The line follower, three ways
From a kit. Then from bare sensors. Then tuned until it corners.
Skills · Robotics
Robots that get rebuilt, not displayed.
The finished robot on the shelf teaches nothing. We run robotics as a cycle: build, test, break, rebuild. Classes 6 to 12.
- Classes
- 6–12
- Form of work
- Materials & machines
- CBSE circular
- Skill-81/2025
- Runs on
- A chassis, motors, sensors
Where it fits
Where robotics fits
Robotics is not a CBSE curriculum subject. Short courses run via Skill Hubs under PMKVY 4.0, aligned with national skilling priorities. In your timetable it is lab and project work.
The work
What students actually build
Example briefs, not student work.
The delivery run
Cross the room ten times out of ten. Finding the tenth failure is the project.
The sorting arm
Design a gripper, sort by size or colour. Grasping is unsolved engineering.
Classes 6 to 12
Class by class.
Fit before ambition.
Classes 6 to 8
kit builds, mechanisms, test-fail-revise. Kaushal Bodh projects under materials and machines (Circular Skill-81/2025, 28.10.2025), assessed on viva, activity book, portfolio, teacher observation. A Composite Skill Lab "may utilize" it.
Classes 9 to 10
microcontrollers, sensors, code. The robot becomes a system, not a kit.
Classes 11 to 12
multiple sensors, state machines, the limits of autonomy.
Classes 6 to 12
Every group's machine fails differently, at once. Teaching inside that is the skill: debugging by question, triage across eight groups, kit stewardship.
By the steady-state term teachers lead and we coach. We optimize for whether the work is still happening in Year Three, when nobody is watching.
Equipment
Equipment is bought. Capability is built.
With an Atal Tinkering Lab, you likely own more than this needs to start. CBSE's CSL equipment list is explicitly "suggestive", adoptable per readiness (Circular Skill-13/2026, 20.03.2026).
The skills map
Related skills.
Questions
Honest answers.
Our kits have sat in a cupboard for years. Normal?
Normal enough that it is why this company exists. Most school labs are well-built and underused.
Is robotics a CBSE curriculum subject?
No. Kaushal Bodh projects for classes 6 to 8 can host it, where CBSE's emphasis is learning from the doing, not the end product.
Do students need to know coding first?
No. The build comes first; code enters when the robot needs a behaviour hands can't provide.
Book a workshop
Half a day at your school. Here is what happens.
How a school and Hankernest find out whether Robotics fits before anyone commits to a year. Inside your timetable, with your teachers and your students, on what you already own.
in the demo period
Your class builds
A line follower from a kit, run on a taped line on the floor until it corners.
And learns. Build, test, break, rebuild, inside one period.
- First period
A demo period with a class
One brief from this page, run as a lesson with one of your classes, on what the school already owns.
- Second period
Hands-on for your teachers
The same kit in their hands. Where it fails, what students ask, how the period is paced.
- Over tea
The timetable conversation
Where the periods come from, which classes, and which forms of work the projects would cover.
- Within the week
A written fit note
What we would run, what you already have, what you would buy directly, and a cost band. No obligation.
You pick the class and the period. We bring what the session needs.
Or just talk to us. info@hankernest.com, or +91-7000403607 on call and WhatsApp during office hours.