If there were an engineering equivalent of good trouble , Dr. Carlotta A. Berry has been stirring it into the robotics world for decades — and doing it with open-source bots, community street demos, and a philosophy that rejects hallowed hardware hands-off culture. When Touch Matters As an undergrad in the 1980s and ’90s, Berry learned two lessons that would later become her professional north star: Robots weren’t for students  — they were expensive machines behind ropes that only grad...

What if the screen time everyone worries about… quietly turned into STEM time? In There’s a Robot in my Video Game, part of the beloved series by Dr. Carlotta A. Berry and illustrated by Anak Bulu, we meet Maya and her favorite in-game robot, Pixel. But Pixel isn’t just there to rack up points. Pixel is there to teach. And that’s where the magic happens.

The story follows Miyoko, an eight-year-old with a curious mind who loves to understand how things work. Her best friend? Ingenuity, affectionately called Ginny—a robot who’s always ready to lend a mechanical hand. Together, they explore the playground in ways that spark Miyoko’s fascination with engineering and problem-solving.