish, and cross-platform support, including Linux.
OpenBot
OpenBot is an open source project that offers a platform for creating mobile robots based on Android smartphones. Therefore, it is a project that focuses on expanding the reach of educational robotics by making it accessible to many. In essence, it makes use of the repurposing of a modest $50 wheeled robot with the ubiquitous smartphone (Android) as its brain. Which, facilitates not only the creation of affordable robotics, but facilitates innovation, learning and discovery for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Open Roberta Lab
Open Roberta Lab is a cloud-based integrated programming environment that enables children and adolescents to easily program Lego Mindstorms EV3 robots. The platform is completely open source, so participation is welcome. Both the software and the open source development tools are available on Fraunhofer servers. Furthermore, it was started in collaboration with Google Germany to reduce the barriers for students, teachers and schools using robots for education. As of today, it is funded by Google Germany.
RoboMind
RoboMind is a new and simple programming language that is designed to familiarize you with the basic rules of computer science while programming your own robot. In addition, it allows anyone to easily get started in the well-known programming techniques, and the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. Therefore, it is a special programming language that focuses essentially on providing a set of rules for programming a robot.
Scratch for Arduino (S4A)
Scratch for Arduino (S4A) It is a modification of the Scratch software that allows programming the free Arduino hardware platform in a simple way. In addition, it provides new blocks to deal with sensors and actuators connected to an Arduino board. It also has a sensor panel similar to that of the PicoBoard. Therefore, its main purpose is to attract people to the world of programming and robotics, in an easy and fun way. Although, it is also capable of providing a high-level interface for Arduino programmers with functionalities such as interaction with a set of boards through user events.
Webots
Webots is a free and open source 3D robot simulator for GNU/Linux, MacOS and Windows. One of its main advantages is that it allows the user to interact with the model during the simulation. The program is based on the Open Dynamics Engine physics engine and the OpenGL rendering engine. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license. In addition, with it we can model, program and simulate industrial weapons, bipedal devices, aerospace vehicles, multi-legged robots, modular robots, cars, flying drones, autonomous underwater vehicles and all kinds of robots.
Projects with special mentions inside and outside the Linuxverse
- jderobot: Open toolkit for the development of Robotics applications.
- MakeBlock: Free toolkit to learn and implement Educational Robotics.
- OpenCV: Open libraries for Computer Vision and Machine Learning software.
- ROS: Open and free operating system to run robots for various purposes.
Summary
In short, and as we can see with this new and interesting «Top 2025 with 10 Linuxverse programs useful for the field of educational robotics», there is a wide availability of desktop application alternatives and online tools that we can use for learning, teaching and self-training purposes, people of all ages and levels (students, teachers, professionals and self-taught people)And in case you think there are others that are worth knowing, spreading and supporting within our growing and immeasurable Linuxverse, we invite you to mention them via comments so that we can take them into account for future publications on this category or field of applications.
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