These Nigerian coding kids have built a robot that folds clothes for you!
Fathia & Oluwatobiloba are 12-years old and use their skills to build robots that help with housework – which definitely ‘sparks joy’ in us!
Nigeria is a country with creative and talented go-getters. Young Nigerians have distinguished themselves in such fields as information technology, science, art, entertainment and lots more. Now, two Nigerian preteens are looking to take their own spot on the limelight by inventing an amazing technology that can be used as assistants in the home.
The kids, Oluwatobiloba Nsikakabasi Owolola and Fathia Abdullahi, successfully built the robots after just a year of learning how to code.
Owolola has been captivated by Lego robotics ever since he was a toddler. He was 10-years-old when he decided to quit merely watching others do cool stuff on TV and have a crack at it himself.
He would tinker with Lego pieces purely for his own amusement initially but things got even more interesting before long. He eventually took up coding and that opened him up to the idea of building something that would have some sort of impact in the everyday life of kids like himself.
Thus, Owolola built a robot which he calls the “robot grabber.” The robot functions as a help that moves things around the house. It is designed to restore order in the home by putting things taken out of position back in their rightful place.
These two Nigerian youngsters are the latest revelations from what appears to be a new league of African kids who are exhibiting sparks of brilliance in coding and robotics – fields that may have been once thought of as out-of-reach and above-pay-grade for some of these young lads.
Nowadays, coding schools and robotics academies for young, talented Africans are popping up from basically everywhere on the continent and even kids that are as young as five are beginning to take the initiative.