{"id":968248,"date":"2026-01-06T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=968248"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:23:14","slug":"robots-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html","title":{"rendered":"Robots for education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ana-Maria Stancu is the CEO of Bucharest Robots, the first start-up <\/span><\/span>company <\/span><\/span>in Romania dedicated to humanoid robots and service robots, <\/span><\/span>and the founder o<\/span><\/span>f RoboHub, a learning <\/span><\/span>centre<\/span><\/span> in the field of robotics and programming, especially <\/span><\/span>dedicated to<\/span><\/span> children from vulnerable groups, <\/span><\/span>but also open to other children as well as adults. She is also a<\/span><\/span> member of the <\/span><\/span>b<\/span><\/span>oard of euRobotics, <\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/span>he European civil robotics network <\/span><\/span>and<\/span><\/span> has over 20 years of experience in the field of NGOs and monitoring public policies in Romania. She initiated, together with other organi<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>ations in the field, the Coalition for Digital Education in Romania and is actively involved in the development of public policies in the field of new technologies. <\/span><\/span>In an interview to Radio Romania, Ana-Maria Stancu <\/span><\/span>answered a series of topical questions <\/span><\/span>such as: a<\/span><\/span>re robots <\/span><\/span>a<\/span><\/span> solution on the labor market? Are there any dangers? What is the development of this sector today and what is expected<\/span><\/span> in the future<\/span><\/span>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s first hear her talk about how she embarked on this road:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was in 2018 when I attended the European Robotics Forum hosted that year by Amsterdam that it felt like we were living in the Middle Ages in Romania in this respect. <\/span><\/span>This was followed by <\/span><\/span>an initiative by euRobotics, this European Robotics Network, <\/span><\/span>namely<\/span><\/span> the European Robotics Week. And I liked this idea and I remember that at that time I asked a friend who had a company to buy me two robots and I asked Elisabeta Moraru, from Google, to give me two VR glasses, made of cardboard, which are very affordable and I also had a 360-degree VR camera and I put them all in a suitcase and from that week <\/span><\/span>on <\/span><\/span>I started going to a few schools and showing the children. <\/span><\/span>My idea was that i<\/span><\/span>f the children <\/span><\/span>from<\/span><\/span> Bucharest don’t <\/span><\/span>get a chance to see<\/span><\/span> something like this and aren’t used to it, <\/span><\/span>then what are the chances for <\/span><\/span>children <\/span><\/span>from <\/span><\/span> other cities <\/span><\/span>or from countryside to have access to <\/span><\/span>these technologies? <\/span><\/span>Today, some years later, things h<\/span><\/span>ave changed quite a <\/span><\/span>lot<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span>There are a number of<\/span><\/span> local <\/span><\/span>initiatives, <\/span><\/span>in almost all counties and there are at least two or three robotics teams participating in the First Tech Challenge Championship.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge <\/span><\/span>rights now <\/span><\/span>seems to be <\/span><\/span>training<\/span><\/span> teachers <\/span><\/span>using the <\/span><\/span>new technologies, because, unfortunately, there is a great inertia in the Romanian school system, and <\/span><\/span>despite the fast <\/span><\/span>pace of <\/span><\/span>new <\/span><\/span>discoveries, the <\/span><\/span>high school <\/span><\/span>curriculum, for example, has not been changed for <\/span><\/span>the last <\/span><\/span>11 years. We learned from our interlocutor that <\/span><\/span>her<\/span><\/span> robots are an integral part of the team and help train students and teachers alike:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have about five humanoid robots in my office, a disinfection robot and many, many other smaller educational robots. [\u2026] Each one has its own personality: there\u2019s Escu, the eldest, then there\u2019s Amelia, and another one who carries the trays and is called Monica.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ana-Maria Stancu says that human jobs are still safe. She explains:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe CEO, the head of NVIDIA, the company that manufactures the parts that make artificial intelligence move, said that first of all we should learn physics and mathematics, because they are very tangible things in the real world, and then he said that trades will be the future, no matter how advanced robots are now. You’ve probably seen videos on the internet that show us robots doing everything; take them with a grain of salt, because it’s not exactly what we see on the internet. What we see on the internet is the robot moving in a controlled environment. This means that that robot was trained in that space, it made that movement a thousand times until it got it right and then it was filmed and posted on the internet.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because the digital environment is full of videos telling us that robots are coming and that they will start thinking for us and replacing us, Ana-Maria Stancu explained:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
\u201cChatGPT, we give it as an example because everyone uses it, as well as other types of generative AI, works in the same way. They are called generative AI because they generate. The people at ChatGPT have created a very large database of documents, with millions of documents, and this algorithm goes through them and does some kind of statistics. It basically tells us that if the word \u2018radio\u2019 appears, the most frequent word next to the word \u2018radio\u2019 is \u2018guest\u2019. And next to the word \u2018guest\u2019, the most likely and most frequently used word is \u2018woman\u2019. When we ask it: \u2018tell me something about a radio show\u2019, it will say \u2018a woman is invited on the radio\u2019. Why? Because it calculates probabilities.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
In Romania, there is an organisation called the Coalition for Digital Education, which is actively involved in the development of public policies in the field of new technologies. Thus, training has been provided for employees of state institutions in the field of communication with citizens, guidelines on how public authorities should communicate with the public, and other initiatives that are slowly but surely changing the pace of digital transformation in Romania.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ana-Maria Stancu is the CEO of Bucharest Robots, the first start-up company in Romania dedicated to humanoid robots and service robots, and the founder of RoboHub, a learning centre in the field of robotics and programming, especially dedicated to children from vulnerable groups, but also open to other children as well as adults. She is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":803179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42520],"tags":[],"coauthors":[113240],"class_list":["post-968248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inside-romania"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRobots for education - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robots for education - Radio Romania International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ana-Maria Stancu is the CEO of Bucharest Robots, the first start-up company in Romania dedicated to humanoid robots and service robots, and the founder of RoboHub, a learning centre in the field of robotics and programming, especially dedicated to children from vulnerable groups, but also open to other children as well as adults. She is […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Radio Romania International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-06T12:00:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"513\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ana-Maria Cononovici\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ana-Maria Cononovici\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ana-Maria Cononovici\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/70ee98042ca8b95ae29876ed4848670e\"},\"headline\":\"Robots for education\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-06T12:00:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\"},\"wordCount\":846,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Inside Romania\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\",\"name\":\"Robots for education - Radio Romania International\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-06T12:00:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/70ee98042ca8b95ae29876ed4848670e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg\",\"width\":960,\"height\":513,\"caption\":\"Photo: flutie8211 \\\/ pixabay.com\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\\\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Homepage\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Panoramice\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/panoramice\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Inside Romania\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/features-and-reports\\\/inside-romania\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Robots for education\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/\",\"name\":\"Radio Romania International\",\"description\":\"Totul despre Rom\u00e2nia \u015fi rom\u00e2ni, \u00een 13 limbi\\\/dialecte!\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/70ee98042ca8b95ae29876ed4848670e\",\"name\":\"Ana-Maria Cononovici\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rri.ro\\\/en\\\/author\\\/ana-maria-cononovici\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Robots for education - Radio Romania International","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Robots for education - Radio Romania International","og_description":"Ana-Maria Stancu is the CEO of Bucharest Robots, the first start-up company in Romania dedicated to humanoid robots and service robots, and the founder of RoboHub, a learning centre in the field of robotics and programming, especially dedicated to children from vulnerable groups, but also open to other children as well as adults. She is […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html","og_site_name":"Radio Romania International","article_published_time":"2026-01-06T12:00:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":960,"height":513,"url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ana-Maria Cononovici","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ana-Maria Cononovici","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html"},"author":{"name":"Ana-Maria Cononovici","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#\/schema\/person\/70ee98042ca8b95ae29876ed4848670e"},"headline":"Robots for education","datePublished":"2026-01-06T12:00:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html"},"wordCount":846,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg","articleSection":["Inside Romania"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html","name":"Robots for education - Radio Romania International","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg","datePublished":"2026-01-06T12:00:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#\/schema\/person\/70ee98042ca8b95ae29876ed4848670e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/technology-inteligenta-artificiala-computer-foto-flutie8211-pixabay.jpg","width":960,"height":513,"caption":"Photo: flutie8211 \/ pixabay.com"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania\/robots-for-education-id968248.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Homepage","item":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Panoramice","item":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/panoramice"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Inside Romania","item":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/features-and-reports\/inside-romania"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Robots for education"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/","name":"Radio Romania International","description":"Totul despre Rom\u00e2nia \u015fi rom\u00e2ni, \u00een 13 limbi\/dialecte!","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/#\/schema\/person\/70ee98042ca8b95ae29876ed4848670e","name":"Ana-Maria Cononovici","url":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/author\/ana-maria-cononovici"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968248"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=968248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}