Company Profile

Organized around designing tools for interactive education, BirdBrain Technologies LLC is creating robots and other electronics that educate and inspire by enabling students to be creative in ways that are relevant to their natural interests. With strong ties to Carnegie Mellon, management see their products as part of a larger educational system, and seek to make them useful to educators by providing sample curricula, community collaboration spaces, and detailed documentation. Used by now hundreds of thousands of students worldwide, the Finch Robot makes coding tangible in many programming languages ranging from Kindergarten to College-level computer science. The Hummingbird Robotics Kit comprises of lights, sensors and motors, allowing students to build a robot out of any materials. Both of these products empower students to take ownership of their technical and creative skillsets and engage in flexible problem-solving activities.