Jorge Visca

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Jorge Visca is a robotics researcher dedicated to making computational thinking accessible from preschool through university. His work centers on child-robot interaction and educational robotics, with a particular focus on developing intuitive programming platforms. Visca’s most influential contribution is the design of Robotito, a robot that enables young children to program using physical blocks and graphical languages—bypassing the need for written code. This innovation, detailed in two 2019 papers each garnering 9 citations, provides a scaffolded pathway for learners as young as preschoolers to engage with core computational concepts. Beyond early education, Visca also advances the technical foundations of robotics. His work on Torocó implements a subsumption architecture for real-time, concurrent robot control, while CoCoSim (2023) introduces a co-simulation tool for mobile cooperative robots, enabling teams of robots to be tested in virtual environments before deployment. By bridging playful, age-appropriate interfaces with robust control architectures, Visca’s research helps lower the barriers to robotics education while advancing the tools needed for multi-robot systems.