Taichung Municipal Library Shalu Shenbo Branch held the Intelligent Reading Future Robot Story Maker Day to promote science and technology education by combining AI and robots

The children listened carefully to the story told by the Aiko robot. (Photo by reporter Ou Sumei)

The Shalu Shenbo Branch of the Taichung Municipal Library, together with the Precision Machinery Research and Development Center (PMC), Hongguang University of Science and Technology, Taichung City Private Hongyu Social Welfare Foundation, Guangtian Hospital and local schools, held the "Intelligent Reading Future·Robot Story Maker Day" today, with the theme of "Reading × AI" "Creation × Robot Interaction" is the main theme. About 60 students from Ruijing Elementary School in Dadu District and Luyang Elementary School in Shalu District, Taichung City's iReading partner schools, were invited to participate in intelligent robot storytelling, charity picture book reading, etc., so that science and technology education can take root downwards, allowing children to have the opportunity to contact emerging technologies and enjoy the fun of reading and creation.

The Precision Machinery Research and Development Center (PMC), a corporate consortium, stated that since its establishment in 1993, PMC has long-term investment in the research and development and promotion of smart manufacturing, automation and robotics technology. This time, it has specifically gone beyond the industrial application field and brought technological resources into public libraries and transformed them into learning content suitable for primary school children. This time, iCoDAR robots are used to interact with children at close range, and combined with AI picture book creation, so that schoolchildren can not only "see technology", but also operate, think and create by themselves.

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Director of the Shalu Shenbo Library Xu Zexuan said that the Shenbo Branch has long been committed to reading services, digital learning and cross-domain cooperation, and was recognized by the Ministry of Education's third "Librarianship Contribution Award - Benchmark Library Award" last year. He hopes that through this cooperation, we will break everyone's imagination of libraries only for reading and borrowing books, and make the library an important place for children to come into contact with AI, robots and creative learning. From reading a book, we can further develop the ability to explore the world.

Lin Yujie, the principal of Ruijing Elementary School, said that she hopes that through hands-on operation and creation, children will discover that technology is not out of reach, but a tool that can help them express their ideas and create stories. Qiu Bingzhang, the principal of Luyang Elementary School, said that this time, public libraries and professional technology research and development resources can be combined to allow students to be exposed to cross-domain learning in reading, AI and robots from an early age, which is of great significance in cultivating children's independent exploration, teamwork and creative thinking abilities.

The Shalu Shenbo Branch of the Taichung Municipal Library collaborates with all walks of life to organize the "Intelligent Reading Future Robot Story Maker Day" life education activity. (Photo by reporter Ou Sumei)