Real-World Robots
Your child knows a real robot is a machine that follows instructions people write. A robot vacuum cleaner is one — it is not alive.
In curriculum terms
What a robot really is — not the sci-fi version; robots in factories, robot vacuum cleaners, robot arms in surgery; that robots follow instructions given by people
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child saw a robot vacuum cleaner, could they explain how it's different from a person cleaning — that it follows instructions rather than thinking for itself?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).