Space · Ages 4-10
Robot stories for kids
Robots make excellent characters for children who are hard on themselves, because a robot is allowed to be wrong. It recalculates, and nobody thinks less of it.
Stories to read now
Ages 5-9 · 7 minutes
The Robot Who Counted Stars Wrong
Off by one. Every night. For six years.
Ages 7-11 · 10 minutes
One-Way Ticket to Tuesday
The trip takes four days. Back home, it takes four years.
Ages 6-10 · 9 minutes
Message From the Quiet Planet
The signal repeats every eleven minutes. Nobody has thought to answer it.
Ages 4-7 · 5 minutes
The Astronaut Who Forgot Her Lunch
You cannot pop home for a sandwich from four hundred kilometers up.
How to get the most from these
Mistakes without shame
A robot that miscounts and simply counts again models error correction with none of the embarrassment. For a perfectionist child, that is the whole value of the story.
Ask what it should do next
Stop before the fix and ask your child how the robot should solve it. They will usually give you a better answer than the book, and they will remember it because it was theirs.
Make a robot stories for kids with your child in it
Type a first name and Imagiverse writes, illustrates and narrates a brand-new story around them in about a minute. Free to try, no card needed.
Frequently asked questions
Are robot stories educational?
They introduce sequence and cause-and-effect thinking — do this, then check, then adjust — which is the same reasoning behind early coding.
Do robot stories suit bedtime?
Yes, when the robot's problem is a quiet one. The stories here end with the problem solved rather than a chase.