Keeping a Language Alive With a Robot

19/08/2025 23 min Episodio 40
Keeping a Language Alive With a Robot

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Episode Synopsis

Many Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing. 24-year-old inventor Danielle Boyer is on a mission to change that. She designed SkoBot, an interactive robot that teaches children her own native language, Anishinaabemowin. Danielle shares how she developed SkoBot, the ethical questions that came up along the way, and how she involved her own community in the process.

You can about Danielle’s organization, The STEAM Connection, here.


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