Live 1:1 robotics classes with personal kits delivered across Switzerland, including Zurich, Geneva and Basel. Children follow a structured learning journey from beginner to advanced levels, building real projects while developing coding, electronics, engineering and problem-solving skills.
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Playto students applying robotics skills on school, national and global platforms.
Global
Luxembourg, Europe
Silver Medal, Mobisciences Tunisia. Jonk Fuerscher (Young Researcher) Award in Luxembourg.
Represented Luxembourg at the Global Level
State
Virginia, USA
Virginia State Champion and Excellence Award Winner, VEX V5 Robotics Competition.
Recognized for excellence in robotics and coding.
Global
Delhi NCR, India
3rd Place Globally, Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Grand Finale in Geneva, Switzerland. (by ITU, UN)
Representing India after winning Gold in India Finals.
School Level
Austin, Texas, USA
Won his school's Shark Tank competition for presenting his innovation, Nikola.
Built a fully functioning prototype at a young age.
Global
Sharjah, UAE
Won the Outstanding Innovation Award at the Code for Future Summit, Sharjah
Recognized at a leading AI & tech summit
National
HCMC, Vietnam
Won 2nd Medal in World Robot Olympiad Competition in South Vietnam.
Awarded at global robotics competition.
District
Seattle, Washington, USA
Won Inter-School Science Fair for building an autonomous mapping robot.
Recognized for his skills in science and innovation.
Entrepreneurship
IIT Delhi, India
Founded a drone startup Vecros and raised funding on Shark Tank India and other investors.
Applied robotics expertise to real venture creation.
District
Plano, Texas, USA
Selected for her district's ISS Build Team after presenting her Robotic Arm project.
Chosen for her strong thinking and skills.
School Level
Frisco, Texas
Won a Best Presentation Award for a robot designed to detect debris on roads.
Built a functioning project blending robotics and AI.
School
Celina, Texas
Received What If and Innovator of the Year recognition.
Recognized for creativity, curiosity, and classroom leadership.
These are selected highlights from a much larger community of students consistently building and applying their skills.
Students across Switzerland who join our programmes learn through the same structured curriculum, hands-on projects and mentorship that have helped these students achieve at national and global levels.
Your child joins a live 1:1 trial session from home, meets the mentor, and tries a simple hands-on robotics activity.
Based on your child’s age, interests and current experience, we recommend a comfortable starting point and a path for progressing over time.
A personal robotics kit is delivered to your home so your child can build real projects during class and keep experimenting between sessions.
Delivery is available in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, Winterthur, St Gallen, Lugano, Zug, Biel/Bienne, Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Aarau and Chur.
Your child learns with an expert mentor in regular live 1:1 sessions. Scheduling is flexible in Central European Time, including CEST during summer, around school and family activities.
As students progress, they take on increasingly challenging projects while strengthening their coding, engineering, and problem-solving skills.
Motivated students can continue to advanced projects, build a portfolio, and prepare for science fairs, robotics competitions, or innovation challenges.
Playto Labs has developed a structured robotics curriculum through years of working with hundreds of thousands of students, helping children build real skills step by step. Parents typically begin with a simple trial class, and based on their child's interest and confidence, they can continue learning further and explore deeper levels at a comfortable pace. Students begin with an introductory programme and simple projects and gradually develop a stronger interest in robotics. Over time, they go on to build advanced projects and participate in national and international competitions. Many of our students perform exceptionally well in these competitions because of the structured learning programme and the depth of the curriculum.
Your child learns through a structured, hands-on coding and robotics programme that builds real skills step by step. They stay engaged, gain confidence, and develop a genuine interest in technology, while you have the flexibility to continue learning at a pace that works best for your child.
Robotics at Playto Labs provides a steady path towards valuable skills, not a one-time workshop. Children advance through levels while wiring circuits, writing code and debugging hardware they keep at home, so learning can continue around cantonal school holidays and family schedules across Switzerland.
Children start with simple concepts and gradually move to more advanced robotics and coding projects. Each level is designed to match their pace, ensuring they build confidence while developing real technical skills over time.
Ages 8-10
A fun introduction to robotics in which children explore building and basic coding concepts, developing curiosity and confidence through hands-on learning.
STEM.org-accredited, age-appropriate kits
Ages 11-13
Students work on more complex robotics and coding projects, strengthening logical thinking, problem-solving, and understanding of real-world applications.
STEM.org-accredited, age-appropriate kits
Ages 14-16
Advanced robotics projects that help students build strong technical skills, develop meaningful projects, and explore deeper applications in engineering and innovation.
STEM.org-accredited, age-appropriate kits
Students can begin at the right level based on their experience and continue progressing over time. Students can continue into advanced levels based on their interests, goals, and pace.
Compulsory education in Switzerland is organised by the cantons, and the language of instruction and curriculum framework vary by region. This means there is no single nationwide robotics syllabus. Live robotics classes can complement school learning by giving children a practical setting in which to design, build, programme, test and improve working systems. Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education
The regional curriculum frameworks nevertheless share useful connections with robotics. Lehrplan 21 includes Media and Informatics, the Plan d’études romand develops algorithms and programming, and Ticino’s curriculum links technology with computational thinking and problem-solving. A robotics project brings those ideas together through code, sensors, motors, circuits and repeated debugging. Lehrplan 21 Plan d’études romand Piano di studio del Canton Ticino
The federal Digital Switzerland Strategy identifies education and skills as a long-term domain, including the ability to use new technologies and evaluate them critically. Sustained robotics projects support that direction by asking students to move beyond using technology and towards understanding how a programmed physical system behaves. Swiss Federal Chancellery
Switzerland also offers both academic and vocational routes into technical fields. At university level, ETH Zurich describes robotics as combining engineering, computer science, mathematics and physics, with project work used to solve specific robotics problems. For younger students, a growing portfolio of builds can provide evidence of what they have explored and learned, without implying an admissions advantage. ETH Zurich Robotics, Systems and Control ETH robotics curriculum
Switzerland’s four national languages and decentralised school system create varied family routines. Live online classes provide one consistent English-language programme with a personal kit at home, while 1:1 teaching lets the mentor adjust the pace for children who are comfortable with conversational English. Swiss multilingualism
School holidays are set by cantons and can sometimes vary between municipalities. Sessions arranged in CET or CEST can therefore be planned around each family’s own school calendar, weekday activities and holiday periods rather than relying on a single national timetable. Swiss education responsibilities
Switzerland’s population is distributed across the Central Plateau, Alpine valleys and the Jura. Learning from home can remove a recurring journey to a specialist venue while giving children in larger cities and smaller communities access to the same structured projects and personal mentoring. Swiss geography
The country also has a visible robotics research and innovation ecosystem. ETH RobotX brings robotics expertise together in an education and research platform, while Swiss Robotics Day connects academia, industry and innovators. These examples give children a local view of how coding, engineering and physical systems meet in real robotics work. ETH RobotX Swiss Robotics Day
Families across Switzerland can combine live 1:1 mentoring, a personal robotics kit and a structured programme without adding a weekly journey.
| Factor | Playto Labs Online Robotics Classes | Switzerland Offline Robotics Classes |
|---|---|---|
| Instructor Quality | Expert mentors with 10+ years experience, trained across 500,000+ students globally | Quality can vary significantly, as experienced robotics instructors are relatively rare |
| Robotics Kit Quality | Up-to-date robotics kits that are continuously improved. Every student receives a personal kit to practice, innovate, and prepare for competitions at home. | Kits are often reused over long periods and shared among students, limiting hands-on time and independent practice. |
| Hands-On Practice Time with Kits | Children can practise at any time with their own kit and continue exploring ideas between classes. | Practice limited to classroom hours |
| Curriculum Depth | A structured, progressive, personalised, and industry-relevant robotics curriculum developed by experienced education experts. It is continuously refreshed and designed to work closely with the kits. | Often lacks structured progression and regular updates, making it harder for students to build depth over time. |
| Personalisation, Especially Important in Robotics Classes | 1:1 sessions, mentor feedback, and progress tracking. Every child learns at a pace that matches their interests and ability. Additional depth and advanced levels are available for highly motivated students. | Not every student in a robotics class is learning the same topic (unlike maths, where children in the same year group often cover similar topics). As a result, group-based offline robotics classes can be harder to personalise, and some children may lose interest. |
| Learning Continuity | Learning continues across levels, and students build real skills over time, helping them prepare for competitions and develop strong portfolios for future academic opportunities. | A fixed syllabus may end with the batch and may offer limited options for students who want to progress further. |
| Learning Flexibility | Reschedulable classes, personalised pace and journey. | Fixed schedules, curriculum and kits with minimal flexibility |
| Competitions and Wider Exposure | Access to robotics competitions and real-world project showcases. Expert mentors with experience of helping students win awards at international level. | Competition exposure may vary depending on the centre and the experience of its instructors. |
| Certification Value | Skill-based certification that reflects the student's progress | Certificate recognition varies by provider |
| Convenience for Parents | No travel, no traffic, no time loss | Requires travel and additional scheduling coordination |
| Parent Visibility | Transparent progress updates and performance tracking | Limited insight into student learning |
| Cost vs Value | Playto Labs Robotics Classes are affordable even with take-home kits and 1:1 classes because everything is integrated into one programme that works efficiently and also because of the larger scale they operate in. | Costs and inclusions vary, and some programs may not provide take-home kits. Some centres source kits and instructors separately, which can add to the cost and make delivery less consistent. |
The key difference is how consistently your child can learn, practise and progress over time.
Playto Labs' coding and robotics programme is designed to help children start comfortably, build confidence through hands-on learning, and continue progressing at their own pace. With personalised guidance, take-home kits, and a structured curriculum, kids can develop real skills without being limited by batches, schedules, or shared resources.
Live online classes are available across Switzerland, with a personal robotics kit delivered to your home.
Families can also join from Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, Winterthur, St Gallen, Lugano, Zug, Biel/Bienne, Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Aarau and Chur.
Because classes are live online, children in smaller towns and surrounding communities can learn from home with a personal robotics kit, 1:1 guidance and sessions arranged in CET or CEST.
Every student receives a personal robotics kit designed for their age and level, enabling them to build and practise beyond class hours.
We offer delivery across Switzerland, including cities and smaller towns. Delivery timing is confirmed when your family enrols.
Having a personal kit at home allows children to experiment, revisit concepts, and develop deeper understanding through hands-on learning.
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Book a free trial class and see how your child learns robotics through hands-on projects and live 1:1 sessions.
