KidsRobotAcademy

Dr. Jean Duteau, a robotic engineer, entrepreneur, and geek dad with 30 years of real world robotics experience. Dr. Duteau is a Microsoft-Certified Systems Engineer and holds a PhD in computer science. In the late 1980’s he founded Rochester Robotics, which designed and integrated service robots for home, industry, nuclear inspection, security & elderly assistance, and business use. Soon after, he opened Robot World in June of 1989 - the retail location where he sold educational, hobby, and domestic robot models to the public. After that he partnered with SYNPET to build a state of the art robot named NEWTON, who was fully autonomous and understood verbal commands in three languages. Together with students from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), he was instrumental in the further development of a blue NEWTON - grandson to the original - which won 1st Place at the prestigious BEAM International Robot Olympics (Of Marc Tilden Fame) in Toronto Canada. Present day, he is teaching children to solve real-world problems with robots in a collaborative team-building environment, and thus generating intense interest and excitement for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, while also teaching the value in strong communication and team-work.