Partnership
Thymio x ECAL (Design Collaboration)
ECAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne) collaborated with EPFL on the design of the Thymio educational robot, contributing industrial and interaction design expertise.
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abb4257e-7224-4194-9ce3-aad48e7b67a6- Type
- development
- Status
- Activeoperating
- Start
- 2011-01-0115.7 years ago
- Active for
- 15.7 years
Who’s involved
[Thymio](https://www.thymio.org) is an open-source educational robot designed by researchers at [EPFL](https://epfl.ch) in collaboration with ECAL, produced by Mobsya, a nonprofit association. Originally created in 2011, Thymio II is a small affordable mobile robot (~100 EUR) intended for STEAM education, teaching programming and robotics to learners from primary school through university. The platform features open-source hardware and software, with a visual programming language developed at ETH Zurich. Thymio 3 is scheduled for release in September 2026.
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- ECAL · co developer
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