Robyn Robot learns from your lesson and gives every pupil personalized help

Robyn is a robot teaching assistant. By listening to you, and watching your board, Robyn can act as an extension of your teaching.It will follow your lesson, your methods, and your style of teaching.Robyn will answer pupil questions based on what you have just talked about, and what you have put on your whiteboard.Having Robyn in your class is as close as you can get to cloning yourself.

4 Feb 2025

first live trial

128

classrooms using Robyn Robot, Autumn 2025

30,000 +

questions answered

How it works

Did you say robot?We call Robyn a robot, but Robyn does not have humanoid form. Robyn actually consists of several connected devices in your classroom.One device sits quietly on a stand near the board. It watches the board and listens to your teaching. You can see it in the picture above.Pupils then use individual devices to ask questions about what you've just covered. Usually there will be three or four pupil devices around the room - pupils pick one up if they need some help. You can see one of these in the video below.They can speak, type, or show it their work. They will received an answer which helps them make progress: feedback on how to improve, or a suggestion on how to get started, or perhaps a reminder of what was on the board. Robyn won't just tell them "the answer".

It is like having three more teachers in the class

Pupil, Year 4

It’s been really useful to have - especially with a large class and if the TA is out. It’s like having 3 extra adults.

Miss Preston, Classteacher, Pensans Primary School, Cornwall, UK

It's been amazing! So worthwhile and beneficial for all children.

- Mr Barraclough, Classteacher, Itchen Abbas Primary School, Hampshire, UK

GDPR

Our system fully complies with all GDPR requirements

You can safely deploy Robyn Robot in your classroom. You can review our Data Processing Agreement which has full details of what data is captured, why, how and where it is stored and processed, when it is deleted, and so on.

Examples of real interactions

It is hard to describe quite how magical Robyn feels without experiencing it for yourself. The reassurance of having a helpful, friendly person with you, experiencing the lesson alongside you, is very powerful. These extracts of real conversations may give you a little taste of that.

Autumn Term 2025, KS2 maths class

Pupil: I'm having some trouble with a question and I need you to help meRobynRobot: No problem! Can you tell me exactly which question you're stuck on, so I can help you with the first step?Pupil:

RobynRobot: To start, think about what fraction each class has if they split all the cones equally, then how to divide that part into piles—can you write the fraction for Class 1 if their share is split into 4 piles?Pupil: Is it 1÷1/4?RobynRobot: Not quite—remember, each class gets one-third of the cones, so for Class 1, you need to divide 1/3 by 4; how would you set that up?Pupil: 1/3÷4=?RobynRobot: Great! Now, using the lesson's "KFC" method, what do you get when you flip 4 into a fraction and multiply?Pupil: 1/12?RobynRobot: Well done—that's correct! Each pile in Class 1 has 1/12 of all the cones.Pupil: Can you help me with the next question? Class 2, put their cones into 5 equal piles, please.RobynRobot: Sure! What is 1/3 ÷ 5? Try flipping 5 to make it a fraction first, just like before.Pupil: 1/15?RobynRobot: Correct! Each pile in Class 2 has 1/15 of all the cones.Pupil: Can you help me with the third question? Class 3 put their cones into 11 equal piles, please.RobynRobot: Absolutely! What do you get if you divide 1/3 by 11 using the same KFC method?Pupil: 1/3÷1/11=1/33RobynRobot: Perfect! 1/3÷11 gives 1/33, so each pile in Class 3 has 1/33 of all the cones.Pupil: Thank you sooooooo much for your help with this question, bye !!!RobynRobot: You're very welcome—great work today! See you next time!

Autumn Term 2025, KS2 writing class

Pupil: Hi Robin, what technology brand are you?RobynRobot: I'm here to help you learn, but my "brand" isn't as important as your work in the lesson! Let's focus on Shackleton's emotional journey. Do you want some help choosing emotional vocabulary for your paragraph?Pupil: Yes, please. But paragraph two.RobynRobot: Great! For paragraph two, you could focus on the moment when Shackleton's ship became trapped in the pack ice. What emotions might he have felt then? Think about words from the emotions word bank like "worried," "frustrated," or "anxious." What do you think caused his feelings to change at this stage?Pupil: For paragraph 2, I'm writing about when they got to the island and set up Calm Camp, or whatever it's called.RobynRobot: Nice, that's probably "Patience Camp!" At this stage, how do you think Shackleton and the crew felt? They might have been "relieved" to find land but also "uncertain" or "nervous" about what would happen next. What emotion will you describe first, and why?Pupil: Oh, it's beaching camps. Sorry for the misunderstandings.RobynRobot: No problem at all! "Beaching Camp" sounds right for where they landed after escaping the ice. Think about how Shackleton and his crew might have felt arriving there—perhaps "relieved" to be off the ice, but maybe also "exhausted" or "worried" about food and safety. Which feeling do you want to focus on first?Pupil: I meant to say, Patience Camp.RobynRobot: Got it—Patience Camp! At Patience Camp, the crew had been stuck for a long time, so their emotions probably changed a lot. Do you think they felt "frustrated" waiting so long, or maybe "hopeful" that they'd be rescued soon? Pick one emotion and explain what made them feel that way during this part.

Pricing

Initial six week trial	Free
Teacher device	£750 +VAT per year
Each student device	£250 +VAT per year

Founder Schools (who helped us with the early prototype) get special pricing as a thank you. We'll email you individually about this.Price includes all hardware: teacher and student devices, stand for the teacher device, headsets for the student devices, charging stations.Pay in termly instalments, at the start of each term. The first instalment will be pro-rated to cover from the end of your trial to the end of that first term.We will set everything up for you. We continue to own the hardware and will replace any items which break or fail (including, subject to reasonable care, failure due to accidental damage).

Typical configurations

Student devices can be shared around, you definitely don't need one for every student. Three is the minimum that seems workable in trials. The more devices are available, the less likely a student will have to wait to ask their question.

Configuration	Price
Teacher + 3 student devices	£1,500/year
Teacher + 5 student devices	£2,000/year
Teacher + 10 student devices	£3,250/year

While Robyn can't do everything that a human can do, we think the pricing compares very favourably to employing more adults in the room, freeing your existing LSAs and TAs to spend time with students who need them most.Typical configuration of one teacher device and five student devices costs £2,000 per year. Adding just one more adult to the room costs approximately £24,000 (30hr week @ £25k FTE, plus NI and pension).

The backstory

Bruce Greig is the driving force behind Robyn Robot. Bruce has a background in tech and business operations. He has been a school governor for 15 years. His wife is a teaching assistant (called Robyn).Bruce has also worked part time as a Special Educational Needs mediator, helping over 700 families of SEN children access the right support.Teachers and teaching assistants can't get to everyone in the class. Some questions go answered, or can only be answered after the child has had to wait for a while. Some children don't want to ask a question. They would just sit quietly and hope to muddle through. Other children have very many questions, more than a single adult can reasonably spend time answering.Robyn Robot helps children like that, and for every child it allows many more questions to be asked than could be asked if there was just one teacher in the class.Because Robyn Robot's answers are based on what the teacher themselves has said, it allows the teacher to extend their reach to everyone in the class, almost as if they were at every child's side all the time. Indeed, that's exactly how one child described it: "It is like having three more teachers in the class".Robyn Robot has now answered over 30,000 questions from children in real classrooms. Some of these are mundane ("what am I supposed to be doing?") others are much more nuanced ("how old was Macbeth?"). All represent a moment where a child has received a little bit of help when otherwise they might have needed to wait for an adult.

Isn't AI bad for the environment?

In aggregate, across the entire world, AI data centres use a lot of energy. But RobynRobot is modern and efficient and the amount of energy it uses is miniscule compared to other energy that your school is using:

Example	Energy Use (Wh)
RobynRobot answering a question	0.25
Human teaching assistant crouching by a desk for a few seconds to answer a question	0.9
Keeping the school gate locked with an electromagnet for a day	144
Running a whiteboard for a day	1,840
Heating a classroom for a day	50,000

Try Robyn Robot in your school

You can try Robyn Robot for free in as many classrooms as you would like. We will come in and demonstrate it to your staff and set everything up and leave it all with you for six weeks.Complete the form below to get started.

Website Privacy Notice

About

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Company number: 16341195
Registered address: Brook, Drove Close, Twyford, Winchester, SO21 1QN, United Kingdom

® Robyn Robot is a registered trademark of Robots For Schools Ltd.

Website Privacy Notice

Introduction

This Privacy Notice is issued by Robots For Schools Ltd ("we" or "us"), a UK-registered company (registered office: Brook, Drove Close, Twyford, Winchester, SO21 1QN). We are the data controller for personal information collected via the RobynRobot.com website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) in how we collect and use your data.

This notice only covers data collected via this website, not the robot itself. Robot data collection is covered by a separate notice provided to you if you participate in our robot trial.

Data We Collect

Contact Form Information: When you fill out our website contact form (for example, to join a trial or ask a question), we collect the personal data you provide. This typically includes your name, role (e.g. teacher or staff position), school name, and email address. We collect this information only when you voluntarily submit it to us so that we can respond to your enquiry.

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How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use the personal data collected via the contact form for the purposes explained in this notice:

Responding to Your Enquiries: We use your name and contact details to respond to your messages or questions, and to provide the information or support you have requested (for example, details about our Robyn Robot trial or educational services). We will contact you via email (or other contact method you provided) only regarding your enquiry or related matters. We will not use your information to send you unrelated marketing communications unless you have explicitly agreed to that. In line with PECR requirements, we will not send you marketing emails without your consent. For example, we won't add you to any mailing list or newsletter unless you opt in to receive such updates.

Internal Operations: We may use the information for our internal business purposes, such as maintaining records of enquiries, improving our services based on the feedback or questions we receive, and ensuring we follow up appropriately. Any analysis of enquiry data will be on an aggregated or anonymous basis wherever possible.

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Importantly, we do not use the data you provide via the website to make any automated decisions about you, nor do we engage in any profiling of individuals with this data.

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Under the UK GDPR, we must have a lawful basis to process your personal data. The personal information you provide through our contact form is processed on one or more of the following bases:

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Legitimate Interests: In some cases, we may process your contact information under our legitimate interest in running our organisation and responding to individuals who contact us. For example, if you represent a school interested in our services, it is in both your interest and ours that we use your provided contact details to communicate with you and potentially establish a working relationship. We have considered the potential impact on your rights and believe that our handling of your data for these purposes is low-risk and does not override your privacy rights. You always have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests (see Your Rights below).

We do not collect any sensitive data via the website, and we do not carry out any processing that would require a different lawful basis (such as performing a contract or meeting a legal obligation) in the context of the website enquiries. If in future we expand our data collection (for example, user registrations or subscriptions), we will update this notice accordingly with the relevant lawful basis.

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Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., for law enforcement or regulatory purposes). In any such case, we would only provide the minimum data necessary and ensure we have a lawful basis for the disclosure.

International Data Transfers

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If in the future we or our processors need to transfer your data to a country outside the UK/EEA, we will do so only after ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your information in accordance with UK data protection law (for example, by using contracts approved by the UK Information Commissioner's Office, or transferring to a country deemed adequate for data protection). However, at this time, no international transfers of contact form data occur.

Data Retention

We will keep your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. This means we retain the contact form information you provide for as long as is required to respond to your enquiry and carry out any follow-up actions or ongoing relationship that results from your enquiry. For example, if you join our trial program, we will retain your details throughout the trial (and for a reasonable period thereafter to administer feedback or next steps). If you simply contact us for information and do not engage in our services, we may delete your contact details once your query has been fully answered and there is no further legitimate need to keep your information.

In general, we periodically review the personal data we hold from website enquiries and delete or anonymise data that is no longer needed. We typically will not keep contact form submissions for more than 12 months if they do not lead to an ongoing business relationship or further communication. However, we may retain information longer if required for legal reasons (such as records of communications for compliance or dispute resolution) or if you have given consent to keep you updated in the future.

When we no longer need your personal data, we will ensure it is securely erased or destroyed. If at any point you wish us to delete the information you provided, you have the right to request erasure (see Your Rights below), and we will honour such requests in line with our legal obligations.

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Under UK data protection law, you have various rights regarding the personal data we hold about you. We are committed to upholding these rights, and we outline them here for your reference:

Right of Access: You have the right to request confirmation of whether we are processing your personal data, and if so, to access that data. You can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, and to obtain information about how it is used, who it is shared with, how long we keep it, and the safeguards for any data transfers.

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Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we carried out before your withdrawal. If you withdraw consent (for example, decide you no longer wish to be contacted), we will stop the related processing and, if no other lawful basis applies, we will delete your data.

To exercise any of your rights, please contact us using the details in the "Contact Us" section. We will respond to your requests as soon as possible, and in any event within one month, as required by law. There is no fee for exercising your rights. However, if a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on it (we will explain our reasons in such cases). We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests, to ensure we do not disclose data to the wrong person – this is for your security.

For more detailed information on your rights under data protection law, you can visit the ICO's website, which provides guidance on each of these rights.

Right to Complain: In addition to the above rights, if you believe we have not handled your personal data properly or have infringed your rights, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's supervisory authority for data protection, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ico.org.uk.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights or have concerns about how your data is handled, please get in touch with us at [email protected]