Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

arXiv:2609.25674 · cs.RO, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2026)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 10× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accountability — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Electrical Engineering — 3× in this paper
• Mechanical Engineering — 3× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 2× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Scaffolding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• System Identification — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

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