Another place where robots can make an immediateimpact is in computer science education. Publishedreports indicate that thousands of schools in the UnitedStates teach computer science, but far fewer schoolsuse robotics in the computer science curriculum.Meanwhile, enrollment in computer science overall isdeclining, potentially impacting growth in the industryand academia. Some in the field see a need for a newapproach to draw the brightest and best to computerscience, and personal robots — especially in introductorycourses — may be just the thing to get a newgeneration of students enthusiastic about careers intechnology.